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Joanne Tuscano Joanne Tuscano i(A73604 works by) (a.k.a. Jo Tuscano)
Gender: Female
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1 That Appears to Be the Case Joanne Tuscano , 2019 single work essay
— Appears in: Westerly , vol. 64 no. 2 2019; (p. 149-155) 'At 9.50am in the morning, the heat was enough to make the lawyers take off their suit jackets to walk the short distance from the car park to the Alice Springs Convention Centre. It was the 13th of March, 2017. Merit McDonald and a small group of protestors from Shut Youth Prisons held up their placards as the cameras rolled. Dylan Voller was one of them. People started arriving and entered the building, thankful for the air conditioning. Indigenous elders, parents and grandparents, children, relatives, interested members of the public, senior and junior counsel, representatives of Indigenous organisations and those giving evidence had come together for the Royal Commission into the Detention and Protection of Children in the Northern Territory.' (Introduction)
1 Writing Back on the Block Joanne Tuscano , 2009 single work column
— Appears in: Newswrite : The NSW Writers' Centre Magazine , October/November no. 187 2009; (p. 4-5)
1 6 y separately published work icon Back on the Block : Bill Simon's Story Bill Simon , Des Montgomerie , Joanne Tuscano , Canberra : Aboriginal Studies Press , 2009 Z1592621 2009 single work autobiography

'Stolen, beaten, deprived of his liberty and used as child labour, Bill Simon was locked up in the notorious Kinchela Boys Home for 8 years where he was told his mother didn't want him, and that he was 'the scum of the earth'. His experiences there would shape his life forever...

Bill Simon got angry, something which poisoned his life for the next 2 decades. A life of self-abuse and crime which finally saw him imprisoned.. From The Block in Sydney's Redfern, one of the most contentious and misunderstood places in Australia, Bill Simon tells the truth about life in one of Australia's most terrible juvenile institutions, where thousands of boys were warehoused and abused.' Source: Publisher's blurb
1 Sweet and Sour Joanne Tuscano , 2001 single work short story
— Appears in: New England Review , Winter no. 14 2001; (p. 15)
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