Early Years
Gleeson grew up in the country town of Tamworth. He was the son of a dairy farmer from Wiangaree in north eastern New South Wales, and attributed the finger strength required to bowl with his two-fingered grip to his childhood, which he spent milking cows.
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“I believe that if we are to survive as a planet, we must teach this next generation to handle their own conflicts assertively and nonviolently. If in their early years our children learn to listen to all sides of the story, use their heads and then their mouths, and come up with a plan and share, then, when they become our leaders, and some of them will, they will have the tools to handle global problems and conflict.”
—Barbara Coloroso (20th century)