Oliver Peterson: Australian correspondent on the widespread global search for a Brisbane man who poured hot coffee on a baby

A search has gone global for a Brisbane man who poured a thermos of hot coffee on a baby.

The nine-month-old had a third round of surgery last week for burns to his face and chest after the random attack in August.

Australia correspondent Oliver Peterson says police are working with international investigators.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
International Correspondence with ends and Eye Insurance, Peace of Mind
for New Zealand business. Oliver Peterson six PR Perth Live
Presents with us.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
Now hey, Ollie, Hey, that restaurant Pole clearly didn't come
to Perth. Because you go downtown Perth CBD and try
and get into a restaurant, it's seven minutes to eight.

Speaker 3 (00:18):
Oh sorry mate, kitchens clothes come back tomorrow. Whaty seven
to eight happened to me? Two weeks ago?

Speaker 2 (00:24):
Downtown CBD of Perth on a Tuesday night advertise that
you're open till nine.

Speaker 3 (00:29):
Yeah, quiet night, we're just shutting up.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
Shot.

Speaker 1 (00:31):
Hey, what's going on?

Speaker 3 (00:33):
I don't know, but like, are you li will always
like that the.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
Little bit like West Australian's Light to eat dinner at
about four pm.

Speaker 3 (00:39):
They're a bit weird like that? Is it?

Speaker 1 (00:40):
Because?

Speaker 3 (00:41):
I mean?

Speaker 1 (00:41):
Is it because you people are mining people and you
got to get up early and do the mines.

Speaker 3 (00:45):
Yeah, big time.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
You go to Perth Airport at four o'clock in the morning,
it is just a sea of fluo and the Quantus
Club is packed because everybody's a Platinum frequent flyer trying
to get their cheese toasties before they fly after the mine.

Speaker 1 (00:57):
Hey, sixty seven to twenty seven, mate.

Speaker 2 (01:01):
I halftime, we were doing real good. You know, if
we just certainly played forty minutes we were ahead.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
We won like that is a score that the All
Blacks would normally hand to a squad like Georgia.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
Yeah, okay, look, we got a bit far ahead of
ourselves last week.

Speaker 3 (01:14):
We thought, you know, one win and we our season
was underway.

Speaker 1 (01:18):
But I mean, you realize that Joe Schmidt is a
really capable and quality coach and if he cannot make
your boys play properly, your boys stink hopeless.

Speaker 3 (01:28):
Oh it might be shut Rugby down and just play.

Speaker 1 (01:30):
Okay, anyway, look at this, hope. I mean from here
it can only get better, right, so your percentage increase
will be out the gate.

Speaker 3 (01:37):
We have it. I don't even play the All Blacks yet,
let us low cup still to come? Can I cancel it?
Like what you are?

Speaker 1 (01:43):
You are our redemption story. Like we've just taken a
drubbing from South Africa. We'll go, oh, well, at least
they're going to play the Wallabies soon. Yeah, we'll give
them a spanking at least. Anyway, listen, talk to me
about this veteran suicide report.

Speaker 3 (01:55):
Yeah, it's not good, and we knew it wasn't going
to be good. And you know what I reckon.

Speaker 2 (01:59):
He's one of the most harrowing remarks out of this
that you are more likely as a defense force personnel,
you are more likely to die from suicide than active
duty twenty times more likely. So look, there are some
big messages in this at the moment, lots of motherhood
statements from the Prime Minister and from the opposition leader,
and they're all important. I'm not saying they're not, but

(02:19):
they haven't really dug down into the nitty gritty.

Speaker 3 (02:21):
They've got to get into this.

Speaker 2 (02:22):
There's one hundred and twenty recommendations here, very critical of
the Defense Force. They're not releasing much publicly, but they
have acknowledged we are letting down our veterans. So look,
that's the first step obviously towards acknowledge it. That's the
first step to be talking about this. It's a warts
and all inquiry. The government's asking for more time to
now obviously formalize its response. But I think now there's

(02:43):
a lot of chakunor in the community, and there has
been for some time about this, and I think there
is a combined agreement here by partisan agreement that we
have to do better and we will do better.

Speaker 1 (02:52):
And so do we know why these guys are so
predisposed to it.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
It's obviously a lot of what they've seen in the
theater of war and just not having the correct support
mechanisms around them when they arrive back into Australia.

Speaker 3 (03:05):
As much as we talk a big game and we
say that there's a lot.

Speaker 2 (03:09):
Of support services, those support services is what's been found
in this Oil Commission that either not properly funded or
able to provide enough assistance to those people who have
tried to ring integrate into society, or actually had enough
of the support services or a psychologists or the counselors
available to talk to. So, you know, you do think
and obviously you know there's plenty of conflicts that Australians

(03:31):
are still involved in today that how we got to
this point though, Heather, and you go back to World
War One or World War Two. I mean we're talking
you know, generations here of Australians that have been let down,
and I guess there's big lessons for all of our
defense forces around the world, not just here in Australia.

Speaker 3 (03:47):
But you think we'd be doing better?

Speaker 1 (03:48):
Yeah too? Right, Hey, do we think that this chap
who pulled the coffee on the baby has gone? Has
gone overseas well?

Speaker 3 (03:54):
That's now what the alert is.

Speaker 2 (03:56):
They're not saying where, but they must have some sort
of information and some tell if they're saying that it's
been widened, how to include international police.

Speaker 3 (04:03):
So we're talking here.

Speaker 2 (04:04):
Back in early September, the little baby now underwent another
round of surgery.

Speaker 3 (04:10):
I mean, it's just horrific.

Speaker 2 (04:11):
Who could ever think about pouring a hot coffee on
a baby is just beyond the pale of anybody's thought
that it would even be possible.

Speaker 3 (04:19):
So they've released a picture of this guy a few.

Speaker 2 (04:20):
Times now and he's a pretty obvious bloke but they
say's between thirty and forty, who was wearing a blue shirt.
He's of Asian appearance, and I reckon it's a pretty
clear picture that has been released by Brisbane police. They
don't know where he is enough toy, No he doesn't.
It looks normal, looks like any bloke cou'd be walking
down the street of Auckland or Perth today.

Speaker 1 (04:38):
Yeah, totally okay, so we think you might have gone overseas.
All right, listen, Ollie, thank you, I really appreciate that. That's
Oliver Peterson six PR Perth Live presenting.

Speaker 3 (04:45):
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