Australia's Greatest Conman? premieres 24 February on SBS and SBS On Demand - SBS About

The $900 million dollar mystery that fooled our nation Australia’s Greatest Conman? premieres Tuesday, 24 February on SBS and SBS On Demand One man. One mystery. Our nation’s most baffling crime. Australia’s Greatest Conman? premieres Tuesday 24 February at 8.30pm on SBS and SBS On Demand. In the 1980s, John Friedrich led an elite sea…

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@liamvhogan worked briefly with a family member of Friedrich back in the late 80s. I had the impression they had no idea what he was up to, or about what he was working on. @Kels_316 @ThermiteBeGiants

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“A pub rock soundtrack accompanies archival footage of National Safety Council training exercises that are pure James Bond. Along with para-rescue involving dogs and even pigeons, the group pioneered aerial firefighting.
“People that came across the National Safety Council will say, ‘Oh, they had a lot of toys. They had a lot of equipment,’” says Grant. “And it feels, especially towards the end when the spending gets out of control, [Friedrich] was almost just collecting them. And so I thought that there was that playground that he created … Not the people that were involved. They were doing incredible work.”

At the time I remember thinking, “para-jumping” into bushfires, that’d be useful.

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Fuck yeah, the opening scene has a N24 GAF Nomad that a mates dad was an EE Systems Engineer at GAF at Fishermans Bend during the 70’s; Back when Australia built stuff. That’s a warning in itself 🤪☺️

#Melbourne / #GAF / #Nomad / #Melbourne <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GAF_Nomad>