The kindness of strangers: A driver warned me I was being followed, then made sure I got home safely

I walked faster, sure that someone was lurking somewhere. Then a taxi pulled up next to me with an older businessman in the back seat Read more in the kindness of strangers series The Sydney suburb of Darlinghurst was not a safe place in the 1980s. There was this jittery vibe when the next heroin batch was coming in and people were overdosing like mad. But the area was also home to a scene of people who were into making little films or art and just going to the clubs in great clothes and da...

By Alison Muir as told to Katie Cunningham