After years of homelessness, and extreme seclusion, Gregory walked himself into the wider world.

Gregory is an academic in the School of Arts and Social Sciences at Southern Cross University, and has just completed a PhD.

For much of his adulthood he was homeless; and by his own admission, a 'do not approach' figure.

For ten years he lived as a hermit in a forest in northern NSW, catching his own food.

After decades of life on the margins, he now has a place of his own; and is a popular teacher.

Gregory's childhood, in and out of orphanages, boys' homes and youth detention centres, made getting a foothold in regular society a massive challenge.

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