In the media

  • Australian Story – 18 months on

    Australian Story – 18 months on

    Published on 12 December 2019 – the final episode of the year. This powerful story explores how Gregory is now using his voice to help others sleeping rough. Watch it here. Read more

  • ABC News feature – The homeless hermit who came out of the wild

    ABC News feature – The homeless hermit who came out of the wild

    Posted Mon 3 Sep 2018. He walked into the forest at dusk as the rain started to pelt down. He crouched on the ground and pulled his old Driza-Bone up over his head and watched the leeches swelling on his legs. He had nowhere else to go. At some point, the rain stopped. The clouds rolled… Read more

  • Australian Story – Out of the Woods

    Australian Story – Out of the Woods

    Introduced by David Shoebridge, NSW Greens From a homeless alcoholic living in the wild to academic success and a book deal, Out of the Woods tells the inspiring comeback story of forest-dweller Gregory Smith. When he left school at 14, dogged by the crushing assessment that he was “functioning at the lower level of the… Read more

  • Danish newspaper story

    Danish newspaper story

    I have no idea what the words say, I do like that my image is larger than Putin and Trump. Read more

  • Podcast – Man of the forest

    Podcast – Man of the forest

    For ten years a man calling himself Will Power lived in near-total isolation in northern New South Wales, foraging for food, eating bats and occasionally trading for produce. But who was this mysterious man who roamed the forest and knew all of its secrets and riddles? Published July 10, 2018 – listen to the episode… Read more

  • Article in The Guardian

    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