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- Published 20190806
- ISBN: 9781925773798
- Extent: 264pp
- Paperback (234 x 153mm), eBook

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Gary Crooke
Gary Crooke was the senior counsel assisting the Fitzgerald Inquiry into police corruption in Queensland (1987–89), and the senior counsel assisting the Wood Royal...
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