During that time South Melbourne was undergoing social change, where many of her neighbours and other tenants were being evicted from their homes as landlords were increasingly selling off properties to developers.
This was a key event in her life that proved to be a catalyst for Dimity’s passion in the design and development for low and no income housing.
She married towards the end of her second year of the degree and was pregnant with her first child by the start of the fifth, causing her to put her architectural career on hold.
She returned to study 10 years later, after giving birth to her three children, completing a Masters of Architecture at RMIT University.
In 1982, shortly after setting up her own practice, Dimity received a call from a government minister, asking her if she would like to work as a housing commissioner as the authority had gone into disrepute surrounding Land Deals.
As the movement continued to grow, a select number of women decided to run for the board of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects, with four making in on and Dimity becoming the first female president of the RAIA (Victorian Chapter).
In the result their work makes a valuable contemporary contribution to the array of material dedicated to the Ring Cycle".