The Struggle Within

About the Book

About the Author

I was born in Mackay,QLD to Colleen and Noel Hamill. My mum and dad seperated when i was about 3 because they both drank and would fight alot. Mum and i moved to Katherine in the N.T. where she found a job and i went to school. When i was 6,a man named Gordon Raymond Scott came to live with us. He was mums new boyfriend. He was a well liked man in town and worked with mum. I put up with years of sexual abuse at the hands of this man, until i found the courage to tell. After i told mum,we went to court. He eventually got bail and never returned....A year later we had moved to tennant creek, where mum found a new boyfriend. He was nice but they had differences and mum broke it off. A few days later he hid in the back of mums car after work and shot her in the head, and then himself. I grew up moving from relative to relative never really settled. As i have grown into adulthood, the effects of my abuse and mothers murder have been soul wrenching. I was nearly raped a couple of years ago by my dads’ friend, (also my friend i grew up with)....Six months later my grand mother and father both died within weeks apart. My poems have been based on these events in my life. My pain.......