Trent Dalton writes for The Weekend Australian Magazine. He’s a two-time Walkley Award winner; three-time Kennedy Award winner for excellence in NSW journalism and a four-time winner of the ...

The Netflix show, based on the semi-autobiographical novel of the same name by Trent Dalton, wasn't just carved from the author's imagination – it included characters based on some very real people.

For years Ron Isherwood was clean. He stayed out of trouble, out of prison. Until the afternoon he went down for importing 12 kilograms of cocaine into Australia.