Month: June 2017

Read the Canberra Times article here.  

From having little idea what he wanted to do as a boy, James Overall has found his passion for rehabilitating natural landscapes. “Life is pretty bloody great! Have a young son, a loving wife, incredible job all in one of the best cities in the world! More specifically, I am a Ranger in Charge with […]

Growing up, Georgia Wemyss thought she’d work in international relations, but her life has taken a slightly different turn. “I am a teacher of Japanese and French now but I have had an interesting 15 years in Australia-Japan relations prior to this, as well as dabbling in my own small business for a few years […]

Refugee Week comes as Mr Samara continues to be thankful to his adoptive parents in Canberra, Mary and the late Percy Samara-Wickrama, but also still hopeful of finding his birth parents in Vietnam, with 3000 posters being distributed about him near his orphanage in Soc Trang to see if anyone remembers him. Read more of the […]

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Growing up, Kirstie Hardy had no firm idea of what she wanted to do. “I don’t think I ever really had a clear vision of what I wanted to do or who I wanted to be. I travelled after school and went to Uni to do an Arts degree, not really knowing where that would […]

Katie Taylor dreamed of being an author when she was growing up. But when she did, she realised she “had to find a real job, since writing doesn’t pay the bills”. “It took me years to work out my other calling, which turned out to be archiving/librarianship. So I went back to University and majored […]

The marine researcher has just returned to Canberra following a year spent volunteering in Sulawesi. You can read an article about Siobhan’s volunteer work in the Canberra Times. Her proud Mum Miriam says prior to volunteering in Sulawesi, Siobhan worked in Taiwan on a university-funded research project. “Siobhan’s been invited back to that project so […]

Chris Osborne, collegian and parent, fronted 44 Kindergarten students a week ago to teach them about building a new airport in Sydney’s west. Chris currently leads the Western Sydney Airport Corporation transition team at the Department of Infrastructure. He has learnt more about turning a rural field into an operating airport than he ever wanted […]