To recap, on October 14th 2022, my husband Lloyd and I experienced surviving a flood of mammoth, unheard of levels and the impact it had not only our life but so many others was huge. It’s like anything – unless you’ve experienced a similar situation to what others are going through you just can’t truly understand the impact something so major has on your life. 

Last year I told you how lost I felt, feeling like we’d lost everything when in fact we’d lost a lot but certainly not EVERYTHING. As at today’s date, 23rd November 2023 we are still not back in our house. 

There’s been progress, but its been painstakingly slow however I know there are people in Rochester where work hasn’t EVEN STARTED. How can that be possible?

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Rob was a specialist Forensic Fraud Investigator and did an aggregate of 11 years with the VicPol Fraud Squad at 3 ranks. 

Today he takes us into a complicated, what he describes as a “basically uninvestigable” messy file he was handed and asked to have a look at, which contained a plethora of fraudulent insurance claims, false personal injury claims, kickbacks and many more twists and turns. 

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Rob was a specialist Forensic Fraud Investigator and did an aggregate of 11 years with the VicPol Fraud Squad at 3 ranks. 

Today he takes us into a complicated, what he describes as a “basically uninvestigable” messy file he was handed and asked to have a look at, which contained a plethora of fraudulent insurance claims, false personal injury claims, kickbacks and many more twists and turns. 

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Sarah was a single mum doing everything to make ends meet when she re-connected with a childhood friend who she’d never really liked, but years later, as an adult, sparks flew. 

But it wasn’t long before she realised those traits she hadn’t liked in their childhood hadn’t disappeared

She couldn’t escape his psychological, physical and sexual abuse of her. She lived in fear every single day. 

This is Sarah's story.

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Sarah was a single mum doing everything to make ends meet when she re-connected with a childhood friend who she’d never really liked, but years later, as an adult, sparks flew. 

But it wasn’t long before she realised those traits she hadn’t liked in their childhood hadn’t disappeared

She couldn’t escape his psychological, physical and sexual abuse of her. She lived in fear every single day. 

This is Sarah's story.

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In his own words, Stu Holmes had a ‘blessed childhood’. He wanted to party and party he did. Hard. 

His life centered around drinking, partying and drug taking. It was never going to end well. Stu eventually found himself in a very dark and lonely place where he believed ending his life was the only answer. 

He’d lost his wife, his children, his friends, his reputation, his career a everything else he had. In his mind his life was worthless. His behaviour became so erratic he held up a post office with a knife, which led to a term of imprisonment for armed robbery. And that’s where everything changed.

Prison gave Stu an opportunity to dry out, to think about what a mess he’d made of his life and this was his chance at redemption.

After his release, he founded a recruitment agency called ‘The Green Collar Brigade’ which, in conjunction with WISE Employment Group, helps those coming out of prison, find meaningful employment & believes everyone deserves a second chance. 

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In his own words, Stu Holmes had a ‘blessed childhood’. He wanted to party and party he did. Hard. 

His life centered around drinking, partying and drug taking. It was never going to end well. Stu eventually found himself in a very dark and lonely place where he believed ending his life was the only answer. He’d lost his wife, his children, his friends, his reputation, his career a everything else he had. In his mind his life was worthless. His behaviour became so erratic he held up a post office with a knife, which led to a term of imprisonment for armed robbery. And that’s where everything changed.

Prison gave Stu an opportunity to dry out, to think about what a mess he’d made of his life and this was his chance at redemption.

After his release, he founded a recruitment agency called ‘The Green Collar Brigade’ which, in conjunction with WISE Employment Group, helps those coming out of prison, find meaningful employment & believes everyone deserves a second chance. 

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Gloria Anderson has to be the most forgiving person on this earth. Her faith in god is incredibly strong and I believe is the reason she possesses such forgiveness.

Not only is she forgiving, but courageous and brave as well. Amazingly so. 

Gloria has got EVERY REASON IN THE WORLD to think the world was/is a very dark, cruel, place to belong, but it just isn’t in her nature to think like that.

Gloria saw the goodness in many, including Darin, a regular client who’d lost his job, his home and his self-worth

But things began to change when Darin wanted to be more than a border to Gloria – he wanted a relationship which Gloria didn’t, and she made that plainly clear.  

Darin didn’t take the news well and feeling rejected and angry, he bound and raped her, tortured her, then abducted her, putting her bound and gagged into the boot of her own car and drove it to a NSW motel where he again raped and tortured he and locked her in a cupboard. Gloria managed to escape and alert the owners of the motel, and it is there that Gloria’s nightmare REALLY began.

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Gloria Anderson has to be the most forgiving person on this earth. Her faith in god is incredibly strong and I believe is the reason she possesses such forgiveness.

Not only is she forgiving, but courageous and brave as well. Amazingly so. 

Gloria has got EVERY REASON IN THE WORLD to think the world was/is a very dark, cruel, place to belong, but it just isn’t in her nature to think like that.

Gloria saw the goodness in many, including Darin, a regular client who’d lost his job, his home and his self-worth

But things began to change when Darin wanted to be more than a border to Gloria – he wanted a relationship which Gloria didn’t, and  she made that plainly clear.  

Darin didn’t take the news well and feeling rejected and angry, he bound and raped her, tortured her, then abducted her, putting her bound and gagged into the boot of her own car and drove it to a NSW motel where he again raped and tortured he and locked her in a cupboard. Gloria managed to escape and alert the owners of the motel, and it is there that Gloria’s nightmare REALLY began

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Today we are talking about road trauma and examination of those scenes – it may not be suitable for some affected by road trauma.  

There’s been a spate of BUS and TRUCK crashes of recent times here in Victoria and NSW which made me think it was time we had a chat to an amazing man who was and still is most likely, one of Australia’s most knowledgeable experts in the field of major collision investigations, Peter Bellion. 

Peter hasn’t stopped loving what he did for 30 years and is still closely involved in many aspects of road trauma and has continued to be a fierce advocate in trying to keep us & our roads safer.

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