Andrew Rule (born 8 April 1957) is an Australian journalist who specialises in
crime.
Early life
Andrew Rule was born in country Victoria in 1957, later attending high school in Sale. He dropped out of journalism at RMIT before completing an arts degree at Monash University.
Rule wrote an authorised biography of Australian media proprietor and billionaire
Kerry Stokes to counter bad press from an unauthorised work by
Margaret Simons that included testimony from an abandoned family.[4]
In 2021, Rule was involved in a controversy where he falsely accused the late former Labor premier
Neville Wran of corruption. The reports on which his commentary and claims were based were found to be false in an
ABC editorial review.[5]
Personal life
Rule is married to Di Rule who ran as a
Liberal Party candidate for Seymour in the 1999 state election and Burwood in the 2002 state election.[6][7] His wife was accused by political opponents of benefiting from
sinecures when she was appointed to a Victorian government board after serving as a long-time staffer for former Liberal leader and Premier
Ted Baillieu.[8]
Books
Rule has authored a number of books:
Cuckoo: A True Story Of Murder And Its Detection (1988)
Rose Against the Odds: The Lionel Rose Story (1991)
The Silent War: Behind the Police Killings That Shook Australia,
ISBN0-6462506-4-7 (1995) with John Silvester and Owen Davies
The Evil: Inside the Mind of a Child Killer (1997) with Margaret Hobbs
Tough: 101 Australian Gangsters: A Crime Companion,
ISBN0-9579121-2-9 (2002) with John Silvester
Sex, Death and Betrayal: True Crimes and Other Stories (2004) with John Silvester
Rule is an inductee in The Australian Media Hall of Fame.[1] He was also twice (1994; 2001) the recipient of the Graham Perkin Australian Journalist of the Year Award. In 2001, he won the
Gold Walkley award for his story Geoff Clarke: Power and rape.
References
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abClub, Melbourne Press.
"Andrew Rule". MPC - Hall Of Fame. Retrieved 30 March 2021.