00:01I would ask that Anthony Albanese and Penny Wong continue their engagement with Laos.
00:11Mark Butler suggested that we, the Australian Government, have been offering federal police
00:18support.
00:19I believe that to be true, but I would encourage Mr Albanese and Penny Wong to continue to
00:27offer those services from what we're led to believe in regards to what some of the charges
00:33may be and some of the outcomes to those charges could be.
00:38It's just, it's unacceptable that the passing of our daughter, her best friend Holly and three
00:48other beautiful women lives come down to the potential maximum outcome of a one year in
00:57jail and $1,600.
00:59Michelle, this has been obviously a long fight for justice for these two beautiful
01:03young women, but also a fight to prevent this from happening to anyone else as well, young
01:10people in Laos.
01:12What was your reaction when you got the news?
01:14So you found out from DFAT yesterday that this could possibly be happening and we're still
01:19to get confirmation from Laos officials.
01:22What was your reaction to finding this out?
01:24Well, it's like their lives didn't even matter.
01:28We were just really appalled by it all.
01:31You know, they were just going over to have a bit of fun and just doing the rite of passage
01:35that every, you know, child or teenager does.
01:39So for that outcome was just devastating.
01:47Have you had a lot of communication throughout all of this from DFAT, from even officials in
01:53Laos about exactly what's happening?
01:55Certainly DFAT this year have been quite engaged with us.
02:00We've had zero communication from anyone in Laos, from Laos authorities.
02:09But DFAT has done their best, I believe, to keep us up to date.
02:14What do you do now?
02:16Keep fighting for the girls.
02:20One thing we said right from the very beginning was the passing of our daughter was not going
02:25to lead to nothing.
02:27We'll continue to fight.
02:29We'll continue to educate the public on methanol.
02:34There's some great work happening in fact in the University of Adelaide and South Australia.
02:39But we will absolutely continue to fight for justice for the death of our daughter.
02:46Someone, a number of people are responsible for what happened to our daughter.
02:52And I will not rest until justice is served in some way, shape or form for the death of
02:59our beautiful girl.
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