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Detention (Ralph Jackman, A&U)

Tuesday, 14 April 2026    Books+Publishing
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Detention is a powerful memoir about Australia’s youth detention system, told from the perspective of a rookie teacher and his fight for the rights of some of our country's most vulnerable and misunderstood kids. When former ABC journalist Ralph Jackman landed his first teaching job at Melbourne’s Parkville Youth Detention...

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