Kate Legge

But his father was furious and his father was a very quiet, placid man and he belted him with a belt...

Colin?

No, Colin's father belted him for voicing this suspicion that the mother was having an affair with the lodger.

So Colin went to his father to say, I think... Yes, Mum's having an affair.

Mum's having an affair.

And he beat Colin for saying that.

Beat the son for saying that.

Because his mother denied it.

And they booted him out of home.

So at 14, he left Broken Hill.

He didn't come back for decades.

He left at 14.

He left at 14.

And, again, it's that spirit, that real spunk and spirit, without even a look over his shoulder, I think he just thought he was going to move on and do better things.

He'd always... He used to go and sit on Round Hill and mooch about city lights and think about getting out.

I think he was... And he was the only one of his seven siblings who left Broken Hill and made a life for himself in Melbourne and then later in Sydney.

So Greg's dad, Colin, left the house at 14.

Yeah, and he was outraged about the affair.

That's the other thing that's interesting.

He was outraged about his mother...