Bryant, Val

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Aboriginal Health Worker
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http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-765084

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Val Bryant was the first Aboriginal person to work in the Department of the Prime Minister. She is an Aboriginal health worker with both practical and academic understandings of the health issues confronting indigenous communities.She has published extensively on the problems of substance abuse in Aboriginal communities and has established and run rehabilitation centres in Sydney and Western Australia.

Val Bryant became the first Aboriginal person to work in the Prime Minister's Department in Canberra, as a receptionist-typist. She also trained as a teleprinter operator and worked for the Overseas Telecommunications Corporation, before studying at Sydney Technical College for her School Certificate examination. She started working with Aboriginal Alcoholics as a field officer with the Department of Aboriginal Affairs before establishing Benelong's Haven, the first Aboriginal alcohol and drug rehabilitation centre/hostel, in the inner Sydney suburb of Marrickville in 1974. She ran the hostel virtually single-handedly for six months before the Government gave her a grant. She has run six such centres in New South Wales and Western Australia. In recognition of her services to the Aboriginal community, Val was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in 1978 and the World Healing Our Spirit Medal in 1994. She was presented with the award of the degree of Doctor of Education by the University of Newcastle.

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  1. Benelong's haven
    Bryant, Val
    Aboriginal News
    [ Article : 1978 ]
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  2. Female Alcoholism
    Bryant, Val
    Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal
    [ Article : 1987 ]
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    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 2.479)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 2.479)

  3. Aboriginal alcoholism: where are we going? White man's way or black man' s way
    Bryant, Val; Carroll, Jim
    Aboriginal Health Worker
    [ Article : 1978 ]
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  4. Aboriginal Alcoholism - Where are We Going?: White Man's Way or Black Man's Way?
    Bryant, Val; Carroll, Jim
    Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal
    [ Article : 1978 ]
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    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 1.86)

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  1. [Biographical cuttings on Val Bryant, Aboriginal social worker, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals]
    [ Published : 1900-1990 ]
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  2. Prokinetic therapy with erythromycin has no significant impact on blood pressure and heart rate in critically ill patients
    Nguyen, N Q; Mangoni, A A; Fraser, R J; Chapman, M; Bryant, L; Burgstad, C; Holloway, R H
    [ Unpublished, Article : 2007 ]
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  2. Photographs Then and Now.(Review)
    Bryant, David
    Library Journal
    [ Article : 1999 ]
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  3. National Geographic Photographs: The Milestones.(Review)(Brief Article)
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  1. Life's too short : true stories about life at work / by various authors ; foreword by Val McDermid
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  3. The Iliad
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  4. King Richard the Second / William Shakespeare ; edited by Stanley Wells
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  4. The adjustment / by Marguerite Bryant
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    [ Book : 1912 ]
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  1. DANCE FOR HOSPITAL QUEEN.
    The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954) Wednesday 15 May 1929 p 9 Article
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  2. Champion To Reappear
    The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954) Friday 28 November 1952 p 23 Article
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  3. WIDE BAY CARNIVAL MARYBOROUGH, Sunday.
    The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1933 - 1954) Monday 29 March 1937 p 9 Article
    ... WIDE BAY CARNIVAL MARYBOROUGH, Sunday. The Burnett Bowling Association's carnival val was ... -13; King and Klmr md Trims beat Bryant and Hethcrlngton, 29-11; D. Kerr. and Rowston beat R. Kerr and ... Hetncrington beat R. Armstrong, 26-21; A. Bryant beat H. Corser, 26-10; T, Blanchard beat R. Moore, ... 177 words
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