In a way Australia is like Catholicism. The company is sometimes questionable and the landscape is grotesque. But you always come back.

The List is Life.

In a way Australia is like Catholicism. The company is sometimes questionable and the landscape is grotesque. But you always come back.

It's only when you abandon your ambitions that they become possible.

So I was very close to ordination. I was delighted to be ordained a deacon, which is the last step between, before becoming a priest. But then it all fell apart.

And I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins.

And I found both literature and the church very dramatic presences in the world of the 1950s.