March 2018 – True Crime News Weekly

TRUE OPINION: The Damsel in Distress – Warner, de Kock, their school yard fight, and what it says about Men

March 22, 2018 Miles Hunt

What does a couple of professional international sportsmen fighting over a woman’s honour tell us about men in the modern age, muses our columnist Miles Hunt.

MOTHER GOOSE FINALLY COOKED! Justice at long last for victims of one of Australia’s worst suspected paedophile rapists, Robert William Symonds

March 20, 2018 Serkan Ozturk

EXCLUSIVE: Having escaped justice for decades, the long-time suspected paedophile, Robert William Symonds, also known as ‘Mother Goose’, has finally been brought to account after being found guilty of child abuse charges by an Adelaide court. True Crime News Weekly publisher, Serkan Ozturk, reports.

‘GODFATHER’ OF BORDER SLEAZE! ABF chief Roman Quaedvlieg fired for giving job to mistress

March 17, 2018 Rudy Terwilliger

EXCLUSIVE: In an explosive political revelation where salacious and illicit misconduct meets with good old-fashioned corruption, True Crime News Weekly can now reveal that recently fired Australian Border Force chief, Roman Quaedvlieg, was conducting a clandestine sexual affair and giving out subsequent job favours to a young woman while wild rumours swirled it was his god-daughter.

TRUE OPINION: “Be proud you survived it”

March 14, 2018 Gary Johnston

As more people publicly disclose accounts of child sexual abuse through the media, how does that affect adult survivors who may relive their own traumas, wonders True Crime News Weekly correspondent and child abuse survivor, Gary Johnston

LAND COUNCIL ARGY-BARGY! White Australia Sits Back as Kalgoorlie Residents Burn with Indignity

March 13, 2018 Gary Johnston

EXCLUSIVE: Some Indigenous residents of the Western Australian goldfields town of Kalgoorlie are not happy with The Goldfields Land and Sea Council with claims of local infighting and self-interest having taken root. True Crime News Weekly correspondent Gary Johnston gingerly wades into the troubles.

FROM NO TO WOE! How the Australian Christian Lobby was undone by a postal hoax over gay marriage

March 12, 2018 Rudy Terwilliger

EXCLUSIVE: With the Australian Christian Lobby still reeling from its massive defeat on the same-sex marriage plebiscite late last year, True Crime News Weekly can now reveal how a postal prank by activists eventually led to what may have been an attempted terrorist hoax that backfired on the ACL’s public face at the time, Lyle Shelton.

$170 MILLION SLUSH FUND REVEALED! Sacked Whistle-blower Mayor Vows to Rise Again After Political Crucifixion

March 8, 2018 Matt Poole

EXCLUSIVE: He was unceremoniously dumped from a Queensland Council after revealing what he claimed was a secret $170 million slush fund hidden to the public by bureaucrats, but former Fraser Coast Mayor, Chris Loft, says he won’t be taking his sacking lying down despite the Labor State Government using all its might to trample his political dreams and his reputation.

EXCLUSIVE! BARNABY’S BABY: In horror twist, Joyce says he ain’t no Daddy as Canavan silent on rumours he is the man

March 7, 2018 Serkan Ozturk

EXCLUSIVE: Nationals Senator Matt Canavan has refused to comment on growing rumours that he may be intimately involved in the Barnaby Joyce baby scandal after the former Deputy PM publicly claimed there was a “grey area” concerning the paternity of the unborn child being carried by his new partner, and former media adviser, Vikki Campion. It comes as more information has been revealed to True Crime News Weekly suggesting Mr Joyce’s so-called belief in ‘family values’ has been a long-running public con.

TRUE OPINION: Drug laws – The Great Big Shining Absurdity of it All

March 7, 2018 Miles Hunt

When even the lawyers and judges making money from the justice system and its ever-revolving door of drug offenders no longer strongly believe in the laws they are meant to be prosecuting, is it time to start getting real and dealing with the absurdity that is the prohibition of drugs, wonders True Crime News Weekly columnist Miles Hunt.

DRUGGED UP WOMAN BASHER? News Corp silent on booze & cocaine culture as Sky News exec, Rob Raschke, guilty of assaulting wife

March 6, 2018 Serkan Ozturk

EXCLUSIVE: News Corp have remained silent on a possible alcohol and cocaine culture prevalent within its management ranks after a senior Sky News executive pleaded guilty to assaulting his wife last week and was ordered by a court to stay away from her while under the influence of booze and other drugs.

WHITE POWER GREED! “Ordinary fella” allegedly killed by Nazi girlfriend & her Aryan Nation friends for life insurance

March 5, 2018 Rudy Terwilliger

A Perth man, who was a FIFO worker, and found himself entangled in a nasty Australian neo-Nazi web, was murdered while sleeping in his bed before he could extricate himself from the far-right hate groups which had insinuated themselves into his house and his life.

CRIME CULTURE: The List by Michael Brissenden

March 1, 2018 Therese Taylor

Noted political journalist, Michael Brissenden, has taken some time out away from the news to turn his hand to crime-fiction writing in a novel that also places the cost of Australia’s participation in futile wars in the Middle East to the fore. Charles Sturt University academic, Therese Taylor, gives her take on The List.