How Ghost Train Fire exposed remarkable police corruption, yet also failed ABC's high journalistic standards
- Written by Denis Muller, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancing Journalism, The University of Melbourne
An independent review has concluded that while the ABC’s recent true-crime series on the 1979 Luna Park fire makes a strong case that it was arson, the program misled its audience by suggesting a link between the notorious Sydney crime figure Abe Saffron and the late NSW premier, Neville Wran.
The review was commissioned by the ABC after an...
