True Crime News Weekly

TRUE OPINION: Why Eddie McGuire is a symptom, not a cause

February 11, 2021 0

Eddie McGuire finally used up all his lifelines holding on to the presidency of his beloved Collingwood football club as he went from one racism and bigotry scandal to the next seemingly forever until this week, writes Gary Johnston.
TRUE OPINION: The art of waiting is getting lost

September 25, 2020 2
LANZ ON THE BOIL: We’re all in this together, they said!

August 29, 2020 0

Episode 4: Michelle Gray on the Celtic FC child abuse cover-up which took the life of her footballer brother Andrew

July 29, 2020 4

Episode 4: Michelle Gray has been at the forefront of a battle for justice against one of the world’s best supported sporting clubs – Scotland footballing powerhouse Celtic FC – who she alleges was involved in a wide-ranging, decades long cover-up over a paedophile ring that operated within the club’s grounds and targeted young footballers, including her brother.

Episode 3: Labor MP Andrew Leigh

May 28, 2020 2

Episode 3: The Labor Party’s Andrew Leigh speaks with our deputy editor, Gary Johnston, about his views on crime and justice, and discusses the critical issues of unsustainable rising incarceration levels in Australia, with particular regard to both Indigenous and female imprisonment.

Episode 2: Jordan Shanks aka Friendlyjordies

April 28, 2020 4

Episode 2: The True Crime News Weekly team is joined by comedian and satirist Jordan Shanks (aka Friendlyjordies) to discuss what makes him tick, his views on mainstream media and politics, the return of Malcolm Turnbull to the spotlight, and just why he thinks News Corp ‘personality’ Joe Hildebrand is the Scott Morrison of journalism. With your hosts Gary Johnston and Serkan Ozturk.

NO ESCAPE! Where can victims of family violence & abuse go in COVID lockdown?

by April Shepherd in ASSAULTS & BASHINGS 1

FEATURE: Australia has a problem with violence, specifically violence against women. As Victoria surges through its second COVID-19 lockdown the implications for those living in abuse is dire. Where can victims find safety when confined to their home and how has lockdown affected those living in family violence? April Shepherd with this investigation.

“I’M SURPRISED THEY DON’T HAVE A CLASS CALLED PAEDOPHILIA”! Drunk man abuses Melbourne schoolgirls for not doing enough to prevent child abuse

February 9, 2018 2

EXCLUSIVE: A group of schoolgirls have been accosted by an alcohol-affected man in a bizarre incident in Melbourne this week during which he blamed the young female students for not doing enough to stop paedophile priests.

Melbourne ‘gangster’ shot in the dick!

January 20, 2017 0

An alleged gangster has had part of his penis blown off in Melbourne after a balaclava-clad gunman fired numerous shots inside the car park of a Campbellfield shopping centre before escaping.

PLASTIC BAG BAN BONKERS! Racist yobbos send personal death threats to journalist Osman Faruqi for rubbishing Coles cave-in

August 2, 2018 3

The well-known journalist, Osman Faruqi, has become the target of death threats from unhinged racists who called his personal mobile phone number to threaten him, after he expressed an opinion over social media that Coles reversing its ban on plastic bags at its supermarkets was “weird”.

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