🗞️ THE RECKONING ROOM
Before the Ride Broke, So Did the System
There was a warning.
Before the sirens. Before the press conferences.
Before the coroner and the apologies and the floral tributes —
There was a man, an organiser, who tried to raise the alarm.
He’d done the research. He knew what was wrong with the ride.
He took it to the people who should have backed him:
His district secretary.
The executive.
The union that’s supposed to stand up for safety.
Instead, he was told - clearly, deliberately - to back off.
The ride stayed open.
The risk stayed buried.
And four people died.
The truth didn’t die that day. But it nearly did.
The organiser - shattered by what happened - eventually left.
Mentally broken. Professionally discarded. Silenced.
He wasn’t the only one to suffer inside that building.
Others - women - were bullied. Harassed. Gaslit.
One of them, Judy Jones, took her own life.
This isn’t a coincidence.
This is a pattern.
One of the men implicated in that culture of cover-up had powerful connections; to politics, to government, to the media machine that keeps some names safe, and others ruined. He landed softly, of course. He always would.
What I’m saying here is this: the silence wasn’t passive. It was enforced.
And what happened at Dreamworld?
That wasn’t just a tragic accident.
It was the result of a system that knew, and did nothing.
A system that heard the warning, and buried it.
A system that chose protection over prevention.
I have that story now. From inside.
I am a witness. And soon, I’ll be a witness in a formal capacity.
I’m not naming everyone yet.
Some of those involved still have legal protections in place.
Others are preparing to speak - once the time is right.
There’s a hearing coming.
And depending on who the Commissioner is, they might already know me.
Or maybe more to the point: they know exactly who I am because of this.
But I promise this much:
This is just the beginning.
There are people who never got to walk away from Dreamworld.
And there are people who walked away, knowing they left a warning behind.
To those still protecting the silence - your time is coming.