Deborah Richardson

And in that moment, I said to him, I need to think about it.

And I went home that night and I spoke to my boyfriend at the time and my parents and

And I just said to them in that moment that if I accept this role, then I can no longer say no to a job and I can't do that.

I don't think I've really thought about that before, Sarah, but I guess now with hindsight, I think it was pretty courageous.

You know, it wasn't something that you did.

Every time someone said something to you, it was yes, sir, no, sir.

And so I suppose it was courageous.

Yeah, March 27, 1986, it was Easter Thursday.

I was on a one o'clock shift and ordinarily I would walk through what we called the south door entrance of Russell Street.

There was a main entrance and then there was the south door entrance.

The district training office was the very next office beside the south door.

For some unknown reason, normally on a one o'clock shift, I'd get in at one o'clock and I'd walk through that south door and

That particular day I got in early.

I came through the rear car park, which I'd actually never done for the whole time that I had been working there.

And I arrived at about 20 to 1 and I sat down at my desk, which was right beside a window.

At 101, Sarah, there was a bomb blast and I was literally blown off my chair to the other side of the room.

And, you know, when people say to you time stands still in those traumatic moments, it truly does.

I can still so clearly today remember.

visualise everything that happened in that moment.

There was a red flash, one window popped, the room filled with smoke.