I covered the protester aspect of the 2007 Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) summit in Sydney for the Sydney Morning Herald. Using direct reporting and a series of Freedom-of-Information requests I found that police were forced to make a payout for wrongly arresting a protester, spent $2 million on a…
Book Review: What The Mother Knew
Buy a copy of the book here. A review of my book in the Sydney Morning Herald: PICK OF THE WEEK WHAT THE MOTHER KNEW By Edmund Tadros Fairfax Books, 160pp, $29.95 We have become so used to faux gruesome murders on television cop and crime shows that recounting the…
The murder of Jody Galante
On January 7, 2006, pregnant mother-of-one Jody Galante was reported missing by her husband Mark. A week later Jody’s body was found in bushland at Bilpin, in the Blue Mountains. She had died of a single gunshot wound to the head. Police investigated the murder and made an arrest…
NSW Police, a big group of teenagers and the ensuing riot
Catalogue of police blunders at party that was broken up Police tried to suppress details of their baton-wielding reaction to a teen dance event, but freedom-of-information laws have exposed the embarrassing details. Read more… I’ve had mixed results with freedom-of-information laws. On this ocassion I was able to get a…
Universities violate privacy laws
Two more useful freedom-of-information searches that came back with useful results about the way universities and the police interact. July 11, 2007: Uni lets police see personal records THE University of Technology, Sydney, has given police access to student and staff information during the past two years without the knowledge…