Ken Gamble

Well, it was gallstones.

He got gallstones.

He had to have an operation.

And once he had the operation, he was off the tools.

He was off the...

the sites he had to appoint a couple of his guys to take over and that's when the problem started he was weeks and weeks off because he also got sick from the operation so he took a significant amount of time off work and while he was taking that time off

their builders weren't building.

They were drinking on the sites and they were just having a lot of fun.

And unfortunately, when it come time to pay all the bills, there was no money to pay the bills.

All the money had been spent and he ran into significant financial problems.

As a kid, how did that hit home for you?

How did you realise that there were big financial problems at home?

Well, I didn't realise that it was going on until some men in suits came to the house and took our pool table that we'd got for Christmas.

It would have been Christmas of 76.

We got this lovely big pool table and we were wrapped.

It was in this big room called the rumpus room.

And we, these men came in one day with some sort of court order and took our belongings, took one of the vehicles away, a Toyota Land Cruiser.

They seized that vehicle and they took away anything valuable in the house and they were creditors of Dad's bankruptcy.

And if your dad was owing money around town, I imagine there were some pretty angry people in Mount Isa.

Yes.