I find it hard to believe that any crew would take off at night without the runway lights on.
So the question is 'who' reported it? What is their expertise? Are they credible?
I wonder if they are the same 'who' that reported the alleged QF incident- which we'll never know as the QF report was a CAIR. Do they have an axe to grind about aircraft operations in the evening at Launy.
The final issue of course is that perhaps both of these aircraft did in fact take off without the runway lights. Given that two professional crews have managed to make an error in this way then perhaps there is something about Launy that makes this possible.