The jury reaches verdicts,plural. Gregory Lynn is a murderer,singular

The jury reaches verdicts,plural. Gregory Lynn is a murderer,singular

Four years of investigation into a ghastly mystery,five weeks of trial and almost seven days of jury deliberations brought us to an ear-popping climax.

  • byTony Wright

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The rich used to send it their sewage,now this suburb is an oasis of creatives

The rich used to send it their sewage,now this suburb is an oasis of creatives

Once a place where the poorest endured toxic run-off from Melbourne’s wealthy,Collingwood is reaching for an affluent,sustainable future. It’s not all smooth going.

  • byTony Wright
Aunty Fay Carter learned life’s truths from her Nanny in a tin hut
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Indigenous

Aunty Fay Carter learned life’s truths from her Nanny in a tin hut

For decades,Fay Carter campaigned for social justice for Aboriginal people. Her work was grounded by her experience living with her grandmother and 19 other children in a shack beside the Goulburn River.

  • byTony Wright
A dreamlike quality to the evidence of a nightmare
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Courts

A dreamlike quality to the evidence of a nightmare

The trial of Gregory Lynn for the alleged murder of an elderly pair of campers wends to its end,with Lynn giving his own version of events from the witness box.

  • byTony Wright
Secret planning,treacherous training and the clouds of gliders launched against the Nazis
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World War II

Secret planning,treacherous training and the clouds of gliders launched against the Nazis

Gippsland-born Frank Bladin became Air Vice-Marshal of the RAAF. Eighty years ago,he played a crucial role in the D-Day airborne landings on Normandy,France.

  • byTony Wright
Police found a phone in the mud. Now they hope for a breakthrough in the Samantha Murphy search

Police found a phone in the mud. Now they hope for a breakthrough in the Samantha Murphy search

The first physical clue to the missing Ballarat mother’s fate has emerged. Police are investigating whether it contains data that might give them answers.

  • byTony Wright
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A rude awakening in the city of light
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Olympics

A rude awakening in the city of light

The French,as everyone knows,do things differently. Including,it would seem,their security alerts for the Paris Olympics.

  • byTony Wright
The Yachties,cruelly overlooked but now not forgotten
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World War II

The Yachties,cruelly overlooked but now not forgotten

Few of us know that hundreds of Australians fought and suffered in the British Royal Navy in World War II,only to be largely left out of their nation’s war history – until now.

  • byTony Wright
‘Content to wait’:Erin Patterson philosophical about time stretching in custody

‘Content to wait’:Erin Patterson philosophical about time stretching in custody

Accused of one of the most high-profile murder cases in Victoria,Patterson sits content as justice moves glacially around her.

  • byTony Wright
Fifty years ago,I went to Australia’s Woodstock. On Saturday,I went back
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Music festivals

Fifty years ago,I went to Australia’s Woodstock. On Saturday,I went back

In the 1970s,the Sunbury festival celebrated rock music and youthful indulgence. On the weekend,the crowd returned. This time their clothes stayed on.

  • byTony Wright
Suffer the little children. It is ever the way,from Rwanda to Gaza
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Genocide

Suffer the little children. It is ever the way,from Rwanda to Gaza

They are the innocents,and it is never their fight. But it is the children of conflict who always suffer the most.

  • byTony Wright