Each week, Sunday Life asks a prominent Australian what they know about the opposite sex. Ahead, Gary Bigeni discusses her biggest lessons from women who have influenced him.
My maternal grandmother, Catarina, lived on a farm in Malta and passed away when I was 11. It’s where my mother, Jane, grew up and helped her family raise lambs, sheep and chickens. At 18, she migrated to Australia. It was a big deal to do that in the 1960s. Sadly, she never saw her mother again.
My parents divorced when I was 10 and Mum raised four kids as a single mother. Mum was definitely the rock, the one who made sure we had food on the table and a roof over our head. My dad [Simon] was a horse trainer back in the ’80s and ’90s – we had seven in our backyard in Blacktown, Sydney. I had a pony, but wasn’t interested in riding him. I loved braiding his hair.
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