My family recently moved here from Australia. 
That's so neat. Australia's capital of Canberra comes up so often in trivia competitions I compete in because people think that Sydney the largest urban area is the capital. What part of Australia are you from?
Right outside of Brisbane. Have you been there?
I have not. It is on the travel wish list for my spouse and me. Brisbane is in Queensland and pretty large population as well, right?
It certainly feels like it. There are tons of people!
Did you live near the metro center or somewhere else in the Brisbane River Valley?
Definitely more near the metro center. Some of my family works for the Banks of Queenland, in the city.
Neat, was there any place in Australia that your family would frequent for vacations?
We have some family in Perth. So we visit them a few times a year.
Swan River at Guildford, with the city's central business district and port (Fremantle) both later founded downriver.
Perth was founded by Captain James Stirling in 1829 as the administrative centre of the Swan River Colony. It gained city status (currently vested in the smaller City of Perth) in 1856 and was promoted to the status of a Lord Mayorality in 1929. The city inherited its name due to the influence of Sir George Murray, then Member of Parliament for Perthshire and Secretary of State for War and the Colonies
and if you asked me why I decided to become a writer, that's the answer right there, because I was a reader and I was just so enthralled and thrilled by the stuff that I'd read that I just thought; what could be better? How could you possibly better spend your time than trying to recreate that feeling for other people". In the same interview he said that his first writing was poetry.
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