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Sydney Crime Museum
This weekend, 1-2 September, is the second BAD: Sydney Crime Writers Festival. On Sunday at the Justice & Police Museum, see Candice Fox, Mark Tedeschi, forensic shrink Tim Watson-Munro, Adam Shand an...
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The Shark Arm Murders – Sydney Crime Museum
The Shark Arm Murders are perhaps the most famous of all Sydney crimes. The whole thing started near Coogee Beach on Anzac Day 1935, in the premises now known as the Palace Hotel. Back then it was a ...
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Crime Stories – Sydney Crime Museum
Peter C Smith is author of The Clarke Gang, the comprehensive history of a strangely little known gang of bushrangers who operated in the 1860s around the lonely Braidwood area in New South Wales, and...
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The 1920s – Sydney Crime Museum
Sydney is the birthplace of organized crime in Australia. It has had all the requisite elements for the formation of a professional milieu: a colonial legacy of strong anti-police sentiment, a weak po...
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The 1970s: Overview – Sydney Crime Museum
Involving only relatively minor criminal figures, the 1974 violence represented a bit of underworld housekeeping aimed at the elimination of one particularly unruly figure who refused to subordinate h...
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The 1960s: the killings – Sydney Crime Museum
Although reported at the time in the sensational style of the city's tabloids, Sydney's gang wars of 1967-8 have since been almost completely ignored by various Royal Commissions and Parliamentary com...