The Bombing of Rothbury — 1938
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On an October night in 1938 the Rothbury coal mine was rocked by a series of bomb explosions — but the real story was whether The Daily Telegraph had known this sabotage was going to happen but didn’t tell police for the sake of a front-page scoop. This is rabbit-hole mystery revolving around a Gallipoli-Digger-turned-crook-turned-tabloid-reporter, a detective who’d taken on killers, kidnappers and fascists, and a NSW police commissioner protecting the interests of his mate Frank Packer as he turned his newspaper empire into a media dynasty that’d eventually be run by his billionaire son and grandson. For more information: www.forgottenaustalia.com For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
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