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THROWBACK: Sonja Chrystal on growing up with a paraplegic farming dad, no mum, & surviving PNDA artwork
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THROWBACK: Sonja Chrystal on growing up with a paraplegic farming dad, no mum, & surviving PNDA

Motherland Australia by Stephanie Trethewey

Jan 11, 202670:43Kids & family

Weeks before Sonja Chrystal was born, her father was in a farming accident and became a paraplegic. Months after she was born, her mother packed her bags and left her paralysed husband and two little girls, and never ret...

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THROWBACK: Sonja Chrystal on growing up with a paraplegic farming dad, no mum, & surviving PNDA is an episode from Motherland Australia by Stephanie Trethewey. Weeks before Sonja Chrystal was born, her father was in a farming accident and b...

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Published Jan 11, 2026, 70:43 long, audio available.