Andrew Rule was born in country Victoria in 1957, later attending high school in Sale.
[1] The Murders of Margaret and Seana Tapp was a cold case that Rule has worked to bring renewed attention to in articles for both The Age and Herald Sun.
[2][3] 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.
[5] In 2021, Rule was involved in a controversy where he falsely accused the late former Labor premier Neville Wran of corruption.
[7][8] 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.