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Pathways to success and happiness: Four Simple Steps To Creating The Winning Team
By Sharon Pearson. 2011
Remembering Anita Cobby: the case, the husband, the aftermath - 30 years on
By Mark Morri. 2016
John Cobby finally tells his story, 30 years after the murder of his wife, Anita. On 4 February 1986, John…
Cobby's life imploded. He was driving up the coast looking for his missing wife, Anita, when over the radio he heard: 'The body of a naked woman has been found in a paddock in western Sydney.' . . . As details emerged of the rape and murder of the gentle nurse and former beauty queen, outrage engulfed Australia. Five men were caught and, amid unprecedented security, jailed for life. For young reporter Mark Morri, the case was a baptism of fire. Told to 'find the husband', he despaired: Cobby had changed his name and disappeared. But the Daily Mirror found him, and Morri's interviews sold like hotcakes. For nearly 30 years, Morri and Cobby kept in touch. In this book John finally opens up, recounting how he and Anita fell in love, suffered the pain of miscarriage and then went travelling. He also explains why they were apart at the time of the murder. Weaving in chilling material from the autopsy and police files, and interviews with detectives who hunted down the killers, Mark Morri explores the ripple effects of the murder that still shocks a nation.Of labour and liberty: distributism in Victoria 1891-1966
By Race Mathews. 2017
Of Labour and Liberty ... responds to evidence of a precipitous decline in active citizenship, resulting from a loss of…
confidence in politics, politicians, parties and parliamentary democracy; the rise of ‘lying for hire’ lobbyism; increasing concentration of capital in the hands of a wealthy few; and corporate wrong-doing and criminality ... It highlights the potential of the social teachings of the Catholic Church and the now largely forgotten Distributist political philosophy and program that originated from them as a means of bringing about a more equal, just and genuinely democratic social order. It describes and evaluates Australian attempts to give effect to Distributism, with special reference to Victoria.The Satin Man: uncovering the mystery of the missing Beaumont children
By Alan Whiticker, Stuart Mullins. 2013
On Australia Day, 1966, the Beaumont children - Jane, Arnna and Grant - disappeared from an Adelaide beach. Despite a…
large-scale police investigation and extensive media coverage, the case went unsolved and remains so to this day, bogged down by false leads and dead ends. Key eyewitness accounts that placed the children with a potential suspect, a tall man seen playing with them the day they went missing, came to nothing, and the Beaumont children were never seen again. Forty years later, in 2006, author Alan Whiticker, assisted by researcher Stuart Mullins, wrote the definitive account of the siblings' disappearance in Searching for the Beaumont Children. With the publication of that book and a subsequent feature in television program Crime Investigation Australia, people began to come forward with new information. These fresh leads were skeptically received, until one family in particular presented a remarkable possibility. They suspected that their family patriarch - a man with a peculiar predilection for satin - might have been involved.This book, The Satin Man, is the result of the six years that followed, in which Mullins continued Whiticker's hunt for the truth, and lobbied the South Australian Police to open a coronial inquiry to the original investigation.Anita Cobby: the crime that shocked the nation
By Alan Whiticker. 2015
February 2016 marks the 30th anniversary of one of the shocking murders in Australia's criminal history. On a hot summer…
night in 1986, beautiful young Sydney nurse Anita Cobby alighted from a train at Blacktown station and set off to a horrific fate. Updated with more information, previously unpublished, about the crime, this book is a must-have for those with an interest in the more morose details of human nature and crime.The woman's money book
By Vivienne James. 1996
A user friendly guide to sorting out your finances and putting your money where it will work best for you.…
It covers topics such as stress-free ways to budget and save, being "credit-card clever", identifying the right investment paths and planning for your future.The Australian crime file: more stories from Australia's best true crime collection
By Paul B Kidd. 2012
Finally - the third and final collection of true crime from Paul B. Kidd's Crime File. Hours more entertaining reading…
from Australia's biggest and best collection. Was retired Chief Justice Marcus Einfeld deliberately dishonest or was it all just a mistake? How did Peter Foster, Australia's 'International Man of Mischief' wind up in jail on three continents? When Warren Lanfranchi was shot dead by police officer. Was it self-protection or 'suicide by cop'?The Morgenthau Plan: Soviet influence on American postwar policy
By John Dietrich. 2013
The Morgenthau Plan, the Allies' post-war policy that preceded the Marshall Plan, devastated what remained of Germany after the war…
was officially over. Was this 'economic idiocy' or intentional destruction of a surrendered country? The current work documents the drafting and implementation of the Morgenthau Plan, a plan that was designed to completely destroy the German economy, enslave millions of her citizens, and exterminate as many as 20 million people.The matriarch: the Kathy Pettingill story
By A. S Tame. 2002
Kathy Pettingill is a name that's both respected and feared, not only by Australia's criminal underworld, but by many in…
the Victorian police force. As the matriarch at the head of the most notorious and violent family of habitual offenders in Australian criminal history, her life has revolved around murder, drugs, prison, prostitution and bent coppers - and the intrigue and horror that surround such crimes. Kathy reveals the chilling truth behind many of the myths and legends that surround her family, including her experiences in the blood-spattered charnel house at the centre of Dennis's empire of drugs and violence.Lambs to the slaughter: inside the depraved mind of child-killer Derek Ernst Percy
By Debi Marshall. 2009
In this definitive, graphically chilling account of Percy's life, a man dubbed by a prison officer as 'Australia's answer to…
Hannibal Lecter', Debi Marshall applies her investigative journalism skills to a forensic examination of the crimes, the man and his modus operandi. Informed by exclusive material never before seen, Marshall also takes us on her personal journey as she seeks to unravel the truth about the monster whose lonely, idiosyncratic character has deceived the best psychiatric minds for 40 years.The devil's garden: the Claremont serial killings
By Debi Marshall. 2007
The State of Western Australia was in shock. Claremont is a salubrious suburb of Perth. Three lovely young women disappearing…
from relatively safe streets without a trace was very disturbing. The investigation has continued full-time over ten years, the biggest in the history of the WA police. And it is now Australia's longest running and most expensive murder investigation. Controversy surrounding the Claremont killings has not faded with time. There are a number of suspects. Bodies of the three missing women have been found. But what about all those other young women in Western Australia who have not been seen for years. Are they also victims of the Claremont serial killer? Debi Marshall looks critically at the police investigation and 16 other disappearances in Western Australia. She talks to everyone involved from forensic investigators, criminologists, the police, the media, and the victims' parents. The results of her investigation should not be ignored.The Skull: informers, hit men and Australia's toughest cop
By Adam Shand. 2009
There has never been a more feared or respected policeman in Australia than Brian "Skull" Murphy. This is the story…
of the last of the super cops, collaring big-time crims and small-time thugs, rubbing shoulders with corrupt officials and flashy assassins, and using a combination of old-school persuasion and self-styled 'slychology' to recruit his network of informers. In the '70s and '80s, The Skull enters the shady world depicted in Underbelly: A Tale of Two Cities, and we see many of its key villains - Christopher Dale Flannery, the Kane brothers and Ray Chuck - from Murphy's perspective as he plays them off against each other and fights to stay on top.On the fall of the hammer: a personal history of Newmarket saleyards
By Lee White, Keith Vincent. 1992
Keith Vincent recreates the ambience, deals, agreements and memories of the Newmarket saleyards. This book also tells of the changing…
auction system, the establishment of slaughtering facilities and the development of transport networks to service it.Beyond the ladies' lounge: Australia's female publicans
By Clare Alice Wright. 2003
Clare Wright's award-winning research challenges the myth that the Australian pub is a male domain, revealing the enduring and dynamic…
presence of female publicans behind the bar. Wright takes the reader on a pub crawl through this history: from Sarah Bird, the 27-year-old convict who was Australia's first female licensee, to Big Poll the Grog Seller, the miners' darling on the goldfields, to Cheryl Barassi and Dawn Fraser today. Weaving oral history interviews, archival sources, folk songs, bush ballads and other popular literature throughout the narrative, this book exposes the remarkable visibility and dominance of women in Australian hotelkeeping culture.Two centuries of panic: a history of corporate collapses in Australia
By Trevor Sykes. 1988
Rich in sensation and scandal, this is the first history ever published of corporate collapses in Australia, from the first…
bank closure in the 1820s, through the four great depressions, up to the collapse of the House of Gollin.Gangland Sydney
By James Morton, Susanna Lobez. 2011
With its intake of English criminals in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Sydney had a ready-made criminal class in operation.…
From the Razor Gang Wars of the 1920s and 1930s through to the rise of the East Coast Milieu in the 1970s and the intense rivalry between outlaw motorcycle gangs in the 1980s, Gangland Sydney puts Sydney's criminal past under the microscope. Also under examination is Sydney's notorious crime hotspot Kings Cross, as well as the role the New South Wales police force has played in both helping and hindering the growth of Sydney's criminal empires.Gangland Queensland (Gangland Ser.)
By James Morton, Susanna Lobez. 2012
Gangland Queensland heads north of the border to tell exploits of a colourful pantheon of mobsters, shysters, club owners, drug…
dealers, black hand gangs, crooked police, and bikers over the last century.Beginning with the drug and sex trades of the early 1900s, and including the infamous fire at the Whiskey Au Go Go club, the explosive revelations of The Fitzgerald Inquiry and organized crime syndicates like Japan’s Yakuza, authors James Morton and Susanna Lobez examine the scale of Queensland’s crime scene in forensic and fascinating detail. Gangland Queensland is compulsive reading.Gangland Melbourne (Gangland Ser.)
By James Morton, Susanna Lobez. 2011
Throughout the past century, Melbourne has spawned its fair share of notorious criminals some more infamous than others. In this…
compelling and comprehensive book, James Morton and Susanna Lobez take you on a tour of Melbourne's criminal past, visiting Australia's favourite larrikin Squizzy Taylor, career criminals Chopper Read and the Pettingill family, as well as chronicling the long-running Painters and Dockers' Union and recent Melbourne gang wars.Australia's second chance: what our history tells us about our future
By George Megalogenis. 2017
Most nations don’t get a first chance to prosper. Australia is on its second. For the best part of the…
nineteenth century, Australia was the world’s richest country, a pioneer for democracy and a magnet for migrants. Yet our last big boom was followed by a fifty-year bust as we lost our luck, our riches and our nerve, and shut our doors on the world. Now we’re back on top, in the position where history tells us we made our biggest mistakes. Can we learn from our past and cement our place as one of the world’s great nations? Showing that our future is in our foundation, Australia’s Second Chance goes back to 1788, the first contact between locals and migrants, to bring us a unique and fascinating view of the key events of our past right through to the present day.The hit men: Australia's contract killers
By John Kerr. 2011
We think of human life as priceless, but there are men among us who will end a life for a…
fistful of dollars. These men are the hit men, striking a contract with someone who has a target - and the cash. The Hit Men tells the stories of some of Australia's most ruthless contract killers - their plots, accomplices, victims, crimes and punishments - and of the people who saw fit to employ them. John Kerr dissects a parade of hits, from the days of Sydney's razor gangs in the 1930s to modern times. He gives unflinching accounts of a man who killed his granny, wives who shopped for their husband's killers, and cashed-up criminals who called in favours to arrange the deaths of their enemies. A chilling account of how quickly ordinary people can turn to extreme violence to get what they want.