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PROFILE Robert Pekin

Where do you live?

We rent an old three-bedroom Queenslander for our family of six in West End, Brisbane Queensland.

What do you do?

I assist in the running of Food Connect, a business based in Brisbane which turns its back on the supermarket system, brings farmers together). The business model has branched out to most Australian cities.

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