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'Thank You Matey' - Length 5:37 Kevin was homeless at age 14. He ran drugs. He robbed a bank. He was a heroin addict for 20 years. He’s lost many street friends to drugs. He stopped when his best mate overdosed. He is now clean, married and works to help the homeless. [...]

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'A Multi Faith Easter' - Length 5:25 Bill shows us how different religions and faiths can get on over the Christian holy time of Easter. On Easter Saturday the Buddhists serve lunch at the Exodus Loaves & Fishes free restaurant. That night, a Muslim group serves dinner from the Exodus free food [...]

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'My Father Gave It To Me' - Length 4:41 Natasha is mid twenties. Her father first gave her heroin when she was 12. She and her mentally impaired boyfriend are in Sydney from Tamworth. They hope the methadone program will help them get their two kids back. Meanwhile they just live [...]

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'I Was A Thief ' - Length 5:05 Laurence was a professional teenage thief. As he puts it, he’s people-phobic. His wife left him. He was run out of Canberra. He found an abandoned community garden below wealthy Potts Point. He has carved a tiny dwelling in amongst the bushes and [...]

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Stories From The Edge

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'They Need Us' - Length 3:16 Georgina provides lunch for homeless women in an inner city park. She had never met them before. Some had tumbled quickly and unexpectedly from respectable middle class suburbia. Women in their fifties are Australia’s new poor. Georgina is fighting to change things. ‘Sometimes [...]

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'Look ‘Em In The Eye' - Length 5:49 Ross Turnbull played Rugby for Australia. He organised many multi- million dollar deals. He was sacked as Chair of the NRMA. He went bankrupt. He moved from a well-to-do Sydney suburb to a hostel in Rozelle where he learnt more from the homeless [...]

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'In Tune' - Length 2:15 Jay is your upper class Woolloomooloo lady. She tends the community garden right next to where most of the homeless sleep. Both sides of the fence get on with their day without a problem in the world. ‘The single greatest lesson the garden teaches [...]

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'Welcome To Woolloomooloo' - Length 5:35 Ken is the heart and soul of the Hope Street Mission in Woolloomooloo. Besides being a Baptist Church pastor he runs the Back Shed café where all sorts pop in. He gives us some raw insights into Australia’s most densely populated outpost for the lost [...]

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'Why Do We Fight?' - Length 5:45 Joe was on the streets at 14. He spent ten years in jail for armed robbery. He’s bi-polar. His art helped him survive seriously tough times. He has powerful opinions on the link between mental illness, breaking the law and homelessness. Sadly Joe passed [...]