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Speaker 1: Apodja production.

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Speaker 2: This podcast contains talk of suicide and suicidal ladiation. Listener

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Speaker 2: discretion is advised for free counseling twenty four hours. In Australia,

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Speaker 2: the number for Lifeline is thirteen eleven fourteen.

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Speaker 1: Softly pedals fall, the wind whispers in the tree. My

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Speaker 1: lifeless body hangs, It hangs for all to see. A

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Speaker 1: life's so very precious. Oh Lord, how could this be?

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Speaker 3: Evil?

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Speaker 1: That night lurked in Saint Helen's by the sea, and

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Speaker 1: some don't care to find out what others did to me.

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Speaker 1: My life was full and I was loved. I had

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Speaker 1: so much to do, but evil one that fateful morn.

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Speaker 1: It killed my family too. Why the hate and anger

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Speaker 1: as key questions? They are posed, my family forced to

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Speaker 1: suffer my suicide supposed I left the shed, and I

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Speaker 1: did rome, but never took that rope from home. The

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Speaker 1: fight for truth continues. The truth will always out the

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Speaker 1: cracks they are appearing, and fear is all about. Hope

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Speaker 1: and love prevail justice she awaits. Those who choose to

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Speaker 1: cover up will suffer at God's gate. My heart is

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Speaker 1: all a flutter as I see you on the lawn.

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Speaker 1: My soul is soaring upwards as I seek to be reborn.

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Speaker 1: I am swimming with the dolphins in blue but Chili Sea.

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Speaker 1: I love you and I thank you for what you've

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Speaker 1: done for me.

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Speaker 2: Edie, Welcome back to a special episode of Our Little Lady.

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Speaker 2: On the eighteenth of February twenty fifteen, fifteen year old

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Speaker 2: Eden Westbrook was found hanging in the main street of

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Speaker 2: Saint Helen's, the tiny seaside town in Tasmania. It's been

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Speaker 2: ten years. The family have searched for answers, a botched

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Speaker 2: police investigation, a pedophile cop, and so many unanswered questions

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Speaker 2: as where we are ten years later. To commemorate Eden's

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Speaker 2: death today, there are two vigils happening in Tasmania, one

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Speaker 2: in her hometown of Saint Helen's and the other on

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Speaker 2: the lawns of Parliament House in Hobart. The poem you

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Speaker 2: heard at the start of this episode was penned by

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Speaker 2: an anonymous author who doesn't want to be recognized. However,

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Speaker 2: they do want its sentiment to be echoed across Australia.

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Speaker 2: In this episode, we'll talk to Jason and Amanda, Eden's

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Speaker 2: little sister Sky and her little brother Dante, who were

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Speaker 2: both speaking at the vigil in Saint Helen's. We were

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Speaker 2: got up and spoke today in Hobart, and we spoke

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Speaker 2: to Jason just after they'd done their vigil in Saint Helen's. Jason,

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Speaker 2: A big day today.

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Speaker 4: How are you feeling, oh, mate, it's been a massive day.

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Speaker 4: We actually got up quite early, went down to.

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Speaker 5: The park and did our little vigil here for Eden,

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Speaker 5: and then Amanda's had to go to work. So where

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Speaker 5: it's going to slip up to Lonceston this afternoon and

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Speaker 5: spend it with Bobby Lee and the grandchildren and take

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Speaker 5: Justine so we're together because as you know, Skey and

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Speaker 5: don have been at the vigil this morning in Hobart.

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Speaker 2: And so, first of all, you've obviously seen the speeches

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Speaker 2: that both Sky and Donnie did today in Hobart. What

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Speaker 2: was your feeling reading those, mate?

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Speaker 5: I felt privileged to have my children ring me up

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Speaker 5: last week and just to read them out to me

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Speaker 5: to see how I thought and what my thoughts were

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Speaker 5: on their speeches. And I really don't know the word

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Speaker 5: to use, because I've noticed in your podcast I use

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Speaker 5: the word powerful a lot. Their speeches were more than powerful.

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Speaker 5: They were so heartfelt. They brought me to tears, and

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Speaker 2: Jay, there were two virtuals happening today, one in Saint

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Speaker 2: Helen's and one in Hobart. The one in Saint Helen's,

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Speaker 2: you and Amanda were at the Fisherman's Memorial. Who was

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Speaker 4: Look pretty quiet and we didn't expect too many people.

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Speaker 5: However, there was a couple of people that came were

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Speaker 5: It was just about being there, present at the time

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Speaker 2: Jason, what are you hoping ten years today that your

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Speaker 4: The truth? I just want the truth.

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Speaker 5: I want to know what happened to Eden on that night,

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Speaker 5: and I don't want the rubber stamped report that we've

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Speaker 4: I want accountability.

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Speaker 5: I want to get us to move on with our

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Speaker 4: And as you know us, our Jay, we're going to

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Speaker 4: continue the fight. Mate. We're in our righteousness. We deserve

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Speaker 5: Eaton deserves for us to find out what happened to her,

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Speaker 5: because that girl didn't leave this home on that night.

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Speaker 4: To kill USLF. Something terrible went wrong and we want to.

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Speaker 5: Know exactly what went wrong so we can prevent it

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Speaker 5: for the future, not just for our family, but for

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Speaker 2: Dante was just nine years old when his big sister

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Speaker 2: Eden was found. He spent the last ten years wondering

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Speaker 2: what her life might have been. He's the speech that

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Speaker 2: he did today on the lawns of Parliament House and Hobart.

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Speaker 3: I want each of you here today to look around you.

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Speaker 3: The community is full of life at this time. Most

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Speaker 3: Eden Jade Westbrook. On this day, my parents witnessed their

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Speaker 3: daughter's corpse hanging in a tree. But not only did

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Speaker 3: hanging like she was put on shelf, with the whole

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Speaker 4: I knew Eden so well.

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Speaker 3: She would have never wanted that to be her last image.

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Speaker 3: a tragedy. Eden and every other person standing here today

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Speaker 3: it can never be returned. To this day, my parents

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Speaker 4: Of their daughter, their little girl, hanging in the treat.

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Speaker 3: I can guarantee she would have wanted to be carefully

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Speaker 3: The rose was her favorite flower, and maybe blue her

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Speaker 3: Oh Eden, wherever you are, if anywhere at all, please

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Speaker 3: let the world after your death to be filled with

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Speaker 3: the warmth and light you didn't have that night. As

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Speaker 3: it's been so long since I've had your voice. Because

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Speaker 3: I've just been so long since I've given you a hug,

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Speaker 3: since I never knew that night would be the last chance.

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Speaker 3: I've just been so long since you and all my

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Speaker 3: and it never will be again. Being a nine year

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Speaker 3: I never got the hype of growing up as an

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Speaker 3: got closer to turning fifteen. The night when Eden died,

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Speaker 3: the years that I spent tormented by grief, but what

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Speaker 2: We'll finish this episode with Sky. Sky Westbrook is a

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Speaker 6: Today marks ten years since the day my older sister's

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Speaker 6: life was taken far too young. Eden was a smart, talented,

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Speaker 6: By a friend who had witnessed Eden's lifeless body hanging

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Speaker 6: wanted to hold her baby one last time. Since this day,

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Speaker 6: During this time of questioning and fighting, I have seen

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Speaker 6: for ten years, in the evidence connected to Eden's case

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Speaker 6: I was eleven years old when my sister died in

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Speaker 6: for the rest of my life. My older sister is

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Speaker 6: to what happened that tragic night. Eden's death and the

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Speaker 6: actions of authorities involved change the course of my life.

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Speaker 6: I now study law as an attempt to ensure the

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Speaker 6: wrongdoing that happened to my family does not happen to

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Speaker 6: anyone ever again. Even if it only saves one person

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Speaker 6: from the grief my family have endured, it would be

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Speaker 4: I do this for Eden.

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Speaker 6: I do this for my mum and dad had the

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Speaker 6: juggle being the courageous and loving parents they are, were

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Speaker 6: do this for my own closure, and most importantly, I

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Speaker 6: do it for the people who have fortunately not experienced

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Speaker 6: the heinous things the Tasmanian justice system has done to me,

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Speaker 6: lacking in genuine compassion and respect. Surely we are entitled

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Speaker 6: to the truth. Eden was capable of achieving so much

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Speaker 6: good in this world. I knew that even as a

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Speaker 6: in depth, Eden's ability to create love, passion, and kindness

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Speaker 6: has extended past her short and vibrant life. I know

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Speaker 6: all these achievements will never be lived, but I am

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Speaker 6: still proud of you. Eden. A high school from which

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Speaker 6: you will never graduate. I'm still proud of you for

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Speaker 6: the career which you will never pursue. I'm still proud

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Speaker 6: of you for a wedding you will never have. And

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Speaker 6: I'm still so proud of you for all the kindness

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Speaker 6: still here today.

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Speaker 2: You've got so much strength. Tasmania and Australia will be

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Speaker 2: blessed to have someone in law like you, to be

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Speaker 6: And that's why I do it, because when anything like

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Speaker 6: this happens to anyone, they're a person and they're entitled

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Speaker 6: to justice and dignity and respect, no matter their status,

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Speaker 6: no matter where they come from like everyone is entitled

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Speaker 6: to basic, basic empathy,