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I now understand that there’s a dark side to the backpacker culture; that people can find themselves at risk just like my daughter did.        Rosie Ayliffe, mother of Mia Ayliffe-Chung

Rosie wants a change in the system. She wants to protect these people. She doesn’t want Mia’s death to be futile.              Stewart Cormack, Rosie’s partner

Rosie’s been a friend of mine for a long time. She’s seeking to ensure this type of thing doesn’t happen to some other mother’s daughter.   Billy Bragg, friend

When Mia Ayliffe-Chung was murdered at a backpacker hostel in August last year it made headlines around the world.

The 20-year-old childcare graduate had set off from her home in Derbyshire the year before to travel the world. It was a long-held dream cut tragically short. After a stint working in a bar in Surfers Paradise, Mia decided to extend her 417 visa for a second year. But to get that extension she was required to do farm work for 88 days.

She travelled to Home Hill, 100 kilometres south of Townsville, checking into a local hostel. A week later she was dead.

French national Smail Ayad, who shared a dorm with Mia, is alleged to have attacked her in a stabbing frenzy before fatally attacking the man who came to her rescue, fellow Briton Tom Jackson.

When British police knocked on Rosie’s door that night with news of her daughter’s death she was inconsolable.

“Losing a child in any circumstances is difficult,” says Rosie’s partner, Stewart Cormack, “but when it is your only child and you’re a single parent, it’s your entire world that’s gone.”

After a trip to Australia to bury her daughter, Rosie returned to the UK where she struggled to come to terms with Mia’s death. Although she felt unable to return to her teaching position in a local school she quickly found another purpose.

She had been hearing stories from distraught backpackers of exploitation and abuse under the 88-day farm work scheme and began to campaign for reform. She wrote articles and letters and reached out to politicians, including the Australian Prime Minister, seeking greater government oversight of a system that she says is broken.

“I want to see reform of the system,” Rosie says. “I want to see regulation of the 88 days. I want a central body which distributes backpackers among farms that are certified.”

“If she’s successful there’ll be less people going through what we’ve gone through and Rosie herself has gone through,” says Tom Jackson’s father, Les.

Galvanised by this cause, Rosie recently returned to Australia to find out more about the 88-day farm work scheme and lobby for change. Australian Story accompanied her on this journey.

She makes an emotional visit to the place where Mia died.

Shots of landscape and Rosie’s car

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ROSIE AYLIFFE, MIA’S MOTHER: This is only my second trip to Australia. The first is something of a blur.

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Rosie driving interview

If you ask me how long I was there for, what happened, who I met, yeah, I’ve got the vague outline, but it’s hazy.

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Rosie’s car crossing bridge

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ROSIE AYLIFFE: I’m beginning to understand better why Mia wanted to come to Australia and why so many of our youngsters head out here.

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Mia on train

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Hawk circling/Farm machinery

ROSIE AYLIFFE: I now understand that there is a dark side that people

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Rosie’s car on road

can find themselves at risk here just like my daughter did.

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Drone shot Home Hill/Tracking shot Home Hill

Before anything else I need to go to Home Hill

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Rosie 100%

to visit the place where Mia died.

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Rosie walking to hostel

STEWART CORMACK, ROSIE’S PARTNER: It is difficult to lose a child in any circumstances, but when it’s your only child and you’re a single parent,

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it’s your entire world that’s gone.

ROSIE AYLIFFE: MIA’S MOTHER: She fought for her life,

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Photo. Mia.

even with chest injuries, even after a blow to the heart, Mia was still fighting for her life.

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Mia on train with head out window. TITLE:
Long Way From Home

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Fade up from black. English Village. Night. Super:
Cromford, Derbyshire, UK

01:41

House exterior-Rosie and Stewart watching TV

STEWART CORMACK, ROSIE’S PARTNER: We were just watching the telly, relaxing, and we got a knock on the door and I looked at Rosie and she looked at me.

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Stewart 100%. Super:
Stewart Cormack
Rosie’s partner

“Who’s that at this time of night?” I answered the door and there were two policemen there.

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Rosie 100%. Super:
Rosie Ayliffe

ROSIE AYLIFFE, MIA’S MOTHER: And they said “There’s no easy way to say this but your daughter Mia has had a fatal accident”. And it took quite a long while for the meaning of the word fatal to filter through, and then I realised she was dead.

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News montage with headlines

REPORTER: A 21-year-old British woman has been stabbed to death at a backpacker’s hostel in Australia.

REPORTER: Mia Ayliffe Chung’s adventures led her to a cane farm in North Queensland.

REPORTER: British citizen Tom Jackson is fighting for life after trying to save Mia’s.

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Exterior. BBC. Rosie walking into building   Super:
London, April 2017

JEREMY VINE, BBC RADIO PRESENTER: My next guest’s daughter

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Rosie in studio with Jeremy Vine

signed up to do the 88 days of agricultural labour.

ROSIE AYLIFFE, MIA’S MOTHER: The media attention around Mia and Tom’s death can actually become a vehicle for change.

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Rosie 100%

Basically, it’s making good out of a terrible event.

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Rosie in studio with Jeremy Vine

JEREMY VINE, BBC RADIO PRESENTER: 20-year-old Mia Ayliffe-Chung had only been living rurally for 10 days when she was murdered.

STEWART CORMACK, ROSIE’S PARTNER: It’s eight or nine months since Mia died.

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Stewart 100%

Rosie’s campaigning because she doesn’t want Mia’s death to be futile. She doesn’t want it to be a waste.

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Rosie in studio with Jeremy Vine

JEREMY VINE : What do you want to happen Rosie?

ROSIE AYLIFFE,: I want to see reform of the system.

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Rosie walking into room

ALISON RAHILL, FREEDOM PARTNERSHIP, SALVATION ARMY: It really is amazing that it’s taken a woman from England

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Alison 100%. Super:
Alison Rahill
Freedom Partnership, Salvation Army

to shine a light on a problem here in Australia that not many people know about.

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Rosie pinning photo to wall

She has a powerful story to tell and people will listen. The work that she’s done so far has been really important.

STEWART CORMACK, ROSIE’S PARTNER: This is keeping her together; she won’t stop you until she’s made a difference. Mia was Rosie’s world. Everything she did she did for Mia.

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Stewart 100%

It had always been Mia and Rosie and Rosie and Mia, that was it.

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Photos. Baby Mia

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ROSIE AYLIFFE, MIA’S MOTHER: Mia was born in central London and she was conceived in Goa. Myself and her father made a trip out there.

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Photos. Rosie travels

I had travelled quite a bit up to that point in my life. Most of my travelling was in Turkey and

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Rosie 100%

loved the place and the culture, really enjoyed living there, so I returned

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Photo. Rosie with friend in Turkey

in order to write a travel guide book about Turkey.

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Photo. Baby Mia

I travelled with Mia as a babe-in-arms. She came on a couple of research trips with me, but

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Rosie 100%

once she was a toddler, I stopped travelling abroad with her.

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Photos. Mia with Dad

Things didn’t work out with Mia’s father in terms of our relationship, but he always stayed in touch with Mia. I wanted to move Mia out of central London and

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Rosie 100%

I wanted her to grow up in a rural location, and so we made the move, when she was six, up to Derbyshire.

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Home Video-Mia on swing over lake

SINE FIENNES, ROSIE’S FRIEND: Mia was ecstatic at being able to have a dog and go for

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Sine 100%. Super:
Sine Fiennes, friend

walks, and I think she took to country living in a way that any child would.

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Photo. Mia sledding

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ROSIE AYLIFFE, MIA’S MOTHER: I was teaching English

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Photo. Rosie teacher photo

at a local secondary school and really enjoying it.

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Photos. Mia

Mia grew into a self-assured, happy teenager. She was confident, she was

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Rosie 100%

happy in her own skin, she had strong values, she had integrity.

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Photos. Mia and Ro

RO HORTON, MIA’S FRIEND: Yeah, Mia was a massive character; very fiery. She would stick up for anyone.

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Ro 100%. Super:
Ro Horton, friend

If she saw something and she saw it as wrong, she would not be afraid to just go, “Hang on”.

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Photos. Mia with children

LYDIA CARR, MIA’S FRIEND: After school, Mia went on to train in childcare at college.

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Lydia 100%. Super:
Lydia Carr, friend

She was always amazing with kids. She just had a natural touch, they all loved her

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Home video. Mia with child

ROSIE AYLIFFE, MIA’S MOTHER: Mia intended to work with young people.

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Rosie 100%

That was something she was talking about doing, but first she wanted to travel.

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Mia looking out train window

STEWART CORMACK, ROSIE’S PARTNER: It was a huge dream. I think she’d talked about it ever since I’d met Rosie, four years ago.

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Stewart 100%

So it was a kind of a dream come true when she did start to travel.

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Photo Mia on camel

Mia travelled to Morocco, Turkey, India, Vietnam.

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Photo of Mia on motorbike side by side of photo of Rosie on motorbike

LYDIA CARR, MIA’S FRIEND: With India, she posted up a photo actually while she was there of her on a motorcycle and there was a photo next to it of her mum 20 years earlier.

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So she was definitely following in her mum’s footsteps.

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Home video Mia blowing kiss

ROSIE AYLIFFE, MIA’S MOTHER: When Mia reached Australia I did feel

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Photo. Mia in pool hall

something of a sense of relief and I could see from the pictures she put up

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Photo. Mia and Jesse

and from what she was saying that she felt the same; she was really happy to be there.

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Rosie 100%

But also, I felt you know our cultures seem quite similar and I felt a sense that she was in safe hands.

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Aerial vision Surfers Paradise

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JESSE TAWHI, MIA’S FRIEND: I met Mia at work in Surfers Paradise and then I think

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Photos. Mia in Surfers Paradise with friends

the longer she stayed and the more friends she made, she sort of planned, I think, ‘I might stay a bit longer’. And so Mia had to do 88 days of farm work if she wanted to stay another year in Australia.

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Jesse 100%. Super:
Jesse Tawhi
friend

It was kind of just, ‘Oh my god, I have to go and do this and then I’ll be back soon.’ So it was kind of she definitely didn’t want to go.

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Photo. Chris at waterfall/ Mia and Chris and two friends

CHRIS PORTER, MIA’S FRIEND AND BACKPACKER: Yeah, it was pretty much like we had like four months left on our visa. It was Mia that sorted it out. She got a couple of numbers, I think she rang an agency, kind of thing.

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GVs Home Hill

So we finally found one, which was Home Hill. It’s like an hour south of Townsville. Very small, never been to somewhere like that before in my life.

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Chris 100%. Super:
Chris Porter
friend

The hostel, it was pretty standard, to be fair. They tried to make it look bright by colouring it pink and stuff.

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Ext. Hostel

The only thing that shocked me was the toilets being mixed up. The rooms

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Photo. Beds in dorm. O/lay photo of Mia

are mixed as well - they were dormitories. So, there was me and Mia.

ROSIE AYLIFFE, MIA’S MOTHER: And a man called Ayad was actually

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Photo.. Ayad

located in the same dorm.

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Chris 100%

CHRIS PORTER, MIA’S FRIEND AND BACKPACKER: There were all these backpackers just literally had no work so it was about a good 20 of them just sitting there just lounging around doing nothing.

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Backpackers lounging around

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Sandra and Les Jackson. Super:
Les Jackson
Tom’s father

LES JACKSON, TOM JACKSON’S FATHER: Our son Tom had been in Home Hill for a good number of weeks before he actually got any work.

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Photo. Tom chilli picking

When he eventually did get some farm work it was picking peppers and chillies and that type of thing.

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Photo. Mia and Chris on farm

CHRIS PORTER, MIA’S FRIEND AND BACKPACKER: Unlike the other backpackers, me and Mia got work straightaway. We drove down, it was a good about half hour, 45-minute drive, middle of nowhere, into this field.

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File footage. Cane farm

It was sugar cane. And so the guy burnt the sugar cane and then basically after that we’d go in there and then pick up

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Chris 100%

all the rocks and throw them to the side so it don’t get stuck in the harvester.

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File footage. Cane harvest/Mia and Tom in truck

We was in Home Hill for about a week Mia’s come up to me in the afternoon and said she had a strange conversation with our roommate.

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Chris 100%

He was supposed to be going that morning. He was supposed to be leaving to go up to Cairns, I believe. She said, ‘Oh, I asked him when he was leaving’ and he was like ‘Why, do you want me to leave?’

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Photo. Mia chewing on sugar cane

ROSIE AYLIFFE, MIA’S MOTHER: I think Mia was anxious during that week; I felt her anxiety. She was in contact every day and

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Rosie 100%. Super:
Rosie Ayliffe

that was unusual and it alerted me to the fact that there was something going on.

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Home Hill GVs. Night

CHRIS PORTER, MIA’S FRIEND AND BACKPACKER: So, it was Tuesday 23rd August. We went to the pub, had some food, had a couple of beers. Then I went to bed. I think it was, I believe the time was about 11.20,

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Chris 100%. Super:
Chris Porter
friend

I just woke up to screaming, you know, and that was kind of, it just went bang and everything just kind of exploded.

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Hostel. Night

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The way I kind of warned people was I was outside of the hostel around the gate and then I just jumped up to another balcony, because I knew a couple of girls were up there.

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Chris 100%

I kind of thought it was going to be like a rampage kind of thing.

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Police cars with siren

So, I see a skate park on the other side of the road, I kind of crawled over there

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Chris 100%

and it was a blur after that.

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Police cars

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Piece of police paper and blood

NANCY NOTZON, ABC NEWS JOURNALIST: The violence that night was

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Nancy 100%. Super:
Nancy Notzon, ABC News

shocking. Neighbours heard screams coming from the hostel.

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ABC archive neighbour

WITNESS, NEWS REPORT: I was terrified, it wasn’t very pleasant at all. I’ll never forget it

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Hostel with o’lay photo of Smail Ayad

NANCY NOTZON, ABC NEWS JOURNALIST: One of their guests staying there, a 29-year-old French national Smail Ayad,

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Man on crutches

allegedly attacked others staying there. There was

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Nancy 100%

mass confusion that night and people didn’t really know what was going on. Some tried to intervene

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Police at crime scene

before police arrived and arrested Smail Ayad.

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Police spokesman at press conference

POLICE SPOKESMAN: There was a lot of blood, there were two persons,

10:47

Young people with flowers

one was deceased and one was certainly in a very bad way.

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Archive vision of forensic team and police at hostel

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ROSIE AYLIFFE, MIA’S MOTHER: That was all they could tell us, that she she’d been fatally injured, and so they gave us a number for the British Consulate. I phoned and they explained that Mia had been killed in a knife attack.

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Rosie 100%

It just came out of nowhere. Just astonishing, terrifying and devastating.

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Sandra and Les Jackson. Super:
Sandra Jackson
Tom’s mother

SANDRA JACKSON, TOM’S MOTHER: The police knocked on our door about the same time that they visited Rosie.

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Photo. Tom

There’d been an incident in a hostel and that Tom had been stabbed.

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Forensic team at hostel

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Sandra and Les. Super:
Les Jackson
Tom’s father

LES JACKSON, TOM’S FATHER: He’d actually come across a knifeman and he’d gone to the aid of Mia with apparently no thought for his own safety.

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Les in Townsville

NEWS REPORTER:. Mr Jackson’s family made a desperate flight from England to be by his side

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Photo. Tom

in the Townsville hospital.

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Plane taking off

STEWART CORMACK, ROSIE’S PARTNER: We then found ourselves travelling to Australia. Rosie

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Stewart 100%

had to go out there and see her daughter.

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Plane lands at Sydney

ROSIE AYLIFFE, MIA’S MOTHER: While I was on the plane I was thinking about Tom Jackson and the first thing I did when I got off the plane was to ask

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Rosie 100%

whether he was all right and I was told that, no, he hadn’t pulled through. and that was pretty devastating.

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News report. Super:
August, 2016

NEWS READER: The Premier has recommended a bravery award for Tom Jackson.

ANNASTACIA PALASZCZUK, QUEENSLAND PREMIER, NEWS REPORT: He went to the aid of someone,

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a good Samaritan and I’m quite sure that he’ll be remembered by his family and friends for his heroic actions.

SANDRA JACKSON, TOM’S MOTHER: I think the enormity of what he did

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Sandra and Les Jackson

is probably hitting home for me more now than it did originally.

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Photo. People with balloons at service for Mia

JESSE TAWHI, MIA’S FRIEND: I met Rosie and Stewart in Surfers Paradise. Myself and two other girls organised the service for Mia.

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Jesse 100%

We had about 150 guests and we contacted everyone that we could think of.

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Video of release of balloons

ROSIE AYLIFFE, MIA’S MOTHER: It was absolutely beautiful and they’d organised the whole thing. They had balloons and,

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Rosie 100%

you know, it was just beautiful what they did.

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Memorial service in England

[Friend sings Hallelujah]

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Photo. Woman hugs Rosie after funeral

ROSIE AYLIFFE:. After my return to the UK we had to face another service.

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Memorial service in England

[Friend sings Hallelujah]

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Photo. People outside church

STEWART CORMACK, ROSIE’S PARTNER: We had the service at the Wirksworth church, the local church,

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Stewart. Super:
Stewart Cormack
Rosie’s partner

and there were over 600 people. There were people outside.

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Photo. People hold service booklet

[Friend sings Hallelujah]

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RO HORTON, MIA’S FRIEND: I’d say the entire of Wirksworth and the community turned out. None of these people she’d seen in

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years. But it was the impact she made on them, it was breathtaking.

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Memorial service in England

[Friend sings Hallelujah]

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Photo board of Mia

ROSIE AYLIFFE, MIA’S MOTHER: A couple of weeks after that I

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Photo of horse and coffin

attended the funeral of Tom Jackson in Congleton and I just wept through the whole service.

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Rosie 100%

I was apprehensive about going to the service because Tom died for Mia, you know, Tom died trying to rescue Mia and – but, you know, I walked in there and they were as lovely as they had been all along.

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Rosie standing in kitchen drinking coffee looking at articles

STEWART CORMACK, ROSIE’S PARTNER: After the funeral Rosie really wasn’t thinking about returning to work. She felt that she would just break down and wouldn’t be able to teach. A lot of condolences were coming in via Facebook or messaging.

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Stewart 100%

And she was also getting lots and lots of messages from Australia and backpackers.

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Rosie reading articles

ROSIE AYLIFFE, MIA’S MOTHER: A friend’s daughter came onto Facebook and talked about sexual exploitation while she was doing her farm work and I started to hear about other cases. A young girl who was told to clean a conveyor belt while it was moving

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Rosie 100%

and she was actually scalped and lost an ear.

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Rosie at computer

STEWART CORMACK: ROSIE’S PARTNER: Rosie started to understand that there were problems with the 88-day visa system from the amount of accounts

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Stewart 100%

of backpackers getting in contact with her, the stories that she was hearing.

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Rosie at home in garden with the Jacksons

SANDRA JACKSON, TOM’S MOTHER: I hadn’t realised he had been there that long. so he must have been two months before he got any work.

ROSIE AYLIFFE, MIA’S MOTHER: I met with the Jacksons and we talked about some of the issues around the 88 days of farm work.

LES JACKSON, TOM’S FATHER: He’d been to a farm in Victoria,

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did a bit of work, didn’t get any money for it, didn’t get any credit towards the 88 days for it. But he heard there was, there was work at Home Hill and so off he went to Home Hill.

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Photo. Tom Home Hill on bunk

Tom got into debt because he’d gone to a hostel in the belief that he’d get work.

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Sandra and Les Jackson

But there was no work to start with, but obviously, there was a rent to pay. So, over the first few weeks where he didn’t have any work he built up a rental debt, which he owed to the hostel owner, obviously.

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Tom’s passport

Well I guess, so that he couldn’t scarper, he had his passport confiscated along with his laptop, although he did get his laptop back eventually.

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Ayr police station exterior

From conversations I had with Tom I believe he went to the police to see what he could do about getting his passport back

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Hostel exterior

and the story I got was ‘We can get your passport back, that’s no problem. Once we’ve left the premises we can’t do anything about what happens next.’

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Sandra and Les Jackson

He said, ‘Dad, I can get the passport back but then I can’t stay here and I’ve got nowhere else to go, so I just want to get my work done and then I can pay my debt off and get my passport back’.

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SANDRA JACKSON, TOM’S MOTHER: We were wondering how the scheme operated. I think we were quite naïve about it. We just thought the work went with the hostel.

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Rosie on Skype call with Alison

ALISON (on Skype): There seems to be a business model which is how do we keep the number of beds occupied in our hostel.

ALISON RAHILL, FREEDOM PARTNERSHIP, SALVATION ARMY: There are some hostels that are doing the right thing

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Alison 100%. Super:
Alison Rahill
Freedom Partnership, Salvation Army

and then there’s other hostels that are advertising for work when perhaps there’s not the work there and they’re just filling up their hostel, keeping the beds occupied when there’s not the work available, and there’s actually nothing to stop them doing that.

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Rosie on Skype call with Alison

ALISON (on Skype): And then when they get there, it turns out there’s actually a waitlist for the farm work and it’s only 10 hours a week.

ROSIE AYLIFFE, MIA’S MOTHER: I started to realise that the hostels

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Rosie 100%

are not regulated as if they were part of the workplace. So they operate almost as if they are a hotel and yet the young people are only there because of the work.

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Rosie on computer

STEWART CORMACK, ROSIE’S PARTNER: Rosie’s been working flat out continuously on this, getting up at

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Stewart 100%

six o’clock in the morning to, you know, correspond, emails

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Rosie in office

ROSIE AYLIFFE, MIA’S MOTHER: So, there’s a message here that I’ve received from a backpacker recently who is suffering from sexual harassment from her employer on a regular basis. He walks into her bedroom regularly and asks to have sex with her and she’s wondering what she should do about it.

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Stewart 100%

STEWART CORMACK, ROSIE’S PARTNER: Rosie would like to see a change in the system. She wants to protect these people.

18:36

Billy Bragg on stage. Super:
Byron Bay Bluesfest, April 2017

BILLY BRAGG [singing]

ROSIE AYLIFFE, MIA’S MOTHER: I’ve been reaching out to people who I think can help

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Rosie 100%

and one of the people who came to mind was Billy Bragg.

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Billy Bragg on stage

BILLY BRAGG [singing]

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Photo. Billy and Rosie

BILLY BRAGG, MUSICIAN AND POLITICAL ACTIVIST: Rosie’s been a friend of mine for a long, long time, really, and for

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Billy Bragg 100%. Super:
Billy Bragg, musician

this terrible tragedy to have happened to her daughter I think touched all of us who know her.

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Billy on stage

Last August up near Townsville in in Queensland, a young British woman named Mia Ayliffe-Chung was murdered in a backpackers’ hostel where she had been working on a farm.

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BILLY BRAGG, MUSICIAN AND POLITICAL ACTIVIST: She’s seeking to ensure that this kind of thing doesn’t happen again

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to some other mother’s daughter and you can’t help but be impressed by that and want to do whatever you can to help her.

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Billy on stage

And you really need to start putting pressure on your government to recognise how these young people are being exploited.

19:46

Rosie in radio studio

JEREMY VINE, BBC RADIO PRESENTER: And we talk in a moment about Australia and travelling there as a young person.

STEWART CORMACK, ROSIE’S PARTNER: She’s written a number of articles on the subject and she’s written to Malcolm Turnbull, she’s written and met with the chairman of the Conservative party.

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Stewart 100%

Recently she’s been on the radio talking about the campaign as well.

20:14

Rosie radio interview with Jeremy Vine

Jeremy Vine: So, yeah, to get the visa extension she needed to do agricultural labour, is that right?

Rosie Ayliffe: Exactly.

Jeremy Vine: Presumably she just told you she just put that through then was she told where she was going?

Rosie Ayliffe: I’m afraid it doesn’t actually work like that. There is no central body organising this system and that’s part of the problem, that she had to find her own work.

SANDRA JACKSON, TOM’S MOTHER: I think Rosie has been amazing that she’s

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Sandra and Les Jackson

been able to be focused on this, on the campaign.

LES JACKSON, TOM’S FATHER: She’s incredibly driven.

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Rosie radio interview with Jeremy Vine

ROSIE AYLIFFE, MIA’S MOTHER: I want to see reform of the system. I want to see regulation of the 88 days. I want a central body who distributes these people among farms that are certified, so that they are aware of their duties.

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ROSIE AYLIFFE, MIA’S MOTHER: I felt I had to use the publicity around Mia and Tom’s deaths to alert people to the fact that they were in danger for more than one reason and

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that this is rife across Australia.

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Rosie reflective by water

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ROSIE AYLIFFE, MIA’S MOTHER: Since the start of our campaigning there has been quite a lot of media attention. In terms of political change and movement and actual change on the ground, there’s been practically nothing happen. And when I hear of

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an injury in the workplace or an instance of sexual assault, I feel it personally.

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Rosie Skype call with Alison

ROSIE [Skype call]: I’m coming to Sydney in three weeks’ time and then flying over to Townsville and travelling down via Bundaberg to Brisbane and then going to Victoria.

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ROSIE AYLIFFE, MIA’S MOTHER: I’m at the point now where I feel I should go out to Australia and find out for myself what’s going on, talk to people out there and see what I can do to

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help the people who are already working in this field, if anything.

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Rosie kisses Stewart goodbye/Rosie into airport/Plane taking off

Before anything else, I want to visit Home Hill. I feel that I owe it to Tom and Mia to visit the place where they died. I want to see for myself what happened there and speak to people who spoke to Mia before she died. I owe them that. There have been a couple of moments of acute anxiety

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where I’ve thought, actually, I’m not sure whether I can carry on with such intense activity

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and whether the trip to Australia might be too much for me, but we shall see.

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Rosie at Sydney airport

STEWART CORMACK, ROSIE’S PARTNER: When Rosie was deciding to go to Australia I understood completely why she needed to go and I’m right behind her. She needs to do this.

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Stewart Cormack
Rosie’s Partner

She’s partly finding herself, I think, as well.

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Townsville GVs

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ROSIE AYLIFFE: Arriving in Townsville, it was difficult for me because just the geographical

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Rosie Ayliffe

location had an impact that I wasn’t expecting.

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Townsville scenery

On an emotional level, it’s more difficult than I thought it would be because I feel Mia everywhere.

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The idea of going to Home Hill, it’s just venturing into the unknown really, and obviously that’s going to be difficult for me. But it’s something I have to do and it’s part of my, kind of, my healing process.

STEWART CORMACK, ROSIE’S PARTNER: Rosie decided

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to plant some trees for Tom and Mia next to the ones that the community had already planted. They’d planted two trees there.

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Young women leave flowers/Hostel exterior

NANCY NOTZON, ABC NEWS: The Home Hill community was devastated by the deaths of Tom and Mia. It seemed like everyone was in shock, including the owners of the hostel where the incident had happened. Donations of food came in, donations of clothing.

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Nancy Notzon
ABC News

About a week or so after there was a service was held attended by hundreds of members of the community. The mayor spoke and she said they would never forget Tom and Mia.

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Cane fields

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STEWART CORMACK: The drive to Home Hill was quite something,

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Rosie driving past cane fields

nothing like the rolling hills of Derbyshire.

ROSIE AYLIFFE: I’m feeling

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Rosie driving

1930s America already, that’s what I’m feeling, the cane fields of the deep south.

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Rosie loads plants into car

I wanted to leave something bright and positive something that represented peace and tranquillity. I really didn’t know what I was doing

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in terms of gardening. I hadn’t seen the space so I just bought as many plants as I could find that I thought would look nice together.

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Rosie steps out area for planting

And then I thought when we arrived in the place, how am I going to dig this bed? And then

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backpackers started to arrive and to help me

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Rosie and backpackers plant garden

and it all just worked.

Backpacker: Everybody have a story …

Rosie: I know.

Backpacker: … about the 88 days about the working on the farm.

ROSIE AYLIFFE:  The guys who helped me plant the garden spoke about one of the hostels they’d been to.

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Backpacker: I called the owner, the owner says to me, “Oh, there are a lot of work and between two and three weeks you can work”.

Rosie: Yeah. How long…

Backpacker: For one month and I worked just one day, so I think that you want just our money.

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ROSIE AYLIFFE: Although I’d spoken to many backpackers through social media these were the first backpackers I’d actually spoken to in Australia and their story was very familiar to me.

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They’d been attracted to the hostel on a promise of work and found that there was no work available.

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Night. Home Hill

I went to the local pub that night to buy the guys a drink

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as a thank you and we met some of the locals.

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Rosie and Man, conversation in pub

Rosie: While I know you need the kids to do what they are doing in the fields. I want the system regulated better. So that’s what I am doing, I’m campaigning for change.

Man: It needs to. 

Rosie: It needs to be changed.

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Landscape shots

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ROSIE AYLIFFE: As long as their employers are given the power to sign them off,

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there will be risks involved and that’s the issue.

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Rosie drives back to Home Hill

I went back to Home Hill the following day and met a local. What he

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told me was quite horrifying actually.

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Rosie in pub with John. Super:
John White
local resident

JOHN WHITE , LOCAL RESIDENT: A lot of the workers, especially the girls, they go to work on the farms and they get this - they have to be here for a certain time and then they get the paperwork. But unless some of the farmers, they want have sex with the girls so that they get their paperwork. If they don’t do it, you haven’t got a job.

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Rosie Skype call with Stewart

STEWART CORMACK, ROSIE’S PARTNER Rosie checked in with me most days,

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either via Skype or on the phone.

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Rosie Skype call with Stewart

Rosie: They said the farmers made them have sex with them before they agreed to sign them off. So we knew that was happening but it was just the fact that he told me and I’m here and I heard it with my own ears, and you know, it was quite shocking really.

STEWART CORMACK, ROSIE’S PARTNER: Rosie was upset when she heard some of these stories but she did feel vindicated.

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Rosie: Okay, love you loads. Good to talk to you.

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Rosie driving

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ROSIE AYLIFFE: I’m just on my way to a farm that Mia worked for one day and I’m going to meet the farmer.

STEWART CORMACK, ROSIE’S PARTNER Because Mia’s alleged killer hasn’t stood trial Rosie knows

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Stewart Cormack
Rosie’s partner

very few details of the last days of Mia’s life.

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So she really wanted to find out as much as she could.

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Lorraine’s farm

Lorraine Gorizio: OK Rosie, this is what Mia was doing for me and the other young girl.

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Rosie with Lorraine on farm

These are what we call our watering tubes with the black cup at the end. The girls would check this for me

ROSIE AYLIFFE: I think Lorraine developed a connection with Mia

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and I think Mia saw Lorraine as a potential rescuer.

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Dusk shot of farm

Lorraine took me for a drive around the farm and

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she told me about how Mia had been

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Photo. Ayad

frightened of Ayad.

LORRAINE GORIZIO: I can’t explain it more

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Lorraine driving with Rosie

but she was frightened to go in there. I don’t know what he -- she didn’t tell me exactly what he was doing, but she said he was following her and sneaking up on her and really wouldn’t leave her alone and it must have been very too much close, if you know what I mean. That must have been what was happening there, so God knows.

ROSIE AYLIFFE: It was difficult to hear that

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Car driving towards camera

from Lorraine. You do wonder how things could have been different. But the whole point of the visit to

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Home Hill was to find out what happened and to find as much detail as I could.

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Home Hill GVs

Music

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Rosie in coffee shop

ROSIE AYLIFFE:  It’s now Monday morning and I’m going to visit Home Hill hostel and to be perfectly honest I feel strong and I feel calm. I really didn’t expect to feel like that, but I feel really happy about the fact that I am going, at last, to see the place where Mia died.

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Rosie walks to hostel

STEWART CORMACK, ROSIE’S PARTNER: The police showed Rosie where Mia had stayed in the dorm

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Photo. Beds in hostel

with Chris Porter and Ayad her alleged killer.

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And where Mia died, the bathroom where she’d died.

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Hostel exterior

Rosie wasn’t permitted to film there

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so she had to record her thoughts.

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Hostel exteriors/Photos of Mia

ROSIE AYLIFFE (INSIDE HOME HILL HOSTEL): It’s not easy. I’m sitting in the cubicle where Mia died and apparently she fought for her life. Even with chest injuries, even after a blow to the heart, Mia was still fighting for her life. And that, you know, that says it all, you know.

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Photo. Tom and Les

And all I can think about is Mia and Tom, and Tom taking those blows for Mia. I’m here

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Hostel exterior/Photo. Mia and Rosie

to be with Mia so I’m going to be quiet for a minute and just be at one with Mia and think about her last minutes.

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Hostel exterior/

ROSIE AYLIFFE: She absolutely didn’t bleed at all,

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Rosie in garden

so that she died of internal injuries but there were, was no blood. And that’s something – I remember Mia’s birth

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Photo. Baby Mia

as if it was yesterday. And Mia came out squeaky clean. She came out

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Rosie in garden

as clean as a pin and she went the same way, you know. And between those two times, she washed herself constantly, she was constantly taking showers, and it’s almost like she was the cleanest person in the world. She was born clean and she died clean and she fought for her life until the very last minute, from the sound of it.

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Prison truck

NANCY NOTZON, ABC NEWS: Smail Ayad was charged with the murders of Mia Ayliffe-Chung and Tom Jackson

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Photo. Ayad.

and he’s in custody in a Brisbane jail.

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Nancy Notzon
ABC News

It was reported that he may have had a schizophrenic episode at the time of the alleged murders and his mental health is being assessed

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Rosie driving

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Rosie gets out of car

ROSIE AYLIFFE: I took the experience from Home Hill with me for the rest of the journey. It’s all so personal to me and I’m never going to shake that. I am closer to the point where I’m thinking actually that’s something I have to lay to rest. I need to move on.

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Rosie driving

STEWART CORMACK, ROSIE’S PARTNER : Over the following week Rosie was able to concentrate on the campaign

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Stewart Cormack
Rosie’s partner

and to find out what people really thought about the 88 days – the people on the ground.

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Freight train passes

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Rose on street in Bundaberg with hostel in b/g

ROSIE AYLIFFE: So here I am in central Bundaberg, the backpacking centre of the town. We’ve got hostels here, we’ve got a hostel right here and a hostel behind us.

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Bundaberg street/Salvation Army sign

ALISON RAHILL, THE SALVATION ARMY, FREEDOM PARTNERSHIP: For the past two years the team that I work with have been campaigning for safe and fair farm work. 

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Alison: If we focus in on the worst aspects of the exploitation and where the workers are most vulnerable.

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Rosie and Alison at outdoor cafe

ALISON RAHILL, THE SALVATION ARMY, FREEDOM PARTNERSHIP: So when I first heard of Rosie’s story and what she was trying to do with her campaign,

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Alison Rahill
The Salvation Army
Freedom Partnership

I was incredibly moved. It takes so much strength to be able to take that grief and try and turn it into something positive.

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Rosie and Alison at outdoor cafe

Alison:. It seems like the working hostel is like the worst element because you’ve got all of the bad experiences happening there with taking money, not getting any work and just being tied up and not being able to leave.

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Time lapse. Backpackers working on farms

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ALISON RAHILL:. There a number of ways that backpackers can get work but the most common way

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is to go to a working hostel and try and find work that way or sign up with a labour contractor.

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Rosie walking with Grace Grace and Leanne Donaldson at potato farm

Grace: So Rosie, we’re going to bring in a licensing regime for labour hire who operate in this space…

Rosie: Sure.

GRACE GRACE, QLD MINISTER FOR EMPLOYMENT AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS: We need to have some laws

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Grace Grace
Qld Minister for Employment & Industrial Relations

that are, not only licensing these operators, but really we need to act on a national scale

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Rosie, Grace Grace and Leanne Donaldson at potato farm

to ensure that we do what we can to stop any exploitative practises happening.

ALISON RAHILL, THE SALVATION ARMY, FREEDOM PARTNERSHIP: I think it would be fair to say that Rosie has some

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scepticism about whether the labour hire licensing laws will actually make a difference.

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Rosie, Grace Grace and Leanne Donaldson at potato farm

Rosie: But it’s about tick box affair or whether you are going to actually inspect the premises.

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ROSIE AYLIFFE: The issue is enforcement that’s where things will succeed or fail.

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Landscapes

ALAN MAHONEY:. I’m Alan Mahoney, Chairman

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Rosie and Alison with others at outdoor meeting

of the Bundaberg Fruit and Veg. Growers Association.

ALISON RAHILL:  Rosie wanted to meet with farmers

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to hear what they had to say.

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Outdoor meeting

ALLAN MAHONEY, BUNDABERG FRUIT AND VEG GROWERS ASSOCIATION, CHAIR: Backpacker labour to our industry,

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we wouldn’t survive without it.

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Allan with Alison at meeting

ALISON RAHILL: What do farmers think of working hostels? Is it like because there is no way around them.

ALLAN MAHONEY: Necessary evil, mainly. We need a labour force and it’s that simple. We need a labour force and usually you’ve tried through local workforces.

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Workers packing vegetables

ROSIE AYLIFFE: The 417 visa holders are a rather huge percentage, something like a third of the entire workforce in the agricultural sector. They’re pretty much essential to your economy.

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Allan with Alison at meeting

ALLAN MAHONEY: Backpacker hostels are your next choice. Most of them now have deals with labour contractors, unfortunately.

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Rosie at meeting

ROSIE AYLIFFE: Allan was intensely critical of labour hire contractors.

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Allan. Super:
Allan Mahoney
Bundaberg Fruit & Vegetable Growers Chairman

ALLAN MAHONEY: You’ve got the absolute scum of the earth taking on, so they can take a dollar that they haven’t worked for, work they haven’t put their hand to, right, which is disgusting. It’s happened for years, everybody knows it’s happened for years, and it’s only getting worse.

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ALISON RAHILL, THE SALVATION ARMY, FREEDOM PARTNERSHIP So Rosie thinks it’s a good idea to have a website that backpackers can go to find a fair and a safe farm to work at and a good working hostel to stay in.

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Farm meeting

ROSIE (FARM MEETING): How do I extricate the fact from the fiction? How do I know whether a hostel owner is reviewing his own farm or hostel and paying young people to review the hostel? I just don’t know how to do it.

ALLAN MAHONEY, BUNDABERG FRUIT AND VEG GROWERS ASSOCIATION; You’ve got to do the miles, Rosie, honestly, you’ve got to do the miles and educate yourself before you can educate others.

ROSIE (FARM MEETING): That what I said, that’s what I’ve said I’ve got to come out here, haven’t I, and do it myself. That is my trip, that is my life.

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ROSIE AYLIFFE: We chatted about the role of central government and how they could perhaps set up a register and distribute backpackers to certified farms, and he didn’t really share my view on that.

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Allan and Rosie chatting

ALLAN MAHONEY: It’s not the government’s issue. it just isn’t. It’s not their issue, honestly, we’re talking about a diverse amount of commodities…

ROSIE AYLIFFE: But it’s their program. They’re insisting these young people do their 88 days. So it is their issue. If they want them to do this, they’ve got to manage it.

ALLAN MAHONEY: Hundreds of thousands are getting through the 417 and the 88 days safely. There’s a percentage that aren’t and I believe, I understand, we need to protect that percentage, but there needs to be some self-teaching here before they even get here.

ALLAN MAHONEY, BUNDABERG FRUIT AND VEG GROWERS ASSOCIATION: It’s not belittling Rosie’s feelings in any way,

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Allan Mahoney
Bundaberg Fruit & Vegetable Growers Chairman

but sometimes the fight’s too big. I encourage her to keep going, but she’ll end up the same as me, just frustrated with this industry.

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Rosie driving

ROSIE AYLIFFE: Later that evening I headed down to Childers to meet another backpacker called Djuro. I’d already considered what Allan was suggesting, that the website was a big job for one person.

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Rosie Ayliffe

So my idea was to begin to recruit people along the way who could do some of the research for me, just as I had in the past researched rough guides in my youth.

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Rosie and Djuro in pub

DJURO VUKOTIC, BACKPACKER: You know I had these images of how it would be and I’ve been seeing all these videos of people online and I was expecting a really good experience.

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Online Video. People jumping into pool/skydiving/Woman to camera

VOICE OVER:. Farming in Australia is just one big crazy party.

Woman: I have to complete 88 days of regional work in order to get my second-year visa to live in Australia.

DJURO VUKOTIC:. But when you do this kind of work

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Djuro Vukotic
backpacker

that that we have to do to get the second-year visa you will encounter a lot of bad stuff.

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iPhone video. Djuro

HOME VIDEO OF DJURO: So, it’s been three weeks of sitting in a hostel doing nothing at all. People are waking up early in the morning doing nothing. People are broke. It’s $200 to live in the countryside in a little room, don’t have your own kitchen, don’t have your own space. For me, it’s really annoying as it gets mentally disturbing to sit every day and doing nothing.

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Rosie and Djuro chatting in pub

ROSIE AYLIFFE: I talked to Djuro about

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the website and the possibility of him doing some research.

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DJURO VUKOTIC, BACKPACKER: Now she is the one with the ideas, but I am the one with the youth and I’ll be able to follow through on her ideas, right.

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Tram passes. Rosie crossed road. Super: Melbourne

ROSIE AYLIFFE: On this website, whether it’s set up by myself or whether it’s set up by the government, I would want young people to be able to access

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information about who can and can’t be trusted.

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Rosie greets Chelsey at café

I heard Chelsey’s story back in the UK.

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I think her story proves the point.

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Rosie and Chelsey at café

Rosie: I know that this may be difficult for you, but could you tell me what happened.

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Photos. Chelsey in Australia

CHELSEY, BACKPACKER: I got here in September of 2015. I started in Brisbane, just kind of enjoying being on holiday and being in Australia for the first time.

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Ext. Mildura GVs

Then I moved to Mildura to start my farm work. Went five weeks without work. I was then presented with the option of going to a farm. The farmer had

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Chelsey 100% in silhouette. Super:
Chelsey
backpacker

specifically only requested females from the hostel.

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ROSIE AYLIFFE: She’d only been there for a few days and she stayed back for a drink with her employer.

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Lit doorway at night

CHELSEY, BACKPACKER: And I said, you know, I have to be back to the hostel,

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so we got in his truck and he started driving me back.

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Re-enactment of Chelsey’s attack/Chelsey 100% in silhouette

He kind of went down a back sort of side road and he’s pulled over and he tried to kind of come at me. I got out of the car. I ended up kind of falling backwards into a ditch. He came round the truck and got on top of me when I was on the ground.

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I crossed my legs as hard as I could, I had my arms covering me. He was reaching to kind of undo his pants and that was when I just started punching and kicking as hard as I could. I just remember screaming his name, screaming for him to stop.

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He just sort of snapped out of it, got back in the truck. He dropped me off at the hostel and I just crumbled.

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Ext. Police station

They told me at the time that it was just my word against his and I didn’t really have a strong case.

ROSIE AYLIFFE: So, when you went

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Rosie and Chelsey at café

to the police station what did they say to you what happened.

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CHELSEY, BACKPACKER: Around Christmas time I got an email just saying that somebody else had come forward putting a complaint against the same person.

ROSIE AYLIFFE: A few months later

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a Dutch backpacker went to work for the same farmer and again was sexually assaulted.

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Police car/Police station

And this time the police did press charges. He ended up in court.

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Newspaper article headline:
Man ‘thought it was ok’: Farmer, 52, sexually assaulted backpacker, then his mum stopped him’
Sunraysia Daily

He took a guilty plea and he got a community service order. He was not put on the sex offenders’ register.

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Rosie and Chelsey in café

(Rosie to Chelsey): You are such a strong person. I so admire you.

CHELSEY, BACKPACKER I don’t really want to show my face because I know it’s really easy these days, especially with social

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Chelsey 100% in silhouette

media and online, for people to victim blame.

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Rosie and Chelsey in café

ROSIE AYLIFFE: Chelsey is an impressive young woman and I talked to her about the possibility

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of her working for us researching.

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Rosie and Chelsey in café

ROSIE AYLIFFE: What I really want is for the government to take over and possibly set up their own website but as an interim measure this will, I think this could, if it’s good enough and if it’s comprehensive enough, it could fill that gap.

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CHELSEY, BACKPACKER: I think the 88-day farm work

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Chelsey 100% in silhouette

in theory could work…

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Rosie and Chelsey in café

Rosie: The thing is as far as the Australian economy works you can see they’re plugging that gap in their labour force.

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CHELSEY, BACKPACKER:. …if it was regulated to the point

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where people are making hourly wages at all of the jobs. You’re not paying people, you know, 40 cents for a vine. Where people are making a dollar an hour or two dollars an hour.

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Rosie walking to Parliament house. Super: Canberra

Music

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ROSIE AYLIFFE: I was fortunate enough to gain access to

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Rosie talking to politicians

some Federal MPs and to have the opportunity to bring up some of the issues. You know, I need to get the message out there.

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Rosie and Chris Crewther in Parliament House committee room

Rosie: Yeah, but the 88 days is putting our young people at serious disadvantage.

ROSIE AYLIFFE: Members of the select committee on modern day slavery were very receptive

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to what I was saying.

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Rosie and Chris Crewther in Parliament House committee room

Chris Crewther: Particularly around tied visas as well in terms of their employer having a sign off that’s something to look at as part of this inquiry.

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Rosie: I’m here because I’ve uncovered what’s happening on a -- and it seems to me to be systemic it is a majority of workplaces.

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Rosie, Linda Reynolds, and Chris Crewther in Parliament House committee room

Senator Linda Reynolds: I think it’s going to be quite a revelation for Australians to see what’s going on right under our noses.

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Reynolds 100%. Super:
Senator Linda Reynolds

SENATOR LINDA REYNOLDS: Today, every year, Australia welcomes 320,000

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Workers packing peppers/Farm workers

young people from across the globe to pick almost all of our fruit and our vegetables and to keep our hospitality industry going, because they're doing jobs that Australians just simply won't do anymore.

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We’ve got to make sure that we make the experience good for them to stay here, because the bottom line is we need them far more than they need us.

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Byron Bay beach

Music

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ROSIE AYLIFFE: I’d driven a good 3,000 kilometres

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Rosie walks with Chris and Jesse

and taken on board some quite harrowing stories so I was really looking forward to arriving in Byron Bay and spending some time with some of Mia’s friends. Byron was special to Mia, she loved going there.

Rosie:. Some of the signs say sheep and cattle so you know they just don’t use fences. You could make a fortune here just selling fences to the Australians.

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Chris, Jesse and Rosie at picnic table

CHRIS PORTER, MIA’S FRIEND: The last time I see Rosie was the memorial back in the UK for Mia. She’s a massive part of my life now. I feel like she’s like a mother type figure.

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Chris 100%. Super:
Chris Porter
Mia’s friend

A bit of a guardian kind of a thing, you know. That’s kind of the way I see her.

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Rosie and Jesse at picnic table

JESSE TAWHI, MIA’S FRIEND: I don’t think a lot of people are aware of what’s going on and what happens. I definitely wasn’t. So I think

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Jesse 100%. Super:
Jesse Tawhi
Mia’s friend

it’s important that, you know, Rosie spreads the word.

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Rosie and Jesse at picnic table

Rosie: It’s being built no I don’t think we’re using the yellow and blue but it’s being built and I think we’re going to use the Tom and Mia’s legacy logo.

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ROSIE AYLIFFE: I’m heading home to the UK tomorrow, but I’m planning to return to Australia in order to step up the campaign.

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Rosie walking by water in Sydney. Super:
Sydney

Emotionally I’ve been through the wringer. I need a break now. Progress has been made in terms of the campaign, however I woke up this morning

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Rosie 100%

and there’s another account on social media about

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Rosie sits looking out over water

a hostel in Bowen. Young people are in serious debt, no work and dealing with asbestos on the premises – really

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quite harrowing stuff. And sexual assault thrown in there, to boot, you know. So you can’t say

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Rosie sits looking out over water

that we’ve actually made any progress until these stories stop coming in. It’s all still happening and while it’s all still happening, I’m not prepared to stop.

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Credit start. Photos of Mia

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Out point after credits

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