Richard Feidler
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Yeah.
I understand now it was very much a propaganda tool because I didn't know about the White Australia Policy.
I'd never lived here.
Oh, yeah.
And the immigration scheme was post-war.
So you could choose to go to Canada, I think even South Africa, Commonwealth countries, Australia, and I think maybe even New Zealand.
And I love geography.
And I just was enamored with Australia when I learned about it at school.
And I'd read all Neville Shute's books, especially one about Alice Springs.
And I just fantasized that I'd be a Gillaroo.
And so there I was.
I was depressed.
I'd been thrown out of home for possessing drugs.
I was in trouble with the police.
I remember I was in this awful cold bed sit.
Only a British person would know how awful those bed sits are.
Freezing.
I lived in one for a while.
With a radiator heater.
And that's it.