The Drum | Inside The Greatest Menace, The Podcast That Exposed Australia's 'gay Prison' Experiment
The campaign won in the Podcast of the Year category at The Drum Awards for Online Media and also took home the Grand Prix.
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The campaign won in the Podcast of the Year category at The Drum Awards for Online Media and also took home the Grand Prix.
The Greatest Menace is an investigative podcast by Patrick Abboud and Simon Cunich which examines the history of Cooma Gaol, Australia’s experimental homosexual prison. The podcast explores a difficult and confronting piece of history, weaving together the past and the present as host Abboud attempts to uncover buried information about Cooma Gaol, the people incarcerated there and the people who operated it. This review explores the approaches taken by Abboud and Cunich to explore this history, mindful of the present-day impact that digging up these stories has on those involved. While inves...
Audible Australia’s multi-award-winning true crime podcast, The Greatest Menace, which exposed Australia’s ‘gay prison’, will release a bonus episode this
People who grew up around Cooma hope the hidden incarceration of gay men exposed in The Greatest Menace podcast will be more widely acknowledged
Queer Australian journalist Patrick Abboud uncovers the dark history behind "world's only gay prison" in a regional NSW town and a sinister secretive government operation to find a "treatment to eradicate homosexuality".