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🗓️ 1 June 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Peter Norris joins us once again on Australian True Crime to share more about his childhood as the son of a bank robber.
In our previous episode, we heard about Gordon House, the homeless shelter in Melbourne's CBD where 11-year-old Pete and his dad, Clarry, hid out for a couple of months after Clarry’s escape from Fremantle Jail.
In this episode, we pick up the story after a near-miss with police at Gordon House, which forces the pair to hit the road, and escape authorities across the Nullarbor.
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0:00.0 | my brain had developed to a point where I was not trusting adults. |
0:05.0 | At that point, all I'd seen is decisions made on my behalf that were poor ones or generally resulted in some sort of a trauma. |
0:14.2 | So I lived on the streets in Perth for a few months, just not wanting to be put back in the system. |
0:26.1 | Music for a few months, just not wanting to be put back in the system. Peter Norris joins us again on Australian True Crime to tell us about his childhood as a bank |
0:31.5 | robber's son. In our last episode, we heard about Gordon House, the homeless shelter in |
0:37.1 | Melbourne's CBD, where |
0:38.7 | 11-year-old Pete and his dad Clary hit out for a couple of months after his father's escape |
0:43.6 | from Fremantle Jail. We pick up the story in this episode after a near miss with police at |
0:49.3 | Gordon House, which means the two have to hit the road again. This is Australian true crime. |
0:56.0 | We acknowledge the traditional owners of the land on which this podcast is created, |
1:00.3 | the Wurundri Woi Warang people of the Kulin Nation. |
1:03.8 | And a warning, this episode of the podcast contains graphic descriptions of violence. Kids dancing at a toddler disco. Declaring checkmate with the Nogroni. Flat whites and river strolls. |
1:29.0 | Sampling Shepad and Bay at seasonal menus. |
1:31.4 | Watching rowers go head to head. |
1:33.0 | Slowing down to enjoy what matters most. |
1:35.9 | London's most exciting new riverside destination is now open. |
1:40.3 | Join us 20th to the 22nd of June for our opening celebration. |
1:44.2 | Visit fulumpier.com. |
1:49.4 | And we do get the Nullabore and, you know, for me, |
1:53.1 | sort of thinking back about some of my fondest memories with Dad. |
1:56.5 | I mean, one of them is, you know, getting a 20-cent bag of lollies on the Sunday morning. |
2:02.0 | And secondly, just this trip across the Nullabal where it felt like at that point we weren't been pursued. |
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