True Crime News Weekly

CRIME CULTURE: Anxious People by Fredrik Backman

October 10, 2020 Therese Taylor 0

After an unsuccessful heist, a bank robber takes refuge as well a number of hostages in an apartment up for sale. Therese Taylor with this review of a Swedish crime fiction tale that decidedly goes against the grain when it comes to Nordic noir.

THE FAR RIGHT FEMBOT FILES! Leaked Border Force notes raise more questions about what the f*ck Lauren Southern is doing in Australia & her supposed announcement “quitting” White Supremacy

October 1, 2020 Tom Tanuki 6

EXCLUSIVE: Just how exactly did Lauren Southern – the far-right White Supremacist darling and Sky News ‘media celebrity’ – successfully get past Border Force to gain entry from Canada to Australia last year despite a personal history full of extremist racist rhetoric used to divide communities and stoke violence? Tom Tanuki with this investigation.

OUR EYES CANNOT UNSEE THIS! Newcastle ‘nudie run’ ends in arrest for Year 12 students after brazen attempt to escape police while butt naked

September 26, 2020 Serkan Ozturk 3

EXCLUSIVE: A ‘nudie run’ through the town centre of Newcastle, NSW last night has cost three young men more than just their pride with the group arrested and then chased by police while attempting to escape when butt naked.

TRUE OPINION: The art of waiting is getting lost

September 25, 2020 Miles Hunt 1

Patience really is a virtue, ponders novelist Miles Hunt.

WHY DONALD TRUMP IS A C*NT! A Rough Guide to the US Election

September 22, 2020 Gary Johnston 1

ANALYSIS: Donald Trump is a c*nt, writes Gary Johnston.

CRIME CULTURE: Either Side of Midnight by Benjamin Stevenson

September 21, 2020 G. L. Marlowe 0

Murder or suicide? This is the question which lies at the heart of Benjamin Stevenson’s sophomore novel ‘Either Side of Midnight’. G. L. Marlowe with this review of a gripping detective fiction story that foregrounds male mental health in a dodgy media world.

LEAKED LIKE A DODGY SECCA! See the entire $44 million contract Vic Premier Dan Andrews signed with Unified Security for COVID hotel quarantine fails

September 18, 2020 Serkan Ozturk 1

EXCLUSIVE: It was the security firm awarded almost $50 million despite having under 40 full time staff in Victoria and now at the centre of an inquiry after its poorly trained subcontracted guards helped cause a second wave of COVID, leading to hundreds of deaths and forcing Melbourne into a months-long lockdown.

LANZ ON THE BOIL: We’re all in this together, they said!

August 29, 2020 Lanz Priestley 0

LANZ ON THE BOIL: Dubbed Sydney’s “Night Mayor” by the Daily Telegraph, Sydney Street Kitchen founder and homelessness advocate, Lanz Priestley, begins a new regular column for True Crime News Weekly with a tale of privilege and poverty which the COVID pandemic has only further exacerbated.

NO ESCAPE! Where can victims of family violence & abuse go in COVID lockdown?

August 28, 2020 April Shepherd 0

FEATURE: Australia has a problem with violence, specifically violence against women. As Victoria surges through its second COVID-19 lockdown the implications for those living in abuse is dire. Where can victims find safety when confined to their home and how has lockdown affected those living in family violence? April Shepherd with this investigation.

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.

RELEASED & BAILED DESPITE MORE CHARGES FOR MANKY MOLESTOR MUNDINE! Graeme Mundine hides at wife’s house after receiving get-out-of-jail-free card to face further child sex abuse charges

August 4, 2020 Serkan Ozturk 0

EXCLUSIVE: Convicted child rapist Graeme Mundine – formerly a senior Catholic Church and Indigenous community leader – has been recently released from prison to face court this week on further child sex abuse charges after being charged by detectives over more offences that took place at a Marist Brothers college in Sydney’s west in the 1980s. Serkan Ozturk reports.

ISRAEL, LOOK AT THY SELF! State-Sponsor of Terror Lobbies Government to Intimidate Australians

August 1, 2020 Jay Tharappel 2

ANALYSIS: Israel’s attempts to demonise Hezbollah and get it proscribed as a terrorist organisation are a reflection of its own sins, writes political commentator Jay Tharappel.

BLACK & WHITE IN BAYONNE, OR NOT! Bashing death of bus driver in France over Covid face mask brings out old hatred & shysters

July 30, 2020 Therese Taylor 0

FRANCE: The bashing death of a bus driver in the Pyrenees town of Bayonne earlier this month has reopened age-old faultlines within French society during a pandemic while also attracting those looking to use technology to make a quick buck, writes Therese Taylor.

Episode 4: Michelle Gray on the Celtic FC child abuse cover-up which took the life of her footballer brother Andrew

July 29, 2020 Staff Reporters 4

Episode 4: Michelle Gray has been at the forefront of a battle for justice against one of the world’s best supported sporting clubs – Scotland footballing powerhouse Celtic FC – who she alleges was involved in a wide-ranging, decades long cover-up over a paedophile ring that operated within the club’s grounds and targeted young footballers, including her brother.

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.

ONLINE MISOGYNY! Who is an Incel and who’s ‘only joking’?

June 26, 2020 April Shepherd 1

INVESTIGATION: The Manosphere is growing and one of its subcultures has grown up to be much bigger and nastier than ever thought possible, so where is the line drawn? When is it just a case of ‘boys will be boys’? April Shepherd brings you this deep dive into online Incel culture in Australia.

MORE TROUBLED TURKISH DELIGHT FOR DAN ANDREWS AFTER SOMYUREK BRANCH STACKING! Vic Labor MP Natalie Suleyman in Wikipedia “edit warring” scandal over council corruption

June 22, 2020 Serkan Ozturk 1

EXCLUSIVE: Hot on the heels of the Adem Somyurek branch stacking scandal, Victorian Premier Dan Andrews has yet another headache on his hands with one of his other MPs with Turkish heritage – Natalie Suleyman – now at the centre of an “edit warring” scandal on Wikipedia over preivous corruption findings. Serkan Ozturk reports.

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.

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.