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Julia grew up on a street where ‘everyone knew your name’. But when she told people her address, alarm bells rang
Do you remember going camping with your family when you were a child, making mischief around the caravan park with the new friends you'd made each night?
“Well my street was just like that,” laughs Julia Hunt.
- Bridget Judd
- ABC
“It was quite an idyllic childhood, not much different from any other.”
A stone’s throw from the centre of Bendigo, she and her twin sister Amelia would play with the neighbourhood kids after school until the streetlights came on and her mother gently ushered them in for dinner.
Everyone knew “who you were and what you did”, she says.
“It was almost like having a whole bunch of cousins.”
Julia’s street proved the old adage it takes a village to raise a child.
So when she…