Occasionally, when the welfare officers came visiting, the children would be forced to attend a few days of school, where they needed remedial teaching. The town people didn't even know their names. Out would pile a dirty troupe of ragtag children, some of them rail thin, wearing dirty clothes. Occasionally, the womenfolk would come into town in a four-wheel drive. The men occasionally sold firewood and two of the adult men worked as council labourers. Neighbours on one of the large properties or hobby farms occasionally heard a chainsaw, but no laughter or play. Living in a row of ramshackle tents and sheds which had no showers, toilets or running water were 40 adults and children. ON A rough block of scrub hidden in the hills above a quiet NSW country town, the Colt family had a terrible secret.
