Avondale Heights

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Ange from Avondale Heights.

The shift to Channel 9.

Yeah.

My father was, it's safe to say, a very, very glass-half-full positive type of fellow.

And when they were setting up a new suburb called Avondale Heights, no one ever knew that suburb until Matthew Lloyd came from it.

And he used to look out, it was over the Maribyrnong River, and he'd look over and he'd go, how's the view from here, Rob? I mean, why would this place is going to take off? LAUGHTER

All right, next one, here you go.

You can overcapitalise, can't you? That's a huge aerial.

There were certain...

Depending on where you lived in Avondale Heights, you were blocked from Mount Dandenong's TV transmission towers.

So eventually people would build these massive receiving aerials.

it just seems staggering if he's not.

Do you know, he bobs up at Avondale Heights.

[laughs]

And kick 400.

Not, not, not all things align in, in life, but what I'm proud of is that I put this club on a place where they need to be and, uh, hopefully they can push on from there.

And do they give you a nice new house in Avondale Heights? Some big places in Buckley-

[laughs]

[laughs]

Do you remember your first death? And did that get, was there support around that back then? And did that get better as your career and giving that first death, you know, that first death notice that you wouldn't be, that many police officers don't escape? Yeah.

Yeah, I can't remember ever giving a death notice, but I certainly, after Melbourne, I spent about maybe 12 months in Melbourne and then went out to Avondale Heights and I remember the first sort of death that I encountered there was a suicide by hanging.

And so it was a bit, you know... here we go and it wasn't traumatic but it was a bit sort of, I guess it's more sort of sad when you sort of walk up to something like that and, you know, the family's grieving and, you know, so it's difficult but, you know, you've got to sort of hold yourself together and, you know, be the professional police officer and give comfort and all that sort of thing but you've also got to investigate it and, you know, prepare a brief for the coroner because it's a, you know, suicide or

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