Australia’s own ‘Houdini’: The Maxwell Skinner Chronicles

EXCLUSIVE: It’s not everyday one spends a few hours just a metre or two from an alleged fascist torturer, but this week in Sydney that’s exactly what happened when True Crime News Weekly publisher, Serkan Ozturk, was face-to-face with an ever-aging, small-statured, dark-haired woman said to be the right-hand woman of Chile’s notorious secret service during the reign of dictator Augusto Pinochet.

MELBOURNE: The ‘random’ rape and murder of young comedian Eurydice Dixon has shocked an entire nation. But can such gruesome and heinous crimes be prevented from happening again? Gary Johnston reports.

ANALYSIS: As hordes of panic-stricken Aussies begin stockpiling up on canned food as if nuclear holocaust is imminent, and with Asian restaurants and even doctors being avoided, a respiratory illness believed to have originated in China has also turned a whole lot of people instantly stupid and even more racist, writes Sarah McLean.