When I Grow Up

Wayne Phipps grew up in Midland Junction in the 1950s and 1960s, a working-class railway town in Western Australia where steam engines, brickworks and clay pits shaped everyday life. From outside, it looked like an ordinary childhood. School days, bikes, railway yards and Saturday afternoons at the movies. But inside the family home, things were often very different.Violent arguments, neglect and ...