Hi o sung wu

Farrell was the "Big Bad Bumper" of course, hard as nails and straight as a die and the Kelly was none other than Raymond. Wells was Kelly Wells I didn't want to confuse the two. All in and out of 21 div at various times. If you didn't know League, played league or had you kids and grandkids playing league you really didn't have much of a career in the job then.
I put in a few years around the squads even did stints in the 'boaties to get my nickel sidearm and Internal Affairs chasing the arseholes on the North Shore who worked the kids for their cash to avoid the courts.
I got my crown and went back into uniform. I had no ties so I worked every station from Bateman's Bay to Lismore. I finished up 2/IC Bowral before being seconded to QLD. in 87 to the The Fitzgerald Inquiry then back to Bowral out of uniform in time to be opted into the State Crime Command's Homicide Squad as Clive Small's liaison mainly because I knew the area well and especially the Milat family.
I still don't think he did it. The links to "Ustaše" were very strong and his father and uncle were training commanders in Yugoslavian training camps between Berrima and Goulburn. Our Govt was supporting their efforts to overthrow Tito in Yugoslavia. My theories were never welcome.

O sung wo the thread ended in my view too soon.
Such is the nature of many threads.
And an unwillingness to talk much about sport in this place.
This thought came to me yesterday.
Not just a lost game and blind supporter.
The NRL, once the working class game, now making billions from its fans from every thing advertisements to gate money and TV rights.
Yesterday [not a random thought, and not a original one, but a shared by increasing numbers,Much time could have been saved if the referee ans linesmen, had informed us who they intended to let win, before the game.
Bitter? yes but too and honestly held FEAR.
Betting on sport is killing it.
NRL would fine me $10,000 if I was linked to a club,for highlighting concerns most fans hold, just think, forget the drugs in sport, it shrinks along side the need not to say what you think!

Hi CHRIS...

Yes Milat, a piece of work to be sure. Had nothing to do with him, but the evidence, thus the brief was solid ? Interesting what you say though ? '...my theories we never welcome...'? Mate I've heard that before. As you'd know, it's not hard to fall out of favour in the job, doesn't matter how you go, it's easy enough to get off side with many of them. I must admit I don't miss it, but I miss some with whom I've worked ? Did you ever work with the old TRG ? Tommy Luptin and Barry Lewis & Company ? A great Bunch until it was disbanded and merged with others, into a very 'bloated' SPG !

Thanks again for your contribution. I really appreciate it. Speak with you again soon, I hope.

Hello o sung wu,
I kept as far away from the 'response' squads as I could. They had their job and I had mine. I managed to put in a year running the old Broken Hill Goal which remained in the Police brief where I finished my law degree (Prosecutors brief) mainly because of the Barrier Councils stand on only allowing workers who had family roots to get a job in Broken Hill. I was lucky because my grandfather actually started the Barrier Council.
After that I put in a stint in the police courts at Central with Murray Farquhar on the bench(he got 8 years)another Broken Hill boy after that it was general dogsbody; squads first and then traveling relief or fill in around the country circuits. Farquhar comes back to the corruption in racing. His best mates were "Hollywood George Edser and George Freeman, a real nasty piece of work that one.

'evening to you BELLY...

Ah well matey, that's life. Not many people like talking about murder rape and mayhem all the time, and I don't really blame them ?
And I'd have to agree with you, about the burgeoning commercialism associated with most sport.

Money always seems to 'corrupt', whatever activity it manages to entwine itself in ? In my view, the day they allowed professional sports people to compete in the Olympic Games, was the day it lost it's innocence, decency, and integrity.

BELLY, you would know as well as anybody, money (if it's intended use is destined for some iniquitous motive) tends to destroy everything and anything that's decent. Look at the burgeoning amounts of 'Performance Enhancing Drugs' found in the Olympics now ? Why would any of these fit, brilliant young athletes, ingest all these harmful drugs ? To win the big money, the endorsements, fame, lavish lifestyle, you name it. Tour de France...Tour de 'Corrompre' more like it !

Take it easy ol' fella, please.

'evening to you CHRIS...

Indeed, from memory Geo. Edser was 'warned off' every race course on the planet. Apparently, Edser had a 1st Floor Flat, on the high side along Allison Road, overlooking the race course ? Apparently he'd conduct his SP activities from there, using high powered Bios ? I Did a stint at Randwick, liked the area immensely, particularly around the Coogee Beach area.

George Freeman, like Leonard Arthur Murray aka McPherson, were both slugs. Lenny gave-up everybody, and it surprised many that he died 'peacefully' ? Small world too Chris, my first wife was sworn-in as a JP, by the lamentable Murray Farquhar, before he joined 'buckets' Jackson (former Minister for Corrective Services) somewhere down in Berrima Gaol for his corrupt activities !

You've done alright by the sound of it ? Did the job pay all your Uni. fees when you did your LLB? I guess you would've spent most of your time at Liverpool Street, or did you travel around the suburban Courts ? Are you in private practice now ? Sorry for the Q & A's sounds like you've done well, by all accounts ?