Grafton

Well, then when did you first meet? Can you take me back to that very first meeting and both of your memories of it?

Which part? Because like this very, very, so we lived in the same street together, like a block apart in Villiers Street in Grafton.

When were we there? 15.

14, 15.

You were doing your apprenticeship at the...

But even before that, we knew each other.

Brooke was kind of already killing it singing around Grafton and had her head in the paper all the time and what have you.

And I was just... knocking about on guitar a bit, but I went and finished school at 15 and got an apprenticeship and stuff.

They had a daughter, Florence Louisa, on the 18th of April 1910 at Waterloo.

Eva had previously had a daughter Adelaide in Grafton, NSW in 1906 when she was 17 and Adelaide was adopted out to the Costin family when she was three, so just before their marriage.

On 30 August 1912 in the Sydney Sun, the full court was today engaged with an application on behalf of Evelyn Finlay of Chippendale, the wife of Frederick Edward Finlay of Alexandria, driver, to make absolute and order Nisi, directed to the husband of the applicant in respect of the alleged detention of Florence Louisa Finlay, an infant, the daughter of the applicant.

The parties were married in December 1908 and the child in question was born in April 1910.

Interestingly, Nina is listed as marrying Leonard Morris Pierce on the 4th of June 1917 in Sydney.

The next we hear of Frederick after his marriage with Nina in June 1915 is him enlisting in World War I on the 3rd of August 1916.

By the 2nd of May 1917, in the New South Wales Police Gazette, under deserting wives and families, from Grafton, a warrant's been issued by the Grafton Bench for the arrest of Frederick Edward Finlay, charged with wife desertion.

He's 28, 5 foot 6 or 7 inches high, thin build, dark complexion, and hair, dark blue eyes, heavy eyebrows, good teeth, clean shaved, a labourer of Sydney.

And today we are talking, well, the Green Seat Project.

Grafton and Yamba will be the first green seats in New South Wales as of this weekend and Monday.

Joe Greensill has been the driving force of these green seats in the Clarence Valley, and Joe is with me today.

G'day, Joe.

There's a hearing actually in the parliament today in Sydney.

There is.

There's been two in regional New South Wales and one was in Grafton.

Mm-hmm.

This year's event raised a record $82,000, well above its $30,000 target, supporting frontline homelessness charities.

and Clarence Valley Council has unveiled NSW's first two green seats at Grafton and Yamba to raise awareness of missing persons following community deputations sharing lived experience of having a missing loved one.

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Data centre construction alone is expected to require a further 13,000 energy trades workers.

And Tony Mundine's professional record stands at 80 wins, 15 losses, one draw, and that's from 96 fights, with 64 victories inside the distance.

And he was born in a place called Bay Hill Gill, near Grafton in New South Wales.

And he was the first Australian to fight in four different weight divisions.

And he challenged for the world middleweight title against Argentina's Carlos Monzon in... 1974 from memory, in a bout that was stopped in the seventh round.

Now, Tony said in an interview, I knew hard times, but that's life.

And I kicked on.

And I still have a lot of relatives up there in Bayou Gill, near Grafton.

We come from the Bundjalung people, and most of us worked in the asbestos mines, and the cancer was everywhere.

Now Duncan says, "I subscribe to Alan's Weekend Briefing, and you wondered this week about the barriers to modular prefab housing.

I run Clarence Village, a seniors community housing provider in Grafton, New South Wales.

We're building a social housing development of modular homes and trying to source funding from another round of the HAFF.

The main barrier to modular is finance.

Nearly made it, but got tackled on the steps.

And went to H-Division, got a terrible kicking, just like Grafton.

They give you a terrible kick when you get there.

And then in 1968, tried to get out again.

a notorious jail, Pentridge, and especially so H-Division.

Talk to us about that.

Well, HVAC was the same as Grafton in New South Wales, notorious.

It was punishment jail for people that tried to escape, assaulted prison officers, et cetera, et cetera.