‘I was a CHILD SPY’
Apr 18, 2021
3 minutes
Words: Brigid Auchettl.
Almost every weekend throughout her childhood, Sue-Ellen Kusher and her family would conduct what they called “number plate runs”.
This involved driving around the Brisbane suburbs, recording details of cars parked outside the houses Sue-Ellen’s parents had under surveillance as part of their jobs as intelligence operatives. “The car could do three circuits without becoming too noticeable,” says Sue-Ellen from her home in Bulimba, Queensland.
“We’d memorise the car and number plates, make, model.”
So they
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