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Reality TV star shares her new life in Ipswich

A television audience of millions of English viewers will get a glimpse of life in
Ipswich, Australia
when a BBC television program airs.

Ipswich Hospital midwife Hannah Gaj will star in an upcoming episode of Wanted Down Under, a long-running series which follows the lives of British families considering a move to Australia and New Zealand in search of a better life.

Ms Gaj joined West Moreton Health last year after she and her husband Zaneer and their two boys, Noah, 8, and Faris, 2, emigrated from Buckinghamshire in England to Queensland’s southeast.

The family’s life-changing decision to move and re-establish themselves in Australia has been captured by film crews and intermittently shared with a television audience over the past three years.

Earlier this month a film crew spent time with Ms Gaj and her family for the first time since they moved last year to find out if they were happy with their decision.

Ms Gaj, a midwife with more than five-years’ experience, said the gamble had paid off for her family.
“We are happier here,’’ Ms Gaj said.

“We were looking for a more outdoorsy lifestyle and more financial freedom.

“Our home in the UK was cold and rainy; I was working for a health care provider that was short-staffed and poorly funded and my husband and I were basically living separate lives because of how much we were both working.’’

Ms Gaj said her husband had been initially sceptical about her “crazy idea” to move but they were now confident they had found a permanent home in Australia, including a job that she loved at West Moreton.

“The whole maternity team are great, they are so friendly and welcoming and I love working alongside the other midwives and (Birth Suite Nurse Unit Manager) Alison,” Ms Gaj said.

Ipswich Hospital’s Birth Suite Nurse Unit Manager Alison Caddick can easily relate to Ms Gaj’s experience as she embarked on a very similar journey of her own almost 10 years ago moving from the UK to Ipswich.

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