00:02People in Indi are really distressed about Helen because they had a fantastic Member
00:07of Parliament, who they loved, who was kind, who did things, who had the respect of Parliament,
00:13like did all the things that every MP should be, and then to be attacked is like such an
00:20outrage to their sense of, but we elected her and she's ours, and we keep on electing
00:27her because she keeps on doing a good job.
00:29I think there's two things together there, so there's the pride, but also this incredible
00:34frustration that how low the bar is, that when you go and elect a very good person to
00:40do a very good job, and the community backs them because they do a good job, they get
00:45attacked in the main street of their town, like I think that's just what's so galling
00:51to so many people, and then it was us, we can't say it was somebody else, it was our
00:56community, our people.
00:59So we've got to start where we're at.
01:01We've obviously got a lot of work to do as a community.
01:04The attack on Helen Haynes is an attack on all of us, potentially, and we've got a choice
01:10to make.
01:10Are we just going to say, oh, it's the government's job, it's the Prime Minister?
01:14Uh-uh.
01:14That's never going to work.
01:15It's actually got to be every single one of us, and in our families, and in our communities,
01:21and then I refer again to this election taking place, each of us holding our candidates, and
01:27the advertising that goes with it, and the political parties and what they do, hold them
01:32to their own values and their own behaviours.
01:35This is our community, it's Wangaratta, it was one of us, happening to Helen, one of
01:42us.
01:42So there's just a sense of disbelief that what we read about in the papers, what we read
01:47about everybody else, everywhere else, is happening in our community.
01:52And I think there's a sense of shame, there's disbelief, there's shock, what would we do about
01:58that?
01:59So there's those emotions all linked to Helen, and she's gone to Melbourne, and Phil's there
02:05with her, and she's going to lose one leg, maybe two legs, and what does that mean?
02:10What does that mean for her?
02:11What does it mean for us?
02:12What does it mean for the community?
02:14So there's just a real sense of emotion, and people trying to make meaning of it, and
02:21at the same time, feeling it in their own lives, a real sense of insecurity.
02:28And, and, and.
02:28And double
