Oliver Peterson: Australian correspondent on Australian authorities investigating the father of the three children who died in Sydney house fire

Australian police believe the father of three children who died in a Sydney house fire on Sunday is responsible for the tragedy.

Four children and their mother survived, but three died - including a 10-month-old.

The blaze at Lalor Park is being investigated as domestic violence.

Australian correspondent Oliver Peterson says police still need to follow correct processes.

"It is being alleged that the father was holding the door shut, saying - I want to die here. It is going to be alleged, once they can talk to this bloke - who's in a coma - that he set the house on fire and was trying to kill his family."

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
International Correspondence with Ends and Eye Insurance, Peace of Mind
for New Zealand Business.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
And joining us now is Oliver Peterson, six PR Perth
Live presenter. How are you today, Oliver Francesco?

Speaker 1 (00:14):
I am very well. How are you?

Speaker 2 (00:16):
I'm good? Thank you. This is just a horrible, horrible
story about these three children who have died in with
Sydney house far.

Speaker 1 (00:23):
It is just words will not do anything justice here
that reliving what these local residents had to go through
to try and help save the lives of these three children.
While it is being alleged that the father was holding
the door shut saying reportedly I want to die here,
let me die here now. He's ten month old baby
girl too. Boys age three and six are dead and

(00:45):
it is going to be alleged once they can talk
to this bloke who's in a coma, that he set
the house on fire and was trying to kill his family.
He's got other children who did escape. One of them
has reportedly now said that dad just tried to kill us.
And as you heard there from the New South Wales
Premier Chris Mins, it is just an awful tragic set
of circumstances. Obviously we need to go through the process.
But on the surface of this, I cannot quite believe

(01:07):
Francesca that a father would try and do this to
his own children. It is just horrible.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
It's unimaginable. The cops are worried about a new lethal drug,
yeah they are.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
They're saying, the Australian Federal Police that they've got on
the streets of Australia at the moment something which is
called niazine opioids, and they're saying that's a thousand times
stronger more potent than morphine. Now, obviously you've got to
be a bit of a goose if you're buying these
things off people on the streets anyway. But this is
a massive warning from the AFP because they are unable
to detect exactly who's bringing them in, who might be

(01:38):
buying them from drug dealers, and they want to get
this message out to plenty of people around the country.
It's been found in Melbourne. A search warrant of about
four kilos of this was intercepted in thirty seven different
parcels in Melbourne last week and now the fears are
this could be spreading across Australia.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
Any incidents regarding it not at.

Speaker 1 (01:54):
This stage, we do know of a forty thirty two
year old man and rather sorry they continue the investigation
of four people in Melbourne last month. They haven't quite
made the link there at this stage, but they're saying
that there are bodies of a thirty two year old
to seventeen year old, thirty seven year old and forty
two year old being examined now from a suspected drug overdose.
So joining the dots with this one, Francesco I would

(02:16):
suggest that he's probably what has prompted this warning from police,
but they're not giving out anything official at the moment.

Speaker 2 (02:21):
And the Defense Force by as new high tech drones.

Speaker 1 (02:24):
Yeah, they're called the Kamakazi like drones. They're called a
Switchblade three hundred. It's designed to crash into enemy They're
going to be issued to the defense forces. It's what
we've seen being supplied to the Ukrainian military during its
war against Russia. It's quite a cheap form of the
technology that's quite effective. And these new technologies such as
drones will now be deployed into the Australian Defense Forces.

(02:47):
We don't have an exact number of how many of
those will be issued to the Australian Defense Forces. But
they'll be joining the EIGHTYF we're told, by the end
of this year. And they are weigh only three kilograms.
It'll be interesting to see how they are deployed and
used by the.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
It's pretty easy to carry your backpack, it is, isn't it.
How much were they?

Speaker 1 (03:04):
Sorry, we don't have a price yet. We don't have
a number, but the Australian Defense Force that the Defense
Minister Richard Marles has set to make that announcement later today,
but at this stage we don't have all the details.

Speaker 2 (03:15):
It kind of sounded like I was going to purchase
one then didn't.

Speaker 1 (03:17):
I Maybe for other purposes, Francesca, maybe you'd be using it,
you know, to photograph the beautiful coastal scenery there in
New Zealange.

Speaker 2 (03:25):
Possibly Oliver Peterson, thank you for keeping us up to date.
Really nice to catch up with you. For more from
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