What’s your earliest memory?

Having my photograph taken with my brother Graham at the age of three. We were playing on the cold sand at Patonga on the banks of the Hawkesbury River near Sydney. He was instructing me, as older brothers do, to look at the camera and smile, and I was resisting. I had happy childhood moments there. It was many years before I learned that all around us was a secret battleground where the first Australians had fought the invading British. No-one talked about it – then and now.