The Reporter: True Stories

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The Reporter: True Stories
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The Reporter: True Stories

Gary Adshead’s 40-year journalism career has been spent pursuing the truth, no matter how ugly, dangerous – or ridiculous. From crooks and crimes to state secrets and heroic rescues, we take you behind the headlines.

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Heads you keep the story, tails you lose: Reporting the Tony Bullimore rescue

Heads you keep the story, tails you lose: Reporting the Tony Bullimore rescue

“There’s something in the water,” I pointed and yelled from the deck of the warship. “There. He’s alive. There. It’s him.” But it still wasn’t my story to tell.

  • by Gary Adshead
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The Reporter podcast: Bullimore and the coin toss

The Reporter podcast: Bullimore and the coin toss

This week on The Reporter podcast, Michael Thomson and Gary Adshead discuss the extraordinary rescue of missing round-the-world yachtsman Tony Bullimore.

From racing to Rottnest: Piecing together the full story of Perth’s severed head

From racing to Rottnest: Piecing together the full story of Perth’s severed head

A gifted child and a charming man, Stephen Cookson could have had it all. Instead, he sank deep into the underworld, where one day he got everything he deserved.

  • by Gary Adshead
The Reporter podcast: The Head in the Bag

The Reporter podcast: The Head in the Bag

This week on The Reporter podcast, Gary Adshead tells Michael Thomson how an ordinary walk with the dog led to a tip-off about the identity of a dismembered body.

Off the record or else: A Perth journo, a Como hotel and a story too big to publish
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Off the record or else: A Perth journo, a Como hotel and a story too big to publish

Few people knew where Gary Adshead was going that night. To a hotel in which he would hear the most remarkable story of his career – but one he couldn’t report.

  • by Gary Adshead
The Reporter podcast: the story of T3 (Part I)

The Reporter podcast: the story of T3 (Part I)

This week on The Reporter podcast, Gary Adshead tells Michael Thomson how he scored a clandestine interview with a secret operative working to sting corrupt police.

Inside story: How a bikie debt collector brought down a Perth pillar of parliament
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Inside story: How a bikie debt collector brought down a Perth pillar of parliament

Small town, big connections: How a speed junkie was running Perth’s parliament, how one man brought him down, and how this reporter was finally unleashed.

  • by Gary Adshead
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