Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
A number of underworld figures and bikies are reportedly leaving Sydney because of the current gangland war and increasing police pressure. The shooting of Comanchero sergeant at arms Tarek Zahed and his brother Omar signalled to many it was time to leave town. “It is out of control,” said one senior underworld figure. “The people being hit […]
This is the prosecution case. Chris Dawson killed his wife Lyn sometime between 9.00pm on the evening of Friday 8 January 1982 and 12.00pm the next day. How he killed her and what he did with her body are unknown. Another person (unidentified) may or may not have been involved. Lyn was killed because: Dawson […]
The Crown is summing up it’s case in the Teacher’s Pet case – the trial of Chris Dawson for the alleged murder of his wife – and blow me down with a feather, the last little owl in the world here suddenly pops up out of nowhere, and tries to hoot his way into having […]
Boxing is the best writer’s sport in the world. If you can’t write well about boxing, you can’t write. Thomas Hauser The words in the picture are those of Thomas Hauser, one of the great American writers. It’s a shame that the creator of the Teacher’s Pet podcast Hedley Thomas didn’t read them. This case is […]
“Edwin Pope (whose writing graced the pages of the Miami Herald for decades) felt a responsibility when he sat down to write. “I held the gun,” Pope noted. “I didn’t want to fire it randomly. I always wanted to be fair, even to people who didn’t deserve it.” When I finish writing an article – […]
“Those little voices you hear in your head aren’t sources.” Thomas Hauser (Counsel for Chris Dawson): Do you agree, just having a look at that, voice 1 is you saying “this podcast series is brought to you by The Australian”? (Hedley Thomas): Yes. Then voice 2 is someone else? A TV reporter. Voice 3 is […]
We’re living in an age when responsible journalism is under siege. Too often, good writing and journalistic sensibilities take a back seat to lesser agendas. I’d like to offer some thoughts on what it takes to be a responsible journalist and good writer Thomas Hauser Now, the soft soil. Now what was that episode about, […]
I was chatting to a well-know fella that I share a love of true crime and racing with the other day (both of us on the side of light, or him anyway), and we were discussing the punt. When sharing his tips for the Bendigo meeting two days hence, the man gave me three. One […]
Remember we told you about 2 years ago that how Phoenix Thoroughbreds – one of Australia’s biggest yearling buyers – was a money laundering scam washing money from a global crypto scam? No-one listened at the time, not the newspapers caught hold of it a couple of weeks after we published our story, and claimed […]
How can a track that has had multi-millions spent to reconstruct possibly be as bad as Ipswich? It simply defies belief. This short clip is from the Stewards vision of a race on Wednesday. They are throwing up clods like they do a heavy. No-one has come out between races to plug the surface. The […]
