I was born in a small town in Tasmania. I got my primary education from the local nuns and my secondary education in a Catholic boarding school. Naturally I emerged from these experiences completely unprepared for adult life. Fortunately I won a scholarship to university so I was spared, for a couple of years, from having to grow up. Eventually I had to get a job and in the years that followed I worked in a tin mine, the advertising department of a country newspaper, a spark plug factory, a motor vehicle assembly plant and a place that made shoe polish and veterinary products. I was a fitter's assistant in a steelworks and a shunter on the Tasmanian Government Railways. I mixed additives for concrete and bituminous emulsions for various purposes
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