Report on Establishing the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Healing Foundation - Voices from the Campfires 

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[Healing is] Trying to put a broken emu egg together, one piece at a time (Canberra workshop)


For this is the movement David Cole, ‘Healing is a movement


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