Birth Location: Geraldton, Western Australia
Current Location: Northam, Western Australia
About Our Guest
I am a ‘71 baby, born in Geraldton WA. I grew up on a farm east of town, the oldest of four girls. Mum and Dad also had a sheep station about 250km further east. We grew cereal crops, including wheat, barley and lupins. We also had sheep for wool and meat.
I went to boarding school in Perth as a teenager and then to ECU for Nursing. I graduated in 1992, married in 1994, and by the end of the year 2000, I had five boys. My husband, also from a farming family, worked in the bank, so we moved house a number of times before finally settling back on a farm next door to the main family farm.
I worked as a Palliative Care Clinical Nurse, travelling the whole 55000 square kilometres of the Wheatbelt of WA. In May 2020, I developed Transverse Myelitis, and spent three months in rehab in the spinal unit at FSH. Now, three years later, I have retired from Nursing and live life on the farm in a wheelchair. My husband and my boys are amazing!
My Birth Year
In each episode of My Birth Year, we are going to choose a year between 1945 and 1999 and highlight some the big news events from that year as well as remembering some of the biggest selling songs, most popular movies and, for episodes from 1956 onwards, the most popular TV shows.
In the second part of each episode, we’ll introduce a guest - someone who was born in our feature year. We’ll talk about their memories of their childhood, their youth and their adult years.
These are real stories about real people. We can't wait to share them with you!
Neil Butler has been a radio broadcaster since 2008 and a podcast host since 2015. In that time, he has developed a passion for podcast conversations - or Podversations as he likes to call them.
Join Neil as he takes us back through the years, chatting to an amazing collection of guests on My Birth Year.