sentences:  The youngest of eleven children, Cable was born in Narrogin, a country town in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia.His father, Edward, born in England, died when Cable was six and he was raised by his indigenous mother, Dorothy a member of the Noongar people of south-west Western Australia.Cable spent much of his childhood playing football – aged eleven, he was reprimanded by his school headmaster for devoting too much time to playing.