âThe foundation of lifeâ: why Annelie Holden made a bushland bequest
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The first time Annelie Holden saw this patch of bushland, an hour north of Melbourne, it was thick with vegetation, far from people and had no water or shelter.
âIt was perfectâ, the 86-year-old says with a laugh.
Ms Holden and her brother, Anthony Jannink, arrived in Melbourne from the UK in 1965 and moved into a South Yarra flat with no garden.
Annelie Holden
So they pored through advertisements in
The Age to find a piece of land and fell in love with a remote bush block near Broadford, in central Victoria.