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  • Footscray a firm favourite for Sally Quinn

    Footscray a firm favourite for Sally Quinn

    Creating meaningful jobs and helping save the environment are all in a day’s work for Green Collect co-founder and proud Footscray local Sally Quinn.  …

  • My Place: Rosa McKenna

    My Place: Rosa McKenna

    Rosa McKenna loves Spotswood, or ‘Spotty’ as it is affectionately called by locals. She speaks with Goya Dmytryshchak.   What’s your connection to Hobsons Bay?…

  • My Place: Gabi Duke

    My Place: Gabi Duke

    Altona Meadows’ Gabi Duke, Hobsons Bay’s Young Citizen of the Year in 2014, speaks with Goya Dmytryshchak.   What’s your connection to Hobsons Bay?  …

  • My Place: Zoya Martin

    My Place: Zoya Martin

    Altona’s Zoya Martin has photographed the hands of Hobsons Bay workers for an exhibition featured in this month’s Art & Industry Festival. She speaks with Goya…

  • Adam Chalabi on why he has settled in Seaholme

    Adam Chalabi on why he has settled in Seaholme

    Adam Chalabi, who started playing violin at age four, is the first violinist with Tinalley String Quartet and performs for audiences across the world. He…

  • Yarraville’s Will Larsen on his Melbourne Fringe Festival show

    Yarraville’s Will Larsen on his Melbourne Fringe Festival show

    Award-winning Yarraville percussionist, drummer and composer Will Larsen tells Benjamin Millar his Melbourne Fringe Festival show has something special in store for music and film…

  • Author Maxine Beneba Clarke on publishing her memoir

    Author Maxine Beneba Clarke on publishing her memoir

    Yarraville author Maxine Beneba Clarke has just published her memoir, and has a children’s book due out soon, but she tells Benjamin Millar she still…

  • Lachlan McCracken on his passion for social justice

    Lachlan McCracken on his passion for social justice

    Seaholme’s Lachlan McCracken, 18, has been chosen as one of this year’s World Vision youth ambassadors. He tells Goya Dmytryshchak about his passion for social…

  • Geoff Mitchelmore on his passion for the environment

    Geoff Mitchelmore on his passion for the environment

    Altona North’s Geoff Mitchelmore is a former industrial chemist who has devoted his life to greening Kororoit Creek. He speaks with Goya Dmytryshchak.   What’s…

  • Yarraville artist Erika Gofton on her passion for the arts

    Yarraville artist Erika Gofton on her passion for the arts

    Yarraville artist Erika Gofton, part of the passionate team behind The Art Room, tells Benjamin Millar the new Footscray space offers a world of exciting…

  • Richard Mataska talks about his deep connection with Brooklyn

    Richard Mataska talks about his deep connection with Brooklyn

    Brooklyn’s Richard Mataska spent eight years playing piano at Melbourne’s most prestigious bars before returning to uni to complete an education degree and becoming a…

  • Therese McKenney calls Hobsons Bay home

    Therese McKenney calls Hobsons Bay home

    Former Sydneysider Therese McKenney has found her place after moving to Hobsons Bay. She tells Goya Dmytryshchak how she made the big move as a…

  • My Place: Sandra Willis

    My Place: Sandra Willis

    Williamstown’s Sandra Willis conceived the idea for Australian Opera’s multi award-winning production, The Rabbits, a story of white settlement in Australia and the effect on…

  • My Place: Trevor Monti

    My Place: Trevor Monti

    Barrister, Ned Kelly buff and Williamstown Football Club’s longest-serving president Trevor Monti talks to Goya Dmytryshchak   What’s your connection to Hobsons Bay? I have…

  • My Place: Heather Horrocks, Footscray

    My Place: Heather Horrocks, Footscray

    Heather Horrocks, Footscray writer, artist and community leader, has dedicated herself to revealing the true heart of the Footscray community for more than two decades. She…

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