Ken Gamble

Eddie, did you see that play out?

Yes, there was.

Yeah, there was some of them turned up at our house.

One turned into a pretty ugly fistfight.

One day, and I remember Dad ramming his car and trying to push him over the cliff.

And so we witnessed some, you know, pretty violent episodes.

I don't know, I can't remember if I was scared at the time, but it was certainly very concerning seeing that type of behaviour.

Your family ended up leaving Mount Isa.

Where did you move to?

Well, Dad had bought a pub in 1975.

He'd bought a pub up in the Gulf of Carpentaria called the Gregory River Hotel.

It was in the middle of nowhere, 300 miles north of Mount Isa.

He bought it for 50 grand, $50,000.

And it was a little oasis on a beautiful river and it was just this little pub that was all run down.

He got an opportunity to buy it, so he bought it.

And started renovating it.

When Dad went bankrupt, he decided to move the family because they took our house.

So we had to sell the house.

And we decided we were all going to move up.

I think it was the end of 76.