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In 1972, six young schoolgirls and a teacher were kidnapped at Faraday, 70 miles from Melbourne. The kidnapping was the biggest crime of its type in Australia at the time.
What Tanya Plibersek Wants Every Woman To Know No Filter We Don't Want To Talk About This Anymore Mamamia Out Loud ADVERTISEMENT In accordance with the kidnappers' instructions, Victorian Education Minister Lindsay Thompson was taken to meet them with the cash at Woodend Post Office in the early hours of the following morning. Assistant Commissioner W. D. Crowley posed as Thompson's ministerial chauffeur and carried a pistol concealed in his trousers. In the rear of the car, future Chief Commissioner S. I. Miller lay concealed under a blanket clutching a high-powered rifle. "The quiet was a...