Talk:Robert Askin

message: An earlier contributor has given Askin's birthplace as Stuart Town. This may well be right but his army service record says he was born in Sydney. For now I have changed the reference to the latter because the National Archives of Australia is a pretty good primary source. Maybe someone will be able to sort this out. Cheers!CallMeHenry 10:31, 9 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Correction as to birthplace 

message: I wonder at the relevance of the bolded part of this: 
*Askin was made a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) on his own recommendation in 1972; he was elevated to Knight Grand Cross (GCMG) in 1975, becoming only the second NSW Premier (after Sir Henry Parkes) to be granted these two honours
Parkes and Askin may have been the only 2 NSW Premiers to be made KCMG then GCMG, but George Reid was both a GCB and a GCMG.  Others may have had 2 different knighthoods.  --  JackofOz (talk) 00:29, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Double knighthood

message: No actual proof of corruption has been found. Saffron's claims that his father indulged in sly grogging are just nonsense, and nothing more than a ploy to sell his book. Alcohol was easily available and cheap after the 1954 NSW referendum. Kate Leigh was the queen of sly grogging, and she went broke as soon as the early closing laws were repealed. So did all the other bootleggers. I would imagine that David Marr and his chums would not be too interested in such details. (Marr has made his career with endless accusations, yet over four decades he has not once offered any sort facts to backup even one of his claims.) 
A quick synopsis of Sydney crime: the Sydney underworld survived on underground Casinos and SP bookmaking. US servicemen from Vietnam introduced heroine to Sydney in the 60s, and it quickly became the #1 drug, displacing cocaine which had been one of Tilley Devine's profitable ventures. Opium distribution and use remained mostly withing the old Asian community. Heroine made prostitution highly profitable for crooks. Young attractive girls were hooked on the drug and they became an army of cash robots for their owners. The old battle-axe street walkers of Tilley Devine's era were out. The typical crime boss had the first floor devoted to gambling and the second floor accommodated commercial sex, for the hornier cashed-up punters. Heroine was and still is the #1 money maker for crooks.220.244.141.232 (talk) 03:13, 15 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Corruption 

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