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It is a story 40 years in the making: How a state government was brought to its knees
“I’VE been waiting for over 40 years to tell my story” — that was former senior political adviser Hugh Dell’s forthright response when asked to speak on record about one of the most explosive political scandals in Tasmanian history.
Dell created a storm in 1973 when he handed Tasmanian premier Eric Reece a sworn statement that alleged Reece’s deputy, a Queen’s Counsel who went on to become a Supreme Court judge, had engineered a bribery plot to bring down the previous state government. It threw parliament into a spin and prompted a police investigation.
More than 40 years on, Tasmania Police is reviewing the files of the 1973 police probe because of fresh claims by Tasmanian author James Boyce in his book Losing Streak: How Tasmania was Gamed by the Gambling Industry.
The return of the issue to the public eye has torn the scab off a wound that had not properly healed for Dell …
Read the full article HERE (in case you have problems getting around the paywall whack the headline in the url and hey presto …)
Simon Bevilacqua, Mercury