Bloody good TV: how Rake changed Australian television
- Written by Siobhan Lyons, Tutor in Media and Cultural Studies, Macquarie University

When Rake first hit our screens in 2010, it signalled a shift in Australian television. Based loosely on the life of barrister Charles Waterstreet (now a Sydney Morning Herald columnist), Rake’s lead character Cleaver Greene (Richard Roxburgh) is an...