I RECENTLY visited King Island for work. It was the first time back on the island in 40 years and ten of my classmates from King Island District High School (1972) still live there. My partner and I met up with eight of them for dinner at the Golf Club for a long awaited reunion.
My family lived on King Island in the 60s and early 70s at the Butter Factory where my father Keith was the mechanic. We lived there with my mother Shirley (dec), brother Andy, and sisters Jane, Lisa, and Joanne. I left the island in 1973 when I was 15 to join the Navy where I served for 33 years.
I now live in West Ulverstone, where I work for the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
My family moved to Melbourne in the mid ‘seventies but we remained connected to the island through David and Sheila Sweeting, my uncle and aunty, both now deceased.
The ABS asked me to go to the island to conduct some surveys and hopefully, I will have the opportunity again should some more samples be included.