Doug Lobban, 29 (at Jan 1 2008), grew up on a property near Gunnedah in northern NSW. He was educated at St. Mary’s college in Gunnedah and the Anglican Church Grammar School in Brisbane before completing his senior years at Farrer Agricultural Memorial High School in Tamworth. Doug was introduced to the understandings of the human condition by his friends FHA members Polly Watson and William Salter. Doug works as a resources manager for a manufacturing and installation business.