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Check out these interviews with local vegans.
Compassionate people making a difference!





Andrew, Amy and Evie

Adalita

Adalita is an energetic rock star and lead singer of Magic Dirt. She belts out her passion and persona on our stages to the delight of many. But Adalita is so much more than her amazing music – she’s a compassionate and strong woman who stands up for the rights of others. read interview...


Andrew, Amy and Evie

Amy and An­drew are a young mar­ried cou­ple with a gor­geous ba­by girl, Evie. Amy is com­plet­ing her PhD in En­vi­ron­men­tal Pol­i­cy and An­drew works for the Emer­gen­cy Ser­vices. In this pro­file they dis­cuss bring­ing up a ve­g­an ba­by and some of their favou­rite foods. read interview...

Anita Frank

Anita is an exceptional photographer and responsible for the main vegan profile photographs on this website (thanks Anita!) anitafrank.com. Anita also specialises in photographing people’s companion animals. read interview...

Chris DeRose

Chris DeRose, founder and director of Last Chance for Animals, was also the Ambassador for our November 2011 Vegan Easy Challenge. In the following interview, Chris describes his journey from being a Hollywood actor through to his work as an Animal Rights activist, author and passionate vegan. read interview...

Ivan Zovko

Ivan is a handsome young man who is very interested in health and fitness and helping other people to achieve good health. Ivan’s a Personal Trainer who knows how to maintain strong bones and big muscles and it’s not by eating animals or drinking their milk! read interview...

Jo Osborne

Jo is a vivacious young woman from London who came to live in Melbourne a few years ago after traveling through the United States and Mexico. Jo’s done various jobs from marketing in Switzerland, admin for the British Army in Germany, an animal shelter supervisor in Australia and currently Jo is doing education outreach with Animal Liberation Victoria. read interview...

Jonathan Tosio

Jonathan is doing a music degree at Melbourne University and can often be seen on public transport with his much loved cello and a broad smile for people. Jonathan has great joy in playing his cello and learning German. He comes from the NSW coast, north of Newcastle and is loving living in Melbourne, the vegan capital of Australia. read interview...

Lisa Tharps

You have probably seen her on television shows like Sex and the City, Cold Case, NYPD Blue, Criminal Minds and many more. Lisa Tharps is a busy actress in theatre, television, and film who has em­braced the importance of sustaining a vegan and environmentally aware lifestyle. read interview...


Marieke Hardy

Marieke is a screenwriter, blogger, radio broadcaster, columnist and a regular panelist on ABC's First Tuesday Book Club. Marieke was our March 2011 Vegan Easy Challenge Ambassador. By the way, we should also mention that she's Vegan! read interview...
Merryn Redenbach

Merryn Redenbach

When not pro­­tec­t­ing ba­­by harp seals in Ca­­na­­da and Whales in Antar­c­ti­­ca as the Sea Shep­­herd ship doc­­tor, Mer­ryn spe­cialis­es in chil­dren's health. She is cur­ren­t­­ly work­ing with chil­­dren fac­ing de­vel­op­­men­­tal problems like autism and other is­­sues like obe­si­­ty, be­havi­ou­ral and men­­tal health problems. read interview...

Natalie Bowkett

Natalie Bowkett

Na­talie is an en­gi­neer cur­rent­ly ma­n­ag­ing a team re­spon­si­ble for the struc­tu­ral de­sign of the Ath­lete's Vil­lage at the 2012 Lon­don Olympic Games. When not work­ing she en­joys sports, danc­ing and trav­elling, es­pe­cial­ly to Thai­land where she has re­cent­ly been ac­tive vol­un­teer­ing with or­phaned and dis­ad­van­taged chil­dren, and with res­cued ele­phants. read interview.


Nick Perry

Nick is an active and robust year 10 student from Melbourne. He just turned 16 and has two older brothers - all three of them are over 183cms tall, of strong build and vegans since birth. Nick is full of life, mirth and loves hanging out with his friends. read interview...

Phillip Wollen

Phillip Wollen is someone very special. He is a big man with a big heart and most importantly he’s BIG on vision. Phil is a 59 year old Merchant Banker, OAM, Queens Birthday Honors 2005, Australian of the Year Victoria 2007 and Founder of The Winsome Constance Kindness Trust (WCKT) kindnesstrust.com. read interview...

Pui-Shan

Pui-Shan is a vegan marathon woman who has travelled to Sydney and the Gold Coast to compete. She plans to do the London marathon as well as the Vegan Triathlon in Christchurch. Her last 50km race she completed in 5 hrs 52 mins. Pui-Shan finished 8th in the women’s category and 28th out of 544 overall. read interview...

Sharon Scott

Sharon is one of those special people who put themselves on the line to help others. She's a longstanding and highly trained firefighter, often risking her life so others don't loose theirs. Her altruism isn't only to her own species, but it extends to all living beings. Sharon has worked hard for many years helping animals in her spare time. read interview...

Yahvinah and Azai

Yahvinah is holding her 2½ year old son Azai, and three weeks after this photo was taken she gave birth to his little sister Tekia. Along with their dad, Darah, the whole family is vegan. read interview...