Julie Szego is a freelance writer and Fairfax columnist. Her non-fiction book, “The Tainted Trial of Farah Jama,” was shortlisted for the Victorian and NSW Premier’s Literary Awards for 2015.
Julie Szego
By Julie Szego
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Community Israeli And Aboriginal Australian: An Odyssey Of Self-Discovery
A version of this article originally appeared in Plus61J, an Australian-Jewish publication. Growing up in a Jewish household in suburban Sydney, Australia, Denise Langman always knew she was adopted. Her parents made no secret of the fact they first met her as a 10-month-old at the Scarba Welfare House for Children in Bondi, a Victorian…
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Community When Sexual Abuse Leads To Self Harm
A version of this article originally appeared in Plus61J, an Australian-Jewish publication. In the first year of her daughter’s life, Dassi Erlich, the force behind the international campaign to make former Adass Israel principal Malka Leifer face child sex abuse charges, battled a furtive and destructive addiction. At the time she was a regular patient…
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