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Issue Details: First known date: 1999... 1999 Haunted by the Past
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'The story of Ginibi's son Nobby, who has been in and out of prisons since he was an adolescent - most famously, he was involved with an escape from Long Bay in 1974. With the bias of motherlove, Ruby Langford Ginibi tracks the system's failed attempts to brutalize her son and other young black men.' (Publication summary)

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  • Dedication: I dedicate this book to my son Nobby and to every mother's son or daughter who has fallen foul of the Westminster system of justice that came with the first squatters and settlers in 1788. Those laws are not our Koori laws - our laws were the first laws of this land. Since we Kooris are invaded people, we have always had to conform to other people's laws, rules and standards - we were never allowed to be ourselves as Aboriginal people.

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    • St Leonards, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Allen and Unwin , 1999 .
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      Extent: 182p.
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      ISBN: 9781864487589
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