Back on the block [[electronic resource] ] : Bill Simon's story / / William Simon, Des Montgomerie and Jo Tuscano

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910534419903321
• Autore: Simon Bill <1947->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Canberra, : Aboriginal Studies Press, 2009
• ISBN: 0-85575-718-3
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (185 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): MontgomerieDes; TuscanoJo
• Disciplina: 305.89915092
• Soggetti: Aboriginal Australians; Aboriginal Australians - Australia - Redfern (N.S.W.); Stolen generations (Australia); Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Editors' note -- Sources -- Foreword -- From the storyteller -- BEGINNINGS -- Mission statement -- STOLEN -- Taken away -- The new boys -- Punishment -- Divide and conquer -- Brothers, boils and breakout -- LOST -- Bikies, bashings and boys behind bars -- Reunion -- Goin' down -- Father figure -- Crowded house -- Rock bottom -- FINDING A WAY -- Bad trips and new destinations -- Bill who? -- Jack of all trades -- Rock around The Block -- Stories from the streets -- Bringing up the past -- Stories from the cells -- Back on The Block -- Into the future -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: Stolen, beaten, deprived of his liberty and used as child labour, Bill Simon's was not a normal childhood. He was told his mother didn't want him, that he was 'the scum of the earth' and was locked up in the notorious Kinchela Boys Home for eight years. His experiences there would shape his life forever. Bill Simon got angry, something which poisoned his life for the next two decades. A life of self abuse and crime finally saw him imprisoned. But Bill Simon has turned his life around and in Back on The Block, he hopes to help others to do the same.