0:00:02 > 0:00:04They're the Brits who race to the rescue down under.
0:00:04 > 0:00:06Multiple patients critical.
0:00:06 > 0:00:09Everyday heroes saving lives.
0:00:09 > 0:00:1112 miles to run.
0:00:11 > 0:00:12Battling fires...
0:00:12 > 0:00:14Do not go out now. It's too late.
0:00:14 > 0:00:16It can be extremely dangerous.
0:00:16 > 0:00:17..and fighting crime...
0:00:17 > 0:00:18Put your arm down.
0:00:18 > 0:00:20Police! Open the door!
0:00:20 > 0:00:22..from the big city to the outback.
0:00:22 > 0:00:25Our policing district is bigger than the whole of the UK.
0:00:25 > 0:00:26From the bush...
0:00:26 > 0:00:31He's been crushed between one of those Dingo diggers and a ute.
0:00:31 > 0:00:32..to Bondi beach.
0:00:32 > 0:00:36'The search continues for a British tourist who hasn't been seen
0:00:36 > 0:00:37'since he went for a swim.'
0:00:37 > 0:00:40You never quite know what you're in for or what's going to happen.
0:00:40 > 0:00:42Three, three, two, mate, on the head-in.
0:00:42 > 0:00:44Very high impact. He's really quite critically injured.
0:00:44 > 0:00:47Brits on blue lights under blue skies.
0:00:55 > 0:00:57Today, down under...
0:00:57 > 0:01:01there's another casualty on a road with a fatal attraction for bikers.
0:01:01 > 0:01:04A lot of motorcyclists when they come off, they slide in
0:01:04 > 0:01:08and they hit the trees and they have a lot of trauma.
0:01:08 > 0:01:11There's trouble in the outback for cops Lorena and Gary...
0:01:11 > 0:01:14Can you not close the door, please, while my partner's in the yard?
0:01:14 > 0:01:16This is my yard!
0:01:16 > 0:01:21..and flight nurse Steve flies 200 miles to rescue a tiny patient.
0:01:21 > 0:01:25For the parents, it's probably one of the biggest medical things
0:01:25 > 0:01:26will have happened to them.
0:01:26 > 0:01:28It's a scary situation.
0:01:32 > 0:01:35- RADIO STING:- 'WSFM. Pure Gold.'
0:01:37 > 0:01:39In Australia's biggest city,
0:01:39 > 0:01:41the rush hour traffic is building...
0:01:41 > 0:01:44We've got Lions Road closed and we've got traffic back past
0:01:44 > 0:01:47the River Road for eastbound traffic this morning.
0:01:47 > 0:01:51..and for the ambulance service, the emergencies are backing up too.
0:01:51 > 0:01:52PHONE RINGS
0:01:52 > 0:01:55Ambulance emergency. What town or suburb?
0:02:00 > 0:02:03Got three ambulances coming to you right now under lights and sirens,
0:02:03 > 0:02:05so we're going to be there as quick as we can.
0:02:05 > 0:02:08British flying doctor Ed Burns has been scrambled
0:02:08 > 0:02:11to a bike crash on a country road north of Sydney.
0:02:11 > 0:02:14'Rescue 23. Thanks. Good afternoon.
0:02:14 > 0:02:18'We're responding to the report of a motorcycle accident.'
0:02:18 > 0:02:22The road's called Poppy Road. It's popular with motorcyclists.
0:02:22 > 0:02:26We've been to a few motorcycle collisions there this year.
0:02:26 > 0:02:29At the moment, all we know is that there's one person off this bike
0:02:29 > 0:02:32with a fractured leg.
0:02:32 > 0:02:36But, at this time, there's no medical resources on the scene.
0:02:36 > 0:02:40Really, this is the ideal job to respond to by helicopter.
0:02:40 > 0:02:43The accident has happened deep in the bush.
0:02:43 > 0:02:47The crew of Rescue 23 must rendezvous with a police van
0:02:47 > 0:02:49in the dense woodland below.
0:02:49 > 0:02:52This is at Colo Heights. I don't know if it's Colo Park.
0:02:52 > 0:02:55But this is Colo Heights, anyway,
0:02:55 > 0:02:58and obviously there's this little settlement here.
0:02:58 > 0:03:01I've got a bit of a park down here in the one o'clock low,
0:03:01 > 0:03:03looks like a bit of an oval.
0:03:03 > 0:03:05Now I think I saw, like, a paddy wagon,
0:03:05 > 0:03:07police paddy wagon in the back of a property
0:03:07 > 0:03:09just backing out six o'clock now.
0:03:09 > 0:03:12'22 Rescue, 23 Rescue, 23.'
0:03:12 > 0:03:16Thanks, Rescue 23. Prepare a smoke flare.
0:03:16 > 0:03:17Yeah, I've got a police car, I think,
0:03:17 > 0:03:19down here at three o'clock low.
0:03:19 > 0:03:22Rescue 23, thanks, we've just identified the police vehicles
0:03:22 > 0:03:25and we'll prepare to come into land.
0:03:25 > 0:03:271,000 feet below,
0:03:27 > 0:03:3136-year-old Kim Percival desperately needs Dr Ed's help.
0:03:31 > 0:03:33She came off in a freak accident
0:03:33 > 0:03:37caused when a bottle jammed in the spokes of her bike.
0:03:37 > 0:03:39- Can we give you some gear to carry? - Yeah, we'll carry your gear.
0:03:39 > 0:03:42Do you want to throw your stuff in the back or...?
0:03:42 > 0:03:44Yeah, sure. Are we all going in this car? Yeah, all right.
0:03:44 > 0:03:46- Yeah, we can go in either one.- Yep.
0:03:49 > 0:03:52- Have you guys been down to the scene?- Yeah.- Yeah?
0:03:52 > 0:03:55So, what it looks like is, um...
0:03:55 > 0:03:57they've got quite a few motorbikes on the road today.
0:03:57 > 0:04:00One of the ladies, she's hit an item on the road
0:04:00 > 0:04:02and she's come off her bike.
0:04:02 > 0:04:03You guys see a few crashes on this road?
0:04:03 > 0:04:06- Yeah, quite a few.- Oh, dear.
0:04:06 > 0:04:09Just as the weather's starting to warm up, you know,
0:04:09 > 0:04:11there's people are out on the road a bit more,
0:04:11 > 0:04:13especially the motorcyclists.
0:04:13 > 0:04:16Hi there. Nice to meet you. I'm Ed. I'm the doc.
0:04:16 > 0:04:19OK. Peter Grant. I'm the inspector.
0:04:19 > 0:04:21This is young Kim. She was riding that cycle there
0:04:21 > 0:04:24when a water bottle got caught up in the front wheel.
0:04:24 > 0:04:27Bike went mostly on the left-hand side on the leg.
0:04:27 > 0:04:29The impact of the ground was most on the left side.
0:04:29 > 0:04:32She's complaining of left flank pain,
0:04:32 > 0:04:34left hip pain.
0:04:34 > 0:04:36Pain from the knee radiating down to the ankle.
0:04:36 > 0:04:39We're just putting a short splint on her leg at the moment.
0:04:39 > 0:04:40It looks like she's fractured her leg
0:04:40 > 0:04:44but she also has pain in her hip and chest.
0:04:44 > 0:04:47Her boyfriend, David Parker, has been trying to cheer her up.
0:04:47 > 0:04:51We just went for a ride up to the Grey Gums Cafe
0:04:51 > 0:04:53and we were just coming home and, er...
0:04:53 > 0:04:55a water bottle came off
0:04:55 > 0:04:58one of the motorcycles, got caught underneath her front wheel.
0:04:58 > 0:05:01She braked and just went down on the gravel.
0:05:01 > 0:05:03- How you going?- All right.- Yeah.
0:05:03 > 0:05:06- Been better.- Could be better.- Yeah. - How's your pain going at the moment?
0:05:06 > 0:05:08- Ah...- Still pretty sore?
0:05:09 > 0:05:11She's only had it for about a year,
0:05:11 > 0:05:14so she's just on her Ps, it's all very exciting.
0:05:14 > 0:05:18So, yeah, it's a pity it's happened but she'll get over it.
0:05:18 > 0:05:19She'll bounce back.
0:05:19 > 0:05:21It was a low-speed accident
0:05:21 > 0:05:25but that doesn't mean that Kim isn't seriously hurt.
0:05:25 > 0:05:28Was there any deformities to the left leg or just pain?
0:05:28 > 0:05:31Not that I can see. She's moved her toes, wiggled her toes.
0:05:31 > 0:05:32- There's a distal pulse.- Yeah?
0:05:32 > 0:05:35- From the patella down, the pain increases.- Yeah.
0:05:35 > 0:05:38Looks intact, but we splinted just in case.
0:05:38 > 0:05:39Yeah, of course, yeah.
0:05:39 > 0:05:41We do know about the masking pain on the hip
0:05:41 > 0:05:45so we're just playing with that at the moment till we get...
0:05:45 > 0:05:48Dr Ed has immobilised Kim's neck.
0:05:48 > 0:05:51He's concerned she may have a spinal injury.
0:05:51 > 0:05:53She needs X-rays.
0:05:53 > 0:05:55No, you're not, we've got you.
0:05:55 > 0:05:57You're only going to have one fall today.
0:06:03 > 0:06:06Do you have any pain actually in your back, in your spine?
0:06:06 > 0:06:08Or is it all just down that left side?
0:06:08 > 0:06:13Yeah. It's pain on the left back.
0:06:13 > 0:06:15- OK.- Yeah.- All right.
0:06:15 > 0:06:19So, primarily, a bit of midline C-spine tenderness
0:06:19 > 0:06:21without any sort of clear deformity or bruising.
0:06:21 > 0:06:23Other than doing a quick, fast...
0:06:23 > 0:06:26I don't think we necessarily need any more intervention.
0:06:26 > 0:06:30She's a long way from being the first casualty on this road.
0:06:30 > 0:06:34It has all the attractions riders love the world over.
0:06:34 > 0:06:39About 100km of continuous windy road.
0:06:39 > 0:06:41That's why the bikes love it.
0:06:41 > 0:06:45The bikes love coming here and going through these windy roads.
0:06:45 > 0:06:47It's a great ride for them,
0:06:47 > 0:06:50but it's a rough old road, this one.
0:06:52 > 0:06:54A lot of motorcyclists, when they come off,
0:06:54 > 0:06:58they slide in and they hit the trees and they have a lot of trauma.
0:06:58 > 0:07:04So she's lucky. She just rolled off the side of the road.
0:07:04 > 0:07:07Didn't hit the trees, so she didn't have that major impact.
0:07:15 > 0:07:18Rescue 23 carries much of the diagnostic equipment
0:07:18 > 0:07:21Dr Ed is used to having back in hospital.
0:07:21 > 0:07:25- It's a pretty good chopper you got here.- Yeah.
0:07:25 > 0:07:28- Going to do a quick ultrasound on your belly, OK?- Yeah.
0:07:28 > 0:07:30What I'm going to do is just sneak this under here.
0:07:30 > 0:07:34Dr Ed's looking for the telltale signs of internal bleeding.
0:07:34 > 0:07:37So no free fluid in the right upper quadrant.
0:07:37 > 0:07:40It shows up clearly on an ultrasound scanner.
0:07:40 > 0:07:43Happily, he can't find any evidence of it.
0:07:43 > 0:07:46Kim may have been lucky.
0:07:46 > 0:07:48OK, that looks good to me.
0:07:48 > 0:07:51Just going to pop a little needle in your arm, sweetheart.
0:07:51 > 0:07:52Yeah.
0:07:52 > 0:07:57Kim has no fear of biking, but choppers are a different matter.
0:07:57 > 0:07:58I'm scared.
0:07:58 > 0:08:00- No need to be scared. - You'll be fine, beautiful.
0:08:00 > 0:08:03Doesn't look like she's suffered any life-threatening injuries.
0:08:03 > 0:08:05It's quite sore all down her left side
0:08:05 > 0:08:08and I would be concerned that she may have cracked a few ribs
0:08:08 > 0:08:10and possibly even have a broken leg.
0:08:10 > 0:08:13But I think, all being considered, she's been very lucky.
0:08:13 > 0:08:17Rescue 23's speed cuts Australia down to size.
0:08:17 > 0:08:22Sydney city centre is just 20 minutes away at 160mph.
0:08:22 > 0:08:26A stable approach. Final checks - landing gear, three greens.
0:08:26 > 0:08:29Landing site's identified and it's clear
0:08:29 > 0:08:32and cabin on secure front right.
0:08:34 > 0:08:38The trauma team at Westmead Hospital, Sydney's biggest,
0:08:38 > 0:08:40are awaiting the helicopter's arrival.
0:08:44 > 0:08:45We're here.
0:08:45 > 0:08:47Yay.
0:08:47 > 0:08:50It's hard when you're on your back cos you can't see anything, can you?
0:08:50 > 0:08:52You don't really know what's happening.
0:08:52 > 0:08:56Kim turns out to have a broken leg and some cracked ribs
0:08:56 > 0:09:01but she's otherwise fine and is back on her bike within weeks.
0:09:10 > 0:09:14Laverton is one of the world's most isolated towns.
0:09:16 > 0:09:18And it's the centre of a police beat
0:09:18 > 0:09:22that covers an area the size of England and Wales.
0:09:22 > 0:09:26That's the town and everything around it is just bushland.
0:09:26 > 0:09:29If we get a call out, we could be driving for a good hour or so,
0:09:29 > 0:09:32maybe two hours to actually get to that job.
0:09:32 > 0:09:33British officers Sarah Denny
0:09:33 > 0:09:36and Damian Eynon-Williams are the law around here.
0:09:36 > 0:09:38Hi, Sam, all right?
0:09:38 > 0:09:43They're two of six ex-pats in a team of 12 policing the outback.
0:09:43 > 0:09:46This style of policing is completely different
0:09:46 > 0:09:48to anything I've ever experienced before.
0:09:48 > 0:09:51I've actually been policing about 12 years now.
0:09:51 > 0:09:53I was in Islington, North London.
0:09:53 > 0:09:56Damian was in the Met, then Gwent Police.
0:09:56 > 0:09:59Sarah policed Merseyside.
0:09:59 > 0:10:01You don't have any time away, do you?
0:10:01 > 0:10:03If you want to go for a walk,
0:10:03 > 0:10:05or you need to go to the shop or whatever,
0:10:05 > 0:10:08you're still around the people that you've been dealing with,
0:10:08 > 0:10:10like, every single day.
0:10:10 > 0:10:12I think Laverton is a place
0:10:12 > 0:10:14that's either crazy or nothing happening at all.
0:10:21 > 0:10:25Today's case for Sarah and Damian involves a missing Aboriginal woman
0:10:25 > 0:10:27who disappeared after a domestic incident.
0:10:27 > 0:10:30Somebody called the police two days ago
0:10:30 > 0:10:32to say that she'd been assaulted
0:10:32 > 0:10:36and they believe it to be her and she's not been seen since then.
0:10:36 > 0:10:40But searching for missing persons in a landscape like this
0:10:40 > 0:10:42has its hazards.
0:10:42 > 0:10:46There are few road signs in the desert they call the Big Red.
0:10:48 > 0:10:50And now I think I've got us completely lost.
0:10:50 > 0:10:52I took the wrong track, didn't I?
0:10:52 > 0:10:56When you go off into the bush like this,
0:10:56 > 0:11:00it's strange because there's tracks absolutely everywhere.
0:11:00 > 0:11:02The Aboriginal people are really, really good
0:11:02 > 0:11:05at finding their way through the bush tracks.
0:11:05 > 0:11:07But if you stick us on a bush track,
0:11:07 > 0:11:10- we haven't got any idea where we're going.- No, we just get lost.
0:11:10 > 0:11:11It just looks the same to us.
0:11:13 > 0:11:14Fire's burning.
0:11:17 > 0:11:21A remote camp linked to the missing woman is deserted.
0:11:21 > 0:11:25But the police have a clue, thanks to her mobile phone.
0:11:25 > 0:11:28All right, thanks, Mel. All right, bye.
0:11:28 > 0:11:32OK, so that was Mel just saying that this missing girl,
0:11:32 > 0:11:33her phone's been pinged,
0:11:33 > 0:11:36so they've obviously got authorisation for that,
0:11:36 > 0:11:37and she's in Laverton.
0:11:37 > 0:11:40So we need to... need to track her down.
0:11:41 > 0:11:45We're looking for Karen to see if she's heard from her,
0:11:45 > 0:11:46cos she's not done anything wrong.
0:11:46 > 0:11:49We just need to make sure that she's OK.
0:11:49 > 0:11:51- Are you related to her? - Yeah, it's my cousin.
0:11:51 > 0:11:52It's your cousin. OK.
0:11:52 > 0:11:55- She's got three kids as well, hasn't she?- Yeah.
0:11:55 > 0:11:57Yeah, so I think they're a little bit worried,
0:11:57 > 0:11:59cos they've not heard anything from her.
0:11:59 > 0:12:01'They're generally really good.
0:12:01 > 0:12:03'We find that a lot, when we're looking for somebody,'
0:12:03 > 0:12:05you can go up to anybody and just say,
0:12:05 > 0:12:08"Where's such and such?" and they tend to know where everybody is.
0:12:08 > 0:12:11If she came to Laverton, would she come to see you? Yeah?
0:12:12 > 0:12:14We're looking for...
0:12:14 > 0:12:15Yeah, yeah.
0:12:15 > 0:12:19- I haven't seen her, but she's... - I know, yeah.
0:12:21 > 0:12:25The fact that we're all getting negatives from everybody
0:12:25 > 0:12:28makes me think that she's not actually here.
0:12:29 > 0:12:33The fear is the woman may be missing in the two million square miles
0:12:33 > 0:12:38of outback that lie outside Laverton, and night will fall soon.
0:12:48 > 0:12:50Everyday Aussies put up with the realities
0:12:50 > 0:12:53of living in one of the world's biggest nations,
0:12:53 > 0:12:57and distance is the biggest enemy of the NETS team -
0:12:57 > 0:13:01the Newborn and Paediatric Emergency Transport Service.
0:13:01 > 0:13:03Car 16 departing base in the air ambulance.
0:13:07 > 0:13:09British nurse Steve Face and his colleagues
0:13:09 > 0:13:12are on the first leg of a long-distance rescue mission
0:13:12 > 0:13:15to a small town on the edge of the outback.
0:13:15 > 0:13:20So Wagga is about 450 Ks south-west of Sydney
0:13:20 > 0:13:25and we've come out to retrieve an eight-month-old little one
0:13:25 > 0:13:29who has a condition called bronchiolitis.
0:13:29 > 0:13:33Among the jumbos touching down at Australia's busiest airport,
0:13:33 > 0:13:36a much more important flight is being prepared for takeoff.
0:13:36 > 0:13:39We've checked that we've got all the equipment that we need,
0:13:39 > 0:13:43we've got all our bags, our drugs, our supplies that we may need.
0:13:43 > 0:13:46So we always carry our full equipment -
0:13:46 > 0:13:49regardless of what the job is, we take the same gear.
0:13:49 > 0:13:54This intensive care pod is designed to keep tiny patients alive
0:13:54 > 0:13:57long enough to reach specialists in the big city.
0:14:00 > 0:14:03Steve used to work at Great Ormond Street Hospital.
0:14:03 > 0:14:06Today, he'll be covering the equivalent
0:14:06 > 0:14:08of flying from London to Glasgow.
0:14:10 > 0:14:14Even though this may be something that we're doing very regularly
0:14:14 > 0:14:15and it's quite a common thing for us,
0:14:15 > 0:14:19for the parents, it's probably one of the biggest medical things that
0:14:19 > 0:14:23will have happened to them in their child's life and possibly in theirs.
0:14:23 > 0:14:26So it's often a very scary situation,
0:14:26 > 0:14:29so we try and make sure that we explain
0:14:29 > 0:14:31what's going on for the parents,
0:14:31 > 0:14:33try and have the parent by the child as much as possible.
0:14:33 > 0:14:36And we think today that we should be able
0:14:36 > 0:14:40to take the mother with the child so that they can both travel together.
0:14:43 > 0:14:46Journey's end is Wagga Wagga Hospital.
0:14:46 > 0:14:50The team's tiny patient is little Avery Evola.
0:14:50 > 0:14:53Her mum and dad are Americans living down under.
0:14:53 > 0:14:55Maybe Rufus will come down.
0:14:55 > 0:14:57Avery's seriously ill.
0:14:57 > 0:14:59Mucus is filling her lungs,
0:14:59 > 0:15:02preventing vital oxygen reaching her brain.
0:15:02 > 0:15:04So she's had bloods, she's had a chest x-ray,
0:15:04 > 0:15:09she's on a PAP of seven, and an FIO2 of 30%.
0:15:09 > 0:15:12She's stable, but not much improvement in...
0:15:12 > 0:15:14No, not in my time this morning.
0:15:18 > 0:15:22Avery's dad, Frank, knows his daughter is struggling.
0:15:22 > 0:15:24I'm a, er, nurse in emergency here.
0:15:24 > 0:15:25Yeah.
0:15:25 > 0:15:28And, um, I did my nursing at Sydney Uni and came out here to work.
0:15:28 > 0:15:32Um, the, the intercostal recession
0:15:32 > 0:15:34and the subcostal recession's a bit worse.
0:15:34 > 0:15:38Um, the tog is a bit worse. Um...
0:15:38 > 0:15:40Even now when I'm watching her stomach,
0:15:40 > 0:15:43it seems like she's really slowing down right there.
0:15:43 > 0:15:45You want to go with daddy? Cos when you're fidgeting,
0:15:45 > 0:15:48it's hard for mommy to hold you with all this stuff.
0:15:48 > 0:15:50I'm Dad right now, I'm not nurse.
0:15:51 > 0:15:53That's for sure.
0:15:53 > 0:15:56Nurse, there's plenty of people around to help her.
0:15:56 > 0:15:58They don't...they don't need me.
0:15:58 > 0:16:00Treatment was started at approximately 6.30 this morning.
0:16:00 > 0:16:03And does she look better having started that?
0:16:03 > 0:16:07It's a very mild improvement.
0:16:07 > 0:16:11Doctors are pumping oxygen under pressure into her lungs.
0:16:11 > 0:16:13We'll give her a bit of a suction of her nasal passages
0:16:13 > 0:16:16just cos the, er... They tend to be very thin.
0:16:16 > 0:16:17As soon as you get a little bit of mucus there,
0:16:17 > 0:16:20they either block off totally or they're very narrow
0:16:20 > 0:16:22and it just makes the breathing a lot more difficult.
0:16:22 > 0:16:25So we're just going to give her a good hoovering out.
0:16:25 > 0:16:27Um, which often makes a big difference.
0:16:27 > 0:16:29You're all right, I know, not nice.
0:16:29 > 0:16:32I think about a quarter change in diameter can make it about
0:16:32 > 0:16:3516 times harder to breathe through the airway, something like that.
0:16:35 > 0:16:39Sometimes smaller hospitals are reluctant to do quite deep suction
0:16:39 > 0:16:41just because it can make them gag.
0:16:41 > 0:16:43BABY CRIES
0:16:44 > 0:16:45OK.
0:16:47 > 0:16:48All done. All done.
0:16:53 > 0:16:57For the next two hours, Avery's survival will depend
0:16:57 > 0:17:02on the lifesaving skills of NETS, nurse and doctor.
0:17:15 > 0:17:19It's a new day in the outback and at Laverton Police Station,
0:17:19 > 0:17:24500 miles from Perth in Western Australia, there's some good news.
0:17:24 > 0:17:27So we've come back on duty today, um...
0:17:27 > 0:17:31and it appears that the missing person from yesterday,
0:17:31 > 0:17:36she was found about 400km from us and with another family member.
0:17:36 > 0:17:38So we won't need to look for her today.
0:17:39 > 0:17:44In a town of 250, finding a missing person should be easy.
0:17:44 > 0:17:48But for the Aboriginal people, who make up much of the population,
0:17:48 > 0:17:51roaming the outback is a way of life.
0:17:51 > 0:17:55I mean, the Aboriginal people are used to surviving in the bush
0:17:55 > 0:17:58and just every now and again, they'll go back to Kalgoorlie
0:17:58 > 0:18:00and pick things up, um, like food and stuff.
0:18:00 > 0:18:03But generally, you know, they'll go and hunt, um,
0:18:03 > 0:18:07and they'll you know, catch... catch kangaroo, catch iguanas
0:18:07 > 0:18:11and then they'll set a fire up and that's what they'll survive on.
0:18:16 > 0:18:18This is a sad day for the community.
0:18:18 > 0:18:23One of its leading members has died and the town is in mourning.
0:18:23 > 0:18:27Relatives will trek hundreds - sometimes thousands - of miles
0:18:27 > 0:18:29to attend a Sorry Camp.
0:18:29 > 0:18:31When a person passes away, they have to move out of the house
0:18:31 > 0:18:33that that person was living.
0:18:33 > 0:18:36They'll stay a few weeks.
0:18:36 > 0:18:39They'll stay up until the funeral
0:18:39 > 0:18:41and then they'll also stay after the funeral.
0:18:45 > 0:18:48We're just going to go to the Sorry Camp.
0:18:48 > 0:18:51Um, I'm hoping that one of the ladies is there
0:18:51 > 0:18:55that I need to get a statement signed.
0:18:56 > 0:19:00They're visiting the sisters of the dead man to pay their respects
0:19:00 > 0:19:03and deal with the inevitable formalities.
0:19:03 > 0:19:05Hello. Hello, Tanya.
0:19:05 > 0:19:09Can I just get you to sign a statement about what, what happened?
0:19:09 > 0:19:11I wasn't there but I was inside there.
0:19:11 > 0:19:12You were inside the house.
0:19:12 > 0:19:14Inside, inside the house.
0:19:14 > 0:19:16OK. All right.
0:19:16 > 0:19:23So, Tanya, if you can just sign the bottom of all the pages.
0:19:23 > 0:19:26- They're coming in today. - Oh, are they coming in today?- Yeah.
0:19:26 > 0:19:29Oh. How many people are coming in today?
0:19:29 > 0:19:32SPEECH UNCLEAR
0:19:32 > 0:19:33From Warburton?
0:19:33 > 0:19:37The family have asked police to enforce an alcohol ban at the camp.
0:19:37 > 0:19:40Was there any problems last night or was everyone good?
0:19:40 > 0:19:42- SPEECH UNCLEAR - Yeah?
0:19:47 > 0:19:50There's been a run on alcohol at the local pub.
0:19:51 > 0:19:53Hello.
0:19:53 > 0:19:54Hello.
0:19:54 > 0:19:57Just want to touch base with you in terms of what's gone out today.
0:19:57 > 0:20:01- So quite a few bottles of Jim Beam...- Yeah.- ..go out.
0:20:01 > 0:20:04The pub's out of beer and a lot of spirits have been sold.
0:20:04 > 0:20:06- All right, thanks, John.- No worries.
0:20:06 > 0:20:10They suspect some of the locals are already drinking...
0:20:10 > 0:20:12Oh, my God. There's loads of them.
0:20:12 > 0:20:16..which will make enforcing the mourners' wishes much harder.
0:20:16 > 0:20:18What's going on at Diane's place?
0:20:18 > 0:20:23- Diane. Looking for a fight with us. - You can't do that.- Eh?
0:20:23 > 0:20:24You can't do that.
0:20:26 > 0:20:29Despite the chaotic nature of outback policing,
0:20:29 > 0:20:32Sarah wouldn't go back to her beat on Merseyside.
0:20:32 > 0:20:35You know, I am living somewhere that's remote,
0:20:35 > 0:20:37that's got no facilities -
0:20:37 > 0:20:41the policing side of it is much more enjoyable.
0:20:41 > 0:20:43It's much more varied.
0:20:43 > 0:20:45I've just been back to the UK a couple of weeks ago
0:20:45 > 0:20:49and I've not been back for, um, six years.
0:20:49 > 0:20:52I just felt a little bit overwhelmed by the volume of people
0:20:52 > 0:20:53and the volume of traffic.
0:20:53 > 0:20:56Good to go back and see people, have a holiday, but this is...
0:20:56 > 0:20:58this is definitely home for me now.
0:21:00 > 0:21:04But, tonight, some of the outback Brits could be working harder
0:21:04 > 0:21:08for their Aussie lifestyles as the number of mourners grows.
0:21:08 > 0:21:10SLURRED SPEECH
0:21:21 > 0:21:24High above the Blue Mountains of New South Wales,
0:21:24 > 0:21:29British nurse Steve Face is heading for Sydney at 250mph.
0:21:30 > 0:21:36His tiny patient, Avery Evola, has a serious respiratory infection.
0:21:36 > 0:21:39She desperately needs the specialist care
0:21:39 > 0:21:41of Australia's biggest children's hospital.
0:21:44 > 0:21:47She's been very settled. She slept most of the way.
0:21:47 > 0:21:49Um, she's been very stable.
0:21:49 > 0:21:52For mum Christine, this has been an anxious flight.
0:21:52 > 0:21:55It's nice just to be landed but, yeah, it was pretty easy,
0:21:55 > 0:21:56she just slept, so...
0:22:00 > 0:22:04Bronchiolitis is a common condition in babies,
0:22:04 > 0:22:07but it's rarely as serious as Avery's case.
0:22:07 > 0:22:11Over the next few hours, specialists will attack the infection
0:22:11 > 0:22:16flooding her lungs with mucus by using intravenous antibiotics.
0:22:16 > 0:22:17At the same time,
0:22:17 > 0:22:20they'll be trying to raise the levels of oxygen in her blood.
0:22:20 > 0:22:24For Steve, his job is over - another patient safely delivered
0:22:24 > 0:22:28from a small town to specialists in Sydney.
0:22:28 > 0:22:31We get to fly in helicopters and small planes
0:22:31 > 0:22:34and we also do a lot of work in ambulances
0:22:34 > 0:22:36and I must say, I enjoy the flying.
0:22:36 > 0:22:39It's a great way of seeing a country.
0:22:39 > 0:22:41Er, and we get to see things
0:22:41 > 0:22:43and do things that many people wouldn't get to do.
0:22:43 > 0:22:48And for that to be part of your everyday work is a real bonus.
0:22:48 > 0:22:53Two months after her first flight, baby Avery was back in a plane,
0:22:53 > 0:22:57in good health and on her way to America to see her grandparents.
0:23:03 > 0:23:08At Laverton Police Station, deep in the outback, British officers
0:23:08 > 0:23:12Gary Simpson and Lorena Cruz Parker are expecting a busy night.
0:23:12 > 0:23:16When you get 150 people together, add alcohol and emotion
0:23:16 > 0:23:19and it can be quite difficult to police.
0:23:19 > 0:23:22In a tradition that dates back 40,000 years,
0:23:22 > 0:23:24the local aboriginal population
0:23:24 > 0:23:27is preparing for the funeral of a neighbour.
0:23:27 > 0:23:30But alcohol could bring trouble in its wake.
0:23:32 > 0:23:36So we're just going to do a check on the pub just to see how many, um,
0:23:36 > 0:23:39how much alcohol's gone out today.
0:23:39 > 0:23:41Cheers.
0:23:41 > 0:23:43Cos what normally happens is the amount of alcohol that's been sold
0:23:43 > 0:23:47throughout the day will determine how busy our night is tonight.
0:23:47 > 0:23:48So we like to check.
0:23:49 > 0:23:53For Gary and Lorena, who are partners at work and at home,
0:23:53 > 0:23:56maintaining relations with the mourners is vital.
0:23:57 > 0:23:59SHOUTING
0:23:59 > 0:24:03How old is he? Your baby, how old?
0:24:03 > 0:24:05Ah, he's big. Funny, isn't he?
0:24:06 > 0:24:08That's what it's all about, innit?
0:24:08 > 0:24:14We are best friends to you, we welcome you into our cultural...
0:24:14 > 0:24:17- Midst.- Yes.- Cultural way.- Yeah.
0:24:19 > 0:24:22Hello. Hello.
0:24:22 > 0:24:23See you later.
0:24:27 > 0:24:30The community knows us anyway.
0:24:30 > 0:24:34So they know us as individuals rather than police officers.
0:24:34 > 0:24:37So we get to build a rapport with them and they know how we work
0:24:37 > 0:24:40and we get to know how they work, so I think that helps.
0:24:40 > 0:24:43It's not like policing in a city - it's...
0:24:43 > 0:24:48You've gotta get on with... You know, you police by consent.
0:24:48 > 0:24:52Er, because if you're alienated, then you'll get nothing.
0:24:52 > 0:24:55And if they're...those 50-odd people turn on us,
0:24:55 > 0:24:57we've got no backup. There's, nine times out of ten,
0:24:57 > 0:25:01just two officers on duty. Our nearest backup's 130km away.
0:25:01 > 0:25:04So I think the best thing is to just stay on side.
0:25:07 > 0:25:11- Where we off?- Er, village. There's someone kicking off.
0:25:11 > 0:25:13It's the first incident of the night -
0:25:13 > 0:25:17a triple-0 call to the police, the Aussie equivalent of 999.
0:25:19 > 0:25:22There's a person causing a disturbance
0:25:22 > 0:25:25out the front of the house, so we've been asked to go there.
0:25:27 > 0:25:29Mostly, we go through jobs that we don't really know what's going on.
0:25:29 > 0:25:31There could be weapons involved.
0:25:31 > 0:25:34There's a lot of screaming going on in the background, so...
0:25:34 > 0:25:37But, when the police arrive, there's a mystery.
0:25:37 > 0:25:40A woman sounding very like the caller says there's no trouble.
0:25:40 > 0:25:43- What's going on? Did you call us? - I didn't call you.
0:25:43 > 0:25:45Hey, stop shouting, stop shouting.
0:25:45 > 0:25:47I didn't call you. I don't have a phone. I'm locking them out.
0:25:47 > 0:25:49- Who called us, then?- I did not.
0:25:49 > 0:25:51- Who called us?- I don't know.
0:25:51 > 0:25:53Yes, you called us, so stop lying.
0:25:53 > 0:25:55She did. It was her on the phone.
0:25:55 > 0:25:57It was you on the phone, so don't lie to me.
0:25:57 > 0:25:59So you tell me, where's my phone?
0:25:59 > 0:26:02Lorena and Gary must watch each other's backs.
0:26:02 > 0:26:04Can you not close the door, please, while my partner's in the yard?
0:26:04 > 0:26:06Move away.
0:26:06 > 0:26:08This is my yard! Now move!
0:26:08 > 0:26:10I didn't call no cops!
0:26:10 > 0:26:14- I'll move when my partner's out of your yard.- Aw, come on!
0:26:14 > 0:26:17- You going to be told soon...- OK. - ..by some other people here.
0:26:17 > 0:26:20I've spoken to the adults and they've told me what's going on.
0:26:20 > 0:26:22Oh, my gosh! Can yous move? Cos I never called you.
0:26:22 > 0:26:26They decide, this time, the best solution is to walk away.
0:26:27 > 0:26:30You just try and make sure that everything's OK,
0:26:30 > 0:26:32no-one's been injured or anything like that.
0:26:32 > 0:26:37Just gotta pull away because staying there just exacerbates it.
0:26:37 > 0:26:41Alcohol-fuelled incidents are beginning to come in thick and fast,
0:26:41 > 0:26:45although their next call is hardly the crime of the century.
0:26:45 > 0:26:48So there was a report from the manager of the pub
0:26:48 > 0:26:52that, um, some Aboriginal males were trying to steal petrol
0:26:52 > 0:26:55from a vehicle in the rear car park.
0:26:55 > 0:26:57- Let's have a look in your backpack, mate.- What?
0:26:57 > 0:26:59Let's have a look at your backpack.
0:26:59 > 0:27:02- Someone's just been stealing petrol out of one of the cars.- Come on.
0:27:02 > 0:27:06- What can of petrol?- I dunno.
0:27:06 > 0:27:08People sometimes use petrol for sniffing.
0:27:08 > 0:27:11Mate, take your hat off for me. Take your hat off for me.
0:27:11 > 0:27:13Hi, Sam, it's Lorena. We've got these guys.
0:27:13 > 0:27:16One of 'em's got a carton of export I'm sure they've just bought it.
0:27:16 > 0:27:20But the others haven't got anything on 'em. OK, then. Bye.
0:27:20 > 0:27:24Guys, just going to take your names down, then you can be on your way.
0:27:27 > 0:27:30The indigenous people of Laverton
0:27:30 > 0:27:32live at the margins of Aussie society.
0:27:32 > 0:27:35Their tribes have their own legal codes
0:27:35 > 0:27:39and their way of life is officially respected.
0:27:39 > 0:27:43But they live ten years less than their white neighbours on average,
0:27:43 > 0:27:46and their lifestyle is different from anything
0:27:46 > 0:27:48the British police have seen before.
0:27:52 > 0:27:54Inner-city policing in the UK
0:27:54 > 0:27:58is a, you know, completely different animal to it being out here.
0:27:58 > 0:28:02A lot, yeah... A lot of them'll just straight away hear your accent
0:28:02 > 0:28:04and tell you that you're not from here
0:28:04 > 0:28:05and you can't tell them what to do.
0:28:05 > 0:28:09But I think, as soon as they realise that you're not a pushover
0:28:09 > 0:28:11and you're not going to let 'em walk all over you,
0:28:11 > 0:28:16they sort of back down and listen to what you're saying.
0:28:16 > 0:28:22It's a case of trying to get their trust and then saying,
0:28:22 > 0:28:25"Yeah, we'll help you if we can,
0:28:25 > 0:28:28"but if you cross that line and break the law,
0:28:28 > 0:28:31"then you'll be dealt with, er, by the law,"
0:28:31 > 0:28:34and it seems that a lot of them respect that
0:28:34 > 0:28:38and they... You know, they don't tend to hold grudges
0:28:38 > 0:28:40because you've arrested them on a Saturday night.
0:28:40 > 0:28:42They'll still talk to you on Sunday.