West Footscray

I was born in New Zealand and have danced since the age of 3. There was never a Plan B. I was always going to run a dance studio. Business ownership, however, was not my motivation. Rather, I was [...]

“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 [...]

“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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Resident of Geelong, dad, husband Founding member of ReasonVictoria Chris, meet Politics. Politics, this is Chris. I wasn’t really politically active in university. My wife Claire, our newborn [...]

Resident of Yarraville, novelist, academic, feminist The struggle with identity I am the daughter of Sicilian migrants. My father and grandparents settled in Werribee when they arrived in [...]

Resident of West Footscray, Former tennis pro, tennis coach, prolific painter, dad, husband. Ronaldo and tennis I have a reluctant and accidental migrant story. I was born in the Philippines and [...]

Resident of West Footscray, Retired from parliament but not from life. Younger life I grew up in the coal mining town of Morwell. Mum worked in a factory and Dad worked in what was previously [...]

Resident of West Footscray Early life in the East I was born in the Eastern suburbs and grew up in Wantirna South. My Dad Geoff was a mechanic and along with my mum ran his own mechanical repair [...]