ASHTON, my hero
Oct 01, 2020
3 minutes
As told to Kathryn Lewsey
Alison Jones, 24, Kilcoy, Qld
As the machines hummed,
I glanced at the clock.
Not long left, I thought.
I’d just turned 18, and was on the night shift at a cotton processing factory.
With only a few hours to go, I asked one of the new guys to clean the machine I was on with a high pressure air hose. When he finished, I went over to check.
But peering through the bars of the machine, I saw that it was still covered in
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