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Main Title:	The hungry heart / Max Griffiths.
Author:	Griffiths, Max
Year:	1992.
Collation:	24 cm 176 p., [20] p. of plates; col. ill., maps, ports., hbk,

Summary:	Various accounts of work as the superintendent of the Australian Inland Mission, 1974-1985; medical services and hospital conditions, race relations, living conditions, Christianity, domestic and community violence , substance abuse, appropriate services and resources, health personnel education and aged care in the Pilbara , Kimberley, Central Australia and Western Queensland; includes accounts of Oodnadatta, Birdsville, Andamooka, Warburton, Darwin, Halls Creek, Fitzroy Crossing and Alice Springs. Account of life in the Australian outback by a worker for the Australian Inland Mission (AIM). Describes the way in which small, isolated Aboriginal and mining communities coped with economic and social change. The author was involved in developing medical, educational and social services with the AIM from 1964-1985. He was awarded the MBE in 1979 for services to the outback.
Subject:	Griffiths, Max. Australian Inland Mission Health and medical facilities Missions and missionaries Social services First Nations Australians
ISBN:	0864174861
Notes:	Includes index. This work contains text and/or images that may cause offence to members of the Australian Indigenous community, or may be deemed inappropriate for some users on the grounds of sex, age or social status by the Australian Indigenous community.