Billy Fitzsimons
speaker
650 appearances
14 recordings
3 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 2 Aug
Billy Fitzsimons’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And good morning.
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This is the Daily Oz.
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Oh, now it makes sense.
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Good morning and welcome to The Daily Oz.
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It's Monday the 3rd of August.
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I'm Billie Fitzsimons.
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I'm Zara Seidler.
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Today we are talking about a Victorian inquiry into cults.
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After hearing from hundreds of survivors, it handed down 98 findings and 39 recommendations, including one that would change the law in a way that has never before been done in Australia.
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But what should have been a win for survivors was overshadowed by a mistake in how the report was shared.
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Today, we will walk you through what this inquiry found and how a single email turned that win into something that survivors have called devastating.
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Zara, before we start, I want to acknowledge that Elliot, who listeners will be familiar with, he is often on the podcast.
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He has done majority of the research for this year, spoken to a lot of survivors who were part of this inquiry.
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We're backing ourselves up two from two episodes where we defer to experts.
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Well, he's just not here today, unfortunately.
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He is in Victoria.
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So he wasn't able to do the podcast, but he has done so much of the reporting on this for TDA and it has been so excellent.
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And it is because of his reporting on this that we actually have this story of what happened with the email, which we will get into.
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It is absolutely fascinating.
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And it's something that I haven't seen any other media reporting on.
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