🔊During this recording, Shane Cuthbert:
- Admits he only volunteers at charities to build a voting network: “My motives for volunteering… is ultimately so that [they] end up supporting me later.”
- Says he volunteers with 20+ organisations a year just to meet more people before the election.
- Openly acknowledges that his public transparency is fake and pre-scripted: “I have an excuse for everything.”
- Says he’ll get $150,000 in campaign funding and use it for “look at me now” billboards.
- Claims he’s being advised by a political team that scripts answers to his past misconduct.
- Admits media have footage of a bruised woman saying “don’t hurt me,” but hopes no one will show it.
- Says most people have seen the footage but stay quiet because of his connections: “They’re hesitant… it’s like this unspoken thing in the room.”
- Claims he’s protected from scrutiny because he now associates with “credible people.”
- Denies wrongdoing while admitting he is the respondent in an active domestic violence order.
⚖️Crimes Committed by Shane Cuthbert
Based on this recorded conversation, Shane Cuthbert could be charged with the following crimes:
| Offence | Description | Maximum Penalty |
|---|---|---|
| Domestic Violence (Domestic and Family Violence Protection Act 2012 Qld) | Acknowledges current DVO against him related to past abuse and intimidation. | 3 years imprisonment for breach; underlying conduct may carry additional charges |
| Misleading Conduct Toward Voters (Electoral Act 1992 Qld) | Uses charity work primarily to collect votes, potentially misrepresenting intentions. | Not a criminal offence but grounds for complaint, disqualification, or sanction |
| Failure to Disclose Material Facts (public trust issue, not a charge) | Conceals history of violence from voters and media while running for office. | Not a standalone offence, but politically damaging; may become relevant under defamation, electoral laws |
Here’s the bruises video that Shane Cuthbert says everyone is too scared to speak up about.
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[00:00:00.340] – Shane Cuthbert
Because I already know that now a lot of these volunteer organizations are going to go, “Well, yes, he did volunteer, but he didn’t really volunteer a lot.” Might do a couple of days a year, but I do a couple of days a year with 20 different organizations. And my reasoning behind that is I’m building a network now because every time I go volunteer at a different organization, I I meet different people, different volunteers. They’re in a different space, so I’ll get additional votes next year when I run for council. Whereas if I just volunteered once a week at the same place, I’m only in the same people. My motives for volunteering aren’t just for supporting that organization, but it is ultimately so that that organization and the other people there end up supporting me later. I’ve even expected people to knock me for that as well, to be like, “Oh, you’re just volunteering because you want everyone to vote for you. You don’t really care about the organization or their cause, you just going there to get votes.”
[00:01:20.140] – Interviewer
Who criticises you for that?
[00:01:22.480] – Shane Cuthbert
Well, no one. But I’m just being pre…like….I thought about all. When I announced that I’m (running for) the council, I’m going to have a lot of people coming out of everywhere trying to fucking discredit me and give me shit. And I’ll say, “All right, well, that may be so. But I still donated my time, effort, energy, and money to support the organization. So a win-win for everybody. Yes, I may have got some community support or some electoral support, but that was in exchange for working my ass off for that organization for free. Where are the other candidates doing that? Who else can be bothered doing that?” So it’s the DPQ guys that really started coming up with all of this stuff. There’s a page on some fucken platform thing they have where they’ve got basically all the questions. They come up with all of the questions that the candidate’s going to be asked, and then they come up with the answers. So they are the ones that have really convinced me to just be on the front foot with everything and have an excuse for everything. That’s been pretty good.
[00:02:53.380] – Interviewer
The DPQ.
[00:02:56.200] – Shane Cuthbert
DPQ, Democratic Party of Queensland.
[00:03:00.300] – Interviewer
What happened to the billionaire?
[00:03:05.130] – Shane Cuthbert
Yeah, that’s the billionaire.
[00:03:07.260] – Interviewer
That’s the billionaire?
[00:03:09.230] – Shane Cuthbert
I don’t think there’s anything. Look at this. Shane Cuthbert. The electorate of Cairns.
[00:03:19.780] – Interviewer
Shane, the electorate of Cairns. What does that make you though like…are you running…
[00:03:24.220] – Shane Cuthbert
Makes me a DPQ candidate for the seat of Cairns at the next state election.
[00:03:36.600] – Interviewer
When is the next state election?
[00:03:39.380] – Shane Cuthbert
Next October. Just over twelve months away.
[00:03:46.070] – Interviewer
Oh so next year?
[00:03:47.910] – Shane Cuthbert
Yes. So from 12 months out, so from September this year, I’ll be getting paid. I’ll have $150,000 to fund advertising and “look at me now” billboards and stuff everywhere. So um, they have a team that has been working to come up with solutions to answers to some of my past problems, which is why I’ve been sharing stories about my past recently, pictures with guns and all that sort. Because Berenger and a few other people have all that stuff. So I’m on the front foot with the media. Like “Oh yeah yeah yea I was open and transparent about that. I openly speak about that stuff. I’ve got nothing to hide.”
[00:04:53.910] – Interviewer
Wait what are you going to tell them if they put.. see so current affair, didn’t ask this because you were in jail at the time. But when it gets to the point where you’re running for parliament and shit, you’re going to have fucking journo’s stick in a microphone in his face saying, “Explain the bruises.” They all saw the bruises. What are you going to say?
[00:05:14.560] – Shane Cuthbert
Well, they won’t say that because…. I’m really thinking that they’re too scared after I sued them. No one wants to talk about it.
[00:05:28.480] – Interviewer
Let’s say they do. Let’s say for arguments sake, the reason they’re not talking about now is because you’re not a public figure enough worth bothering with it. But if you start to become, you know, if you’re running for Parliament shit, you’re in a spotlight, suddenly it’s worth, all right, Shane Cuthbhert is worth talking about. Someone says, “Hey, we’ve got this footage of you, and they’ll show it and play it on the fucking news, of you like “Oh, show us your bruises.” And then she’s like, “Oh don’t hurt me. Don’t hurt me.” Explain that. Like, explain that from your perspective Mr Cuthbert. There’s a microphone in your face. How…explain how that happened.
[00:05:59.980] – Shane Cuthbert
Well, at this point in time, I’m not at liberty to discuss. That’s not because I want to avoid your question. I’m legally not allowed to discuss that. I am currently named as the Respondent in a Domestic Violence Order. That order has been in place for some time, and it does not allow me to share my story or any details with the media.
[00:06:28.030] – Interviewer
Yeah it does.
[00:06:30.470] – Shane Cuthbert
Well, it’s a bit grey.
[00:06:31.890] – Interviewer
No, it’s not.
[00:06:33.250] – Shane Cuthbert
It’s a bit gray.
[00:06:34.380] – Interviewer
No, it’s not. You’re not allowed to publish shit about her.
[00:06:37.420] – Shane Cuthbert
I tried to get a copy of it the other day, and I also tried to find out when the five-year period was up.
[00:06:47.910] – Interviewer
That still doesn’t look good in the media. Then the media will just turn around and report, “He’s abused her so much that a judge has ordered that he can’t talk about it because it’s still going to abuse her. She’s so traumatized.”
[00:06:59.920] – Shane Cuthbert
Yeah, but then that’s defamatory.
[00:07:05.190] – Interviewer
No, that’s true.
[00:07:07.010] – Shane Cuthbert
It’s not really.
[00:07:09.650] – Interviewer
The judge made that order based on the fear that if you start talking about publishing stuff about it, it’s going to further traumatize her.
[00:07:15.450] – Interviewer
(Inaudible) that judge and get someone to say that that’s the case.
[00:07:20.190] – Interviewer
What?
[00:07:21.620] – Shane Cuthbert
It’s defamatory.
[00:07:22.980] – Interviewer
But that’s why the ruling was made to protect her from further trauma.
[00:07:27.500] – Shane Cuthbert
What was it? Who said that? Who’s going to tell them that?
[00:07:31.800] – Interviewer
That’s why that particular order gets put on AVOs to protect them, the victim from being further subjected to trauma or other people going and gossiping about it and then further traumatize them about it. That’s why I don’t know which number. In New South Wales, every fucking type of domestic AVO order that’s number one, number two, number three, it’s got order number six on whatever.
[00:07:55.090] – Interviewer
They’ve done some answers and stuff for this stuff.
[00:07:59.910] – Interviewer
But have they seen the bruises?
[00:08:03.770] – Shane Cuthbert
Yeah.
[00:08:05.350] – Interviewer
And did they say, “Hey, what’s with the bruises?”
[00:08:10.150] – Shane Cuthbert
Um, no. A lot of people have now, and they haven’t said anything. And I don’t know why that’s the case.
[00:08:19.550] – Interviewer
How do you know they’ve seen it if they haven’t said anything?
[00:08:21.990] – Shane Cuthbert
Some of them just, I think, avoid me and just… Do you know what I’m in now? I’m in this I think I’m in this odd zone where I’ve got a little bit of credibility, and I spend a bit of time with some other credible people. I think that I think that makes other people go… Before when I didn’t know anybody and someone saw that, they’d be like, “Oh, what the fuck, man? No, I don’t want anything to do with you. You do this.” But then now I think they question Like, they’re hesitant. They would see it and go, “So I’ve seen this, and I want to say to other people, ‘Hey, have you seen this?’ But um, he seems really close with those people, so that’d be awkward.” So I think there’s a lot of people that are aware of it but aren’t willing to say anything or speak up about it because they’re like, “Oh, does everyone know this?” It’s like this unspoken thing in the room. Surely people are like, “Come on, surely all these people have googled him and everyone’s seeing this and that I’m not the only one, but why is everyone acting like they haven’t seen it?” Or they’re just like, “Oh, yeah.” And everyone’s different because everyone’s usually like, “Oh, yeah, it’s in the past”, or “it’s bullshit”, or, “Oh, don’t worry about that.” So, yeah.
[00:09:59.930] – Interviewer
Maybe they read about it, but it’s one thing to read about it, another thing to see the video where you see the bruises and she’s like,”Ah don’t hurt me”, and you’re going, “Oh, show us your fucking legs.”
[00:10:13.650] – Shane Cuthbert
Well, I think a lot of people have. Like, if you think about it now, basically, I think the only two publications that are still online have a video. I’m pretty sure those, those, those um…Oh here we go.
[00:10:42.760] – Interviewer
What they have the bruises video?
[00:11:11.930] – Shane Cuthbert
Yeah, because I don’t know how to get the UK stuff removed.
The UK Articles about Shane Cuthbert
When Shane Cuthbert says “Yeah because I don’t know how to get the UK stuff removed” he was referring to these articles below:
Berenger Rose, who has appeared on the cover of Zoo magazine, says her husband Shane Cuthbert regularly beat her with wooden poles and tortured her with a cheese grater.
She told A Current Affair: “Every day, I thought ‘I am going to be that next victim. I am going to be that next woman that gets killed’.”
“He would call me crazy. Tell me that I was the one abusing him and I believed him. I thought I was the one with the problem.
“He wanted that model, that someone with followers that has that status and credibility to essentially leach off. “
The model, who says she was banned from working, also claims she was raped by her husband and suffered a miscarriage alone as he went out drinking.
Shane Cuthbert allegedly used wooden and metal poles as well as frying pans and a cheese grater to slice his leg in a campaign of torture against his wife.
Berenger Rose said: “He was ruthless. I would have to say in the last six months it was happening maybe every day.”
Berenger Rose, a 27-year-old model from Sydney, Australia, says she’s suffered years of domestic violence at the hands of her husband Shane Cuthbert, 25. She alleges the beatings were an almost daily occurrence.
In this horrifying video, which she claims was filmed by Cuthbert, she can be heard wimpering: ‘Please stop, you’re hurting me.’
As the camera focuses on Rose, huge bruises can be seen on her legs as she sobs on the sofa.
It’s reported the clip was later sent to Cuthbert’s friends.
Shane Cuthbert Recorded Conversations from May 2023
🔊Charity Fraud, Drug Trafficking & Police Informant
Shane Cuthbert admits to registering fake charities including ‘Domestic Violence Anonymous’ using the identity of his friends (including a mentally disabled man) and partner without their awareness. He admits to fooling members of parliament into thinking that he is an expert on DV and applying for grants. He also talks about trafficking guns and the drug ICE into Cairns whilst avoiding investigation by being a police informant.
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🔊Infiltrating Society & Collecting Dirt on Judges
Shane Cuthbert laughs about infiltrating every aspect of society. He talks about being a member of various law associations where he attends to get pictures with magistrates and judges. He explains that if he goes before one of these judicial officers as a defendant and the case isn’t going his way, he can produce the photos to claim a conflict of interest so that judicial officer will have to recuse themselves.
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🔊Threatens to Burn His Partners Place Down
Shane Cuthbert admits to running a business under his partner (Georgia Rosandich) name to avoid scrutiny due to his criminal record. He reveals he invested proceeds of crime into the venture and used Georgia’s name to secure licensing. He describes controlling the business from behind the scenes and threatening to burn it down if she cuts him out. He boasts about self-nominating for awards, manipulating systems, and using intimidation to maintain power.
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🔊Using Dead Cats to Intimidate Neighbour
Shane Cuthbert brags about placing dead animals on his neighbour’s front door step and car windshield as revenge for complaining about Shane’s loud parties. He brags about taunting police after a raid, and building fake business websites to create the illusion of criminal sophistication. He admits to collecting Centrelink while claiming to run multiple ventures and manipulating how others perceive him to appear more powerful and dangerous than he is.
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🔊Blackmailing Parliament to be like Adolf Hitler
Shane Cuthbert talks about his obsession with wanting to manipulate and blackmail the Queensland parliament to get his way and become the ultimate controller of the state, the country and the world to be like Hitler. He says Debbie Kilroy laughed when he told her about his wife, that Pat O’Shane doesn’t care about his past but is only interested in using him to research her PhD and that Cairns Councillor Rob Pyne is easily taken advantage of and is desperate for supporters.
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🔊Everyone is Too Scared to Talk About the Bruises
Shane Cuthbert admits he volunteers to gain votes and plans to run for state parliament with support from a political team helping him manage scandals. He confirms there is video evidence of bruises from a past domestic violence case but says people stay silent because they’re unsure how to react. He relies on his credibility and connections to prevent media scrutiny and believes journalists are too afraid to challenge him due to past legal threats.
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🔊Shane Cuthbert banned from Queensland parliament
Shane Cuthbert talks about his political ambitions and expresses frustration over being banned from attending QLD state parliament by Curtis Pitt MP, speaker of the house. He wonders if police have told the Labor Party that he is involved in organised crime. He also admits that a friend of his who is a police prosecutor advised him that if he sues government departments for $10k or less they will likely just settle out of court to avoid the costs.
🔊A Current Affair and Breaching the ADVO
Shane Cuthbert talks about contacting A Current Affair to request a copy of their 2016 segment. He also talks about the current Apprehended Domestic Violence Order condition which prohibits him from publishing photos or adverse comments about his ex wife Berenger Rose. He discusses testing the boundaries by talking about her to the media knowing that they would publish his comments and discusses what defence he would use if he’s charged.
