Why This Police Veteran Became a Whistleblower
Australian True Crime
Meshel Laurie
4.6 • 979 Ratings
🗓️ 24 November 2024
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
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.
This is part two of a two part episode with our guest, Kate Pausina.
In our last episode, former Queensland Police member, Kate Pausina, told us about her glory days in the job.
She's back today to talk about the moment her beloved career took a turn and the events that led to her filing a formal complaint in 2018 before leaving the service.
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| 0:00.0 | And the thing with bullying and mobbing is that you're completely isolated. You think that it is |
| 0:05.0 | just you that it is happening to. And then once all this had come out, I've been approached by |
| 0:11.7 | so many women that we know each other and we had done courses together, touched base with each |
| 0:18.2 | other over our, you know, 20 years of service. |
| 0:23.7 | And they said to me, I didn't know you were going through that. |
| 0:28.3 | And they were like, I was going through exactly the same thing in a different region, different command. |
| 0:34.5 | In our last episode, former Queensland police member Kate Porsena told us about her glory days in the job. |
| 0:41.5 | She's back today to talk about the moment her beloved career took a turn and the events that led to her filing a formal complaint in 2018 before leaving the service. |
| 0:52.0 | That's ahead on Australian True Crime. |
| 0:55.1 | We acknowledge the traditional owners of the land on which this podcast is created, |
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