Kate Ceberano

Oh, and we were called every name under the sun, moon and stars.

And, you know, my brothers had to bear a lot of those arrows and they sort of would deflect it so that I could just walk through the garden bath with the sunshade on.

on my face, she's exotic.

By the time it got to me, it was exotic.

But before then, it was a wog, it was a chink, it was a, you know, like it was everything under the sun, moon and stars.

And they would just be like, ka-ching, ka-ching, my older brothers, you know, protect the child, protect the kid.

As I said, by the time I got there, I was like, I don't give a shit.

I think I'm gorgeous and I just want to play and the stage.

Anyway, so once I actually got to the stage...

I realised that education, I was going to take that opportunity, which they used to call it, do you want to be eligible for work or you want to continue in education?

You have a choice, which you don't these days, but that was kind of like the coal miners theory.

You want to pay paying rent, which I did.

Have you got a job?

Are you eligible?

I had four gigs in a week, every week at 14.

At 14?

At licensed venues.

My brothers used to chaperone.

They drove me.

I'd catch a tram.