Leigh Straw on the Worst Woman in Sydney

Delve into Sydney’s historic underworld as Leigh Straw takes us on a gritty journey back in time via her new true-crime biography ‘The Worst Woman in Sydney: The Life and Crimes of Kate Leigh’.

Presented by Waverly Council and hosted by Jam Gallery, join us as Straw explores the scandalous crimes that made Kate Leigh a household name between 1920 to 1960, and how a famed brothel madam, sly grog seller and dubious drug dealer earnt the reputation as the ‘the matriarch of Surry Hills’.