He was born Hamish Watson, a surfie dude from Sydney – but he could morph into whatever you needed him to be. Hamish is due to be sentenced to jail in early 2019 for swindling a handful of victims out of more than $7m. But these crimes are just the final pages in a resume too thick to staple; for decades he’s duped victims in the US, Canada, Britain, Hong Kong and Australia. How did he do it? How did he evade authorities around the world for so long and what’s he done with all those tens of ...
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Whitcoulls is being accused of censorship and moral panic - because it's hiding a literary journal with risqué content.
Copies of Folly Journal have been pulled off Whitcoulls shelves around the country and are now only offered when customers ask for it.
Editor and Founder of Folly Journal Emily Broadmore told Heather duPlessis-Allan that Whitcoulls hasn't explained specifically why their books have been removed from stores.
'We have no idea. We've just been told that it's offensive, but we can't figure it out.'
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