Inner West

“We met in 1985 in Fitzroy, not quite a year after I’d moved to Melbourne from Newcastle, NSW. Andrew and I lived large in the inner city/east trappings – married in 1996 and started thinking [...]

I love honey, and used to eat it by the jar load. I figured if I got some hives, I’d have all the honey I could want. Now I have too much and barely touch it. There’s a lesson there somewhere… I [...]

This is a story of resilience and making the best out of a dire situation. I was born in Geelong, but my family moved to Warracknabeal when I was a baby,  and I lived there until I moved to [...]

My first book is a hardcover rhyming book called ‘Exactly the Right Stuff’ for kids aged two to seven. I wrote it as a personal passion project. I’ve been wanting to write since I was a little [...]

Anna and I met about six-and-a-half years ago, working together in a retail shop in Yarraville. We both realised there’s a gap in the Inner West for a clothing brand that was for normal women, at [...]

“I grew up in Diamond Creek. We had chooks, cats, dogs and goats, plus lots of tiger snakes, lizards and echidnas. Diamond Creek was considered semi-rural then. Dad was a lawyer and had a very [...]

“I’ll be celebrating nine years clean and sober this Friday 24th September. Guess I’ve spent the last 29 years discovering who I am! I come from a dysfunctional family and learn I wasn’t nurtured [...]

“My partner and I lived in Hawthorn for nearly ten years before we moved over here. We couldn’t afford to buy one there. We looked in the Inner West after going to a party in West [...]

I am born and bred in Yarraville. In fact, my family home is right across my current home in Bayview Road in Yarraville. (stereotypical ethnic dream) haha Dad’s always been in the West, and had a [...]

“I grew up in the mountainous part of Bontoc, Southern Leyte, Philippines. From young I didn’t want to remain in Bontoc as I’ve seen the people who are born and grow up there. All of them just [...]