[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.