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with countries and companies outside of Australia for the selling of technology that Australia was very much involved in creating and marketing at the time.

And so all of that pressure was placed on him.

And his children very much think that he bore that pressure and part of that pressure that he bore led to his early death just four years later in 1970 when he passed away.

And so we have these very, very clear and obvious pointers to this very serious level of government involvement with what happened at Westall.

And just as some of your listeners and viewers would know, on the 60th anniversary of the incident,

the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Australia's public broadcaster, the equivalent of the BBC or the CBC in Canada, broadcast an episode on their flagship long-running story, sorry, program called Australian Story, a 30-minute treatment of the Westlaw story for the anniversary.

Literally 24 hours after the story aired, a man contacted me

a former police officer whose dad had been a police officer at the police station responsible for Westall at the time.

And he wanted to let me know that something extraordinary had happened at his dad's police, at his father's police station at the time.

His father's now passed away.

He himself is now retired from the police.

But his dad had told him over the years that documentation that's kept at all police stations in Victoria, known as running sheets, very important legal documents, which detail the activities of police officers on an hourly and daily basis, which must, by a legal requirement, be kept for a statutory period of time, seven years.

and kept at the police stations and kept very securely in their safes or their locked rooms.

That week's worth of running sheets which included the response to Westall was somehow removed from the police station and never seen again.

He wanted me to understand that as a former police officer, and for his dad as well, that was something that was virtually impossible

that that sort of documentation could not be removed.

And the fact that it was and the fact that his dad couldn't find out afterwards from his colleagues or anybody what had happened to that documentation was completely mystifying for him and for his father.

And it just underscored for them both that whatever had happened at Westall, it had the involvement of somebody at a very high level in government.

And that points us then back to the reality that the government was involved, the government was interested, and that perhaps we shouldn't be surprised that 60 years later we still don't have any documentary evidence for that involvement.

Because whatever it was that happened, somebody made the decision