True Crime News Weekly

Episode 3: Labor MP Andrew Leigh

May 28, 2020 Staff Reporters 2

Episode 3: The Labor Party’s Andrew Leigh speaks with our deputy editor, Gary Johnston, about his views on crime and justice, and discusses the critical issues of unsustainable rising incarceration levels in Australia, with particular regard to both Indigenous and female imprisonment.

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.

THEY WANT SHEEPLE TO WAKE UP! But Anti-Lockdown protestors are asleep & fooled out of asking real questions

May 13, 2020 Tom Tanuki 12

With the COVID-19 pandemic putting a pause on many aspects of society, we’re now watching a weird conspiracy springtime happen in Australia. It’s making anti-lockdown protestors and QAnon believers out of family members, friends and neighbours, writes Tom Tanuki.

Episode 2: Jordan Shanks aka Friendlyjordies

April 28, 2020 Staff Reporters 4

Episode 2: The True Crime News Weekly team is joined by comedian and satirist Jordan Shanks (aka Friendlyjordies) to discuss what makes him tick, his views on mainstream media and politics, the return of Malcolm Turnbull to the spotlight, and just why he thinks News Corp ‘personality’ Joe Hildebrand is the Scott Morrison of journalism. With your hosts Gary Johnston and Serkan Ozturk.

CRIME CULTURE: A Bigger Picture by Malcolm Turnbull

April 27, 2020 Gary Johnston 2

The former prime minister’s memoirs do stack up against the better political biographies in a torrid field but it shows a man forlornly in love with himself while ignoring the many calamities around him, writes Gary Johnston.

GLADYS & LIBERAL PARTY REWARD EXCLUSIVE BRETHREN AGAIN! Homophobic Christian cult that hid child sex abuse scores big COVID cash grant from NSW Govt

April 24, 2020 Serkan Ozturk 4

EXCLUSIVE: The Exclusive Brethren has once again been rewarded by its friends within the Liberal Party with the already supremely wealthy extremist Christian cult given $250,000 by NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian under the guise of charity work to help communities in remote areas facing the consequences of the Coronavirus pandemic. Serkan Ozturk reports.

WHAT THE JOE?! News Corp loudmouth Joe Hildebrand finally left silent & speechless after Friendlyjordies video DESTROYS career

April 23, 2020 Serkan Ozturk 5

EXCLUSIVE: Prominent News Corp foot soldier and breakfast tv host, Joe Hildebrand, has been taken down a peg or two with the release of a stinging and brutally funny viral video critiquing his media career. Serkan Ozturk reports.

Episode 1: The George Pell Verdict

April 9, 2020 Staff Reporters 2

Episode 1: The True Crime News Weekly team discuss the ins and outs of the George Pell child sexual abuse case and his acquittal by the High Court while looking at the nexus that exists between politics, media, religion and the judiciary. Featuring special guest Shane Dowling, publisher of the popular Kangaroo Court of Australia website which looks at judicial corruption. With your hosts Gary Johnston and Serkan Ozturk.

A PAEDOPHILE & RAPIST! Even if released, George Pell will never be truly innocent

April 7, 2020 Gary Johnston 4

ANALYSIS: In just about an hour’s time, George Pell will learn if his appeal against his conviction for raping two 13-year-old choirboys has been successful. Even if it is, history will likely and rightly remember the former Catholic Archbishop of Australia as a child abuser, a rapist and enabler of other paedophile priests, writes Gary Johnston.

‘PLAGUE SHIP’ COVID CONFIDENTIAL! Links between Ruby Princess & past Liberal Party corruption emerge as cruise liner becomes leading cause of Coronavirus in Australia

April 3, 2020 Serkan Ozturk 10

EXCLUSIVE: In an amazing bit of coincidence, it can now be revealed that some of the key players involved in the Ruby Princess ‘plague ship’ COVID-19 scandal were involved in a major Liberal Party corruption probe that brought down a premier almost 30 years ago. Serkan Ozturk investigates.

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.

“YOU COULD HAVE KILLED US”! Uni library staff angry after bosses worked from home last week while they were forced onto frontline against COVID-19

March 25, 2020 Serkan Ozturk 0

EXCLUSIVE: Library staff at some of Australia’s major universities fear they may have been placed in grave danger amidst the worsening Coronavirus pandemic with employees expected to turn up for work last week while their well-paid bosses were keeping themselves safe from COVID-19 by working from home. Serkan Ozturk reports.

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.

CRIME CULTURE: ‘Cults Uncovered’ and ‘Unsolved Murders’ by Emily G. Thompson

March 7, 2020 G. L. Marlowe 0

Northern Irish journalist and podcaster, Emily G. Thompson, has released two new books in the same month, with the promise of ‘uncovering’ bizarre cults and mysterious unsolved murders. G. L. Marlowe takes a look at both and gives her verdict.

CELTIC COVERED UP LINKS TO PEDO SEX ABUSE RING FOR DECADES! Truth finally being aired by mainstream media in UK

March 5, 2020 Gary Johnston 0

SCOTLAND: Football is now a big business. But behind some of the world’s biggest clubs lie some dark, murky secrets, including a sexual abuse ring which operated over the course of nearly three decades in the UK. Gary Johnston with the latest about the ever growing scandal inflicting Celtic FC.

STUPIDITY IS INFECTIOUS WHEN IT COMES TO CORONAVIRUS! How an illness has turned a population dumb & racist

March 3, 2020 Sarah McLean 3

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.

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.

YET ANOTHER SCOTT MORRISON LIBERAL RORT! Taxpayers stumping up $85,000 a year for best friend of PM’s ‘sad & lonely’ wife to hang out at Kirribilli House

February 13, 2020 Serkan Ozturk 7

EXCLUSIVE: It’s being decried as yet another rort involving PM Scott Morrison. It can now be revealed taxpayers are picking up the bill to the tune of $85,000 a year for the best friend of Jennifer Morrison to hang out at Kirribilli House and drink cups of tea with the PM’s wife, who is said to be ‘sad and lonely’. Serkan Ozturk reports.

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.