A lawyer-turned-police informant. A name everyone knows, but can't publish. A number of major convictions now in question. This will make one hell of a mini-series.
When news of the Melbourne gangland High Court case hit the news last week, someone, on deep background, commented that it would be like a bomb going off. "A nuclear bomb," they added.
They weren’t wrong. The case, which has been wending its way through the court system for years, has revealed that for four years, from 2005 to 2009, a leading Melbourne criminal barrister representing a slew of Melbourne gangland figures, was also acting as a police informant.
As Rush stands accused afresh, each side (and the media) must calculate what to throw at their fight.
And the 2018 Arsehat of the Year is…
It was a crowded field, but the year's biggest arsehat stood arse and shoulders above the competition.
Why do the Nats keep behaving badly? Because they can get away with it.
This is the second time this year that a Nationals leader has kept a sex scandal from the Prime Minister, ensuring it wreaked havoc. Will they ever be held accountable?
If the NBN loses to 5G, you know who to blame
Crikey readers respond to the upcoming 5G NBN battle, Morrison's Israel push and the strange practice of freezing ourselves to be revived in the future.
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Scott Morrison's Jerusalem ploy during the Wentworth byelection was a stunt gone badly wrong — now he's trying to turn it into a full-blown disaster.
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