Meshel Laurie
speaker
10,631 appearances
92 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 3d ago
Meshel Laurie’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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the following podcast contains accounts of child sexual assault listener discretion is advised
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This is Australian True Crime with Michelle Laurie.
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In 1985, after a messy relationship breakup, Maggie Dawkins took a short-term job in the small Western Australian town of Catanning.
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Maggie's job was to shepherd and mentor a small group of bright young people from Perth through projects in rural communities in Western Australia.
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The hope was that at least some of them might enjoy it so much that they stayed, bringing their expertise and youthful energy to those communities.
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Maggie's group of young people quickly struck up friendships with local young people, and that was the point at which heartbroken young Maggie became the only champion of the kids from Katanning's St Andrew's Hostel, who were desperately in need of one.
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As a result of this turn of events, Maggie has been part of the fight against institutional child abuse for the last 40 years.
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She's written a book called To Be Believed, A West Australian Scandal, and she joins us to talk about it.
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This is Australian True Crime.
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We acknowledge the traditional owners of the land on which this podcast is created, the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people of the Kulin
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tell us how, from this delightful project, you ended up meeting these waifs from St Andrew's Hostel.
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was it, you knew these kids socially then?
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Because
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that some young people disclosed unimaginable abuse to you that was happening in their lives.
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Now, I assumed you had been hired to go into the hostel in some capacity.
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No.
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So you were just a nice lady they met.
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I was...
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You
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think about the trust it takes to do what they did, as I say, I assumed you were there working with them day in, day out, and that built that way.
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