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“Prior to moving to the West nine years ago, the only time I ventured over the bridge was to go on holidays! When we moved here, I didn’t know where to go, the Eastern suburbs was all I knew. My [...]

“I moved to Footscray in 1990, and remember there was front page news on the local paper. Locals were really fearful of yuppies, and there was a real fear the gentrification of the west would [...]

“My parents came here as post-war migrants. Dad was Ukrainian, and Mum is Italian but they met and married in Scotland.  Dad travelled to Australia to work on the Snowy Mountain Hydro-electric [...]

“I was born in Glasgow in 1981. When I was 5 my family moved to the Thurso, up in the Highlands for work. It’s right at the top of Scotland, and we cannot go any further on the mainland of the [...]