Justin Heazlewood

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Oh, hi.

Takeaway?

Gee, you'd have to go to the chicken.

I suppose on a Sunday night, it was very common for mum and I to drive home from Nan and Pop's in Wynyard via Kui, where the chicken was, and, you know, did the quality barbecue chicken and chips.

Mum got the Hawaiian pack.

I had these sort of traditions of...

Looking out for the blue cross on the right end, there was a neon blue Christian cross up a hill, and from a distance you'd just see this blue dot.

And I had these sort of childhood rituals driving in at night.

I just loved the glow of the neon of the 80s.

Even the Kmart sign was sort of exciting somehow.

I bought a backpacker guide from 1991 and I was looking through it and the backpacker guide was really struggling to find angles to sell Verdi.

It actually said not a whole lot of interest to tourists and I had to laugh.

I was like, this book's entire purpose is to encourage tourists to come to town.

Look, it was an industrial town.

It made its choices.

The powers that be made their choices and I feel like they...

They made a choice where we're going to serve the industrial overlords first and we'll serve the citizens of Burnie second.

And the payoff will be we'll employ very large volumes of the citizens of Burnie.