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There Is a Light at the End of the Tunnel single work   autobiography  
Issue Details: First known date: 2004... 2004 There Is a Light at the End of the Tunnel
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Salima Haidary writes of leaving Afghanistan with siblings and her mother, following the disappearance of her father. After a period of detention in Port Hedland, and resettlement in Canberra, they are reunited with her father, after five years of not knowing his whereabouts or whether he was still alive.

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    y separately published work icon The Sound of Hope Rose Costelloe (editor), O'Connor : Companion House Assisting Survivors of Torture and Trauma , 2004 Z1155478 2004 anthology poetry prose short story autobiography 'The Companion Writing project came about to give life and voice to people's feelings and experiences. Don't blame refugees. Listen to them, understand them and help them. We are all part of this world, separated in many spaces and pieces. Companion House was the first contact in Australia for some of us. Everyone who is in this book has had very difficult times, and the writing has enabled us to express what we cannot say, that which has been deep inside us for a long time.' -- From the Introduction by the authors, p. 1. O'Connor : Companion House Assisting Survivors of Torture and Trauma , 2004 pg. 22-25
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Subjects:
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    Afghanistan,
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    South Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
Settings:
  • Port Hedland, Pilbara area, North Western Australia, Western Australia,
  • Canberra, Australian Capital Territory,
  • c
    Afghanistan,
    c
    South Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
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