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Author Stojanovski, Andrew.

Title Dog Ear Cafe / Andrew Stojanovski
Published Melbourne : Hybrid Publishers, 2010

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Location Call no. Vol. Availability
 W'BOOL  613.8 Sto/Dec  AVAILABLE
Description xiii, 316 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), 1 map, color portraits ; 24 cm
regular print
Contents 1. Sniffing business -- 2. Yuendumu's last stand -- 3. On fire again -- 4. Economics, adventures and gender -- 5. We'll fund you, but you'll starve -- 6. The big bad wolf (and other bureaucrats) -- 7. Sniffer bait -- 8. The end of sniffing -- 9. Tightrope -- 10. Destiny -- 11. Breathing fresh air -- 12. Recognition
Summary Dog Ear Cafe a true-life adventure story about how one Aboriginal community beat the odds and defeated petrol sniffing. This is a story of culture clash, of two lines of fire that meet in the desert night, of partnerships that cross Australia's racial divide
Notes "How the Mt Theo Program beat the curse of petrol sniffing"--Cover
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-316)
Notes Culturally sensitive
Includes glossary of Warlpiri language terms to English
Subject Mount Theo-Yuendumu Substance Misuse Program (MYSMAC)
Mt Theo Program
Warlpiri Youth Development Aboriginal Corporation
Aboriginal Australians -- Health and hygiene.
Detoxification (Substance abuse treatment) -- Australia -- Northern Territory.
Detoxification (Substance abuse treatment) -- Australia.
Drug abuse -- Australia.
Gasoline sniffing -- Australia
Inhalant abuse -- Australia.
Inhalant abuse.
Substance abuse -- Australia.
Substance abuse -- Prevention -- Australia -- Northern Territory
Warlpiri (Australian people) -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- Yuendumu -- Social conditions
Warlpiri language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
Warlpiri people (C15) (NT SF52-04)
Mount Theo (Central NT Tanami Desert SF52-08)
Yuendumu (South Central NT SF52-12)
SUBJECT Yuendumu (N.T.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80075739 -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008850
Author Rosner Blay, Anna
LC no. 2010497371
ISBN 9781921665066 (paperback)
Other Titles Dog Ear Cafe : how the Mt. Theo Program beat the curse of petrol sniffing