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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Listen back to this podcast from live talks series “Walkleys Live: The Journalism Gene” at Sydney Festival 2021, with host Jan Fran exploring Walkley-winning work “The Killing Times” – an investigation tracking the state-sanctioned massacres of Indigenous people across Australia – with Guardian Australia’s Lorena Allam and Laura Murphy-Oates. This “Walkleys Live: The Journalism Gene” podcast was produced by Sydney Festival in collaboration with the Walkley Foundation.
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