February 2022 – True Crime News Weekly

LAST OF THE CONSERVATIVE GREATS! The death of PJ O’Rourke

February 21, 2022 Irfan Yusuf

OBITUARY: Famed political satirist PJ O’Rourke died last week. Irfan Yusuf pays tribute to a conservative icon who was forever a rebel in his rationality.

LIARS & LEADERS! A Failing System that would make Pinocchio Blush with Shame

February 18, 2022 Miles Hunt

ANALYSIS: Why do we reserve important positions of public trust and power for people who revel in their own dishonesty, wonders novelist and lawyer Miles Hunt.

TRUE OPINION: Question Time so low, you may as well get high

February 15, 2022 Kieran Butler

Anyone who watches the performances of our politicians during Question Time in Federal Parliament House will likely need a few big bongs to get over it all, writes comedian and satirist Kieran Butler.

NOT ONLY SLEAZY POLITICIANS! Police Need to Know MeToo Also Means Them Too

February 14, 2022 Gary Johnston

EXCLUSIVE: A Melbourne woman says her attempts to report sexual assault to Victoria Police have resulted in ill-health, fear and pain and a sense that she is now the enemy and even a target for officers. How far have police really come in this world after MeToo? Gary Johnston investigates.

BEREJIKLIAN’S DUBIOUS CHARITY FOR FRIENDS! Armenian front groups benefited from allegedly corrupt Gladys Berejiklian’s taxpayer largesse while Premier

February 11, 2022 Matilda Duncan

EXCLUSIVE: They are the so-called Armenian-Australian charity organisations which seemingly provide no real charitable works but that didn’t stop the allegedly corrupt former NSW Premier turned new telco exec, Gladys Berejiklian, funneling thousands of taxpayer dollars to community groups heavily linked to her own electorate officer which some say are nothing but fronts for political and ideological factions based overseas. Matilda Duncan with this investigation.

TRUE OPINION: Being Right When Australia Is So Wrong

February 10, 2022 Kieran Butler

A few of his latest political predictions have been bang on the money but for comedian and satirist, Kieran Butler, being right isn’t always so soothing.

“IT WAS A GAY HATE CRIME”! Meth addicted neighbour accused of gay couple’s murder in Redfern boarding house has KILLED BEFORE just streets away

February 2, 2022 Serkan Ozturk

EXCLUSIVE: A couple murdered inside their small unit in an inner-city boarding house may have been the victims of a “gay hate crime”, allegedly at the hands of a methamphetamine-addicted neighbour who was also responsible for killing another man in eerily similar circumstances a few streets away just under a decade ago. Serkan Ozturk reports.