“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 am a middle child and was born in Geelong in 1975. I didn’t meet my paternal grandfather who was a banker but remember my maternal grandfather who was a perfectionist. He was a mechanic and did [...]
Resident of Kingsville, mum, wife and environmental scientist “I was born in East Melbourne and grew up in the Hawthorn/Balwyn area. My parents were inner-city dwellers but gradually moved [...]
Resident of South Kingsville, lawyer, wife and cat-foster carer The Pursuit of Education & Working in Child Protection I’m a first generation Australian. My father Jerry left Poland for [...]
Resident of Kingsville, fitness, health and wellness junkie, mum, wife A fateful meeting along Williamstown Road I’m a country girl at heart, most people pick that up when I first meet them. I [...]
Resident of Seddon I am the youngest of three and grew up in the Latrobe Valley. It’s a very working-class area of country Victoria, well known for coal mining. When I was growing up there, it [...]
Resident of South Kingsville, Self-taught illustrator Business owner of Totally Innocent and Yarraville Markets I spent my teenage years in Essendon, after moving across from East Keilor. As an [...]
Residents of Yarravile, Adventure lovers Claire: “We met in Canada during the snow season. James is from VIC and I’m from Lake District, England. We had just finished our studies and were living [...]
Resident of Kingsville, business owner of Handle Your Own PR My dad was in the British Army as an obstetrician. He was given a choice to relocate, and it was between South Africa, Canada or [...]
Resident of Yarraville I opened on the Christmas of 2000. My sister Meagan and her husband Steve had purchased the building with the intention of me opening the shop here. My maternal grandma [...]
