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The Shadow of Abe Saffron: Showbusiness and the criminal underworld

Stuart Coupe and Louis Nowra

Stuart Coupe
Louis Nowra

Mark Morri, crime editor of The Daily Telegraph, leads a conversation with music industry legend Stuart Coupe and long-term Kings Cross writer Louis Nowra about Abe Saffron, the first ‘King of the Cross’. An examination of 50 years of mayhem that embroiled Sydney’s showbiz scene in a crime wave of drugs, vice, shootings and worse.

Speaker(s)

Stuart Coupe and Louis Nowra

Facilitator(s)

Mark Morri

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  • Date: FRIDAY 12 SEPTEMBER
  • Time: 2.00 - 3.00

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