“I was born in Sale in 1972. My parents are also born down that way of Victoria, and I am their third child. I was born with a hole in my heart and was six months old when I made my first trip to [...]
Vicky and Katie: “Glee West is the offshoot of the parent organization Glee Club. It’s a choir you don’t have to commit to. There’s no need to sign up, no uniforms, no practice; all of those [...]
“I grew up in Montrose, at the foot of the Dandenongs. My parents were both teachers. Conveniently, there were only two schools there, and they each taught in one school. We knew everyone there, [...]
“I was born in Brisbane in 1968, and will be turning 52 in a couple of months. After reasonably wild late teenage years, I was as surprised as anyone that I made it to 21 then 40 and now I’m on [...]
Mucking around “Growing up in Ballarat, the eldest of two girls, I had always wanted to be a teacher. Being the eldest of my cousins, my organisational skills and over-engineered [...]
AG: I was born in East Brighton, and grew up in Beaumaris. Dad was – still is – an accountant and Mum was a stay at home mum. Recent years she’s gone back to studying to become a psychotherapist. [...]
“I was born in the old communist Czechoslovakia in 1980, in the town of Pilsen, like the beer. All the towns in the West have double names as 40% of the people spoke German originally before the [...]
“I was born in Penrith in the west of Sydney. I lived there for 12 years and had a very horrible childhood with a violent father. The violence was so horrific, the only thing Mum and two of her [...]
Growing up in Colac “I grew up in Colac, an hour and half west of Melbourne. I had an older brother and sister we were always getting up to mischief! There was no TV during the day…we’d run out [...]
“I was born in Johor Bahru, a coastal town at the southern tip of peninsular Malaysia. Growing up, I always wanted to travel, and I loved reading the atlas. I was a bookish kid. Johor Bahru had [...]
