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Australian True Crime

Shortcut: The "Therapeutic" Role of a Coroner

Australian True Crime

Meshel Laurie

True Crime

4.6979 Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2024

⏱️ 19 minutes

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This is a "Shortcut" episode. It’s a shortened version of this week’s more detailed full episode, which is also available on our feed.


Our guest on Australian True Crime today is Brisbane Coroner, Donald MacKenzie.


After 30 years in the criminal justice system since being appointed to the Coroner's Court in 2019, MacKenzie has investigated over 2000 reportable deaths, including over 700 suspected suicides, over 500 road fatalities and over 100 homicides in the last 12 months alone.


Don joins us today to talk about his job to help us understand the coronial system and the ways in which it differs from other courts, and to explain why he describes his work as therapeutic.


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Host: Meshel Laurie. You can find her on Instagram 

Guest: Coroner Donald MacKenzie

Executive Producer/Editor: Matthew Tankard


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0:00.0

Our guest on Australian True Crime today is Brisbane coroner Don Mackenzie who brings classic

0:10.4

Queensland equalities to the chat.

0:13.0

He's down to earth and Wiley with a twinkle in his eye and he clearly is still fascinated

0:18.0

by the law after 30 years in the criminal justice system. Since being appointed to the coroner's court in 2019, Don has investigated over 2,000

0:27.3

reportable deaths, including over 700 suspected suicides, over 500 road fatalities, and over 100 homicides.

0:36.3

In the last 12 months alone he's been called upon to investigate the shooting of a marine biologist

0:41.4

on a crayfish farm and the death of a stuntman while filming a

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0:50.5

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