Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome back to the Maths to New podcast
Speaker 1: with me Joshua Fox, and today I have some breaking
Speaker 1: news for you guys. As we all know, this year's
Speaker 1: season took a bit of a doc turn at the
Speaker 1: start of March when Paul admitted to punching a wall
Speaker 1: during an argument with wife Carina. This act of domestic
Speaker 1: violence didn't then just you know, upset and trigger many viewers,
Speaker 1: but it also angered them at how producers just then
Speaker 1: allowed him to remain on the show when they had
Speaker 1: such a great opportunity to maybe make an example to
Speaker 1: Australia and say, hey, you know, this behavior is not accepted.
Speaker 1: And during that whole discussion that obviously started about you know,
Speaker 1: should he have been able to stay or should he
Speaker 1: have been immediately removed? New South Wales Police then announced
Speaker 1: that they had commenced an investigation into the incident and
Speaker 1: wouldn't be making any further comment in relation to the
Speaker 1: matter as the investigation is current. Well that was six
Speaker 1: weeks ago now, and whereas the rest of the media
Speaker 1: seem to have all kind of lost interest in this story,
Speaker 1: I've been wondering, well, what came of that investigation? What
Speaker 1: did the police do if anything, And I spent the
Speaker 1: weekend then investigating their investigation and I have the answers.
Speaker 1: I can reveal that at the start of March, Karina
Speaker 1: did go down to a police station in Sydney to
Speaker 1: discuss the incident with officers there, but she did not
Speaker 1: wish to make a formal statement or complaint. That same day,
Speaker 1: after Karna had left, and then told that the police
Speaker 1: phone Paul, who was in Perth, to discuss the incident
Speaker 1: from his side. I'm told that they asked him, you know,
Speaker 1: about that night, if he had a history of things
Speaker 1: like this, and they also asked him like if him
Speaker 1: doing that was him attempting to intimidate Karna on more
Speaker 1: just an unexpected aggressive outburst. And I can also reveal that,
Speaker 1: as well as speaking to both Paul and Karna, the
Speaker 1: police did review footage that was supplied to them by
Speaker 1: production company Animal Show in Australia from not just that
Speaker 1: time of the experiment, but the whole experiment. And you know,
Speaker 1: I'm talking footage that wasn't edited, It wasn't what we
Speaker 1: seen on TV. It was just a raw footage from
Speaker 1: the cameras which would maybe give them a accurate impression
Speaker 1: of Paul's character as a whole from his time on
Speaker 1: the show, and then after doing those things, the police
Speaker 1: basically decided it was not a police matter. And this
Speaker 1: morning I reached out to New South Wales Police media
Speaker 1: just to confirm this and seeing if they'd give me
Speaker 1: a statement, and this is what they just replied with.
Speaker 1: Following an investigation conducted by officers attached to South Sydney
Speaker 1: Police Area Command, no further police action is expected. And
Speaker 1: you know what, I kind of knew this was always
Speaker 1: going to be the outcome of this because none of
Speaker 1: the people actually involved in the incident ever reported it
Speaker 1: to the police. Like, remember, five months had actually passed
Speaker 1: between Paul punching that door and then the police announcing
Speaker 1: they were now investigating it. And if you're wondering why
Speaker 1: did they do this, then I'm told by several sources
Speaker 1: that as it all unfolded on TV and the public
Speaker 1: was reacting to it, different journalists and media outlets kept
Speaker 1: emailing police media asking are they going to comment? Are
Speaker 1: they doing anything about it? And then there was a
Speaker 1: couple of complaints from the public, which basically both put
Speaker 1: pressure on the police to almost be like, well, we've
Speaker 1: got to do something and show we're taking this seriously
Speaker 1: because of these external factors. So they did launch their investigation,
Speaker 1: and I kind of assume this from the start because
Speaker 1: in their only statement at the start of March, when
Speaker 1: they announced they were doing this, the police started that
Speaker 1: statement by saying this the matter has been referred to
Speaker 1: officers from South Sydney Police Area Command. And usually a
Speaker 1: statement from police might start with something like an incident
Speaker 1: had been reported or someone had been charged, but them
Speaker 1: starting it with referred to again just means people with
Speaker 1: no direct involvement were like, yo, are you going to
Speaker 1: do anything about this? And having worked in the media
Speaker 1: and for newspapers and stuff before, I know that would
Speaker 1: have just been led by journalists who all wanted to
Speaker 1: just keep the story going, you know, for their clicks
Speaker 1: and add revenue and whatever. And personally, I do feel
Speaker 1: a little conflicted about that because on one hand, it's like, well,
Speaker 1: great journalists doing that and pushing the police to do
Speaker 1: that little investigation kind of made it clear to Australia
Speaker 1: that hey, they do actually take domestic violence seriously. And
Speaker 1: all those articles that went viral at the start of match,
Speaker 1: you know, like Paul under investigation for domestic violence. Please
Speaker 1: investigate in maths, Please pro Paul. You know, all those stories,
Speaker 1: hopefully they reinforce that message to domestic violence victims that hey,
Speaker 1: help is out there and the police will step in
Speaker 1: if they're aware. So, you know, maybe that made people
Speaker 1: want to seek help if they are sadly in that situation,
Speaker 1: and maybe even to any perpetrators of domestic violence, it
Speaker 1: made them think like fuck, like my actions can have
Speaker 1: serious consequences here. But then, on the other hand, I
Speaker 1: do know how media companies kind of rarely care about
Speaker 1: these things, and they're driven not necessarily by the idea
Speaker 1: of change or helping society or educating people, are raising awareness, whatever,
Speaker 1: but often by what will get them the most clicks
Speaker 1: at a certain time, and they'll do anything to keep
Speaker 1: that story going. Then once that story stops getting clicks,
Speaker 1: they move on, which is why I assume none of
Speaker 1: those journals who initially put the police to start this
Speaker 1: investigation have done the follow up I've just done here now.
Speaker 1: But yeah, that's that's it. That's the breaking news for
Speaker 1: those who have been asking what came of the investigation.
Speaker 1: There you go away from that, though, as far as
Speaker 1: I'm aware, the New South Wales fair Work investigation is
Speaker 1: still ongoing, you know, into the complaints from cast members
Speaker 1: about working rights and what they went through during filming.
Speaker 1: I don't have an update on that. I will let
Speaker 1: you know when I do, I'll do a bit more digging.
Speaker 1: But yeah, that's that's on the police investigation. It's done,
Speaker 1: it's concluded.