From WikiLeaks to Underbelly, the common theme of the rise of the internet is that it connects people. And interconnectedness threatens the powerful.
Underbelly
Daily Proposition: Get into an old-school crime novel
P.M. Newton worked in the NSW police force for 13 years and it shows in the details of this gripping crime novel, The Old School, writes Shane Strange.
Underbelly goes Godfather
The Underbelly franchise has been sold to a US pay TV and the shows will be remade using the stories of notorious American crime families. Hopefully it works better than Kath & Kim…
The media flogs Williams’ bloody corpse
Drug trafficker and hitman Carl Williams met his bloody demise in prison yesterday. It’s the story that has it all: murder, celebrity crims, betrayal, police corruption… but just how far will the nation’s papers go in celebrating the life and death of a murderer?
Tracking the Twittering and tittering on Underbelly
Dan Barrett charts the Twitter discussion of Sunday’s Underbelly 3 debut episode: it trended, but it was no Hey Hey or MasterChef.
The NYT reviews Underbelly 2
What do the yanks make of Aussie drama Underbelly: A tale of two cities? “Seething and savage”, “slick and witty” says The New York Times, with a big thumbs up for the “gloriously gratuitous nudity”.
Underbelly IV: NSW Labor politics
Nathan Rees has been unable to stop the ‘soap opera’ of NSW politics, with the murder of businessman Michael McGurk opening up a Pandora’s box of corruption claims in NSW politics, thanks to an allegedly incriminating video.
Sydney society abuzz over McGurk
The desperation the Sydney media has for its own version of Melbourne’s Underbelly knows no end as they try to outscoop each other over the murder of small-time Sydney standover merchant Michael McGurk.
Was “Tuppence” Moran “offed” in a hate crime?
Whoever hated the last of the Moran clan this much wasn’t thinking of a staring role in Underbelly Six, write the Kooka Brothers.
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.
NSW Govt to fund Underbelly 3
The NSW Government have announced they will fund the third installment of the Underbelly series, which will be based on the 1990’s Wood Royal Commission.
Underbelly 3? The AFL’s underworld ties?
In one of footy’s best kept secrets, it can be revealed feared standover man Alphonse Gangitano was chasing an unnamed Magpies player over unpaid bets.
Crikey web original 2009 Logie Awards: Critics evict Gretel
Lame jokes, bad musical numbers, coked-out soap stars, confused and horrified American celebrities: it’s the Logies and we wouldn’t have it any other way.
Underbellly – what didn’t really happen…
It is the mid 1970’s…
The week in geek: Underbelly shoots pirates … What is Apple planning next?
Our weekly column from the world of the Web.
The Kookas: dissecting the Victorian version of Underbelly
We know this miniseries is only a fictional dramatisation but some things in Underbelly are just not true, write The Kooka Brothers.
Media briefs: Underbelly pixels, Bias-spotter
Adelaide Now seems to have gone into the future… technology to find media bias… NBC and Google get married… and more hoon drivers reporting on the road!
