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The Reporter podcast: Unmasking Barry Urban
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.
This week on The Reporter podcast, Michael Thomson and Gary Adshead discuss the revealing of former Perth politician Barry Urban as a master manipulator.
Adshead spent years dismantling the web of faked and forged achievements this MP spun to mislead those he was supposed to represent, and finally landed his quarry in jail.
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