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Donna Demaio: Australia Correspondent on Sir Sam Neill's passing · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Let's got to donal to may our Australia correspondent. Who's morning, Donna,
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning to you. Now there have been
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  Speaker 1: tributes a plenty from all over Australia, including your Prime
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  Speaker 1: Minister for Sam Neil.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, of course, and we are describing him as an
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  Speaker 2: honorary Australian. Everybody loved Sam Neil and we've heard from
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  Speaker 2: many many people. The Ossie Prime Minister Anthony Ubanez, he
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  Speaker 2: paid tribute to the actor and he actually turned to
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  Speaker 2: Twitter or X I should say, and said that Sam
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  Speaker 2: Neil starting so many beloved Australian stories and he earned
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  Speaker 2: a special place in Australian hearts. He was ry and dry,
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  Speaker 2: thoughtful and laconic, and Sam fought illness with the same dignity,
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  Speaker 2: humor and conviction that gave strength to his every performance.
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  Speaker 2: And he will be much mourned and long remembered. May
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  Speaker 2: he rest in peace. That was from the PM, but
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  Speaker 2: then many other tributes also from actor David Wenham for instance,
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  Speaker 2: saying that he was aside from being an international all
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  Speaker 2: round legend, he was the kindest, cheekiest, most generous and
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  Speaker 2: porty friend going around. It was only a few years
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  Speaker 2: ago actually that I was able to moderate a Q
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  Speaker 2: and A session in Carlton in Melbourne, Victoria with Brian
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  Speaker 2: Brown and Sam Neil and Rachel Ward. And I remember
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  Speaker 2: Sam Neil as one of the kindest and he knew
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  Speaker 2: I was very very nervous on the night, actually, I've
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  Speaker 2: got to say, And he was so calming and so lovely.
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  Speaker 2: And I have very very fond memories of Sam Neil
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  Speaker 2: as well and like to pay tribute to an incredible
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  Speaker 2: actor and incredible man.
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  Speaker 1: Now tell us about this former Sydney childcare worker who's
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  Speaker 1: been charged with loads of offenses.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, honestly, I have to say, I'll preface this story
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  Speaker 2: with saying that police urge any victims or survivors to
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  Speaker 2: seek support, talk to a trusted person. But Australia fedral
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  Speaker 2: Police have contacted more than one hundred and twenty families
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  Speaker 2: they're investigating alleged defending by a former Sydney childcare worker.
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  Speaker 2: The thirty five year old man has been charged with
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  Speaker 2: three one hundred and twenty nine offenses ellectibly committed over
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  Speaker 2: a sixteen year period against one hundred and thirty six victims.
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  Speaker 2: They're still looking for the looking to identify twenty two
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  Speaker 2: of those victims. The police operation spanned twelve months and
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  Speaker 2: involved the analysis of two point four million electronic files,
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  Speaker 2: and this man, he found guilty, faces up to twenty
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  Speaker 2: years prison over some of those charges.
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  Speaker 1: Right that's done in tomayow Our Australia Correspondent.
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