Peter Goers

And indeed, our house and my grandparents' house in the next street abutted what became the Queen Elizabeth Hospital.

And that had been... People look at me very strangely when I say this, but it's absolutely true.

It had been an estate originally with wheat farms and had become much smaller and a kind of market garden owned by a family called Connor.

and they owned this property which became the Queen Elizabeth Hospital.

We had the launch of this book in the family home.

The current owners very kindly acceded to that request and I went down and said, look, by the way, the governor of South Australia, Frances Adamson, is coming to launch the book and, you know, Willsie with her 19 Logies will emcee it and, you know, there'll be about 100 people.

But don't go to any trouble.

And it was an extraordinary launch of this book.

I think, you know, stories are most powerful.

And I read that Aboriginal Elder said that recently.

Stories are most powerful in the place they've come from.

And this story had come from this house, so it was good that it sort of went back there.

And the revival of this story should start there where it had all begun.

Well, he began, his own father, who was Barossa German, had worked 47 years on the assembly line at GMH Holdens at Woodville.

See, we lived by the Holdens whistle.

We knew, you know, start time, knock-off time, lunch time, all of that.

And my father started work on the assembly line at Phillips at Hendon, making transistors and so forth.

And then he branched out for a while and was a commercial traveller

for Bosch selling automotive parts.

And then he bought a service station at Seacliff, which failed.