Duncan Talks Juanita Nielsen - 50 Years On

4 July 1975- fifty years ago - Juanita Nielsen disappeared. Over the last few years we’ve talked about her taking on the  daunting collection of property developers and their political, business and police cronies, to save Victoria Street. Juanita was the first of three brave women -  who exposed the stench of corruption that had been wafting around NSW for decades.  They paid for their bravery with their lives.

Juanita was last seen at the Carousel Club, where she had gone to discuss the club advertising in her newspaper NOW. What followed was an investigation hampered by red herrings, political and business intrigues, whiffs of corruption and plenty of theories. In 2021, the ABC aired their ill-fated documentary and podcast series. Fifty years later, rumours and theories about her fate still swirl, and we’ll talk about the from the sensible to the bizarre!

In the wake of Juanita’s disappearance/murder two…