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AS a kid growing up in Coleraine, Warwick Brown always took considerable interest in the local Holden dealer’s collection of old engines that would be rolled out for the Christmas street parade.
This weekend marks the last Grand Prix of the F1 season, but the race goes on with ‘Formula One: The Australian and New Zealand Story’.
Largely without him, sure. But still, part of this proud Bundjalung boy. A hyped Wests Tigers rookie who says that the story of his name that you likely know already - the one of a dreadlocked Indigenous kid who, overnight, exploded into the NRL, grabbed it by the collar then, poof, disappeared - belongs to the uncle on mum's side he grew up watching, cheering, even hoping to follow. "And the Daine Laurie," he says, "I'm named after." Really? "Yeah, although I'm not sure of the story behind it," the 21-year-old says. "Or even if there is one. I think maybe mum just liked the name Daine."
Largely without him, sure. But still, part of this proud Bundjalung boy. A hyped Wests Tigers rookie who says that the story of his name that you likely know already - the one of a dreadlocked Indigenous kid who, overnight, exploded into the NRL, grabbed it by the collar then, poof, disappeared - belongs to the uncle on mum's side he grew up watching, cheering, even hoping to follow. "And the Daine Laurie," he says, "I'm named after." Really? "Yeah, although I'm not sure of the story behind it," the 21-year-old says. "Or even if there is one. I think maybe mum just liked the name Daine."
He was the NRL enforcer who found himself in and out of the game over the years. No, not new Tigers recruit Daine Laurie, but his uncle Daine Laurie.