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Esther Charlesworth, founder of humanitarian organisation Architects Without Frontiers (AWF) and a professor at RMIT University’s school of architecture and urban design, is the youngest child in a family of seven.
She s got quite a story of her own. But over a 90-minute meal in which she travels from 1980s Melbourne to Harvard Uni, through the troubled Balkans and Africa, then back to a women s refuge in Melbourne s Preston, it becomes apparent that although she s making her own mark on the world, she s doing so in the shadow of her siblings.
Charlesworth, and her twin sister, are the youngest in a family of seven children who are all uber-achievers: Sara is a professor of industrial relations; Hilary is an international lawyer and ad hoc judge in the International Court of Justice; Stephen was in I m Talking, Kate Ceberano s first band and – according to his younger sister – wrote most of the songs; Lucy was a diplomat for 30 years; Bruno is an entertainment lawyer,