In 1971, I was 17 and attending Oak Park High School in Plumpton Ave, Oak Park. I was in Year 12 and hoping to do well enough to get into university to become an English teacher. I liked to wear jeans but could only afford Wrangler, not Levi or Lee. I listened to music by […]
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Migration story – Laiba
Laiba was born in Peshawar, a city in the North West of Pakistan. She smiles when describing her early life, as the ‘princess’ of her parents, belonging to an economically sound family who employed enough servants that she never even had to do any house chores! She invested her time studying a master’s degree in economics at […]
Migration story – Aziza Hussein
A new life – Glenroy. Aziza Hussein has been a regular visitor to Glenroy library since migrating to Australia in late 2014. The library was one of the first places she visited when she moved to Glenroy, “it’s the thing I need most” she says. Aziza presents a weekly radio show on 3CR Community Radio, […]
Glenroy
History of Moreland Fact Sheet 5 – Glenroy Late in the 1830s the senior surveyor of Port Phillip, Robert Hoddle, was given the job of charting the land around Melbourne on maps. His task was to divide the area into ‘parishes’ (this was the English name given to Local Government districts but in Australia was […]