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Mr Big of Bankstown

Mr Big of Bankstown

The Scandalous Fitzpatrick and Browne Affair

by Andrew Moore
Paperback
Publication Date: 01/10/2011

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Corruption, violence and bribery, mixed with a healthy dose of larrikin charm, Mr Big of Bankstown has it all.

In 1955, Raymond Fitzpatrick, a rough-hewn, ill-educated Sydney businessman known in the media as `Mr Big of Bankstown', and Frank Browne, a journalist with a bent for verbal attacks on politicians, joined forces to teach a troublesome MP, Charles Morgan, a lesson he wouldn't forget.

They published an article that insinuated Morgan was implicated in an immigration racket. However, it was Fitzpatrick and Browne who ended up learning a lesson when Morgan responded by raising this issue in parliament under the Privileges Act.

Colourful personalities, personal animosities and the self-interest of several individuals intersect and collide in this true story about two individuals who were imprisoned on a vote of the Commonwealth House of Representatives.

ISBN:
9781742582788
9781742582788
Category:
Civil rights & citizenship
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
01-10-2011
Publisher:
UWA Publishing
Country of origin:
Australia
Pages:
246
Dimensions (mm):
235x155x25mm
Weight:
0.36kg
Andrew Moore

Moore's photographs have been acquired by numerous museums in the United States and internationally, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Library of Congress, the Israel Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Yale University Art Gallery, and the Detroit Institute of Arts, among others. This new book will be his seventh monograph, alongside Inside Havana (2002, Chronicle), Russia (2005, Chronicle), Detroit Disassembled (2010, Damiani), and Cuba (2012, Damiani) and Dirt Meridian (2015).

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