‘They said they had this place up at Hay, in NSW, it was a Japanese World War II prison, and they turned it into an institution for young girls. They weren’t allowed to talk, had to keep eyes on the ground. I got raped there and I was only a girl. I hate the feeling when you know that, when you try to trust somebody fully and it’s been broken. You don’t know if you can ever be put back together again. They tried to break me down, but I’ll tell you something, they never broke my spirit. I would never let them break my spirit. I said, you can bash the hell out of me, you can do whatever you want, but you are not going to break me down.’