I was very much a rock star in the legal profession in Malaysia. I rose very quickly, and by my fifth year out of uni, I was in a managerial position. But when I came to Australia in my 20s, I had to eat humble pie. I was hired by a partner at a law firm who had...
I was born in a small town in Venezuela called Barquisimeto. When I was 9, my parents divorced, and after that my mother pretty much raised us by herself. It was a very tough time for me, as I was really close to my dad, and my brothers closer to my mum. I was always...
I was backpacking through Vietnam when I met this redheaded Aussie guy with weird looking facial hair and a mullet. We started to chat and spent the next 36 hours inseparable. But we were only mates, and when we said goodbye, we just gave each other a hug. After that,...
My father stepped on a landmine and was brought home to us in pieces in a casket. After that, my mother was left alone, in a hostile environment, with four kids under the age of fifteen. She was Catholic Croatian and my father was Orthodox Serbian. It was very unusual...
My father was executed by the government after the Islamic Iranian revolution in 1989. I was only about 5 at that time, so it’s all a bit blurry. But I remember waking up one early morning and Mum saying, ‘We're leaving’. We didn’t even get a chance to say...
When my mum was 8 years old, she found out that her mother was going to sell her to pay off a debt. She ran away to a convent, and after that, she was looked after by the Catholic church. Throughout her childhood, she was moved from convent to convent because of the...
