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"The community were incredible. They’re a really great bunch of people and they were backing us the whole way. You couldn’t have made the project work anywhere else except Flinders Island."

"The change of pace is what shocked me. All my life I was bombarded with people. And now everything has become so peaceful… there is something really lovely about it, the peacefulness and the quiet."

"I get a lot of referrals from people’s friends now, and I love that. It means people have come feeling worried and alone, and they’ve gotten better and talked to friends about it."

“We had a great upbringing — happy guys living on a farm. There wasn’t the angst to write aggressive, heavy metal. So, we started writing about this place and the things we know.”

"While on board they lose their inherent selfishness; they become much more a team person; they become much more family orientated. We get so many young people that have done extraordinarily well and send me letters years later, telling me what they’ve done."