October 1996
From Fear to Freedom
Jim, an Aborigine, endured extreme privation in his early years. His father, he says, "wielded a mean strap"--Jim was in constant fear of him--and then at school, because of "a rebellious nature," similar punishments occurred. Later, he was apprenticed to
I spent my teenage years studying plumbing, going to night school three nights a week, riding eight kilometers from home on a pushbike over hilly country then home again. Out of my time, I worked for the adult wage. I was twenty and had my first dinkum encounter with alcohol, tobacco and a member of the opposite sex.
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