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Based on Fallon's script for the film Call Me Mum.
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Dedication: Dedicated to the memory of Ephraim Bani (1944-2004) and to the Torres Strait Islanders who have spent their lives working for the preservation of Torres Strait island languages and culture.
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Call Me Mum
( dir. Margot Nash
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Australia
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Big and Little Films
SBS Television
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2006
6880506
2006
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'Kate is on a plane taking Warren, her 18 year old Torres Strait Islander foster son, to meet Flo, his birth mother, who is gravely ill in hospital in Brisbane. Flo hasn't seen Warren since she took him to the hospital on Thursday Island when he was a toddler and the white authorities took him away. But as Warren, Flo and Kate all prepare themselves for the reunion, unbeknown to them, Kate's Brisbane based parents, Keith and Dellmay, are planning a different kind of reunion.' (Source: IMDb website)
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From Hagiography to Personal Pain : Stories of Australian Foster Care from the Nineteenth Century to the Twenty-First
2017
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Adoption and Culture , vol. 5 no. 2017; (p. 89-109)'Stories—fictional, biographical, and autobiographical—are one way in which we can imagine what it has been like to experience foster care in Australia. In this paper I look at the trends in stories told about foster care from the nineteenth century, across the twentieth, and into the early twenty-first century. While exploring these trends, I make some observations about the shift from fictional accounts where foster parents and foster children were heroic characters to often searing tales of hurt and trauma inflicted on children in foster care by violent women and men.'
Source: Abstract.
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Digging Deep
2007
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Blasting the Rules with Dynamite Prose
2007
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— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 20 October 2007; (p. 13)
— Review of Paydirt 2007 single work novel -
Untitled
2007
single work
review
— Appears in: The Adelaide Review , 17 - 30 August no. 323 2007; (p. 30)
— Review of Paydirt 2007 single work novel -
In Short : Fiction
2007
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— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 21-22 July 2007; (p. 34)
— Review of Paydirt 2007 single work novel
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Untitled
2007
single work
review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , June vol. 86 no. 9 2007; (p. 59)
— Review of Paydirt 2007 single work novel -
Pick of the Week
2007
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 14 July 2007; (p. 26)
— Review of Paydirt 2007 single work novel -
In Short : Fiction
2007
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 21-22 July 2007; (p. 34)
— Review of Paydirt 2007 single work novel -
Untitled
2007
single work
review
— Appears in: The Adelaide Review , 17 - 30 August no. 323 2007; (p. 30)
— Review of Paydirt 2007 single work novel -
Blasting the Rules with Dynamite Prose
2007
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 20 October 2007; (p. 13)
— Review of Paydirt 2007 single work novel -
From Hagiography to Personal Pain : Stories of Australian Foster Care from the Nineteenth Century to the Twenty-First
2017
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Adoption and Culture , vol. 5 no. 2017; (p. 89-109)'Stories—fictional, biographical, and autobiographical—are one way in which we can imagine what it has been like to experience foster care in Australia. In this paper I look at the trends in stories told about foster care from the nineteenth century, across the twentieth, and into the early twenty-first century. While exploring these trends, I make some observations about the shift from fictional accounts where foster parents and foster children were heroic characters to often searing tales of hurt and trauma inflicted on children in foster care by violent women and men.'
Source: Abstract.
