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The tears I’ve cried since 1962 have been evenly shared between family and the Port Adelaide Football Club. I started barracking for the Magpies when I was nine. My sister Sharon kept Port scrapbooks and I copied her. I cut out photos from The News including headshots of Jack Cahill from his used-car ads and stuck them in my book with Clag. On Fridays I … Continue reading From a backyard in Port Pirie to Shanghai
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When I was 14 years old I worked for Ken Madigan Sports Store in Port Pirie. I was shy. I hid behind the goggles and flippers to avoid customers. Dad sent me out the back to blow up netballs and stack boxes of trampolines. I spent my whole wage on Fanta from the Coke machine and gingerbread men from Angie’s Cake Shop. We delivered toys … Continue reading Mayhem at Midnight Mass
WBM – Australia’s Wine Business Magazine was Peter Fuller’s idea. The former Stock Journal editor had a beer with Cindie Smart and I at the Rob Roy Hotel in 2004. We quit our jobs and joined Free Run Press, working in the musty basement of an old two-storey building in Kent Town with salt-damp and bad carpet. We had a hair salon as a co-tenant and … Continue reading So, you want to launch a wine magazine?
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Every Friday night in 1985 half of Port Pirie crammed into the saloon bar of the Family Hotel down the road from the lead smelter. Old Malvern Stars leaned against the heritage listed lime-green tiles out the front, bags of pomegranates, Brylcreem and legs of lamb hanging from the handlebars. Loyal border collies slept on the footpath with one eye open, snapping at the odd … Continue reading Friday night at the Family Hotel
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On Boxing Day in 1988 Dad and I rode our pushbikes from Port Pirie to Broken Hill. It was a father-son bonding thing. I paid my rent two weeks in advance and bought $200 worth of spare parts including tubes and tyres that Dad hung over my shoulder. It was 41 degrees which melted the tar on the road. No helmet, just a Greg Chappell … Continue reading Broken Hill, here we come
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