Kevin McCloud

a unique part of this country.

But I think Western Australia is sort of a bit out of sight, out of mind.

Yeah.

I won't be here.

I've promised the people I'm working with that I won't be coming to that protest.

Yeah, they were.

Yeah, that's something I can't help.

Do you want to help?

Like an illness.

No, my father was in the Second World War in Darwin in Signals, saw no action whatsoever.

He and some of his friends read a lot.

And they decided that the system that we had was not working.

They were born in a war and then they were in a war.

And the system they thought could be improved, they'd also been through a depression.

He became a communist and so did my mother.

And I spent a lot of my childhood, early childhood, at the home of Catherine Susanna Pritchard, who was the leader of the communists here.

Most of Dad's communist friends were actually doctors.

And we had an interesting time until my mother decided that there should be some sort of debate

was communism really as good as they were being told and was marxism as good as they thought and catherine did not want any debate on that at all she wouldn't allow debate so mum said fine i'm out of here so she left the communist party and my father followed and then in about 1945 she joined the

Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, which I think was founded about then.