Before we begin today's episode of Australian true crime, I want to tell you about a new project

we've been working on behind the scenes. It's called She Matters. It's a new podcast from

award-winning journalist and femicide researcher Shirel Moody. Each week, Shirel speaks with

families of women and children killed in Australia, sharing who they were, the joy they brought,

and the love they left behind. She Matters isn't a true crime podcast. It's about lives lived, lives loved and lives

lost. She Matters is produced by Dashmade podcasts in association with bravecasting media.

She Matters is available wherever you get your podcasts.

Recently on Australian True Crime, we spoke to former New South Wales police member

and author Craig Semple.

Craig is now very focused on his work in the mental health space, especially as it pertains to policing.

He told us about the shocking stabbing of his younger brother Jason in 1998, while Jason was trying to perform a routine arrest.

And later he suggested we should talk to his brother about his long and varied policing career.

So that's exactly what we're doing this week.

In a special two-part series, we hear from Jason Semple about his work with New South Wales Police

and with the Australian Federal Police, as well as some private security in Iraq.

This is Australian True Crime. We acknowledge the traditional

owners of the land on which this podcast is created, the Wurundri Woiwurang people of the Koolan

Nation. And a warning, this episode of the podcast contains graphic descriptions of violence.

I was sort of in training for what I end up doing all through my childhood because you

were just, your parents let you go, you spent every minute of daylight doing whatever your

thing was.

Outside getting up to mischief.

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