This notorious father has just given an interview. And it's weird.

Last month, Jayden and Joseph Brady, aged 11 and 14, disappeared from their foster homes in Tweed Heads. The story was followed with great concern across the country.

The boys were finally found over a week later in the bush with their father, Daniel Brady, who also goes by the name Omra Ki. Mr Brady/Ki was arrested for allegedly breaching his bail conditions associated with the alleged breach of an apprehended violence order. He told the police that the boys ran away with him because they didn’t want to be vaccinated.

The boy’s brother, Indigo (also named Tree) wrote to local newspaper, The Northern Star, saying that his family was being persecuted by authorities because “my dad discovered the unified field that Albert Einstein looked for for 40 years, the thing that proves we are all connected. They don’t want us to put it out because it proves we are all one.”

Police told the media that the children were in care because they had previously tested positive to having cannabis in their systems (it’s not clear whether Tree had any cannabis in his system before he wrote to the Northern Star).

It’s fair to say that this story already had some odd elements. But nothing compares to the unique perspectives that have been revealed by Mr Brady’s interview with the Daily Telegraph.

The quirky revelations included:

– All of Mr Brady’s children were home-birthed in places of natural beauty, including “late afternoon at little Wategos beach” out in the open, at Fingal Headland, on the beach of a tropical island in the Whitsundays and at a lake in Suffolk Park Byron Bay where local indigenous people once gave birth.

– The children have never seen a dentist, but Mr Brady had to pull his children’s teeth on occasion. They visited a hospital when Tree broke one of his limbs.

– For 15 years, the family moved from camp site to campsite. He says “We lived like kings because we didn’t pay rent…We’d pick the best place, we had a tarp if it rained but often we’d just hang it so we could see the stars”.

– The family would shower at the beach after a swim, buy a warm shower at a caravan park or not have one.

– Mr Brady is not “on the dole”, but child support payments have funded his family’s nomadic lifestyle.

– Mr Brady’s personal quest is to study weather healing, to make the earth better.

The family’s unique lifestyle came to an end in 2012 when  former Greens MP Ian Cohen from Broken Head alerted authorities. Some of the children were taken into care but Mr Brady and his three older sons went on the run from authorities for almost a year.

Joseph and Jayden are now back in care. Mr Brady is due to appear in court tomorrow in relation to breaching his bail conditions (associated with an AVO – which is very concerning if the breach was in relation to contact with his children). Tree is studying to become an event planner.

Life’s rich tapestry. Or life’s rich tarp. We can’t decide.

 

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