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The writer of more than fifty episodes for the television serial Sons and Daughters (1984-87), Greg Haddrick also wrote episodes for The Flying Doctors around the same period. He later contributed scripts to such series as All Together Now (1991), Blue Heelers (1994), Mirror Mirror (1995), Home and Away (1988-96) and All Saints (1998).

Since 2000 Haddrick has been a scriptwriter for The Magic Pudding (2000 feature film), My Husband My Killer (2001 telemovie), MDA (2002-03), the telemovies The Society Murders (2006), The Informant (2008) and False Witness (2009). Between 2008 and 2010 he also collaborated with Felicity Packard and Peter Gawler to write episodes for the trio of Underbelly series (based on the 2004 true crime book Leadbelly: Inside Australia's Underworld Wars by John Silvester and Andrew Rule). Haddrick also produced 18 of the episodes.

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Awards for Works

form y separately published work icon Playing Advantage ( dir. Peter Andrikidis ) Australia : Screentime ABC Television , 2017 11395951 2017 single work film/TV
2017 nominated AWGIE Awards — Television Award — Series or Miniseries (more than 4 hours' duration)
form y separately published work icon Janet King ( dir. Grant Brown et. al. )agent Australia : Screentime ABC Television , 2014-2017 6641047 2014 series - publisher film/TV crime

Janet King is an Australian television drama series which first aired on ABC1 in 2014. It was created as a spin-off from the 2011 legal drama Crownies.


Series 1:

'An 8-hour legal/political thriller that is a spin-off of Crownies featuring Marta Dusseldorp reprising her role of Crown Prosecutor Janet King. The series will look at the dilemmas of a contemporary woman who returns to work after a year's maternity leave and is flung into a shocking prosecution that involves layers of intrigue played out at the highest levels of power. Janet King's case leads her through some astounding twists and revelations that impact on her life on every level.'

Source: Australian Television Information Archive. (Sighted: 7/4/2014)


Series 2:

With gun crime in the suburbs causing great concern, the state government establishes a Royal Commission to look into the problem following the death of Todd Wilson and appoints Janet King to head it. Give the power to become investigators, King and her team are allowed to raid premises, interrogate persons of interest and have police seconded to them. King believes that solving Wilson's murder might uncover what's fuelling the violence.

Series 3:

Janet confronts a hornet’s nest of illegal gambling, organised crime and money laundering while tracking the tragic death of a young sports star. What begins as a spot betting investigation soon unmasks elite professional sportsmen and women and their connection to the shadowy underbelly of performance enhancing drugs, match fixing, kickbacks and, ultimately, murder.

Source: ABCTV (http://about.abc.net.au/abc-in-2017/drama-lovers/). (Sighted: 04/11/2016)
2014 nominated Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards — Best Television Drama Series
2017 nominated Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards — Best Television Drama Series

For season three.
form y separately published work icon Bikie Wars : Brothers in Arms ( dir. Peter Andrikidis ) 2012 Australia : Screentime Network Ten , 2012 Z1833118 2012 series - publisher film/TV

Based on the non-fiction book Brothers in Arms by Lindsay Simpson and Sandra Harvey, Bikie Wars is a dramatised account of the events leading up the 1984 Milperra massacre, a shoot-out between members of the outlaw motorcycle gang the Comancheros and the Bandidos, a group formed from a splinter group of former Comancheros: the massacre left 7 people dead and 28 wounded, and led to 63 murder convictions, 147 manslaughter convictions, and significant changes to NSW gun laws.
2013 nominated Logie Awards — Most Outstanding Miniseries or Telemovie
2013 nominated Logie Awards — Most Outstanding Miniseries or Telemovie
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