Articles by Joanna Psaros

About Joanna Psaros
Joanna Psaros is a Sydney-based freelance writer with a background in law. She has a master’s degree in law and international development and has written articles on everything from politics to pop culture for publications including Independent Australia, Green Left, and her own feminist blog Girls’ Locker Room Talk.
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COLD CASES

“WHAT ARE THEY HIDING”? Coroner still won’t hand over documents to family almost 50 YEARS AFTER murder of Elaine Beverley King

November 17, 2022 Joanna Psaros

EXCLUSIVE: It was the crime that should have shocked a nation. Instead, the tragic and brutal 1974 murder of Elaine Beverley King in a Sydney city hotel room was largely ignored by the local media and police force alike – a fact Elaine’s surviving family attributes to society’s stigma against sex workers. Now almost 50 years on from the crime, her family are still fighting for the justice and closure they’ve been long denied. Joanna Psaros reports.

COLD CASES

HONOUR KILLING COVER UP? Everything we (don’t) know about the Saudi sisters “suicide” mystery

November 3, 2022 Joanna Psaros

EXCLUSIVE: It is the case that continues to baffle Australia. Two sisters, seemingly uninjured, found dead in separate bedrooms of their Western Sydney apartment weeks after their estimated time of death. Now, four months into an investigation characterised by secrecy and silence we’re left with more questions than answers. But are NSW Police really as clueless as they appear? And is there more to this supposed “suicide” than meets the eye? Joanna Psaros reports.

CREEPS

BOYS CLUB CODE OF SILENCE! Self-styled feminist icon Peter Dutton stays QUIET on Queensland Police sexual harassment as inquiry finds abuse was WIDESPREAD when he was a cop

November 1, 2022 Joanna Psaros

EXCLUSIVE: He’s claimed to be more caring and in touch with his feelings but Peter Dutton has refused to comment on Queensland Police Commissioner Katarina Carroll’s evidence of widespread sexual harassment and abuse of female officers throughout the 1990s, at the very same time the Liberal Party leader was a serving police officer. Joanna Psaros reports.

COLD CASES

“THERE ARE MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC AWARE OF WHO THIS PERSON IS”: Audio released by NSW Police backs up True Crime investigation into possible suspects involved in cold case terrorist murder of Turkish Consul-General, Şarık Arıyak, in Sydney over 40 years ago

October 28, 2022 Joanna Psaros

EXCLUSIVE: Back in January 2020, True Crime News Weekly published an exclusive investigation into the NSW Police’s reopening of the long-dormant search for the killers of Turkish Consul General, Şarık Arıyak, in Sydney’s east more than 40 years ago. The report included then-unreported details of a female suspect thought to have been spotted at the scene one week before the attack, and who may have called local media outlets claiming responsibility. Two years on, our intel appears to have been confirmed with the release of a phone conversation recording.

ASSAULTS & BASHINGS

MARDI GRAS TO LET COPS MARCH DESPITE “ORGANISED” ROLE IN GAY HATE! Former officer admits NSW Police went “GAY BASHING” and covered up violence INCLUDING MURDER for decades

October 21, 2022 Joanna Psaros

EXCLUSIVE: Sydney Mardi Gras will continue to allow NSW Police to take part in next year’s parade despite the testimony of one former cop who has admitted the police force had an “organised” role in gay hate crimes – including murder – that plagued Sydney for decades. Joanna Psaros reports.

ASSAULTS & BASHINGS

“CORRUPT” KENEALLY CHARGED ONE YEAR AFTER TRUE CRIME EXPOSÈ! Constable Daniel Keneally to face court over FABRICATING EVIDENCE as cover-up blows up

October 13, 2022 Joanna Psaros

“Corrupt” cop Daniel Keneally – the son of Labor Party heavyweight Kristina Keneally – will finally face court for the alleged fabrication of evidence which saw an innocent man spend three weeks in solitary confinement. The developments comes almost one year after True Crime News Weekly broke the police corruption scandal. Joanna Psaros reports.

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“ETHICAL” CHILD ABUSE: Sydney Uni prescribes TRIGGERING Queer Theory textbook to undergrad students as author gets PROMOTION to Deputy Vice-Chancellor

October 11, 2022 Joanna Psaros

EXCLUSIVE: The University of Sydney has doubled down on the choice to include an outdated and triggering textbook containing graphic descriptions of and arguments in favour of child sexual abuse on a number of undergraduate courses’ reading lists, claiming “a commitment to academic freedom” just months after promoting the book’s author to the position of Provost and Deputy Vice-Chancellor. Joanna Psaros reports.