Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Much has been about Shirley Brifman, and most who read crime know the story. Shirley was poor girl from the Atherton Tablelands who wanted to see the world. Her world started in Cairns, stretched to Brisbane and then on to the bright lights of Kings Cross, before it ended age 36, dead on the floor […]
James Finch was a poor orphan lad from England that nobody cared for or wanted. He grew up an urchin, and committed petty crimes to find food. At age 7 he was placed in a Barnardos children’s home, later to become infamous for child sexual abuse – rape – of the helpless kids held inside. […]
Racing writer Bruce ‘Snowy’ Clark is one of life’s great conundrums. Clark is a hugely talented wordsmith when he is on song and trying – which is about one week in ten – but his ability is subsumed by his lack of objectivity, and his slavish devotion to crafting stories that keep him in the […]
I recall asking the former Warwick Farm trainer Mick Mair on his arrival to his new Sunshine Coast base at Corbould Park, the very probing question along the lines of “how is it going?” Probably expecting a similar banal response to a half volley opener outside off stump. “Mate I came here with nothing – […]
DIFFERENCES in what an alleged sexual assault victim told police when they first met her and what police then put in a crime report have been highlighted on the second day of horse trainer Michael James Mair’s trial. Mair, 67, has pleaded not guilty to sexually assaulting a teenage woman at a Little Mountain home […]
This is the death certificate of a much loved husband and father named Garry Dubois. In 2017 Garry was convicted of the heinous crimes of double murder and rape of a child, and sentenced to life imprisonment, never to be released. He seemed a terrible man, the worst kind of killer and demon. The problem […]
For each layer of abuse the Royal Commission peels back, there’s yet another more horrific layer ready to unfold… but the Commission is not game to go there. For instance, I reported here a couple of years back about where Qld’s 35th premier, Rob “Bubbles” Borbidge, fits into the gallery of paedophile rogues. Rob Borbidge, […]
In the 1980’s in Brisbane, a place at Kelvin Grove called Brett’s Boys was a brothel. It was a male brothel. A knock shop for men who liked to have sex with young boys, particularly young Asian boys who had been flown in by plane or sailed in on boats, lawfully or unlawfully. Many people […]
Ask anyone who hung around the betting ring at Albion Park in the 80’s or 90’s, or at the Pacesetters night club at the trots after the last, about Denis Holbeck and they will all tell you one thing. He’s a dodgy, no good, untrustworthy crook who’d rip off his own grandmother for $2 to […]
Of course the cops knew of it. They organised it. —————————– Police officers were warned that a Brisbane nightclub would be firebombed in February 1973, but detectives tasked with guarding the venue did not show up to protect it, an inquest report has revealed. Less than a fortnight before 15 people were tragically killed in […]
