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Heath Ducker Samantha Trenoweth

A Room At The Top

Heath Ducker,  Samantha Trenoweth

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English
Heinemann
01 July 2009
Autobiography: general; Child abuse; Social work; Biography - Australian
'It is unusual to read a story that is so confrontingly real, and yet so profoundly uplifting' Prime Minister Kevin Rudd

Heath Ducker grew up on the wrong side of the tracks. He couldn't even see the tracks from where he lived, in dilapidated government housing, with shattered windows and holes in the floor that let the weeds climb through. He lived with his emotionally fragile, single mother and nine siblings, conceived with half a dozen different fathers, none of whom ever moved in. Most days, there was nothing to eat but breakfast cereal.

Just when it seemed things couldn't get any worse, soon after Heath's twelfth birthday, he was sexually abused by the father of his only real friend.

However, Heath was determined, from the outset, that he would not let his circumstances beat him. As a teenager, he was so committed to passing his final exams that he lugged his books up a mulberry tree and onto the roof of his house to study in the only quiet spot he could find.

Now, still just in his 20s and as a result of extraordinary courage and resilience, Heath Ducker is a lawyer with a passionate commitment to improving the lot of underprivileged kids. He lobbies politicians on their behalf, gives his weekends over to voluntary work at camps for teenagers in trouble and he leads treks for young people along the notorious Kokoda Track in the highlands of New Guinea.

In 2008 the then Prime Minister of Australia, The Hon Kevin Rudd MP, presented him with ADC's Leadership Award, presented to only 26 people from across Australia.

When Heath appeared on ABC television's AUSTRALIAN STORY in 2006, he provided inspiration for thousands of viewers. His life story has continued to inspire as one of the most frequently viewed episodes on the ABC TV website.

Now, in A Room at the Top, Heath Ducker, for the first time, tells his story in his own words.
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Imprint:   Heinemann
Country of Publication:   Australia
Dimensions:   Height: 233mm,  Width: 152mm,  Spine: 29mm
Weight:   510g
ISBN:   9781741666748
ISBN 10:   1741666740
Pages:   390
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Heath Ducker is a lawyer at Gadens in Sydney; a trek leader on the Kokoda Track with Adventure Kokoda; patron of Butterfly Day (children in war); a leader of the Youth Insearch Foundation and a director of the Aunties and Uncles Co-Operative Family Project. In 2008 Prime Minister Kevin Rudd presented him with ADC's Australian Leadership Award. Samantha Trenoweth has written and edited books of biography and fiction. Her work as a journalist and editor has spanned much of the Australian media, appearing in The Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian, Rolling Stone, Juice, Vogue Australia, HQ, in ABC Magazines and on ABC Radio.

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