While Animal Kingdom is a work of fiction, it was inspired by real events. The film that launched the TV series was loosely ...

Australia’s cigarette prices are sky-high because the Federal Government applies a tobacco excise to cigarettes. The tax per ...

It says a lot about Melbourne’s fascination with the underworld war that the Kinniburgh hit was almost as big a story in these parts as that of the tyrant’s capture. Kinniburgh had always been ...

When he jumped bail in 2006, fleeing overseas the following year in a 17.4-metre ketch named Edwena, he made two rookie ...

Union delegates are among those issued demands by Melbourne underworld figures. This masthead has confirmed at least 10 arson attacks targeting construction firms since September 2023, although ...

Stewart John Regan’s Kings Cross was a mix of sleaze, violence and neon. He frequented its nightclubs and theatres, such as ...

Colourful former lawyer John Voitin has denied breaking the law when his firm used a millionaire suburban businessman’s trust ...

IT’S the forgotten murder in Melbourne’s bloody underworld war. But the execution of bit-part actor Willy Thompson set in motion a train of events that would topple Carl Williams’s empire.

The former wife of a tobacco war kingpin was clutching a gold Rolex at the airport, but an Australian Border Force tip-off led to even more.

Shysters have moved to profit from the January ambush murder of gangland figure Sam “The Punisher” Abdulrahim.