Fred Swift
Frederick Norman "Fred" Swift (6 July 1938 – 28 April 1983) was an Australian rules footballer who played in the Victorian Football League for the Richmond Football Club between 1958 and 1967, and captained the club to a premiership in 1967. He also played first grade cricket with the Eaglehawk Cricket Club, in the Bendigo and District Cricket Association.
Swift was murdered during a home invasion at his farm at Lockwood, near Bendigo, Victoria, on Thursday, 28 April 1983.
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“For me, it’s enough! They’ve been here long enough—maybe too long. It’s a funny thing, though. All these years Fred was too busy to have much time for the kids, now he’s the one who’s depressed because they’re leaving. He’s really having trouble letting go. He wants to gather them around and keep them right here in this house.”
—Anonymous Parent. As quoted in Women of a Certain Age, by Lillian B. Rubin, ch. 2 (1979)
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—Graham Swift (b. 1949)