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Jun 2025
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Episode 7: Travelling North

THE AUSTRALIAN
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In this episode Stewart John Regan expands his business empire into Queensland, bringing all his street-smart Sydney savvy to what he thinks are the genteel provinces. But he walks into a landscape with its own well-established underworld supported by some of the most corrupt and dangerous police anywhere in Australia. Regan hooks up with the eccentric former judge’s associate, John Edward Milligan, who will go on to become one of the country’s earliest large-scale drug dealers. Regan wheels and deals in property and gets to know the local criminal heavies. As usual, though, he causes nothing but chaos and destruction.

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