“My Dad and Pop built our home out of old tin and wood they collected from the local tip. We didn’t have running water, or flushing toilets and we used an open fire place for a kitchen. We didn’t have much and life was simple. I often think back to those days with a sense of pride and happiness”.

My family moved around “a lot”, my father Phillip would go where the work was. Usually picking grapes or working manual labour jobs. “Dad did whatever he had to do to ensure we had food on the table”. Eventually settling in Albury on the NSW and Victorian border in 2003 where they have built their lives and raised our family. ‘I live in Sydney but home for me is where Mum and Dad are - I get home as often as I can”