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 Andrew Rule
The co-author of the Underbelly
True Crime Series and Tough - 101 Australian Gangsters (with John
Silvester and published by Sly Ink), Rule has been a journalist since 1975
and worked in newspapers, television and radio.
Andrew Rule's career has spanned three Melbourne
daily newspapers and with
Silvester he has edited and published a series of 14 bestselling crime books.
Rule wrote Cuckoo, the true story of the
notorious 'Mr Stinky' case, and has edited and published several other books.
In 2000 he wrote and narrated a television
documentary on the Jennifer Tanner case, a story he broke for the Sunday Age in
1996.
In that year he won the Graham Perkin Australian
Journalist of the Year Award.
He is currently a senior writer for the Age.
 Andrew Rule and John
Silvester won the Ned Kelly Award for True Crime writing for Underbelly
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Andrew won the Golden Walkley Award in 2001 for a
story about rape allegations against ATSIC leader Geoff Clarke.
He later won the Press Club's Gold Quill award
and was declared the Graham Perkin Australian Journalist of the Year in March
2002 for the same story.
Rule is the first journalist to have won the
prestigious Perkin Award twice in its 26-year history and the first to win
Australian journalism's top three awards for the same story.
The Perkin Award commemorates the work of the
late Sir Graham Perkin, who edited The Age from 1966 to 1975.
The judges hailed Andrew's award winning story,
'Geoff Clarke: Power and Rape,' saying it won the award for the quality and
precision of his research, as a superb demonstration of professional technique
and for sheer courage.
The story was edited by Michael Gawenda.
Click
here for Andrew Rule's story on handguns in Australia
Click here for Andrew
Rule's story on the connections between footballers and the underworld
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