Pete Bates

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97 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 12 Jul

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Australian True Crime · True Crime Tonight: The New Mafia · 12 Jul 2026 podcast

And an old guard that I'd known for a while, he gave me an encyclopedia and it was about the cosmos, the stars and all that.

I couldn't read, but I was looking at the pictures and trying to sound words out.

Ended up taking that book back with me.

I got a dictionary.

They started the reading.

Then I just started devouring books.

Then I started doing self-help books and just started working myself.

I quit using drugs in 2007 in prison because it was rampant.

and just buckled down and just started focusing on myself, watching the men around me come in and out.

I didn't want that.

I just wanted to be different to what everyone else was doing.

They asked me if I'd help mentor some of the younger blokes that were trying to get off the gear.

They set up a unit in the prison, isolated from all the other units, so no one could get down there.

And blokes would come in there, detoxing, and

They'd have counsellors come down, we'd do meetings, NA meetings, AA meetings.

And then one day this beautiful blonde lady walked into the fishbowl and I'm still married to her now.

So my wife has never had to fear me or my daughter to me.

Like a lot of men fall back on their past and, you know, my father did it or this happened to me and poor me, you know.

Our past explains us.

It doesn't excuse us.

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