LUKE Brady was born and grew up in Mornington on the Mornington Peninsula.

He is a relative newbie to Beechworth, having moved to the town 18 months ago with his partner and their adopted greyhound.

What's your job?

Infrastructure and projects manager at Brown Brothers Winery in Milawa.

What brought you to this role?

I saw it advertised and thought it would be a good opportunity to work in the wine industry.

I thought if I liked working with wine half as much as I like drinking it, then it would be a great job to have.

What do you love about your job?

Working for a family company that has managed to stay grounded in its values and history.

The engineer in me also likes the broad variety of technologies at the winery, from some of the oldest in the country through to a new, highly automated packaging facility.

The staff wine discount is pretty nifty too.

What do you do in the community?

Sample perhaps too much local food, wine, beer, and spirits.

I also volunteer at Kangaloola Wildlife Shelter, tending to rescued wildlife and cleaning and maintaining the facilities and grounds.

They're always in need of volunteers so look them up if you can spare some time.

What's the most important current community issue for you?

Indigenous recognition and reconciliation.

I'm saddened and ashamed of the death, dispossession, and discrimination that has been inflicted on our First Nations people by my colonial heritage.

This is especially relevant in our community, where our Aboriginal population and culture were so decimated that it is no longer clear or agreed whose land we're on in the Beechworth region.

What would you do to solve, change or improve that situation?

Listen, learn, and facilitate discussion and development of solutions led by our local Aboriginal groups with the support of our broader community.

Our First Nations peoples have provided a blueprint and inspired action through The Uluru Statement from the Heart, and truth–telling and treaty are just as important at the local level as they are at State and Federal levels.

What's the most important current world issue for you?

Climate Change, it's impacts on the survival of our environment and liveability of our planet, and what we need to do to limit or reverse global heating and avoid its worsening impacts.

If the person you would most like to meet came to Indigo, or was already here, who would that be and what would you show them?

Having just touched on two very serious issues, I probably need to lighten things up a little so I'd say Jerry Seinfeld, since Seinfeld is my all time favourite TV show that I never get tired of watching re–runs of.

I'd like to do the whole Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee thing with him, borrowing a car of his choice from the Old Cranks Club and going for a coffee and a toastie at Tiny in Beechworth.

Why would you show him that?

To treat him to great coffee, which he wouldn't be able to get in the US.

What book are you reading?

I've just finished reading Lies, Damned Lies by Claire G Coleman, which provides a personal and confronting account of the impacts of colonisation on First Nations people and the myths and omissions in our learned history of post–colonisation Australia.