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… sharing her dad Stephen ‘Beau’ Waller’s story in loving memory …. a brother to Marj and Gladys “My Dad was your quintessential Aussie Bloke, full of Aussie idioms like “fair dinkum”, “pass the dead horse”, “want to go watch the fish jump”, “I’m going to see a man about a dog” and many moreContinue reading “Angela”

…is sharing her and her sister’s story in loving memory of Gladys, who recently passed away. “People don’t always realise I was born here; mostly people who’ve come from Adelaide say, ‘where are you from,’ and I say, ‘I’ve always lived here.’ Our dad was born over here and he was from a big family.Continue reading “Marj”

“I am fourteen years old and I grew up on the island. My family and me live on a farm just outside of Parndana but at the moment I travel back and forth between here and Adelaide where I attend school. I started collecting bread tags about two years ago after someone told me aboutContinue reading “Regan”

“I didn’t grow up here, I grew up in a place called Woodend which is at the bottom of Mount Macedon. Music is one of my absolute passions, I’m an avid songwriter. I love blues and grew up in a household full of African music and Harry Belafonte. My mother was black American, my fatherContinue reading “Christine”

“I love those moments where you say, ‘Wow, I am really happy right now,’ and for me, that is pretty much anytime I am somewhere in nature and somewhere where you’re away from the city and people when you can kind of just be and exist. I love forests and I love the sea; IContinue reading “Jemma”

“My parents separated when I was five, so I moved around a lot as a kid living between them. My earliest memories are of time spent in remote Aboriginal communities in the NT and central Australia. It’s where we lived for the first few years of my life. My parents were both working so IContinue reading “Louis”

“As long as I’ve got some land around, I am happy. If I lived in a town, I don’t know but I suppose you’d adjust to anything if you’d had a decent garden or something, maybe I’d get by.  But I just love having the space and the land, so I suppose I possibly couldContinue reading “Barb”

“It’s been 3 years that I am in Australia now, and since I am here, I feel like I am me. I can do whatever I want and when I want and go with who I want and be myself. Since I am in Australia, I am just happy. I know it might have anContinue reading “Romane”

“I have a lot to thank Mum and Dad for, especially Mum with her love of books, languages, music and encouragement. I was born in Whyalla, where I loved to play “schools” in our cubby house with a little German girl. We taught each other how to pronounce tricky words in our own languages, andContinue reading “Ann”

“We come from a poor background in the Philippines, so ever since we moved here, we’ve just got these opportunities that we would never get in the Philippines and it would probably be like a dream to some of the people in the Philippines. Over there, sometimes we didn’t have enough money to buy certainContinue reading “Shakira”