Saba AlemayohBorn in Sudan to Ethiopian parents, Saba arrived in Australia with her mother when she was 9 years old. She left high-school at the end of year 12, joined the army, and became an officer--she hated it but stayed for 5 years and was in the first era o women in the Australian army to go into combat.

Her mother, Tekebash, was born under the rule of the last Ethiopian emperor, Haile Selassie. Tekebash became a refugee in Sudan at the time of the rebellion during the transition in the 1990s from communism to a democratic government. Read More Read Less