'Before she left to live in Sydney, I asked my mother one afternoon where her favourite place on Earth was. I told her mine was Antarctica, and she said how can that be my favourite place if I've never been there, and I said I'd seen photos in magazines and penguins at the zoo in Melbourne. I said I had half a Milo tin full of gold coins and I was saving to go there in the next two years...'
(Publication abstract)