Age 4, playing at being a soldier defending the family home.
Who is this Santa character? With my sister Karen, 1964.
Finding freedom on a surf trip, age 17.
Endless Australian summer, holidaying on the coast.
Some academy mates (I’m on the right). We had no idea what we had gotten ourselves into.
With my parents on the day I passed out of the police academy in 1985.
With Debbie at the academy on the same day, also my 23rd birthday.
Training to deal with the worst of the worst, 1998.
With Jason Evers outside Buckingham Palace, during a trip to London in 2001 to investigate the death of Caroline Byrne.
Tony Byrne in 2012, holding a photograph of his daughter Caroline.
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With my kids, Jake and Gemma. Teaching them to find the same sense of freedom I have in the water.
At my wedding to Tracy in 2011, which coincided with a flash flood.
Speaking to the media after the Perish brothers were sentenced over the murder of Terry Falconer, 2012.
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The families of the murdered Bowraville children march on Parliament House, Sydney, 2013.
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NSW Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione apologises to the Bowraville families, 2016.
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Flowers left outside the Lindt Chocolate Café, Sydney, following the fatal siege in 2014.
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The boxing ring exposes any weakness. Gary Jubelin v Mark Bouris, 2018.
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With Matt Nable (from Underbelly) and some of the Bowraville mob, after fighting in a police boxing event, 2017.
During a 2015 search operation in the bush near Kendall, where William Tyrrell went missing.
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Speaking at one of the events to mark the first anniversary of William’s disappearance.
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Finding Matt Leveson’s body, with his parents, Mark and Faye, 2017.
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I’ve learned to find the same sense of peace while surfing and through meditation.
Practising qigong in the Blue Mountains, outside Sydney.
Surfing mates on a trip to Lombok.
With Gemma and Jake, as adults. I am most proud of my relationship with my children.
Leaving the Downing Centre Local Court in April 2020, having been found guilty.
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Starting a new career after the police – working in media.