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Dog Ear Cafe: How the Mt Theo Program beat the curse of petrol sniffing
Andrew Stojanovski
$34.95
ISBN: 9781921665066

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Dog Ear Cafe is a true-life adventure story about how one Aboriginal community beat the odds and defeated petrol sniffing. It tells of the Mt Theo Petrol Sniffing Program: a story of culture clash, of two lines of fire that meet in the desert night, of partnerships that cross Australia's racial divide. Woven throughout are humour, taboos, bush mechanics, hope and tragedy. In a colloquial and narrative manner, this book invites the reader to a deeper analysis of the assumptions behind white and black economics, indigenous alcoholism, welfare dependency and the failure of well intended policy and programs. Hidden in the subtext is a mud map for reproducing successful partnerships with indigenous Australians. The Mt Theo Program was founded in 1994, when half the teenage population of Yuendumu were sniffing. Eight years later no one sniffed, and ex-sniffers had become youth leaders and community workers. The elders of Mt Theo used their traditional bush knowledge to turn lives around.

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Not Welcome: A Dunera Boy's escape from Nazi oppression to eventual freedom in Australia

Sue Everett

$34.95 AUD

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This is the true story of the life of a Dunera boy, a life lived through extraordinary circumstances, an eyewitness account of some of the most unjust actions inflicted on dispossessed and displaced German Jews during World War II: the traumatic experiences of Lutz Eichbaum [Ernie Everett], a refugee fleeing from Nazi Germany, and ending up interned in Australia as one of the famous Dunera boys...

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Inspired Recovery

Sonya Melbourne

$27.50 AUD

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Research shows that one in five Australians will experience a mental illness at some time in their lives. Inspired Recovery is a compilation of true, inspiring stories that the author has gathered from interviews with a diverse range of Australians who experience mental illness and have achieved recovery. It is written in a narrative style and discusses the experience of those with a broad range of mental illnesses including bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder.