The Man Who Couldn't Wait

The true story of Australia's first political assassination.

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?


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

Newman's murder was billed as Australia's first political assassination and the killer was identifi...