We came out on the ten pound scheme from England in the 60’s, when I was 3. My mum was a teacher at Elizabeth Girls High School in Adelaide and she said, ‘We’re moving out of Elizabeth, because I don’t want any of you guys using drugs.’ And look what happened. How ironic.
I started with alcohol innocently, like smuggling cans of UDL vodka into the social, that kind of stuff, and smoking quite a bit of pot. Then I left school at 16 and did an apprenticeship, and in that time my drinking and my drug . . .