The woman helping families of the vanished in Australia
Australian True Crime
Bravecasting
4.5 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2023
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Nicole Morris started a website more than 16 years ago called Australian Missing Persons Register. It was something she began as a personal project but it soon turned into a valuable resource and advocacy platform for the families and friends of missing people in Australia.
Now some of these cases and stories are in her first book VANISHED, told through the experiences of siblings with a missing loved one - the desperate searches in the first days, the Police investigations and, for many, the heartbreak as the years, even decades, go by with no news and no answers.
Nicole’s joined us for this episode.
VANISHED is published by Big Sky Publishing and available for pre-order. It’s on the shelves and online on 7 June 2023.
More info:
PRE-ORDER VANISHED by Nicole Morris.
Australian Missing Persons Register
For Support:
Lifeline on 13 11 14
13 YARN on 13 92 76 (24/7 crisis support phone line for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples)
1800RESPECT: 1800 737 732
CREDITS:
Host: Meshel Laurie. You can find her on Instagram
Co-Host: Emily Webb. You can find her on Instagram here
Guests: Nicole Morris
Executive Producer/Editor: Matthew Tankard
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Transcript
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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. |
| 0:58.0 | They pay respect to the Aboriginal elders past, present and those emerging. |
| 1:07.0 | It does play with your head. After 18 years you do learn to kind of compartmentalize it and you go like this is awfully sad but this hasn't |
| 1:16.0 | happened to me. The families don't need me to be another sad person for them. They need me to help. |
| 1:21.7 | I printed out a picture of the book cover and I stuck it on the wall next to my computer and every so often I'll just look at them and remember why I did this because it's about these faces that need me to speak for them. |
| 1:33.4 | And every so often I look at them and just go, |
| 1:35.4 | oh, okay, I feel a bit teary today |
| 1:39.3 | because I get to speak for them, |
| 1:42.0 | and which is a privilege for me. |
| 1:48.4 | Nicole Morris started a website more than 16 years ago called Australian Missing Persons Register. |
| 1:55.4 | It was something she began as a personal project, but it soon turned into a valuable resource |
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