Meshel Laurie
speaker
10,631 appearances
92 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 4d ago
Meshel Laurie’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 92 in all, peaking in Aug 2026 with 23.
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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
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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 Catanning's St Andrews 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 Waiwarung people of the Kulin Nation.
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Well you said um somewhere along the line that you didn't know what rape was.
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Well
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hear that a lot.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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Well
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well this is the problem for the victims, isn't it?
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Because and and we've met many, many of them and many the world over have disclosed in the last two decades or so because culturally
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A lot of people never thought that could happen.
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boys.
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Dennis McKenna was the man who ran the St Andrews Hostel at Kitanning.
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