This renowned journo and multi-award winning author started his career as a cadet at the Gold Coast Bulletin, going on to write for some of the most respected broadsheets in Australia. To many people, Matthew Condon is now more well known as a true crime author, writing a series of books that now make up the definitive history of Queensland's corruption years before the famous Fitzgerald Inquiry. He's also the author of ten fiction books. And yet Matthew still proudly introduces himself, as a reporter first. In this episode of The Journo Project, Matthew Condon tells us how he landed the pivotal interview with notorious former Police Commissioner Terry Lewis, and how that started him on his diversion into the crooked underbelly of Queensland, exposing the truth behind generations of endemic corruption.

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This renowned journo and multi-award winning author started his career as a cadet at the Gold Coast Bulletin, going on to write for some of the most respected broadsheets in Australia. To many people, Matthew Condon is now more well known as a true crime author, writing a series of books that now make up the definitive history of Queensland's corruption years before the famous Fitzgerald Inquiry. He's also the author of ten fiction books. And yet Matthew still proudly introduces himself, as a reporter first. In this episode of The Journo Project, Matthew Condon tells us how he landed the pivotal interview with notorious former Police Commissioner Terry Lewis, and how that started him on his diversion into the crooked underbelly of Queensland, exposing the truth behind generations of endemic corruption.

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