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1 In the Apple Orchard with Win and Petal Melissa Sweet , 2010 single work autobiography
— Appears in: Griffith Review , Autumn no. 27 2010; (p. 152-158)
1 y separately published work icon Inside Madness Melissa Sweet , Sydney : Macmillan , 2006 20666422 2006 single work biography crime

'How one woman's passionate drive to reform the mental health system ended in tragedy.

'On 14 October, 2002, Margaret Tobin, the director of South Australia's mental health services, was shot four times in an execution-style shooting in her Adelaide office building. Thought at first to be an act of random violence, police soon heard rumours that the murder was linked to Margaret's efforts to reform SA's moribund mental health system. Less than a month later, however, a deregistered psychiatrist who had worked under Tobin in Sydney in the early 1990s was charged with her murder.'

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1 A Painful Choice, But the Right One for Jolley Melissa Sweet , 1995 single work biography
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 26 May 1995; (p. 7)
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