Put on a photo opportunity and Minister Guy Barnett will be there, with his high-vis and hard hat if needed, radiating his unique brand of enthusiasm. Always holding things. BONUS PHOTOS NOW ADDED >>
Since the pandemic hit markets have been scarce but with the arrival of the warmer months Tasmania’s summer market season is kicking off with a string of new and existing events planned. SEE WHAT’S NEW >>
After 25 years, hope is fading that the Beaumaris cold cases of Nancy Grunwaldt and Victoria Cafasso will ever be solved. But the township’s mayor says regardless, it’s time for his community to heal and move on. EPISODE 5 OF THE PODCAST >>
An author has unearthed key details into the cold case mysteries of Nancy Grunwaldt and Victoria Cafasso, saying her concern is it “might be a local person (who killed Victoria) and they may still be there”.
PART FIVE: After 25 years of locking up and killing some of Sydney’s worst criminals, Roger Rogerson was about to get a taste of life on the other side. On June 18, 1985 the Detective Sergeant spent his first night in a NSW jail.
PART FOUR:AT 6.10pm on June 6, 1984 undercover police officer Mick Drury should have been dead — murdered by hitman Christopher Dale Flannery, with Detective Sergeant Roger Rogerson sitting in a police car nearby.
PROLOGUE: He was the ‘bastard cop from Bankstown’ who loved booze and women and saw himself as Australia’s answer to Dirty Harry. Cold, pragmatic, evil, Roger Rogerson loved nothing more than killing crooks and boasting about it.
PART TWO: One was evil incarnate, the other a cop on the rise and Sydney would feel the effects of Roger Rogerson’s first meeting with Neddy Smith for decades – including a trail of bodies, the flooding of the city with heroin and a series of armed robberies.
PART THREE: BY 1980 Roger Rogerson seemed invincible and was touted as a future commissioner. Graft and corruption on the Kings Cross strip was about to explode, then Rogerson shot dead Warren Lanfranchi and no-one seemed safe.
PART ONE: It was a baptism of fire. Roger Rogerson rode shotgun with the toughest and dirtiest at a time when Sydney was plagued by as many bank robberies as New York. It was the perfect time to be a cop.
EQUALITY is important to trauma surgeon Dr Sudhaker Rao. That is why he believes those who are catastrophically injured in car crashes should also receive the same level of care when they leave hospital.
ROSLIND Witham was just 18 when her life changed forever — to a horrific soundtrack of crunching metal, shattering glass and screams from her friends.
1300 years ago, someone hastily buried sacks full of treasure ripped from the bodies of fallen warriors. They never returned. Now this Saxon gold is spilling the secrets of a Dark Age.
IT was supposed to be a war-ending event. A decisive clash of technological titans to prove Britain ruled the waves. But the Battle of Jutland a century ago almost tore the nation apart.
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