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Melbourne's Gangland War was an era dominated by murders, stings, hits, drug busts, corruption and greed - inspiring bestselling books and even a popular TV series. It took the police a decade to bring down criminal kingpins Carl Williams and Tony Mokbel and their accomplices. When the police finally closed the case files, just how they really won the war would become a closely guarded secret - and its exposure the biggest legal scandal of our time. Lawyer X is the shocking true story of how a promising defence barrister from a privileged background broke all the rules - becoming both police informer and her client's lover, sharing secrets with the cops and the criminals and helping to trigger numerous sensational arrests and convictions. The story of how Nicola Gobbo became Lawyer X, and why, is a compelling study in desperation and determination. Lawyer X is based on the ground-breaking work of Herald Sun investigative journalists Anthony Dowsley and Patrick Carlyon and their five-year struggle to reveal Gobbo's identity. For their reporting of the 'Lawyer X Informer Scandal', Dowsley and Carlyon received Australian journalism's highest honour, the Gold Walkley Award, in 2019.

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Anthony Dowsley has been a crime reporter with the Herald Sun since 2004. He has covered unsolved homicides, law and order issues and police corruption. He broke the Lawyer X story in 2014, despite court action by Victoria Police. He is recognised as the driving force for subsequent Lawyer X inquiries, culminating in the royal commission into police informants, which began in 2019. He was recognised for both these investigations with the Graham Perkin Australian Journalist of the Year Award in 2019. Patrick Carlyon has been a senior features writer at the Herald Sun for a decade. He has won two Walkley Awards for feature writing: one for his coverage of the Black Saturday fires, the other for his account of a war medic in Afghanistan. He and Anthony Dowsley shared the Gold Quill award, among other awards, from the Melbourne Press Club in 2018 for their investigation into Nicola Gobbo. Abbe is one of Australia's most recognised mainstream voice actors, known for her versatility and character ability. She's been a voiceover technique coach and demo producer for over 15 years, teaching the mastery of voiceover for both commercial and non-commercial work, character voices and audiobook narration. Abbe's a proud member of the Equity Section of the Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA) where she has a position on the MEAA board. She has also worked on screen, producing and performing in two short films.

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