Articles by Gary Johnston

About Gary Johnston

Gary Johnston is an author, academic and former parole officer with decades of experience in the criminal justice system. He is True Crime News Weekly's Deputy Editor and Melbourne correspondent. His book 'No Previous Conviction' was published in May 2017 and is available on Amazon.

THE INTERVIEW: Robert ‘Oily’ Doyle on his Geelong College Daze

October 15, 2021 Gary Johnston

Yet another case of child sexual abuse at Geelong College will have an other one of its former teachers – onetime Melbourne mayor and Liberal Party behemoth Robert Doyle – sweating under his collar once again, writes Gary Johnston.

The Secret Diary of Ange – Volume Two: More Malaka Files

October 1, 2021 Gary Johnston

SATIRE: After a tough start to life as manager of Celtic FC, Ange Postecoglou is back to give True Crime News Weekly readers an exclusive direct insight into how he is handling all the pressure of being the Big Boss of a Big Club.

PRESSURED COPS MAKING POOR DECISIONS! Complaining About Police Mistreatment … Depends On Who You Are

September 27, 2021 Gary Johnston

EXCLUSIVE: As the Covid-19 lockdown continues across large parts of a beleaguered Australia, stress, anxiety and its associated link with criminality – especially that of family violence – is creating increasing pressure on police forces in the affected states. Gary Johnston investigates.

PALEO PETE’S COMMUNE DREAMS IN TATTERS! How a Pete Evans Nightcap Could Turn Out to be a Brew that Isn’t True

August 24, 2021 Gary Johnston

EXCLUSIVE: Planning authorities have rejected the development of a mega-commune on the New South Wales far north coast promoted by celebrity chef turned anti-science nutter, Pete Evans, and True Crime News Weekly was present for the meeting where it all went down. Gary Johnston with this warts-and-all account.

Why the Tokyo Olympics is a Sporting Crime

July 27, 2021 Gary Johnston

As the world continues to reel from a health pandemic that has killed millions, the fat cats of the bloated and corrupt Olympics movement and their political hangers-on want us to engage in useless ‘bread and circuses’, writes Gary Johnston.

The Secret Diary of Ange – Volume One: The Malaka Files

July 2, 2021 Gary Johnston

SATIRE: Australia’s greatest ever football manager, Ange Postecoglou, has joined the world’s greatest football team – well, according to the one-eyed fans of Glasgow Celtic FC anyways – and befitting such an occasion the great man has also decided to begin penning a regular column for True Crime News Weekly to detail all his exploits in all their glory.

STRIP ‘OILY DOYLEY’ OF AWARDS! Calls grow for sexual harasser & one-time Liberal Party supremo Robert Doyle to lose honours as another report confirms sleazy nature

April 10, 2021 Gary Johnston

EXCLUSIVE: Yet another damning report has found former Liberal Party state leader and Melbourne Mayor, Robert Doyle, culpable for sexual harassment with calls now growing for the confirmed sleaze to lose the honorary awards and doctorates given to him, writes Gary Johnston.

TRUE OPINION: Who’s the real piece of trash? Answer: Peter Dutton

March 25, 2021 Gary Johnston

Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton is back with his dastardly deeds; this time deporting children, writes Gary Johnston.

TRUE OPINION: Why Eddie McGuire is a symptom, not a cause

February 11, 2021 Gary Johnston

Eddie McGuire finally used up all his lifelines holding on to the presidency of his beloved Collingwood football club as he went from one racism and bigotry scandal to the next seemingly forever until this week, writes Gary Johnston.

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

September 22, 2020 Gary Johnston

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

TRUE OPINION: Why Australia Must Rise Up Against Racism

June 11, 2020 Gary Johnston

A racist system in this country has been killing Indigenous people and their communities while looting from the poor every day, writes Gary Johnston.

CRIME CULTURE: A Bigger Picture by Malcolm Turnbull

April 27, 2020 Gary Johnston

The former prime minister’s memoirs do stack up against the better political biographies in a torrid field but it shows a man forlornly in love with himself while ignoring the many calamities around him, writes Gary Johnston.

A PAEDOPHILE & RAPIST! Even if released, George Pell will never be truly innocent

April 7, 2020 Gary Johnston

ANALYSIS: In just about an hour’s time, George Pell will learn if his appeal against his conviction for raping two 13-year-old choirboys has been successful. Even if it is, history will likely and rightly remember the former Catholic Archbishop of Australia as a child abuser, a rapist and enabler of other paedophile priests, writes Gary Johnston.

CELTIC COVERED UP LINKS TO PEDO SEX ABUSE RING FOR DECADES! Truth finally being aired by mainstream media in UK

March 5, 2020 Gary Johnston

SCOTLAND: Football is now a big business. But behind some of the world’s biggest clubs lie some dark, murky secrets, including a sexual abuse ring which operated over the course of nearly three decades in the UK. Gary Johnston with the latest about the ever growing scandal inflicting Celtic FC.

TRUE OPINION: Who’s Culture is it Anyway?

February 12, 2020 Gary Johnston

As a proud Scotsman, Australia contains too much of the bad parts of Britain, reflects Gary Johnston.

CRIME CULTURE

CRIME CULTURE: The Gentlemen

January 14, 2020 Gary Johnston

‘The Gentlemen’. It’s shit and you know it is. But you can’t look away, writes mob film aficionado Gary Johnston.

TRUE OPINION: COMFORT & JOY! And Other Unlikely Tidings For Australia In 2020

December 25, 2019 Gary Johnston

TRUE OPINION: What’s there to look forward to for Australia this Christmas, wonders our resident grinch Gary Johnston.

“I’D BE LYING IF I DIDN’T SAY IT WAS A POSSIBILITY”! Footballer Andy Woodward talks about paedophile rings in sport & surviving evil coach Barry Bennell

December 20, 2019 Gary Johnston

INTERVIEW: How does a victim survive child sexual abuse? Do they? Can they? These questions and many others are at the core of Andy Woodward’s breathtakingly honest memoir, ‘Position of Trust’, telling the horrific story of his years of abuse at the hands of Barry Bennell, an English football coach whose victims number in the hundreds, if not thousands. Gary Johnston with this interview and book review.

CRIME CULTURE: The Irishman

December 10, 2019 Gary Johnston

Director Martin Scorsese reunites with old buddies Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Harvey Keitel and an out-of-retirement Joe Pesci for one last hurrah making a masterpiece of a gangster film. Gary Johnston with this review of ‘The Irishman’.

SCOTLAND’S FOOTBALL ABUSE SCANDAL ON BRINK OF EXPLODING! Questions raised over organised paedophile rings who went from club to club raping boys

November 19, 2019 Gary Johnston

EXCLUSIVE: Scotland’s football abuse scandal is expected to explode with more details coming out that some coaches perhaps acted together in an organised paedophile ring, being moved on from club to club after raping and molesting young boys with big dreams of being professional footballers, writes Gary Johnston.