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The Canberra Times
The Canberra Times

Canberra the 'last place on earth' I wanted to live. Then... it grew on me

Scholar Valerie A. Brown, now 95, remembers her move from Queensland to Canberra with her young family in the 1950s.

With my son Matthew to look after at the beginning of my fourth decade, I was mostly at home, no longer able to be a free spirit, while my husband Rob had expanded his horizons as a qualified journalist.

Author Valerie A. Brown photographed on her 95th birthday in front of her family house. Picture supplied
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