Fairfax and News Ltd go for Gold Coast … Nine wins (and an idea to keep winning) … Eddie’s triumphs and trouncings … Ten’s poor performance seriously impacts CanWest … Last night’s TV ratings.
Underbelly
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 […]
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. […]
Crikey Says: Crikey says
The state of Australia’s States. What a lark, eh?
Crikey poll: Seven in ten Victorians have seen Underbelly
Finding a juror in Victoria who hasn’t seen Underbelly will be a difficult task if results from a Crikey poll are accurate, writes Thomas Hunter.
Underbelly, series two: Acacia rising
Crikey’s crypto crime writers, The Kooka Brothers, put pen to paper and came up with the script for the newly commissioned Series Two of Underbelly.
Twenty years on we’ve got another Last Resort Laurie
Opes Prime is the most bizarre financial drama we have seen since the last great market clean out two decades ago: Rothwells and ‘Last Resort’ Laurie Connell, writes Glenn Dyer.
Tips and rumours
Fairfax Media wiped 37 sub editors off its payroll last August and has pooled them so there are no longer any specialists. They may be subbing a recipe for Good Living one minute, the stars the next, followed by a terrifyingly complicated business story the next. No doubt a lot of subs would rather leave […]
Underbelly judgement provides little justification for ban
Victoria’s Court of Appeal does potential Underbelly jurors little credit, writes Jeremy Gans.
No Underbelly for Victoria, says Court of Appeal
The Victorian Court of Appeal has not only upheld the banning of screening of Underbelly, but it has savaged Channel Nine, writes Greg Barns.
Why the Mokbel trial should be on TV
The only way to ensure fugitive gangland boss Tony Mokbel gets a fair trial is to televise it, write the Kooka Brothers.
Mokbel cries foul, but it’s Patel who should worry
If Mokbel had not skipped bail and fled to Greece then the publicity of which he now complains would not have become so problematic for him, writes Greg Barns.
Tips and rumours
There will be a reshuffle in the NSW cabinet in the next two weeks to try and ensure the power sell off and right wing elevations. The key move will be Frank Sartor to be moved from Planning. Regarding Underbelly - I wouldn’t necessarily be looking at Channel Nine for the leaker. Episodes are going to […]
Who is Channel Nine’s Underbelly leaker?
The internet is making a fool of the Underbelly ban in Victoria, writes Margaret Simons.
