Throughout Australia there was a growing number of bank branches, handling an increasing amount of money – which was often in motion between one place and another, such as a night safe and a wallet.īanks were easy to reconnoitre – anybody posing as a customer could case a branch, identify the risks, pinpoint the busy periods and form a plan.
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To a soundtrack of AC/DC, Cold Chisel and Rose Tattoo, bank robbery in particular grew from a lucrative niche for a handful of desperate pioneers to a practical alternative to safe-breaking for professional criminals on the lookout for a regular earn. Like jumpsuits and flares, hotpants and big sunglasses, institutional corruption and spray-can radicalism, the armed hold-up trade flourished in Australia in the 1970s and ’80s. However, I’ve just spent almost two years writing Public Enemies: Russell “Mad Dog” Cox, Ray Denning and the Golden Age of Armed Robbery. Which is partly why I had not, until now, researched a “true-crime” book. The surest way to engineer your own murder, then, is to spend a great amount of time in the company of violent men. Strangers kill only about 20 people each year, according to the Australian Institute of Criminology. Almost all murders in Australia are domestic or acquaintance homicides. Unless you form a relationship with a violent partner – or become friends or acquaintances with a potential killer – you are fantastically unlikely to fall victim to homicide. Then there are the statistics: hardly anybody gets murdered. They seemed to lack empathy and often there was something creepily oversexualised about their behaviour.
I’ve known a few criminals, but I’ve rarely taken the opportunity to write about them.
We tussled once – or, rather, he tussled me – and I still remember the violation of his touch. There was a cruel, smirking boy at my school who later became a murderer. Normal text size Larger text size Very large text size
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