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Before continuing, I must inform
you that you are not obliged to say or do anything, but anything you
say or do may be given in evidence. Do you understand this?
A
Yeah.
Q4
I must also inform you of the following rights. You may communicate
with, or attempt to communicate with a friend or relative to inform
that person of your whereabouts. And you may communicate with,
or attempt to communicate with, a legal practitioner. Do you understand
those rights?
A
Yeah.
Q5
Do you want to call anybody before we ask you further questions?
A
Nah Robbo, that’s all right.
Q6
You don’t want to make a phone call?
A
No. No thanks.
Q7
So you don’t wish to exercise any of those rights before we commence?
A
No.
Q8
OK, I think you gave us your date of birth, now are you an Australian
citizen?
A
Yes.
Q9
Are you a permanent resident in Australia?
A
Yes.
Q10
And are you of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander descent?
A
Nah.
Q11
Okay, Toby the purpose of us talking to you here today is in regards
to a phone call you made to us yesterday, do you agree with that?
A
Yeah. I called youse, yes I did.
Q12
And so the reason you’re here today is in response to that, or is
because of that, is that correct?
A
Yeah. As I said, there was a fair bit of talk in the town and I wanted
to come in and clear the air a little bit.
Q13
So you attended at the Dauphin police station last night, is that right?
A
Yep, and they gave me the number to ring youse, which I did.
Q14
Okay, and we asked you to come up to Melbourne and talk to us here
today, and you’ve been good enough to attend here tonight on your—
on your own volition, is that right?
A
That’s right, yes.
Q15
Well we certainly appreciate it. Are you okay with work and everything?
Did they give you tomorrow off?
A
Oh yeah that’s all fine, it’s just dad, so that’s—that’s right, yeah.
Q16
It’s just sometimes, in our experience, people come in to talk to the
police and their employer gets—you know—gets the wrong idea and
goes jumping to conclusions about things ---
A
Nah, dad’s a grumpy bastard at the best of times, ey. He’ll be right,
he just wants this out of the way, you know, just get it cleared up, like
I said.
Q17
You’re referring there to your father, who’s Alan Murchison, is that
right?
A
Yes.
Q18
And Alan is the owner of the Normans Woe Hotel, and he’s also the
president of the local, er, abalone board?
A
Yes.
Q19
Okay, so you’re currently employed as a bistro manager at the
Normans Woe Hotel in Dauphin, is that right?
A
Bistro and events, yeah. We’ve got an events company going too, and
I take care of all that. Like, race days and weddings, that sort of stuff.
Q20
And how long have you held those positions?
A
Since ’03, for the bistro, and, ah, last winter for the events management.
Q21
And what about before that? What were you doing then?
A
Well every season I do abs on our boat, the Open Quest. Like, I do a bit of decky’s work, and also transport the product up to Melbourne, to the markets, and I do the contracts with the cannery, and just help keep it all running. But I ---
Q22
What about the, er, the eco-tourism?
A
Yeah, I was going to say, I had the eco-tourism business before the events thing got going.
Q23
What was that all about—the eco-tourism?
A
Oh, we had a van, like a four wheel drive minibus, and we just showed people the beaches. You know, if there were whales in, we’d try to get them out to the lookout above Gawleys at Antonia’s Beach there and give them a look. We did camping out in the dunes, had some blackfellas on the books who’d come out and do a bit of a cookup and talk about the area, like dreamtime stuff and that. Kayaks too, on the flat days. Um, learn to surf. That’s about it.
Q24
All right. Now you know that we’re here to talk about events that occurred last night, don’t you?
A
Yeah, I understand that, but I don’t