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1 6 y separately published work icon Back on the Block : Bill Simon's Story Bill Simon , Des Montgomerie , Joanne Tuscano , Canberra : Aboriginal Studies Press , 2009 Z1592621 2009 single work autobiography

'Stolen, beaten, deprived of his liberty and used as child labour, Bill Simon was locked up in the notorious Kinchela Boys Home for 8 years where he was told his mother didn't want him, and that he was 'the scum of the earth'. His experiences there would shape his life forever...

Bill Simon got angry, something which poisoned his life for the next 2 decades. A life of self-abuse and crime which finally saw him imprisoned.. From The Block in Sydney's Redfern, one of the most contentious and misunderstood places in Australia, Bill Simon tells the truth about life in one of Australia's most terrible juvenile institutions, where thousands of boys were warehoused and abused.' Source: Publisher's blurb
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