Murray Olds: Australian correspondent on the latest developments in the Dezi Freeman manhunt

Police believe Dezi Freeman is receiving additional help as the surge for the alleged gunman continues on.

Freeman is accused of shooting Detective Leading Senior Constable Neal Thompson and Senior Constable Vadim De Waart at his Porepunkah property, before escaping into the bush.

Australian correspondent Murray Olds says Freeman was heavily armed when he made his escape - and there's been no sign of him since.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Murray Old Australia correspondents with us Allo mus.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
A very good afternoon here though.

Speaker 1 (00:05):
Did you see the res wolfsh video?

Speaker 2 (00:08):
No, I have not seen. You've seen the What are you.

Speaker 1 (00:11):
Doing with your life?

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Maus?

Speaker 1 (00:12):
It's Reese Wolves drinking a toilet?

Speaker 3 (00:15):
Oh no, well, nothing surprises me when it comes to
the NRL.

Speaker 1 (00:18):
Yeah, that's how I feel about it.

Speaker 3 (00:19):
It was the guy who was the who was the
player who bent over and was having a drink something
he shouldn't be having a drink of.

Speaker 1 (00:29):
He's all about the bubbling.

Speaker 3 (00:31):
The bubbling, Yeah, that goes back a decade that we
could just can there's a lot of too many techs
I think there might have.

Speaker 1 (00:40):
There's a lot of stuff that's happened in the narrow
Hey listen. Obviously someone's helping Dizzy Freeman. But who do
we think it is?

Speaker 3 (00:46):
Well, we're not sure. I mean, Freeman might be dead.
He may have taken his own life out there. But
police say if he is alive, he must be getting
some help because he hasn't been saying. He's fifty six
years old, freezing cold. He is a good bushman, but
he wasn't wearing the clothes he vanished and perhaps well,
please have got a better idea now, they perhaps weren't
ideal for high country you know, weathering it out in

(01:08):
high country Victoria this time of year. But he's either
being helped or even Harvard Police say by locals, and
the police have appealed to him to give up, so
to his wife. The huge search continues, but there's no
sign of this fellow, and it's now on its eight today,
the search. It's believed Freeman has a number of firearms,
including at least one weapon from one of the police

(01:31):
officers he shot dead a week ago.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
So no sign of him at this point. Heather, no
sign at all.

Speaker 1 (01:38):
Now, Bob Katter, what do you make of the fact
that he thinks he should have gone further?

Speaker 3 (01:42):
Oh god, this guy. He's even suggesting nine should apologize.
He's mulling defamation action against nine. I mean, please, bobcat
is eighty years old, and he's a bit like Jobilki Peters,
and there's something about that state that sends older men
trop and Bob, I mean you remember, No, you wouldn't.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
I'm sure you would. Yeah, there you go.

Speaker 3 (02:06):
I mean Cana's like Blchi pedis incarnate, So you know
we've all seen the vision.

Speaker 2 (02:12):
His granddad came from Lebanon.

Speaker 3 (02:14):
Bob Catter on the weekend was vowing out there to
go and march with in a march that did attract
neo Nazis. If you don't mind to protest against the
level of migration, I mean, is that not hypocrisy written
in capital letters across the sky?

Speaker 2 (02:30):
And then Josh Babis the reporter.

Speaker 3 (02:32):
I don't know Josh, but he just asked the question, mate,
your granddad was a migrant already blew up, so anyway
that outrageous outburstsman referred to the parliamentary standards tribunal.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
I mean there are.

Speaker 3 (02:45):
People who are making excuses for his behavior. Nine is
demanding its own apology. Catus is no way, And as
you said, you know I should have been more aggressive.
My only here's the quote from Catta I found at
my notes. My only regret I wasn't more aggressid with him.
Far from apologizing, I just should have kept going. And
I'll leave it to your imagination as to what that means.

(03:07):
I mean, the silly old bugger will have a heart
attack in a minute, and his hat's too tight.

Speaker 1 (03:11):
Mars, I don't really understand what his objection to it is.
I mean, I am because he. I mean, the fact
is that it's a statement of truth, isn't it.

Speaker 2 (03:23):
It is a statement of truth.

Speaker 3 (03:24):
But you know, his son, Robbie Katter, who's in the
State Parliament of Queensland, came out and he said little
Dad's relationship with his father was complicated. There was something about,
oh I had a mother too, and she didn't come
from Lebanon. I mean, what's the matter with the guy's
I mean, unless you are indigenous, everyone's new here, everyone's

(03:45):
arrived here subsequent Kat has no acception and for him
to carry on like a pork chop, the was something
so trivial. It's just it speaks to that. That's just
how pathetic the fellow is.

Speaker 1 (03:55):
You're too right, Mars Listen, thanks so much appreciated, Murray
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