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Jack Marx

Jack Marx is a journalist, blogger and author, who has won the Walkley Award for his feature 'I Was Russell Crowe's Stooge'. His books include Australian Tragic: Gripping Tales from the Dark Side of our History and Sorry: The Wretched Tale of Little Stevie Wright.
 
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The Monthly Essays

After the Dance: A 1952 Murder Mystery in Broken Hill

Jack Marx

A man I cannot name shows me the very spot where it happened on a Monday morning 60 years ago. He remembers it well – he was only a boy and...

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Television, Arts & Letters

Line of Appeal: Meeting Andrew Fraser

Jack Marx

There is perhaps no justice quite so poetic as when an errant lawyer goes to jail. Like the image of a prancing matador being hoist to the...

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The Nation Reviewed

The Devil Within: Christian Democratic Party member Peter J Madden

Jack Marx

“What is a man?” asks Peter J Madden, preacher, former sex addict, and heir apparent to the Christian Democratic Party (CDP), led by...

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The Nation Reviewed

Bad Old Days

Jack Marx

From his chambers opposite Hyde Park in Elizabeth Street, Sydney, Charles Waterstreet – author, barrister, film-maker and one-time man-...

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