Shortcut: Where is Australia getting its crystal meth?
Australian True Crime
Bravecasting
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2023
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
This is a "Shortcut" episode. It’s a shortened version of this week’s more detailed full episode, which is also available on our feed.
Australia tops almost every other country when it comes to our consumption of meth, with billions of dollars of it arriving at our shores each year.
Investigative journalist Conor Woodman joins us on this episode to detail exactly where all of this methamphetamine is coming from, the destructive path it takes to get into Australia, and the steps we can take for harm minimisation.
Conor Woodman’s book “Meth Road” is available now, and can be purchased here.
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Host: Meshel Laurie. You can find her on Instagram
Guest: Conor Woodman
Executive Producer/Editor: Matthew Tankard
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| 0:00.0 | We're bringing Australian True Crime live to Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne this July, |
| 0:04.3 | and I have to tell you that Brisbane sold out already. |
| 0:07.4 | Good for you, Brisbane, so we've quickly added a second show. |
| 0:10.3 | Now we can't keep adding more shows, so please make sure you get your tickets. Our special guests, |
| 0:15.2 | our forensic criminologist Santee Mallet in Brisbane and Sydney and the one and only Charlie Bazzina in |
| 0:19.9 | Melbourne. There'll be a Q&A of course so you can ask your own burning questions on the night but you have to book quickly. |
| 0:26.0 | This is a true crime podcast as the title suggests. |
| 0:29.0 | So please consider this your warning that it's not suitable for children and it probably will |
| 0:33.8 | contain content that may be triggering to some people. Also it's an Australian |
| 0:38.3 | true crime podcast so Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander |
| 0:41.9 | listeners should be aware it may contain the voices of deceased people. |
| 0:47.0 | The producers of this podcast recognize the traditional owners of the land on which it's recorded. |
| 0:59.5 | They pay respect to the Aboriginal elders past, present and those emerging. |
| 1:07.0 | I just spoke to a lady for an upcoming episode of Australian True Crime, who told me that her |
| 1:16.7 | clothing once tested positive for methamphetamine when she was screened in the visitors area of an Australian |
| 1:22.4 | prison. |
| 1:24.2 | She protested saying she'd never even seen meth, and the guard asked her if she'd |
| 1:29.2 | stopped anywhere on the long drive, like a service station, for example. |
| 1:33.0 | Because if she had, she'd probably just picked it up on her jumper or something. |
| 1:37.6 | He advised her to always wash her clothes and her hair the night before a visit and never stop anywhere between |
| 1:45.0 | her home and the prison to avoid picking up traces of meth. |
| 1:50.1 | And it's not just lying around our servos. There's a fair bit of it in our sewer system as well. |
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