An old fibro place

Was she the Backyard Blitz type?

"I grew up in a hole in the road," he told her. In America, if a person has no manners, we ask "Were you raised in a barn?" I wonder if this is the equivalent.

His phone. It was on the kitchen bench. What item is this? It doesn't seem to be an actual bench, which is a thing people sit on.

two young men wearing street-hoon caps and tats

...the house was a wreck, badly in need of restumping. (restumping?)