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- First Page
- Preliminary pages
- List of plates
- Abbreviations
- A note about currency
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: ‘Both a devil and a saint at the same time’—The life of Frank Arkell
- 1. Family and kin: Growing up in Port Kembla and Steeltown
- 2. School, family business and real estate
- 3. ‘For the betterment of Wollongong’: From new alderman to long-serving mayor, 1965–1981
- 4. ‘Life in the city of Wollongong is never dull’: Local and state politics, 1981–1988
- 5. ‘A mindless vendetta against me’: Declining popularity and increasing frustration, 1985–1991
- 6. ‘Attempting to sell people a dream’: Business dealings, networks and influence
- 7. ‘Wonderful, wonderful Wollongong’? Arkell’s vision for a post-industrial city
- 8. ‘Commander Hook’ and the Wollongong paedophile network
- 9. Public and private: The evidence, the allegations, the charges
- 10. A wide and diverse network of abuse
- 11. The University of Wollongong and its paedophile past
- 12. ‘People don’t wave anymore’: The diminishing years
- 13. ‘Our brother Frank was suddenly and violently taken from us’: The death of Frank Arkell
- 14. ‘Wollongong is the “W” in NSW’: Frank Arkell’s political record
- 15. ‘I would rather him face the courts’: The aftermath and the legacy
- Afterword
- Arkell family tree
- Frank Arkell: Timeline
- Bibliography
