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

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

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