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Article in The Guardian
Published in June 2018, you can read the full article here. There are as many pathways to homelessness as there are homeless people in the world. For some, it’s a sudden freefall triggered by a lost job, a broken home life or some other seismic personal upheaval. For others the road to sleeping rough winds Read more
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The Sydney Morning Herald – Gregory Smith: Survival instinct
Published on June 8, 2018 (also appeared in the SMH Spectrum Magazine June 9-10, 2018). Read the full article here. On a day of dark clouds, Gregory Peel Smith took his pack and walked out of Mullumbimby, climbed a mountain, hit a dirt road and wondered what was at the end of it. He was Read more
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Life Matters: How Gregory Smith lost and found himself
Interview on the ABC from June 5, 2018 – listen here. Read more
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Newcastle Herald – The life-story of the man who staggered out of the rainforest
The extraordinary life story of Gregory Smith, a homeless man who lived as a hermit in a NSW rainforest for 10 years, has been told with the help of a local scribe. Former Ulladulla Times columnist Craig Henderson was asked to co-write Smith’s memoir, Out Of The Forest, after the remarkable tale first came to Read more
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WA Joondalup Times – Dr Gregory Smith to talk about memoir Out of the Forest
Published May 23, 2018. GREGORY Smith had a childhood filled with violence, abuse and confusion. His father was a violent alcoholic and his mother was hardly the maternal type. As children, Smith and his four sisters were taken to an orphanage in Armidale, NSW where they remained for the next two years until reclaimed by Read more
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