Rob Hurst

For the first seven years, Mum and Dad and my two brothers, Stephen and Matthew, lived up on a bush block in a place that was then called Kent Lynn.

It's part of Greater Campbelltown now.

And those days, we just had this marvellous freedom for the first seven years, particularly myself and my older brother.

Dad made a cricket pitch and he made a flying fox that would go screaming between trees.

We ran around the bush making cubby houses and bothering funnel webs and...

It was just magnificent.

You know, Sarah, that program, the Michael Apted show, you know, Seven Up?

And, you know, the theory is show me the man until he's seven, the boy, and I'll show you the man, you know.

And I really believe that because up until this day, you know, I have this hankering for being outside more than being inside.

I was lucky enough to be able to walk to school even at the age of six or seven.

And just from that point onwards, I prefer...

being outside I mean even when the oils were touring in the United States it was the painted desert and the petrified forest in in the middle of America that I loved most because of the what Charlie McMahon the didgeridoo player who plays with called the great quiet but also those magnificent colors and sunsets and sunrises that you get out there I guess I'm a claustrophobe as well to be honest I love you know I love that sense of infinite space

We got this black and white TV.

It was about $9.58, $9.59.

And it kept on blowing up, I remember.

You remember when TVs first came?

They rarely worked.

And when they did work, the reception was shocking, particularly out there in the bush.

That's right, which made it even more tantalising.

There was a show called Thank Your Lucky Stars.