Richard Fidler
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That sounds so nice.
Why did you leave?
How did you go once you were back in Sydney again?
There's heavy shame in all of that, isn't there?
Yeah.
And your self-respect must not have been great.
How old were you when you left home?
17, 18.
17 going on 18, yeah.
And then things went bad again.
You were sent to periodic detention.
What did that mean?
How does that normally work?
Right, to give you a taste of prison.
So you go, well, I'm not going to go there again.
And so... Was he a fellow prisoner or someone else or a youth worker or something?
Today you're hearing my conversation with Charles Lomu, who learned how he needed to live the rest of his life while spending time in prison.
Do you think you learned that lesson in an even broader sense?
Like, you know, you've been acquiring all this knowledge, practical knowledge, apart from spiritual knowledge, but more worldly knowledge about how to go about things in the real world?
How long did it take you to realise you might be a barber?