Stephen was born in 1952 and is the son of Syd who was also interviewed for the South Sydney Social History Project. He grew up in Renwick Street in a family that was strongly involved in Labour politics and knew Terry Murphy, Cliff Noble and other very active people in the area. he particularly remembers the Labor/DLP split. He said of the area "Basically kids, you know, they were, ... the area had a bad name, Redfern, Alexandria, Waterloo, and I s’pose I can understand it, because the generations before me, there was a lot of bad buggers amongst them, you know. But basically the kids here weren’t much different than anywhere else. They, they went to school, they’d come home, they had their game of cricket in the street, or their football, or whatever else, you know. They played their hopscotch or whatever kids played."

Caveat: This video was shot on a Sony Hi 8 video recorder. It was not until 2010 that we could get the analogue tapes digitised. Despite careful storage in the intervening period there has been some deterioration in quality. While we have retained the original .mov files from the original digitization in the SRA Archive, by necessity uploaded here are .mp4 files. The video is raw and unedited, a primary source document recording the occassion.