Journalist Matthew Condon meets young activist Drew Pavlou, who sparked international headlines in 2019. The thing you learn very quickly about Drew Pavlou is that he is a certified, card-carrying member of Generation Z. He…
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Where Coal Is King
Author and journalist Matthew Condon turns his attention from true crime in the big city to one of our biggest industries in one of our smallest towns. To meet the young Dowie family – Marie…
The Year of Living Dangerously
Journalist Mattew Condon reflects on the year that was 2020, and looks forward to 2021. You sit, weary, the television news drifting to you from the other room, and simply close your eyes. Record November…
Kev’s Country
It’s a cool Thursday afternoon on the back roads of Stanthorpe, on the Granite Belt just inside the Queensland border, and Kev Carmody is having trouble clicking in his seatbelt. The car is filled with…
Shot in the Heart
From space, Uluru appears as a rust-coloured shard of rock resting on a piece of deep green velvet cloth, the fabric smooth around the fragment’s immediate perime- ter, then fanning out in gentle rills and…
Ghost Gate Road Podcast
Ghost Gate Road is the culmination of 10 years of research by prize-winning Australian journalist and author Matthew Condon into one of Australia’s worst and most obscure true crime figures. Through time psychopaths have lived…
9 News: Matthew Condon on the Whiskey Au Go Go bombing
9 News: Journalist and author Matthew Condon speaks from his true crime expertise about the Whiskey Au Go Go fire bombing, which occurred in Brisbane on 8 March, 1978
Matthew Condon on 4 Corners: Breaking the Brotherhood
True crime author Matthew Condon speaks on police corruption in Breaking the Brotherhood, the 4 Corners story on the Fitzgerald Inquiry, the investigation into corruption in the Queensland Police Service which led over 100 corruptions…
ABC Conversations: Matthew Condon’s police corruption inquiry: Part 2
True Crime author Matthew Condon returns to ABC Conversations to further discuss the police corruption inquiry which brought down decades of corruption in Queensland.Broadcast date: Thursday 10 April
ABC Conversations: Matthew Condon’s police corruption inquiry: Part 1
Following on from his conversation about police corruption detailed in his book Three Crooked Kings, Matthew Condon speaks on new revelations in his book, Jacks and Jokers.Broadcast date: Wednesday 9 April
ABC Conversations: Matthew Condon on the fall of ‘The Joke’
Journalist and author Matthew Condon shares his true crime expertise on the fall of ‘The Joke’, the system of corruption in Queensland from the 1950s to 1980s, and speaks on new evidence of Sir Joh…
ABC Conversations: Matthew Condon on Police Corruption
Renowned true crime author and podcaster Matt Condon speaks on police corruption in Queensland with Richard Fidler.Broadcast date: Wednesday 6 March 2013
Sky News Interview: “We’re all fascinated by crime”
We’re all ‘fascinated with the dark side’ of crime: true crime author and podcaster Matthew Condon speaks on Sky NewsBroadcast date: 21/02/2019
The Night Dragon
How a famous cold case, a murderous fire and a quest for justice finally brought down one of Australia’s worst killers. “He takes you in the middle of the night, like an angel, and you’re…
Jacks and Jokers: Three Crooked Kings, Book 2
The gripping second instalment of the rise – and spectacular fall – of one man, an entire state and generations of corruption. ‘The message was powerfully clear. If you threatened the harmony of the Joke,…
All Fall Down: Three Crooked Kings, Book 3
The gripping finale to Three Crooked Kings and Jacks and Jokers brings to a close Matthew Condon’s best-selling true-crime trilogy. In 1983, the soon-to-be-knighted Police Commissioner Terry Lewis continues to turn a blind eye to…
The Pillow Fight
A brilliant, shocking story of domestic violence, with a twist. The gripping story of Luke, an easy-going deep-sea diver who likes to please everyone, and the strong-willed, beautiful Charlotte with whom he falls in love….
Three Crooked Kings
Journalist and novelist Matthew Condon has crafted the definitive account—a searing story of greed, crime, and corruption—of an era that changed Queensland society; an impact that reverberates across the country to this day. In 1949,…
A Night at the Pink Poodle
Glitz and glamour, greed and sleaze, fall and redemption. It’s all happening on the Gold Coast. Icarus is a penthouse salesman on the Gold Coast. In his early thirties and at the top of his…
The Trout Opera
The Trout Opera is a stunning epic novel that encompasses twentieth-century Australia. Opening with a Christmas pageant on the banks of the Snowy River in 1906 and ending with the opening ceremony of the Sydney…
The Toe Tag Quintet
The adventures of a former Sydney detective from 21 Division who, in his prime, collared some of the most murderous criminals in Australian history yet, on retiring to the Gold Coast in Queensland, along with…
Little Fish Are Sweet
Little Fish Are Sweet is Matthew Condon’s extraordinary personal account of writing the Three Crooked Kings trilogy. When Condon first interviewed disgraced former police commissioner Terry Lewis, he had no idea that it would be…
The Motorcycle Cafe
The Motorcycle Cafe is a mosaic portrait of a fascinating man going through the motions of an ordinary life. There was no funeral for my son. I remember it was just a small service in…
Murder Most Abstract
A recently retired NSW copper, on the Gold Coast hunting for his retirement property in which to enjoy his twilight years, finds himself passing an old foe, Boltcutter, from the Kings Cross Underworld, as he…
Fear, Faith and Hope: The Long Wet Summer of 2010-2011
Fear, faith and hope – just three of the emotions felt during the long, wet summer of 2010-2011. The floods and cyclones of that wet season produced a natural disaster which will continue to influence…
