Meet the roving reporters

Needless to say, the representation of body image in the media has been a massive issue for us youngens for a long time now. I've been given this role at a time when things are being done to kerb the attitudes of the media surrounding this sensitive topic. It's an exciting time to be involved.

Having spent most of my life growing up in the country, I couldn't escape the inevitability that sport was going to partially take over my life. The standard cricket in the summer, footy in the winter approach took hold early into high school and stuck ever since.

I want to make it clear that I'm not much good at it, just in case you'd met my grandpa without witnessing me take the field, and he had given you the idea that I was a love product of a wild night between James Hird, Don Bradman and Roger Federer. But really, I just love sport in general. For the record, I'm a huge Melbourne fan in the AFL - the other unfortunate thing I inherited from my dad, besides those big, bushy eyebrows.

Castlemaine, in central Victoria, is the best place to grow up in the world, bar none. I live at home with my mum. This year I'll have my head in the books doing year 12 and trying to set up a platform for me to launch off in this journalism gig.

Besides sport, I'm a passionate music lover. Listening, playing, anything to do with it I find completely irresistible. Led Zeppelin are the greatest rock band of all time and I'm still waiting on that reunion tour.

During my younger years, I had a persistent struggle with childhood obesity. It made it really difficult to fit into the primary school social scene, and even at that age, made me feel like a total outsider. I've since worked my way into a healthy lifestyle but it's definitely something that still plays on my mind, from time to time. We are told constantly that as long as we feel happy and healthy in our skin, then that's okay. But it's a difficult concept to grasp when day after day we get bombarded with material showing us all what we should and shouldn't look like.

So I look forward to covering and being part of this wind of change that's sweeping the media industry regarding the presentation of body image. Stay tuned.