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True crime writer Peter Hoysted, aka 'Jack the Insider' returns with the story of one of Australia's most elaborate criminal enterprises.
From the early 1950s, Melbourne's Federated Ship Painters and Dockers Union was much more than an affiliation of dock workers.
It became a thriving criminal enterprise, and a front for crimes including murder, theft, extortion and prostitution.
The Union held sway for five decades, and had members who had never done a day's work on the Docks, but had plenty of experience with killing.
Eventually a Royal Commission was called into their activities, which led to the downfall of a Federal Government.
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