TRUE OPINION – True Crime News Weekly

TRUE OPINION: Be Afraid! The Politics of Fear

September 25, 2018 Gary Johnston 0

TRUE OPINION: It was the supposed riot in Melbourne a few weeks ago on the streets of Collingwood involving almost 200 angry rap fans. Africans. Pacific Islanders. A bloke who had his leg amputated after a car sped at him in a targeted hit. Except, it turned out, he never lost a limb. Our Melbourne correspondent, Gary Johnston, takes a look at what else the local media may have got wrong for its own reasons. [READ MORE]

TRUE OPINION: Confess or be damned!

September 13, 2018 Tim Kent 0

TRUE OPINION: The Catholic Church is refusing to comply with the key recommendation of the Royal Commission into Institutional Child Abuse – to report to authorities any confessions to priests from guilty parties who have admitted committing or enabling sexual abuse. Is it really on spiritual grounds, or is it the last bastion of protection and concealment? Tim Kent with his view. [READ MORE]

TRUE OPINION: The dark side of our recent political turmoil

September 9, 2018 Miles Hunt 0

TRUE OPINION: Are we in a freak period of disharmony in Australia after a period of sustained stability where we had three Prime Ministers in 24 years? Our columnist, Miles Hunt, explores the current bloody political scene. [READ MORE]

TRUE OPINION: Top 10 tips for being a better dad from a fairly average bloke

September 2, 2018 Miles Hunt 0

TRUE OPINION: This Father’s Day our columnist, Miles Hunt, gives real advice to all the dads out there with his tips on parenting a baby or small child. Trust him. He knows what he’s talking about. He’s a fairly average stay-at-home dad with just over two years experience on the job. [READ MORE]

TRUE OPINION: Debating Trump’s sanity – a legitimate attempt at duty of care?

September 1, 2018 Tim Kent 0

TRUE OPINION: Should mental health professionals get publicly involved in debates on whether US President Donald Trump is crazy, psychopathic, or a narcissist? Our new columnist, Tim Kent, explores the ramifications of diagnosing public figures. [READ MORE]

TRUE OPINION: Sniffer dogs need to sniff off

July 23, 2018 Miles Hunt 0

TRUE OPINION: When dogs are used to enforce laws, it is more reminiscent of the Stasi or a Police State than a free democratic society. Yet in New South Wales, the police regularly use drug detection dogs on citizens – mainly young people and those attending festivals or outdoor music events. True Crime News Weekly columnist, Miles Hunt, says it’s finally time to put an end to it all. [READ MORE]

TRUE OPINION: Beautiful game, horrible corruption

June 14, 2018 Gary Johnston 0

TRUE OPINION: Is the world game so truly beautiful that we should overlook the widespread corruption and questionable characters within it, wonders our football-mad correspondent, Gary Johnston ahead of the World Cup kick-off in Russia. [READ MORE]

TRUE OPINION: Discrimination – the legal, illegal, and acceptable forms

May 16, 2018 Miles Hunt 5

TRUE OPINION: What is discrimination? Our True Crime News Weekly columnist, Miles Hunt, gives us his view as a white, middle-class male who attended a private school. [READ MORE]

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

March 22, 2018 Miles Hunt 0

TRUE OPINION: 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. [READ MORE]

TRUE OPINION: “Be proud you survived it”

March 14, 2018 Gary Johnston 0

TRUE OPINION: 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 [READ MORE]

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

March 7, 2018 Miles Hunt 1

TRUE OPINION: 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. [READ MORE]

TRUE OPINION: #MeToo, Breaking a Few Eggs, and the Impossible Fight for Justice in Sexual Harassment Matters

February 27, 2018 Miles Hunt 0

TRUE OPINION: With ever more women openly discussing their experiences of sexual harassment, assault and rape at the alleged hands of powerful men, should we devote much time for the small number of males who may have been potentially wrongly accused? Our new True Crime News Weekly columnist and lawyer, Miles Hunt, wonders what side of history we really want to be on. [READ MORE]

TRUE OPINION: Why Barnaby’s Business Is Our Business Too

February 26, 2018 Gary Johnston 3

TRUE OPINION: Now that Barnaby Joyce has resigned as Australia’s deputy prime minister four months after True Crime News Weekly broke the news about the various serious scandals surrounding him, our correspondent Gary Johnston reflects on why Barnaby’s “private business” should be a continuing concern to the public at large. [READ MORE]

TRUE OPINION: Melbourne’s House of Card-Board

January 29, 2018 Gary Johnston 1

TRUE OPINION: Real, successful criminals – scoundrels who’d happily divest you of your possessions in the most pitiless manner imaginable – rarely carry bags marked ‘swag’, and have their faces covered by a stocking mask. These days, crooks wear suits, have letters after their name and, to all extents and purposes, purport to be respected members of the community. Nowhere is this more evident than in real estate development. [READ MORE]

TRUE OPINION: “I USED TO BE IN A GANG!”: When is a gang not a gang?

January 4, 2018 Gary Johnston 0

TRUE OPINION: With mainstream media and the Federal Government leading a racist moral panic about ‘African gangs’ apparently tormenting wide sections of Australian society, True Crime News Weekly correspondent Gary Johnston shares his experiences of growing up with youth gangs on the mean streets of Glasgow and wonders why some groups of young men ‘become’ gangs. [READ MORE]

TRUE OPINION: JUSTICE FOR SALE! The Real Costs of Going to Jail

December 20, 2017 Gary Johnston 0

TRUE OPINION: The Victorian Government has announced it will spend $345 million over three years on almost 500 new cells to deal with the state’s overcrowded jail system and increasing prison population. True Crime News Weekly correspondent Gary Johnston wonders whether throwing hundreds of millions of dollars into a failed system is a wise move. [READ MORE]

TRUE OPINION: The Sins of the Fathers … And the Cardinal?

December 13, 2017 Gary Johnston 0

TRUE OPINION: In the Roman Catholic Church, the Sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation, generally known as ‘confession’, is a crucial component of faith. [READ MORE]

TRUE OPINION: Pell & the Pall of Secrets

August 2, 2017 Staff Reporters 1

TRUE OPINION: There is an extraordinary amount of information being hidden concerning the trial of Catholic Church leader, George Pell. Key aspects of the case, and related offences, are apparently subject to a suppression order by the courts. This aspect of the trial ought to be discussed, writes an academic with an interest in child abuse cases under the pen name of Lady Diodati. [READ MORE]

TRUE OPINION: How gay media got into this mess

May 24, 2017 Staff Reporters 0

TRUE OPINION: The current troubles of Evo Media – publishers of SX Magazine, SameSame and Gay News Network – as first revealed by True Crime News Weekly reflect a bigger trend faced not just by gay and lesbian media, but all traditional media around the world, writes journalist, author and queer media watcher, Bill Calder. [READ MORE]

TRUE OPINION: White fantasies return to haunt the sceptre of Europe

February 2, 2017 Serkan Ozturk 0

TRUE OPINION: The person behind the mass terror attack upon a Quebec mosque in Canada was a white Canadian-Quebecian university student named Alexandre Bissonnette. [READ MORE]