CRIME CULTURE: You Were Never Really Here

We are joined by Booker nominated novelist Steve Toltz from Los Angeles to discuss his new book ‘Here Goes Nothing’ ahead of his appearance at the Sydney Writer’s Festival in May. Murder, mystery, love, philosophy, satire, existentialism, the afterlife and the supernatural – Steve gives his views on all the big topics. Produced and edited by Aidan Satz.

EXCLUSIVE: Federal Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s hypocrisy has been laid bare once again as he rushed this week to dismiss his son’s recent flaunting of a bag of cocaine on Snapchat as a “private matter” just three months after he publicly pushed for severe penalties for ‘glamourising’ crime online, including two year prison sentences and two year social media bans.

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.