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Squizzy Taylor & Snowy Cutmore

By Shane Maloney
But out of such unpromising material many a legend has sprung and the lurid light of melodrama has long flickered over the names of Squizzy Taylor and Snowy Cutmore. The facts are pretty clear. Taylor was a runt, a thief and extortionist. Cutmore was a beefy bruiser, a hold-up man who once branded a reluctant prostitute with a hot iron. The two men were rivals in crime. Their gangs were en

Helmut Newton and Alice Springs

By Shane Maloney
One day in 1947, a rising Melbourne stage actress walked into a small Flinders Lane photography studio, looking to pick up some extra cash as a model. Expecting a whiskery old man behind the lens, she found instead a dashing young European called Helmut Newton. June liked the look of the photos on the walls and Helmut liked the look of June. When his standard pick-up technique failed, he recr
Influenza

Known Unknowns

By Malcolm Knox
Although it is an everyday virus, there is something about influenza that inspires awe. This microscopic hard-shelled parcel of genetic matter lives in aquatic birds, which have been flying it around in first-class comfort for generations. It is coughed into the air – and across the species barrier – and lodges in the lungs of mammals such as pigs and humans, where it becomes the common flu, our most cited cause for staying home fro
Life in a Bangkok Prison

The King & I

By Harry Nicolaides
Compound One. For weeks I lay on my back, delirious with influenza. When I was able to stand, I shuffled around like a zombie, pushed here and there by the heaving population of sweaty, half-naked inmates, most of them Thai, Burmese or Cambodian.One night I was so overcome with anxiety that I started to hyperventilate. I begged the cell captain to open the c
Life in a Bangkok Prison

The King & I [preview]

By Harry Nicolaides
Compound One. For weeks I lay on my back, delirious with influenza. When I was able to stand, I shuffled around like a zombie, pushed here and there by the heaving population of sweaty, half-naked inmates, most of them Thai, Burmese or Cambodian.One night I wa