Meshel Laurie
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
They say, you know, here we are, we do all the work, we put in an excellent brief of evidence.
And then how are we rewarded with that?
We're rewarded with the offender realising, oh, they've got me.
I'll plead guilty and then I get a 25% reduction after all the work that's been done.
From this young woman who moved to Queensland and tried to get on with her life and put it behind her, it seems to me like the court case and everything really changed that and changed you.
I mean, do you talk about it more often?
Do you think about it more often?
How's it changed your approach to what happened to you?
That's a really interesting point.
Did you feel like a dumb country girl?
Yeah, absolutely.
Yeah, right.
I feel like that sometimes.
Because I'd never been to court before.
But we do have a, from the country, we have a sort of a little self-esteem deficit in there somewhere.
Yeah, definitely.
When we're in the city, we're just hicks and we...
They come to footy.