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Yep, I'll -

Ms Wilkinson:

And you need to -

Ms Higgins:

- whittle it down to a bite.

Ms Wilkinson:

Yeah, but speak about the culture that, I don't want to put words in your mouth, but if you can enunciate the fact that this place is all about suppression of people’s natural sense of justice. Because you see around you the way that this place works.

Ms Higgins:

Yeah.

Ms Wilkinson:

That will help. And that people who work there feel like they've reached the top of the mountain, and you don't want to leave the top of the mountain. Because this is where -

Ms Higgins:

This was the pinnacle.

Ms Wilkinson:

- this is government. This is everything you’ve ever wanted, and it's either, you play by their rules or you're out of there.

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Mr Llewellyn:

Okay. Because I think the story will clearly have an explosive element of there is just no moral compass. That everyone is treated as a political weapon, rather than as a human.

Ms Wilkinson:

And it exists within its own set of rules. I mean -

Mr Llewellyn:

Own set of rules, yeah.

Ms Wilkinson:

- the whole situation with the police. The fact that you can't get access to CCTV footage that a whole bunch of other people have seen.

Ms Higgins:

Have seen. Yeah.

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