Underbelly IV: NSW Labor politicsNathan 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.
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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!
Gangland home movies: a revolting PR horror show
What was the Nine Network thinking when Eddie Everywhere introduced the “Underbelly home movies” on A Current Affair last night? ask The Kooka Brothers.
Smoldering Underbelly starting to smell flyblown
By the time the Supreme Court suppression order that prohibits screening or distribution in Victoria of the true crime TV series Underbelly is finally lifted - they may have stopped making television sets, writes the Kooka Brothers.
Tips and rumours
Charlie Apap, former Mayor of Brimbank, was last week convicted of indecent assault. He is a strong supporter of Bill Shorten and was responsible for organising a substantial number of his fundraisers leading up to the election.
The new Australian Federal Police Headquarters will be the heritage listed Edmund Barton Building.
Australian Public Service Commissioner Lynelle Briggs […]
Fat Tony finally becomes The Man Who Wasn’t There
If the past is another country then someone should tell Fat Tony Mokbel that the charges he was accused of today in the Melbourne Magistrates Court didn’t happen to someone else last Tuesday when he was still living in Greece, writes the Kooka Brothers.
Fat Tony’s mum reads him the riot act
Within minutes of taking up semi-permanent residence in the Barwon correctional facility, Tony Mokbel’s mum was on the phone to give him an earful, writes the Kooka Brothers.
NSW legalises hemp crops — what part did the Greens play?
The farming communities of regional NSW, especially in the Griffith area and the northern rivers region near Nimbin, were celebrating this week when the Iemma Government introduced the Hemp Industry Bill.
Tips and rumours
As a former electorate office staffer caught in this situation (Re. “Staffers must be better protected from chair-sniffing MPs” Wednesday, item 12), thank God someone is at last taking notice. It’s a pity it’s a chair-sniffing episode that has prompted the scrutiny, though, rather than one of the more shocking and tragic outcomes I’ve witnessed. […]
