[2][3][4] Julian attended Deakin University, where she earned a Bachelor of Early Childhood Education in 2008; as of 2021[update], she is working as a kindergarten teacher.

Her first club was the Croydon and District Table Tennis Association, where she still plays in able-bodied pennant competition.

In her first athletes with disabilities competition, as a 16-year-old, she debuted in the national team and finished third in her class at the 2005 Asian Oceania Championships in Malaysia.

[1] In 2017 she became Oceania Class 6-8 Regional Champion and the first para table tennis player to qualify for 3 World Championships.

Julian competed in the 2008 Summer Paralympics, where she lost in the opening round to the number one ranked player in five sets.