Clair Morton
WORKING as a typist in Melbourne in 1943, then 22-year-old
Daisy Holmes (nee Roberts) received an offer to change her lifetime.
“Someone
came in one day and asked who was willing to go, so we got the overnight train
leaving Spencer Street the next day,” Daisy says.
“We were at the station
with everything we had, we even went to get needles — we didn’t know where we
were going, it could have been New Guinea,” she says.
“It was very different
in those days… we just accepted whatever happened.”
Four days
later, the group of seven Victorian women from the typing pool stepped off the
Ghan and into Alice Springs.
For more on this story, see Friday’s edition of The Guardian (26/4/13).
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