The Bali Bombings - Aussie Therese Fox’s incredible survival story
Australian True Crime
Bravecasting
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 October 2022
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Our guests for this episode are Therese Fox and Megan Norris.
In 2002 friends Therese Fox and Bronwyn Cartwright travelled to Bali – it was a dream trip that the two Geelong nurses had saved hard for. It was Therese’s first trip overseas and away from her young children.
On October 12th Therese and Bronwyn decided to go out to Paddy’s Irish Bar for their last night in Bali.
Deadly terrorist attacks on Paddy’s Bar and the Sari Club in Kuta’s party precinct killed 202 people - 88 from Australia including Bronwyn. Therese was critically injured with third-degree burns to 85 per cent of her body.
Therese is intensely private but years after the horror of the bombings and her slow, painful road to recovery, she felt that it was important to have her story on record - for her family, to honour Bronwyn and to acknowledge the people whose lives intersected with hers in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks.
Therese turned to crime journalist and author Megan Norris, who you’ll know from previous episodes of Australian True Crime, to put her remarkable story into words… And you can read it in the book Out of The Ashes: The mother’s love that healed the scars of the Bali bombings.
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Host: Meshel Laurie. You can find her on Instagram
Co-Host: Emily Webb. You can find her on Instagram here and listen to her podcast Killer Content here.
Guests: Therese Fox and Megan Norris
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Executive Producer: Jacqueline Tonks
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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. |
| 0:25.9 | The producers of this podcast recognize the traditional owners of the land on which it's recorded. |
| 0:37.0 | They pay respect to the Aboriginal elders past, present and those emerging. |
| 0:47.1 | The following podcast contains content of a graphic violent nature and is not suitable for children. |
| 0:53.0 | See that's another thing that Barley stole from me. |
| 0:57.0 | I was 29 when it happened and I didn't never want to settle down and get married |
| 1:02.0 | but I thought I might partner up with someone |
| 1:04.7 | and have another baby. It wasn't just my physical look. It was the possibility of that kind of future that was stolen from me and all because of |
| 1:17.3 | just deciding to go to this place on a holiday we could have gone anywhere and we went there. |
| 1:32.0 | In 2002, friends to race box and Bronwyn Cartwright travelled to Bali. It was a dream trip that the two Geelong nurses had saved hard for. |
| 1:37.2 | It was Theresa's first trip overseas and away from her young children. |
| 1:42.0 | Their dream holiday turned into a nightmare. Twenty years ago, on the 12th of |
| 1:47.6 | October, Theresa and Bromwin decided to go out to Patty's Irish bar for their last night in barley. What happened that night |
| 1:55.3 | changed their lives forever. Deadly terrorist attacks on Patty's bar and |
| 2:01.9 | the Sari Club in Kuda's Party Precinct |
| 2:04.4 | killed 202 people, 88 from Australia, including Bromwin. |
| 2:12.3 | Terrace was critically injured with third-degree burns to 85% of her body. |
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