Connections Hon. Ian Hunter MLC
“Connection for me is difficult, because I ran away from home when I was nine… those stages of my life are disconnected, and I have had to build a life again after those breaks. So it is tough. But as I got older and could choose who I had around me, then it became a lot easier.”
Hon. Ian Hunter MLC, South Australia’s first openly gay Member of Parliament, reflects on what connection means to him — and how we create family when the threads are broken. His story reminds us that connection is not always inherited; sometimes it is something we build ourselves, with the people we choose.