A fortunate accident : a boy from Balranald / Kevin Coombs
- Bib ID:
- 3549592
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Coombs, Kevin, 1941-
- Description:
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- Melbourne : Aboriginal Affairs Victoria, 2005
- 61 p. : ill., ports. ; 27 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0957713142
- Summary:
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Autobiography of Wotjobaluk paralympian Kevin Coombs; childhood; being shot in back at age thirteen; years in hospitals and other institutions; learning to live outside institutions; marriage and children; basketball career including five Paralympics; work, including ten years as Manager of Victorian Koori Health Unit; work as a Coordinator of Drug and Alcohol Foundation; membership of Board of Aboriginal Hostels; community activities; awards.
- Subject:
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- Coombs, Kevin, 1941-
- Paralympic Games
- Basketball players -- Australia -- Biography
- Aboriginal Australians -- Biography
- Aboriginal Australians with disabilities -- Biography
- Wergaia / Wotjobaluk people (S17) (Vic SI54-15)
- History - Biographies - Indigenous
- Disabilities - Physical
- Sport - Basketball
- Balranald (SW NSW SI54-12)
- Other authors/contributors:
- Victoria. Department of Aboriginal Affairs
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2005
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