About Peter Johnston
Peter Johnston was an Australian rugby union player.
Peter Stanley Johnston (born 16 August 1946) is an Australian former international rugby union player.
Johnston was born in Sydney and educated at Newington College.
A prop, Johnston was a Northbridge junior and played his first grade rugby for Northern Suburbs, having started out in their under 21s. He earned representative honours for Sydney in 1967 and the following year made his state debut off the bench for New South Wales against Fiji. In 1975, Johnston was a member of the Northern Suburbs' Shute Shield winning team.
After retiring, Johnston had a long involvement with the Australian Barbarians as an administrator.
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