Both Imran and I are qualified accountants but for some time we could not get accountancy work, despite applying for many jobs. It didn’t matter that we had good qualifications and several years of experience from Kenya. Everyone said we needed Australian experience....
I had a baby daughter in my 30s, but it didn’t work out with the dad so I suddenly found myself a single parent. Luckily, I had a lot of support. At that time, I was living at home with my younger sister, my mum and my aunt, so my daughter ended up having two...
I’d had a thing for Australia ever since I was a young boy. I used to watch Crocodile Dundee and Les Hiddins’ Bush Tucker Man, and I loved the harsh, ruggedness of the Outback. In my early twenties, I moved from Kenya to study Zoology and Conservation in the UK, and...