'Adrian O'Malley was born in 1971 in a slab hut near Sassafras in the Turpentine Range. He attended the local school at Nerriga, but left at 15 after getting a job with a ride operator at the Braidwood Show. He then toured the state working at all the big shows - Bathurst, Orange, Cobar. He was killed tragically last year when a hydraulic ram failed on the Carzy Mouse Spinning Coaster at the Mudgee Show.'
(Author's biography for pseudonym, Cordite no.23, 2005.)
