![]() At the tender age of 5, she awoke to discover that her father had died in his sleep from a heart attack. Her tenacity as an agent of change is a case of both nature and nurture. PRIME MINISTER: Thanks very much and may these victims just rest in eternal peace.Belinda Koo, Founder of One Ten, has embarked on a mission to help others effect positive change in their lives through the embracement of exercise as a way of life. JACOBS: Prime Minister, I am sure survivors and victims’ families will also be comforted by your presence at the service you are at today and we are thinking of all of them at this time. It's a tribute to those services that we have not had a major attack on shore but a number of potential attacks have been thwarted due to the hard work and diligence of our intelligence agencies. It's also important that we remember that we need to be vigilant on national security issues, that we need to continue to provide support to ASIO and ASIS and the Australian Federal Police and the Defence Force and the Office of National Intelligence. It's important that we do remember the victims, that we pay tribute to them, that we give some comfort to their families. Right around Australia there will be commemorations and I have attended commemorations, sadly, for 20 years of this event. Her mum travelled with her to Bali and they lost their lives. They were a mother and young daughter, a member of the basketball team. Debbie and Abbey Borgia have a community centre in Marrickville named after them. I've attended the memorial at Petersham Town Hall that was held for the members of the Dulwich Hill Newtown Basketball Club and their families who lost their lives there as well. The family and friends of those victims will be gathered here this morning and I am honoured to participate with them for many years. The Coogee Dolphins Football Club lost so many of their members and it's had a reverberation 20 years on which remains to this day. PRIME MINISTER: This is a very large event today here in Coogee. Why have you chosen to attend the special service at Coogee? There is one at the site in Kuta and one at Parliament House. JACOBS: There are memorial services happening around the country and in Bali. PRIME MINISTER: Australia made our position very clear and we will continue to make representations, appropriately, to our friends in Indonesia. TRISTAN MACMANUS, HOST: Have you expressed your displeasure at President Joko Widodo regarding the planned early release of bombmaker Umar Patek? Do you accept that he has been rehabilitated? But we also think about he the fact that our democracy and our unity was made stronger by the response Australians had, our determination to not be cowed, to still continue to live our way of life in freedom and democracy. It was a very dark time, it is one in which today we commemorate, it's a solemn occasion. The remarkable skills that we saw from the medical fraternity and emergency services and police who assisted not just in Bali, but in Darwin and in Perth and in other places around Australia to save lives and to repair some of the damage that had been done against our Australian citizens. The remarkable bravery we saw from people running towards danger, not away from danger, to help their fellow citizens. We hugged each other so much more tightly during the aftermath of the bombings. One of the things that came out of Bali, though, was that it did not divide us. It awakened us post-September 11, that happened just the year before, to the fact that we were not immune to this barbaric ideology that sought to wreak havoc and destruction on our humanity and sought to divide us. ![]() PRIME MINISTER: It changed us firstly by remembering the families and friends who will be commemorating their lost loved ones. And it had such a shock that reverberated as the shockwave came onto our shore.ĪNGELA BISHOP, HOST: Prime Minister, it is often described as the day terror came to Australia's doorstep. The attacks at the Sari Club and Paddy’s Bar led to 88 Australians losing their lives, 202 global citizens losing their lives. It's a place of joy and celebration, and to see it scarred by this horrific attack on our humanity was indeed shocking. Can you start by telling us, do you remember the moment you heard what had occurred in Bali?ĪNTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: I do, and it came as such a shock because Bali is a place where Australians have gone for generations to enjoy each other's company, to gather at the end of season footy trips or sporting club organisations. Thank you so much for taking some time, Prime Minister. NARELDA JACOBS, HOST: The Prime Minister joins us now.
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