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| Rank | Topic | Wikipedia views Oct 21 2010 |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ned Kelly, bushranger | 2800 |
| 2 | Anu Singh, murdered her boyfriend Joe Cinque | 2085 |
| 3 | Schapelle Corby, serving a 20 year prison sentence in Indonesia. | 940 |
| 4 | Robert 'Dolly' Dunn, homosexual child molester, died in 2009 while serving 20 year sentence | 881 |
| 5 | Bali Nine, | 836 |
| 6 | Martin Bryant, convicted of 35 murders in the Port Arthur massacre | 811 |
| 7 | Carl Williams,, murdered in 2010 | 792 |
| 8 | David Hicks, convicted terrorism supporter. {{ cite news | 674 |
| 9 | Gregory Roberts (born 1952), a former heroin addict and convicted bank robber who escaped and fled to India. Author of Shantaram. | 552 |
| 10 | Jason Moran, killed by rival gangster Carl Williams in a gang war | 544 |
| 11 | Van Tuong Nguyen, executed in Singapore. | 489 |
| 12 | Christopher Dale Flannery, known as "Mr-Rent-A-Kill", rapist and armed robber who shot an undercover policeman | 477 |
| 13 | Alphonse Gangitano, associate of Jason Moran, murdered. | 475 |
| 14 | Katherine Knight, murdered John Charles Thomas Price on 29 February 2000. The first Australian woman to be sentenced to life imprisonment without parole. | 423 |
| 15 | Sydney gang rapes | 397 |
| 16 | Bradley John Murdoch, convicted for the murder of Peter Falconio | 381 |
| 17 | John Bunting, convicted killer involved in the Snowtown murders [link], News.com.au, May 7, 2007</ref> | 358 |
| 18 | Robert Trimbole, International felon and drug lord | 353 |
| 19 | Alan Bond, jailed for three years in 1996 for fraud | 318 |
| 20 | Andrew "Benji" Veniamin, murdered in 2004 | 316 |
| 21 | Bevan Spencer von Einem, homosexual rapist and murderer | 315 |
| 22 | Dennis Allen, nicknamed Mr. Death, member of the Pettingill family | 313 |
| 23 | Eric Edgar Cooke, The Nedlands monster | 304 |
| 24 | Michael Kanaan, multiple murderer and gang member | 281 |
| 25 | Tony Mokbel, serving a 12 year sentence, awaiting further charges | 279 |
| 26 | Ronald Ryan, last person executed in Australia | 259 |
| 27 | John Wayne Glover, the Sydney North Shore granny murderer | 257 |
| 28 | Peter Foster, one of Australia's most famous conmen, jailed for fraud | 250 |
| 29 | Moran family | 247 |
| 30 | Peter Dupas, Melbourne based serial killer who killed several times upon release from prison. [link], Supreme Court of Victoria Decisions, 12 September 2000, (accessed 10 May 2008)</ref> | 246 |
| 31 | Jim Krakouer, star AFL footballer imprisoned for 16 years on amphetamine trafficking charges. | 241 |
| 32 | Mark Moran, killed by rival gangster Carl Williams in a gang war | 234 |
| 33 | Lindsay Beckett and Leslie Camilleri, convicted of the Bega schoolgirl murders | 233 |
| 34 | Pettingill family | 215 |
| 35 | Ashfield gang rapes | 211 |
| 36 | Paul Denyer, Melbourne based serial killer during early 1990s dubbed the 'Frankston Serial Killer'. | 198 |
| 37 | Victor Peirce, member of the Pettingill family, murdered in 2001. | 179 |
| 38 | Neddy Smith, convicted of the murder of Sydney brothel owner, Harvey Jones | 172 |
| 39 | Sef Gonzales, murdered his mother, father and sister | 165 |
| 40 | Keith Faure, convicted Melbourne underworld killings murderer | 162 |
| 41 | Brian Burke, former W.A. premier imprisoned for rorting travel expenses | 160 |
| 42 | Lewis Moran, killed by rival gangster Carl Williams in a gang war | 159 |
| 43 | Kath Pettingill, former brothel worker and owner, and criminal matriarch of the Pettingill family. [link], www.theage.com.au, 3 May 2002, (accessed 8 May 2008)</ref> | 157 |
| 44 | Roger Rogerson, corrupt former police officer. | 155 |
| 45 | Warren Fellows, | 147 |
| 46 | Rene Rivkin, stockmarket guru imprisoned on insider trading charges | 144 |
| 47 | Julian Knight, Hoddle Street Massacre | 143 |
| 48 | Geoffrey Edelsten, high profile doctor convicted of soliciting a hit man and perverting the course of justice.}} | 139 |
| 49 | John Sharpe, spear gun murderer of his wife and child | 130 |
| 50 | Brenden Abbott, (born 1962), known as the Postcard Bandit | 126 |
| 51 | John Travers, convicted ringleader of the Anita Cobby murder | 112 |
| 52 | Christopher Skase, failed businessman and fugitive who escaped to Majorca | 111 |
| 53 | Dante Arthurs, murdered Sofia Rodriguez-Urrutia-Shu | 101 |
| 54 | Eddie Leonski, American serial killer known as the Brownout Strangler | 101 |
| 55 | Nola Blake, sentenced to death in Thailand in 1988. Sentence later commuted to life. | 89 |
| 56 | Rodney Adler, Sydney based fraudster who was imprisoned for his role in transactions to hide the true financial status of FAI Insurance. | 88 |
| 57 | Marcus Einfeld, former judge and convicted perjurer. | 85 |
| 58 | Darcy Dugan, (1920 â 1991), bank robber and New South Wales' most notorious prison escape artist. | 79 |
| 59 | Holly Deane-Johns, serving a 31 year prison sentence in Thailand.Transferred back to Perth in 2007. | 70 |
| 60 | James Ryan O'Neill, a Victorian convicted of murder in Tasmania | 63 |
| 61 | Glenn Wheatley, jailed for tax evasion | 57 |
| 62 | Craig Minogue, Russell Street bombing | 55 |
| 63 | Ray O'Connor, former W.A. premier imprisoned for stealing | 53 |
| 64 | Milton Orkopoulos, NSW state MP and child sex offender | 51 |
| 65 | Brian Keith Jones, aka Mr Baldy | 46 |
| 66 | Stephen John Sutton, imprisoned in Argentina on drug charges | 41 |
| 67 | Joseph Schwab, murdered five tourists across the Northern Territory and Western Australia in 1987. | 39 |
| 68 | Francesco Mangione, the Mr Whippy ice cream turf war murderer | 30 |
| 69 | Michael Cobb, former politician convicted of fraud after rorting travel expenses | 29 |
| 70 | Simon Hannes, insider trading ahead of takeover of TNT in 1996 | 29 |
| 71 | Barry Morris, politician who was jailed for making bomb and death threats. | 27 |
| 72 | Patrick Power, Crown prosecutor convicted of possessing child pornography | 27 |
| 73 | Laurie Connell, jailed for conspiring to pervert the course of justice | 27 |
| 74 | Henry Keogh, convicted of strangling his fiancée | 26 |
| 75 | Kenneth Brown, explorer and pastoralist hanged for murdering his wife | 26 |
| 76 | Martin Leach: bound, gagged and stabbed Charmaine Ariet and bound, gagged, stabbed, raped and slit the throat of her cousin Janice Carnegie before burying their bodies in a gully at Berry Springs. | 23 |
| 77 | Maddison Hall, murdered a hitchhiker, had a sex change operation in prison | 21 |
| 78 | Ray Williams, fraud related to the collapse of HIH Insurance | 21 |
| 79 | James Beauregard-Smith, convicted triple murderer and rapist | 16 |
| 80 | Andrew Theophanous, bribery and fraud offences relating to assisting in visa applications as a Member of Parliament | 15 |
| 81 | Geoffrey Robert Dobbs, labeled Australia's worst pedophile, pleaded gulity to 116 child sex offences against 62 girls over a 28 year period, sentenced to two consecutive terms of indefinite imprisonment | 12 |
| 82 | David Shane Whitby, convicted of 120 child sex offences against eight children over a ten year period, sentenced to 32 years imprisonment with a non-parole period of 26 years | 9 |
| 83 | Wendy Lange: Dubbed the Black Widow, murdered her husband, sentenced to life imprisonment, changed name to Julie Sage | 8 |
| 84 | Stewart John Regan, A well known member of the Australian underworld during the 60's and 70's | 8 |
| 85 | Patricia Margaret Byers, Dubbed the Black Widow, convicted of murder and attempted murder of separate spouses | 6 |
| 86 | Murray Walter Hearne, killed Constable Peter Forsyth and maliciously wounded Constables Semple & Neville. http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/09/04/1031115886034.html | 5 |
| 87 | Wayne Butler, convicted of murdering Celia Douty | 5 |
| 88 | Brian Chambers, executed in Malaysia. | < 5 |
| 89 | Kevin Barlow, executed in Malaysia. [link], www.guardian.co.uk, 7 July 1986 . Retrieved 25 April 2008.</ref> | < 5 |
| 90 | William Harold Matheson, convicted of murdering ex-girlfriend Lyndsay Van Blanken in 2003 | < 5 |
| 91 | Valmae Beck, sentenced to life for the murder of Sian Kingi | < 5 |
| 92 | Nikolai Radev, killed in gang war | < 5 |
| 93 | Michael Murphy, convicted of the Anita Cobby murder | < 5 |
| 94 | Catherine Birnie, rape and murder of four women in Perth in 1986 | < 5 |
| 95 | Andrew Garforth, convicted killer of 9 year old Ebony Simpson in Bargo, New South Wales | < 5 |
| 96 | Michael McAuliffe, executed in Malaysia. | < 5 |
| 97 | Steven Bradley Wood, Convicted of the murder of Bruno Furina. [link], (accessed 15/01/2010)</ref> | < 5 |
| 98 | Ivan Milat, Backpacker murders | < 5 |
| 99 | Damien Peter Willis, Co-accused in the murder of Bruno Furina. | < 5 |
| 100 | David Birnie, rape and murder of four women in Perth in 1986 [link], www.abc.net.au, 7 October 2005, (accessed 16 May 2008)</ref> | < 5 |
| 101 | Abraham Saffron, King of kings Cross, sydney gangster. | < 5 |
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