"Australia was one of the last countries to get colour TV but I remember as a kid, my father would take me to the main street of Marrickville and we'd stand outside a shop window and watch it without sound with other people,"he said.
"It went to air and got a thousand objections and I was mortified,"Bond said.
"I remember seeing the beautiful pristine view and then the horrible BHP [steelworks] arrived and it became the bane of my life,"he said.
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