Category: books
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The back of Vanessa Turnbull-Roberts unflinching account of being taken from her family, culture and kin and placed in the out-of-home care system reads the following summary: “At just ten years old, Vanessa Turnbull-Roberts was forcibly removed – stolen – from her family, community and kinship systems. After eight years in various out-of-home care placements,…
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From the depths of the mind of one of Australia’s most notorious refugee detainees, Freedom Only Freedom follows in the footsteps of Behrouz Boochani’s first book, No Friend but the Mountain, in accurately, painstakingly, and directly describing the conditions for people locked in detention after seeking asylum in Australia via boat. As a Kurdish-Iranian author…
