The Moreland Quilt was a community arts and storytelling project curated by Tamara Russell, a textile artist specialising in free machine embroidery and hand stitching. The panels in the quilt record local stories, culture and history though imagery, colour and fabric. I came here from Morocco when I was very young. We were very poor […]
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Migration story – recent arrival
Madiha arrived in Australia in 2013 from Pakistan with her husband and two children. Initially they settled in Glenroy with family and then moved to Fawkner. Madiha is a qualified doctor in Pakistan and worked in a hospital and clinic. Her qualifications are not recognised in Australia so she would need to undertake more study. […]
O’Neill’s Greengrocer’s Main Street, Greensborough
My parents Mavis (May) and William (Bill) O’Neill had a Greengrocer’s shop in Main Street next to Bob Willett’s Butcher’s shop from 1953 until 1969 approx. Bill and Bob had a reciprocal deal whereby they provided each other with weekly supplies and no money needed to change hands. Dad got up at 2 am three […]