…I remember going to see Peter Pan, and being so impressed by a woman, dressed as a boy, who could fly around with her companion, Wendy.  I realised that a girl could live like that… That’s how I came to be jailed by the Bjelke-Petersen government.  I got three weekends in jail – the men got five!  You can imagine how happy my parents were when I rang them from the Watch House. Dad refused to go bail. I’m fifty-nine […]

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