David McMillan

He got himself a CB, which is Commander of the British Empire.

So he was a real snob and didn't think much of me.

Not because he probably had any fundamental objection.

It just didn't fit into... He kind of scripted his life and there wasn't really a role for me in that.

One of the worst influences my mother felt, I say one of my stepfathers, there wasn't quite that many, but Jim Troop was a respected gynecologist who, with some other Melbourne doctors, were challenging the anti-abortion laws.

And they'd been paying off the cost because they were the only properly qualified doctors running the surgeries.

And it was the vice squad of all departments that were in charge of

taking an interest in that sort of thing.

So all the surgeries were in cash.

And when it became public, when the doctors got arrested and they were taking them to court and police were feeling threatened and threatening us in our household.

So you can imagine this.

My mother said it was the worst possible influence where we were surrounded by respected people who came home with a bag full of cash

The police were the enemy, the laws were there to be broken, and I was 14 years old.

By 18, I was really going to the library looking up what is the quickest and most profitable thing to do in the world.

And the Guinness Book of Records made it very plain that the wholesale price of opium in the fields of Turkey compared with the street price in New York City is the final product.

was 127,000%.

I thought, okay, I think they've left out a bit in this story.

And by chance, I ended up meeting some safecrackers who'd retired and wanted to put their money into something.

They used to buy marijuana from the Murray River Valley Italians there.

But