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The Man Who Couldn't Wait: The true story of Australia's first political assassination

By Debbie Whitmont
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By Debbie Whitmont
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Could the conviction of Vietnamese refugee Phuong Ngo for the 1994 assassination of Cabramatta MP John Newman be one of Australia's greatest miscarriages of justice?

"I think that every now and again our wonderful system cocks up and this was one of those times." —Former ALP Senator Graham Richardson

Cabramatta was embroiled in a heroin epidemic, gang wars and demands to deport Vietnamese gangsters when local member John Newman was gunned down in the driveway of his home.

Newman's murder was ...