Naked City

The Age and Sydney Morning Herald

Take a journey into the dark depths of the Australian criminal underworld with Australia’s most formidable crime reporter - John Silvester. https://www.theage.com.au/topic/naked-city-jbi #crime #truecrime #police #news

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Naked City

Episodes (84)

Tuesday The real story of Melbourne’s gangland war
Tue Feb 17th Armed robbers and detonating bombs: Inside the elite police squad
Tue Feb 10th He lived by the three rules of policing, before it all came undone

Naked City

Feb 24, 2026
38 minutes
35 MB

The gangland war has become like folklore in the tale of crime in Australia. From 1995, dozens of murders occurred in Melbourne in a wrestle over drugs and egos involving notorious underworld figures such as Carl Williams, Tony Mokbel, and the Morans. At the centre of it all was Stuart Bateson, a detective with the Purana taskforce. Today, John Silvester - who wrote the definitive account of the gangland war - talks to Bateson about what investigating this violent web of crooks was really like, and hear part of a recording of a real gangland hit. Bateson...

Naked City

The real story of Melbourne’s gangland war

The Age and Sydney Morning Herald

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