Sue Course

Sue Course was born in Vienna in 1933 and came to Melbourne as a four-year-old refugee with her parents. Growing up in suburban Melbourne, Sue became a nurse and activist. In 1973 while raising a family of four, she helped save 33 hectares on the banks of the Darebin Creek, now called the Darebin Parklands, one of the nation’s earliest and most remarkable urban land conservation victories. As one of the last remaining members of the migrant Jewish families born in pre-war Vienna, she tells her family’s story.