Magnificent Mananga
Mar 23, 2022
4 minutes
BY KIRSTY MCKENZIE,
PHOTOGRAPHY KEN BRASS
The tipping point came when, for the umpteenth time, nurse Julie Quinn’s car failed to start on a frosty London morning when she was due for an early shift at the hospital.
“I just thought, I can’t take this anymore,” she recalls. “I have to move to somewhere warm.” Which, to cut a long story short, is how Julie and her newly minted husband, Matthew, ended up migrating to Australia in 1987. “Matthew was an accountant with Price Waterhouse, so he was able to transfer,” Julie says. “We came to Perth, which was a bit of a culture shock, because in those
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