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Porter, an Indigenous Australian, was born on 29 March 1982 in Tamworth, New South Wales. She is 183 centimetres (6 ft 0 in) tall. She attended Peel Technology High School, while playing club field hockey. She later attended the University of Hawaii at Manoa and was a freshman in 2001, and a junior in 2003. Growing up, she wanted to be a travel agent.
Porter has moved around. From 2001 to 2003, she was in Hawaii, U.S., where she attended the University of Hawaii at Manoa. In 2006, she was living in Stanhope Gardens, New South Wales and in 2008, she was living in Glenwood, New South Wales. She moved to the Sydney area from Tamworth to gain access to better training facilities.
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