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Speaker 1: Jonesy and Amanda's.

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Speaker 2: I finished watching ABC Exposed last night. It wrapped up

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Speaker 2: its Ghost Trained fire investigation. It's kind of curious that

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Speaker 2: where the only media outlet that sort of had any

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Speaker 2: interest in this, other than the ABC.

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Speaker 3: You know, I looked at the papers this morning. I

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Speaker 3: would have thought the revelation that Carro the journalists made

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Speaker 3: on our show yesterday and was on the program last night,

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Speaker 3: that the fire that killed those people, many of the

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Speaker 3: most of them kids, in the Lunar Park ghost train

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Speaker 3: was deliberately lit, was orchestrated by Abe Saffron, and the

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Speaker 3: links went all the way through the top lawmaker in

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Speaker 3: Australia who was Lionel Murphy and our premier or in

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Speaker 3: your South Wales and our premier never ran. Why isn't

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Speaker 3: that a story this morning?

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Speaker 2: Assistant Police Commissioner Bill Allen, who had his finger in

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Speaker 2: every pie Litel Murphy, the corrupt High Court judge.

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Speaker 3: And the policeman in charge of the whole investigation was

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Speaker 3: hugely corrupt.

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Speaker 2: Why where's the out strangers? And fourteen Mates? Two small

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Speaker 2: boys and their dad they died in the fire and

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Speaker 2: there's some great interviews in this fourteen Mates for fourteen

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Speaker 2: four teammates. Yes, there are many extraordinary interviews from witnesses,

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Speaker 2: all of the witnesses, so a lot of other things

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Speaker 2: about it. There were thirty people on the go, thirty

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Speaker 2: seven people on the ghost train, not including the people

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Speaker 2: that perished. There were thirty witnesses that were called and

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Speaker 2: they all said that there was about seven of them

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Speaker 2: that said we saw a bunch of bikeis they're hanging

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Speaker 2: around the ride ten minutes before the ride caught on fire.

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Speaker 2: There's the mention of kerosene and matches, and all these

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Speaker 2: witnesses were verbaled and silenced from saying their story, and

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Speaker 2: all those leads were led cold and the victim's parents

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Speaker 2: and that's quite the heartbreaking thing one thing about it.

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Speaker 2: And around that time in the seventies, there was a

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Speaker 2: lot of dodgy deals being done, but seven people did die.

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Speaker 2: And the heart breaking story especially with Mary Carroll. She

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Speaker 2: was the mother of Richard, who, alongside three of his

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Speaker 2: other mates, would perish in the fire. That night, Richard

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Speaker 2: and his mates were going to meet some girls at

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Speaker 2: the park, but for some reason those girls didn't show.

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Speaker 2: Years later, Mary would receive a call from one of

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Speaker 2: the girls that were supposed to be at Luna Park

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Speaker 2: that night. This is where Mary picks up the story.

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Speaker 1: She was obviously quite distressed when she rang me, distressed, anxious,

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Speaker 1: almost wanting to tell me or so forgive me. That

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Speaker 1: was the feeling I got. I was very distressed for her.

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Speaker 1: I said, what is it. You're troubled about something, and

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Speaker 1: she was trying to get her words out, and she said,

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Speaker 1: we were going to Luna Park with the boys and

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Speaker 1: we were stopped. My dad told everyone we couldn't go.

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Speaker 1: There was something happening at Luna Park that he was

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Speaker 1: scared for the girls to go.

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Speaker 2: That girl's father was Jack Rooklyn, who was a well

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Speaker 2: known associate of organized crime.

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Speaker 3: So other people's children died.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, wow, it's a nineteen seventies New South Wales. All

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Speaker 2: the deals were done in brand paper bags.

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Speaker 3: It's never too late to be outraged, or to be prosecuted,

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Speaker 3: or to find redemption to these poor families who've lived

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Speaker 3: with this. It is outrageous.

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Speaker 1: Jonesy and Amanda's gamenation