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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.
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TRUE OPINION: Are Victoria’s Jails the Easiest Place to Score Drugs?

July 11, 2019 Gary Johnston

Watching the comings-and-goings of the local drugs court isn’t for the faint-hearted. But it should be compulsory viewing as it highlights all the failures of the War on Drugs, writes Gary Johnston.

MEDIA & POLITICS

Some far right White racist North American sheila is trying to sue us Aussie battlers saying our articles are false. HERE’S WHY LAUREN SOUTHERN IS F*CKING WRONG & OUR TRUTH IS 25% BETTER!

November 4, 2020 Serkan Ozturk

EXCLUSIVE: Free speech seems to extend only one way for the self-declared free speech warriors of the racist far right, with alt-right YouTube personality turned Sky News bobbing head, Lauren Southern, frantically running to lawyers in a desperate bid to shut up our important investigation into her bizarre immigration passage to her new home of Australia. Our publisher, Serkan Ozturk, reports.

MEDIA & POLITICS

HUMAN RIGHTS? F*ck that, play on

July 1, 2022 Gary Johnston

ANALYSIS: The Socceroos have qualified for the FIFA World Cup in Qatar but how much should we really be celebrating, wonders Gary Johnston.

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  1. Policy like this was popular under the De Gaul government – they would deport anyone with a criminal record, which meant lots of French Algerians. And of course that meant police targeted Algerians for petty crimes, trumped up the charges, as a deliberate strategy to ‘clean up’ the streets.
    Australians’ acceptance of this is deeply troubling to me. The youth of France didn’t accept it back in 1968 and that was a major reason for the advancement of French politics and culture.
    If only Whitlam hadn’t been deposed in a coup our present would be very different now.

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