Whoever hated the last of the Moran clan this much wasn’t thinking of a staring role in Underbelly Six, write the Kooka Brothers.
Gangland killings
Melbourne’s most-feared crime family now extinct
A Melbourne crime dynasty died when Desmond “Tuppence” Moran breathed his last in the suburb where he had been a recognised rogue for decades, writes John Silvester.
Lessons in History: What we can learn from… bushrangers
As long as there has been a geographical protruberance referred to as “Australia”, the inhabitants have delighted in the exploits of thieves, thugs, standover men and murderers.
Ganglands: Three criminal trials and a closure
The real freaks and monsters from the bloody Melbourne gangland wars will be on trial for murder in the Victorian Supreme Court in the coming weeks, write The Kooka Brothers.
New uniform defamation code calms litigants
Amazing but true. The Age newspaper has received just one writ for defamation in the last 18 months. How could this be? In the same period the paper has seen a resurgence in investigative reporting and some gutsy sleuthing on gangland killings and religious cults.
