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Sites which attract dark tourism.

Why the mushroom murder house has become our newest ‘dark tourism’ site

It’s a sinister form of sightseeing: visiting the sites of horrific crimes to soak in the macabre atmosphere – and perhaps even buy souvenirs.

  • Mark Dapin

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Briefing the media on the backpacker investigation.

Clive Small’s legacy is so much more than just the man who caught Ivan Milat

His vision was revolutionary and shaped NSW policing. Had he been appointed commissioner, his tenure would have been exemplary.

  • Nick Kaldas
Independent MP Mark Latham’s motion passed unanimously.

Mark Latham, Jeremy Buckingham go to war over Ivan Milat

The NSW upper house will hold a parliamentary inquiry into the serial killer, which has been widely attacked by the disgraced former Labor leader.

  • Kishor Napier-Raman and Gemma Grant
Haydon and Albanese at the Midwinter Ball at Parliament House in July.

Betoota Advocate, Kate Ceberano among Midwinter Ball’s cultural celebrities

All eyes will be on Canberra on Wednesday as the inmates of Parliament House gather for their night of nights.

  • Kishor Napier-Raman and Stephen Brook
Ivan Milat, shown leaving an unsuccessful appeal hearing, was given a life sentence for the backpacker murders. (Photo: Adam Pretty).

Milat linked to cold cases in Tasmania, South Australia, police list reveals

A taskforce established to investigate the serial killer explored whether he was involved in the disappearance of 58 people, including German backpacker Nancy Grunwaldt.

  • Max Maddison
Louise Milligan.

Louise Milligan’s pivot from investigative journalist to fiction writer

The investigative reporter pulls back the curtain on crime, the media and policing in her compelling first novel, Pheasants Nest.

  • Kerrie O'Brien
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Serial killer Ivan Milat after appearing at the George Savvas inquest on April 16, 1998.

From the Archives, 1994: Court tells Who to recall copies

Concerns that front-cover photographs of accused backpacker murderer Ivan Milat could jeopardise his trial led to an edition of Who Weekly being withdrawn from sale.

  • Jennie Curtin
Ivan Milat's body has been cremated.

Final wish denied: Ivan Milat pays for his own cremation

Australia's worst serial killer had written to the NSW government demanding the state pay for his funeral.

  • Hannah Higgins
Ivan Milat died on the weekend.

Milat was evil, but he couldn't kill trust, hope and adventure

Around the time that I was hitching south, Australia’s worst serial killer Ivan Milat was stalking young travellers on the same roads that carried me.

  • Paul Bateman
Left: Ivan Milat leaving hospital earlier this month. Right: Bill Milat with his wife Carol at their home in the Southern Highlands.

Ivan Milat's family furious after Corrective Services backflips on paying for funeral

NSW Corrective Services has refused to foot the bill for serial killer Ivan Milat's cremation, prompting his brother to demand his body be dropped back at the jail for "them to sort".

  • Cydonee Mardon