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Speaker 1: It's twenty years on today from the Barley bombings, unbelievably so.

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Speaker 1: And Peter Hughes is joining us from BALLEI. Good morning, Peter, Hey.

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Speaker 2: Good morning. Good.

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Speaker 1: What is it like in Balley this morning?

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Speaker 2: Oh? A little bit overcast? Look a botor up and

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Speaker 2: about and Barley as usual, usual day in Bali.

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Speaker 1: Now, for those who are unfamiliar with your story, Pete,

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Speaker 1: tell us what happened to you on that day.

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Speaker 2: Oh? Look, I was in Patty's my club, around about

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Speaker 2: eleven o'clock and I silicide bomb went off next to me,

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Speaker 2: around me, and then I slightly tried to walk out,

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Speaker 2: and it's something I didn't know. And then second last minut,

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Speaker 2: which is how bomb out in front of the Sorry

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Speaker 2: Club which is about forty meters away. And then basically

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Speaker 2: it was all help breakwast and then it's just about

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Speaker 2: survival then and going through the process of not only

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Speaker 2: trying to look after himself but many others around me,

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Speaker 2: which it was just it was just hell on water basically,

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Speaker 2: It's just it was just a massive battle.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, to feel like a battlefield. And pet did you

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Speaker 3: realize do you have any idea what had happened there's

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Speaker 3: what thoughts are racing through You minded that stage?

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Speaker 2: Oh, no idea. I thought it was a gas bottle

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Speaker 2: behind the bar, and I thought it was a gas

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Speaker 2: made in the front that exploded. So I had no

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Speaker 2: idea the whole time. It was all based on look

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Speaker 2: at that situation and a lot of people around me

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Speaker 2: dead and badly injured. So it was and it was

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Speaker 2: fire everywhere, so it was no panic, but it was

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Speaker 2: it was sort of you in terms of trying to

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Speaker 2: get out of the place.

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Speaker 1: Over the years, we've famously seen that shot of you

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Speaker 1: sitting outside the site after it happened, or you were

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Speaker 1: outside the hospital maybe at that stage, and you were

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Speaker 1: so swollen that a mutual friend we have didn't even

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Speaker 1: recognize you when he was watching the news. When did

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Speaker 1: you know just how badly injured you were? Considering the

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Speaker 1: way burns work.

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Speaker 2: Oh look, I no idea about burns, but I knew

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Speaker 2: that I was stuffering a lot, and you know, it

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Speaker 2: was probably not going to make it. And then I

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Speaker 2: had a girl that was with him at the time

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Speaker 2: that looked after me, Chrissy from her exact that just

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Speaker 2: did an incredible help to look after me. How I

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Speaker 2: mean life. She did everything she could and I could

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Speaker 2: just tell that desperation on people around her, and everyone

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Speaker 2: else was looking at me very strangely because I couldn't

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Speaker 2: see myself, but I just yeah, it's probably my last

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Speaker 2: parents to do anything. So yeah, I thought I was

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Speaker 2: going to die. And that was my message back to

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Speaker 2: a suddenly cred KT at the time, and back to

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Speaker 2: everyone back here in Australia. I was okay, but I

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Speaker 2: realized I wasn't.

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Speaker 3: You're talking you're talking it up? Ye had a lot

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Speaker 3: of people have spoken about that and saying you probably

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Speaker 3: didn't know, but you did, it was in your mind.

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Speaker 2: Yeah I did. Yeah, I didn't know.

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Speaker 3: I just I like, yeah, yeah, standable for you.

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Speaker 2: Boy.

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Speaker 1: So does it become more of a blur after that?

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Speaker 1: Then after you do finally get into some kind of

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Speaker 1: hospital situation and did you know when you were being

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Speaker 1: taken down to Darwin, Yeah, oh.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and you a whole lot. I wouldn't let anyone

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Speaker 2: put me to sleep, wouldn't let anyone touch me by Chrissy.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Whatever Christie brought to me, whether it was whether it

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Speaker 2: was water or some sort of saline injection, I only

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Speaker 2: trusted her. So basically by the time I actually got

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Speaker 2: evacuated to the Tempso Airport, we're all our If Australian

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Speaker 2: medical people turned up from the Air Force. That was

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Speaker 2: the only time I relac.

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Speaker 3: Pet. What's it like being in Bali today and we're

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Speaker 3: not talking about the weather or anything now for you,

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Speaker 3: how does it feel?

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Speaker 2: No? No, no, no good. It's We've got this ceremony

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Speaker 2: the next forty five minutes or so, and we got

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Speaker 2: to get there and just reflect and say my respects

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Speaker 2: to everyone that didn't make it home and also the

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Speaker 2: family that lost of loved ones and the people that

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Speaker 2: were injured, and and just just do that and be

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Speaker 2: a part of that. And then later on tonight they'll

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Speaker 2: do the candlelight visuals at the at the site in

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Speaker 2: opposite the Sarry Club and then probably have a couple

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Speaker 2: of cold Vintang and just reflect. But I'm not going

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Speaker 2: to make it sad day. I'm just going to make

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Speaker 2: it to day that it's been coming for a long

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Speaker 2: time and I'm glad it's here and now I can

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Speaker 2: move on.

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Speaker 1: All right, Mats. What's been harder the physical recovery or

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Speaker 1: the mental and emotional recovery.

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Speaker 2: Oh more, the mental and the emotional that gets me

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Speaker 2: all the time. I get on edge, and you know,

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Speaker 2: if I'm working harder i exercise, something seems to be

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Speaker 2: a lot better. But as soon as I don't, things

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Speaker 2: tend to kick in. So it's a battle every day.

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Speaker 2: But you know, I'm not the only one. A lot

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Speaker 2: of people battle with it. So I just just find

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Speaker 2: out what the triggers are and just move on.

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Speaker 1: I know, at the time, very sad side of it.

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Speaker 1: You asked your son to kill you because you were

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Speaker 1: in so much pain, and of course he wasn't having anything.

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Speaker 1: He wasn't having any pain. And you know, twenty years on,

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Speaker 1: do you sort of do you take something from that

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Speaker 1: to give to other people that are in terrible situations?

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Speaker 1: In terms of hope, I.

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Speaker 2: Just that's that's the word of hope. Ye you kick

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Speaker 2: the heype, going to see it positive about take the

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Speaker 2: distraction away from yourself and look at others, because there's

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Speaker 2: always someone worked off and in terms of where you're are,

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Speaker 2: even though you probably aren't yourself, but just look look

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Speaker 2: that as a process of what you need to do.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, that's what I look Husually, we had a

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Speaker 3: discussion on my driveway this is that small perthy it's

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Speaker 3: us with work last year my drive when we're talking

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Speaker 3: about it, and you said to me on the phone,

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Speaker 3: I knew who you were, and you said Peter Hughes

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Speaker 3: were mate shaming fun on our radio mate Lissa as well,

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Speaker 3: that we know you wealth I've lost and we had

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Speaker 3: we had a discussion. Yeah, we had it. Yeah, we

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Speaker 3: had a discussion that day about how busy you were.

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Speaker 3: I take it you're talking about when you're busy. That's good.

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Speaker 3: So you weren't sad about the business being busy, but

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Speaker 3: probably part of the thing to take your mind of

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Speaker 3: other things.

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Speaker 2: Yes, that's it. Just that seems like when someone wings

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Speaker 2: about something. Yeah, I just laugh. Yeah, this is real.

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Speaker 2: This is real. It's how we live our lives. So

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Speaker 2: I really understood what the life is on. It wouldn't

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Speaker 2: be winding about nothing anyone. But I laugh at that,

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Speaker 2: and I think that's really well.

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Speaker 3: Pete.

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Speaker 1: We are very glad to be talking to you this morning,

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Speaker 1: and we hope that you have a very peaceful day

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Speaker 1: in Bali today. And thanks for chatting.

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Speaker 2: Oh, thanks guys, thanks a lot. I really appreciate its. Guys.

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Speaker 3: Petty Hu's from from Bali twenty years on