# Phuong Ngo
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Phuong Canh Ngo (Vietnamese: Ngô Cảnh Phương) (born 1958) is a Vietnamese former businessman and politician who was convicted of ordering the killing of Australian MP John Newman on 5 September 1994, a crime which has been described as Australia's first political assassination (though not its first murder of a parliamentarian: in 1921 another Labor MP in the NSW Legislative Assembly, Percy Brookfield, had been slain in Riverton, north of Adelaide, by a psychotic emigre).
== Biography ==
phuong ngo was born in South Vietnam to wealthy parents and following university became a schoolteacher. Following the fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam War, his family had their assets confiscated.
Australian Art Orchestra: 1988
Vietnamese-Australian composer-performer Dung Nguyen, musician Minh Ha Patmore and visual artist Phuong Ngo take the Australian Art Orchestra on a cross-cultural journey of discovery.
Ep. 28 | Accelerating Cleantech Adoption with Seth Klein, Roch Ripley, and Phuong Ngo
The climate crisis continues to grow more urgent. Despite the many clarion calls from the scientific community, the emergency continues to build unabated, due to our collective inability to take meaningful, decisive measures in opposition. Mountains of evidence, and many recent examples of storms a…
A Shadow of Doubt - Episode 1: The Crime
The first episode reconstructs the murder of Cabramatta MP John Newman and the volatile environment in which it occurred. Set in a suburb defined by drugs, gang violence, and rising anti-Asian sentiment, the episode presents Newman as both a crime-fighting politician and a deeply divisive figure wi…
Australia's first political assassination, and the man still behind bars
In 1994, Cabramatta MP John Newman was shot dead outside his home in a crime billed as Australia's first political assassination. But could the conviction of Vietnamese refugee Phuong Ngo for Newman's murder be one of Australia's greatest miscarriages of justice? For the first time since the trials…
Australia's first political assassination, plus the man who led Japan into war
Journalist Debbie Whitmont revisits the 1994 murder of John Newman MP - a crime billed as Australia's first political assassination - and the man still behind bars, Vietnamese refugee and political aspirant Phuong Ngo. Plus, a new biography of Hideki Tojo challenges assumptions about Japan's ruthle…
A Shadow of Doubt - Episode 2: Trial & Evidence
Episode two examines the lives of John Newman and Phuong Ngo, revealing two ambitious men shaped by conflict and power. Ngo is portrayed as intelligent, driven, and politically skilled, yet operating within ambiguous circles that invite suspicion. Newman, meanwhile, is shown as aggressive, confront…
Shot in the Dark - The Murder of John Newman
On a cold September evening in 1994, Cabramatta, NSW, local politician John Newman was gunned down in his driveway in front of his terrified fiancee. John, a Cabramatta local since he was a child, was a formidable figure in local and state politics and was very vocal about the rise in drug use and …
Unsafe Convictions? Peter Breen on Two Infamous Australian Cases
Lawyer and former NSW politician Peter Breen argues that two of Australia's most controversial murder convictions deserve fresh scrutiny. He explains why he believes the convictions of Phuong Ngo for the murder of MP John Newman and Steven Wayne "Shorty" Jamieson for the murder of Janine Balding we…
The Man Who Couldn't Wait Audiobook by Debbie Whitmont
https://libranovo.com/free Listen to free audiobooks with a 30-day free trial! Title: The Man Who Couldn't WaitGenres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, True Crime, Non-Fiction, Current Affairs, Law, & PoliticsAuthor: Debbie WhitmontNarrator: Jessica Douglas-HenryRelease date: 08-05-2026Length: 11:46:51L…
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