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 Secret Diary of Ange – Volume 4: I Told Ya I’d Prove All You Malakas Wrong

May 18, 2022 Gary Johnston

SATIRE: Australians love sport and they love winners. Having led Scottish giants Celtic FC to the premiership title that’s why they now love me so much, writes Ange Postecoglou.

DICKHEAD DEPP’S DEFAMATION! Johnny Depp’s performance on the stand is a winner for creeps

May 2, 2022 Gary Johnston

ANALYSIS: Actor Johnny Depp’s performance on the stand in his defamation battle against ex-wife Amber Heard is a signal for other creeps to excuse their misogyny, writes Gary Johnston.

DOES AUSTRALIA HAVE ITS OWN JIMMY SAVILE? Celebrity cover-ups aren’t only an English specialty

April 18, 2022 Gary Johnston

CRIME CULTURE: With the release of a Netflix documentary that tells how a ‘beloved’ British TV personality successfully exploited his fame to disguise five decades of unspeakable sexual abuse, the question must be asked – could it happen in Australia? Or has it already? Gary Johnston takes a look.

THE UGLY SIDE OF THE BEAUTIFUL GAME! Celtic FC & Rangers to travel to Australia for football tour as child sexual abuse claims linger in Scotland

March 16, 2022 Gary Johnston

EXCLUSIVE: They are arguably Scotland’s two biggest institutions: Celtic FC and Glasgow Rangers. And six months from now, the two football clubs will bring their storied and intense rivalry to Australia for the very first time. Yet, hidden deep within that history of the Old Firm is a horrid decades-long tale of organised paedophile rings amongst youth football coaches. Now, ahead of the Australian tour to take place in November, families of the victims of child sexual abuse have spoken out and are livid that their experiences continue to be whitewashed and sports-washed. Gary Johnston reports.

NOT ONLY SLEAZY POLITICIANS! Police Need to Know MeToo Also Means Them Too

February 14, 2022 Gary Johnston

EXCLUSIVE: A Melbourne woman says her attempts to report sexual assault to Victoria Police have resulted in ill-health, fear and pain and a sense that she is now the enemy and even a target for officers. How far have police really come in this world after MeToo? Gary Johnston investigates.

PRINCE ANDREW FOR GOVERNOR-GENERAL! You know it makes (non)sense

January 14, 2022 Gary Johnston

The formerly honourable Prince Andrew is on the lookout for a new job after being stripped of his military roles and royal titles this week and no longer able to use the moniker “his Royal Highness”. It comes on the back of a US court ruling that found he could be sued for sexual abuse over his connections to elite child sex traffickers, Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. Surely he’d make a fine candidate for Australia’s next Governor-General, suggests Gary Johnston.

HOWZAT?! Class is permanent. Sport is forever

January 5, 2022 Gary Johnston

Sport is the soothing balm for all of Australia’s ills and ‘invisible’ class divides, writes Gary Johnston.

The Secret Diary of Ange – Volume 3: Even More Malaka Files

December 3, 2021 Gary Johnston

SATIRE: Geia sas again, malakas. Struggles in Scotland have Celtic FC manager, Ange Postecoglou, pondering why Greeks love tragedy so much.

‘FALL GUY’ FOLEY’S OFFICE MILLIONS! Vic Health Minister Martin Foley sells property for over $1 million its reserve to RoboDebt guy Rodney Kagan just weeks before Dan Andrews gives multi-million dollar Covid contract

November 3, 2021 Gary Johnston

EXCLUSIVE: The sale of an office premises belonging to Victoria’s Health Minister, Martin Foley, for more than $1 million over its reserve before a public auction to the big boss of a call centre who was coincidentally then handed a cushy $20 million-plus government contract just weeks later by Premier Dan Andrews’ state Labor government has raised all sorts of curious questions. Gary Johnston reports.

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.