‘Dry Weet-Bix & Vegemite were all we had’
Dressed in her school uniform, the freckle-faced 11-year-old girl with bangs and her hair tied back with a ribbon wears a cheeky smile and looks proud as punch as she poses for a photo.
But that infectious smile hid the pain that Wendy Harmer and her three younger siblings – Phillip, Helen and Noel – were suffering after their mum had a nervous breakdown and their furniture was repossessed.
The author and radio and TV star last week revealed her heartbreaking childhood of poverty and
