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The Leader – Gregory’s journey from the orphanage to the jungle and to university
Published on May 18, 2018 – read the full article here. It has been a long journey for author Gregory P. Smith. It includes being raised in an orphanage to living homeless on the streets and battling drug addiction, going off the grid in the jungle for ten years and finally attending to university, first as Read more
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The Park Bench Moment
“Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter”. Izaak Walton Everyone has a story to tell, please feel free to share yours by leaving a comment. Travelling with Dr Gregory Smith (or Dr G as we started to cheekily call him), for an eight-venue roadshow event for thousands of jobseekers in Northern NSW Read more
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Northern Star Lismore – The amazing life of Doctor Gregory Smith
Published 26 September 2016. One of the country’s “Forgotten Australians” has graduated as a Doctor of Philosophy in Lismore, after surviving institutional child abuse in the sixties. Dr Gregory Smith, who has testified for the ongoing Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, spent 10 years as a hermit in the bush Read more
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Conversations With Richard Fidler
Dr Gregory’s story lay dormant for many years until a chance offer to appear on ABC Radio’s Conversations with Richard Fidler, in July of 2016. This Conversation is also available on CD. Read more
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The Daily Telegraph – Academic highlights Forgotten Australians
Published on August 6, 2015 – read the full article here. Gregory Smith was a homeless man sitting on a park bench beside a building site in Tweed Heads when he had an epiphany. He suddenly saw that his future could be a different landscape from his past. Last week the Southern Cross University academic, Read more
Dr Gregory P. Smith OAM 