TRUE OPINION – True Crime News Weekly

TRUE OPINION: What the world needs now? Love. Sweet Love. It’s schmaltzy. But real. There’s just too little of it.

August 7, 2020 Miles Hunt 0

With the reverberations of a viral pandemic as well as environmental and social crises being felt across the planet, what the world needs now is love and lots of it, writes novelist and lawyer Miles Hunt.

TRUE OPINION: Lauren Southern – now a new true blue Aussie – proves ‘cancel culture’ doesn’t exist

July 28, 2020 Tom Tanuki 1

One of the darlings of North America’s racist and extremist ‘alt-right’ scene is now a dinky-di Aussie, proving yet again how ‘cancel culture’ is simply a battlefield for the seemingly never-ending culture wars, writes Tom Tanuki.

TRUE OPINION: Why Australia Must Rise Up Against Racism

June 11, 2020 Gary Johnston 4

A racist system in this country has been killing Indigenous people and their communities while looting from the poor every day, writes Gary Johnston.

TRUE OPINION: COVID lingers for memory & nostalgia

May 14, 2020 Miles Hunt 6

A viral pandemic has induced a collective wave of nostalgia, writes lawyer and novelist Miles Hunt.

TRUE OPINION: Landlords – it’s a pandemic, try not to murder tenants!

March 31, 2020 Tom Tanuki 0

The COVID-19 pandemic has given landlords and agents a great opportunity to improve the long-standing reputational damage they have suffered over the years. All they have to do is be humane for a bit, writes Tom Tanuki.

TRUE OPINION: On the anniversary of Christchurch, thank your anti-fascist researchers

March 14, 2020 Tom Tanuki 2

The difficult and largely thankless task of monitoring and exposing ugly-minded right wing racists and fascists would be appreciated a little more if understood a bit better, writes Tom Tanuki.

TRUE OPINION: Andrew Bolt – professional paedophile ally

February 29, 2020 Tom Tanuki 10

Andrew Bolt sure likes to publicly defend criminally inclined perverts, paedophiles and rapists, writes Tom Tanuki.

TRUE OPINION: SELLING THEIR SOUL, OR WHAT LITTLE REMAINED OF IT! Labor, scavenging the scraps of old Lib policies, won’t be part of a Left revolution

February 17, 2020 Tom Tanuki 10

Australia’s Labor Party continues to offer tired old platitudes and uninspiring policies while an actual old white man over the Pacific in the United States offers some real hope, writes Tom Tanuki.

TRUE OPINION: Who’s Culture is it Anyway?

February 12, 2020 Gary Johnston 2

As a proud Scotsman, Australia contains too much of the bad parts of Britain, reflects Gary Johnston.

TRUE OPINION: Modern Australian nostalgia is cross-branded sweets, and nothing more

January 25, 2020 Tom Tanuki 1

As we edge near yet another day of confected patriotism and nationalism, Australia’s cultural identity relies on a large amount of confectionery to get over the fact this land is stolen, writes our new columnist Tom Tanuki.

TRUE OPINION: COMFORT & JOY! And Other Unlikely Tidings For Australia In 2020

December 25, 2019 Gary Johnston 0

TRUE OPINION: What’s there to look forward to for Australia this Christmas, wonders our resident grinch Gary Johnston.

TRUE OPINION: This nation, this drift, to nowhere

November 15, 2019 Rudy Terwilliger 3

Out of the last 23 years in Australia, the Coalition of the Liberal Party and The Nationals has been the Federal Government for 17 of them. During that time there has been a drift in Australian society away from accountability, transparency, and certainly away from evidence-based policy, writes Rudy Terwilliger.

TRUE OPINION: The Great Con of the Race that Stops the Nation

November 11, 2019 Gary Johnston 1

It’s heralded as the greatest sporting and cultural tradition of this nation. Gary Johnston spent a day at the Melbourne Cup to give you this first-hand glimpse of an ugly, faltering Australia dressed to its best.

TRUE OPINION: DON’T BE A DUTERTE! Philippines gets high on murder

October 27, 2019 Tim Kent 0

The Philippines has seen thousands of people murdered in extra judicial and vigilante style killings since 2016 following the election of president Rodrigo Duterte. Just what will it take for the world to act, asks Tim Kent.

TRUE OPINION: CATHOLIC CHURCH CONFESSIONAL! Only sleazy priests would keep child sex abuse secret

September 26, 2019 Tim Kent 2

The Catholic Church – which has enabled the rape and sexual abuse of thousands of children and brought upon the world arch-villain paedophile, George Pell – is still claiming that its so-called special relationship with God means priests shouldn’t report incidents of child abuse told to them during confession.

TRUE OPINION: NOT NICE TO BE “KNOWN”! Alleged Sydney stabber Mert Ney slipped in between systems

August 29, 2019 Lois Lane 1

Alleged “Sydney stabber” Mert Ney was apparently “known” to both the police and mental health services, but may have slipped in between the cracks writes Lois Lane.

TRUE OPINION: GUN NUTS DO HAVE A MENTAL ILLNESS! And it’s guns!

August 21, 2019 Tim Kent 1

Fascists, misogynists and violent haters with easy access to an array of assault weapons means there’s always only going to be one conclusion in the United States until proper gun control is enacted, writes a pessimistic Tim Kent.

TRUE OPINION: “I WAS A TEEN BOY EXPLOITED BY LGBTIQ MEDIA”! And now I want answers

August 12, 2019 Oscar Kaspi-Crutchett 2

Wage theft is not just relegated to ‘celebrity chefs’ in the hospitality industry with the media perhaps needing to look closer at similar issues within its own backyard, writes new True Crime News Weekly contributor Oscar Kaspi-Crutchett.

TRUE OPINION: Are Victoria’s Jails the Easiest Place to Score Drugs?

July 11, 2019 Gary Johnston 0

Watching the comings-and-goings of the local drugs court isn’t for the faint-hearted. But it should be compulsory viewing as it highlights all the failures of the War on Drugs, writes Gary Johnston.

TRUE OPINION: “METH & MY BOY”! A dad tells all

June 13, 2019 Murray Kinnane 2

The number of prisoners in Australia’s jails convicted of illicit drug offences is rising by the month. Rarely heard however is the story of those affected by drug addiction, people who require treatment but instead receive incarceration. Murray Kinnane is the father of one such person.