When Ana Mulipola and her husband, Walter, moved to Caroline Springs in Melbourne’s outer west 22 years ago, “it was literally just us”, she says. “We had no neighbours. It was a blank canvas.”
They hadn’t thought much about their future children’s education when they built their home in the greenfields development, but as the suburb has grown around them, so has their family. When the time came, they chose to send their three boys to a Catholic primary school.