| Description |
xiv, 289 pages : portraits ; 24 cm |
| Summary |
Debbie Kilroy as locked up and abused at 13, a mother at 17, married to a celebrity footballer at 25, jailed for drug trafficking and witness to a violent murder at 28. Just 12 years later she was awarded the Order of Australia for her fearless campaigning for the rights of women prisoners through her groundbreaking advocacy group, Sisters Inside. What sent a decent, working class kid out of control and into the care of the state so young? What enabled her to step off the merry-go-round of violence, drug dealing and prison to remake her life? |
| Analysis |
Debbie Kilroy |
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Women |
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Prisoners |
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Biography |
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Order of Australia |
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Pressure groups |
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Social justice |
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Sisters Inside |
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Kilroy, Debbie |
| Notes |
Qld Premier's Literary Awards 2005 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Kilroy, Debbie
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Reformatories for women -- Australia.
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Prisoners -- Australia -- Biography.
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Women prisoners -- Australia -- Biography.
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Women prisoners -- Services for -- Australia.
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Social justice.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Author |
Olsson, Kristina, 1956-
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Sisters Inside
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| LC no. |
2005440681 |
| ISBN |
1863254471 |
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