GALLERY: JACK NEWTON: 30 years after the accident

By Rosemarie Milsom
Updated August 17 2013 - 5:46am, first published August 16 2013 - 10:30pm
Jack Newton at home. Picture: Simone De Peak
Jack Newton at home. Picture: Simone De Peak
Jack Newton at home. Picture: Simone De Peak
Jack Newton at home. Picture: Simone De Peak

THE distinctive scent of freshly cut grass and horse manure greets me as I pull up at the Newton family’s sprawling seven-acre Cardiff Heights property. It is an idyllic setting featuring a natural spring, quaint stone bridge, decades-old timber stable, statue-still chestnut horses, white fence posts, a flock of brown flecked ducks, squawking cockatoos, a large swimming pool, tennis court and white weatherboard home.

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