Formed in 2006, the Minlaton History Group meets on the first and third Fridays of the month in the Minlaton School Community Library. In 2019, to mark the centenary of Captain Harry Butler's first airmail flight over water in the Southern Hemisphere, the Minlaton History Group researched and published the book Farm Boy to Aeronaut. Minlaton: Moments, memories & milestones is the Minlaton History Group's second book.

Murray McLaughlin began work as a cadet journalist aged 15 with The Press, a morning newspaper in Christchurch, New Zealand. He first moved to Australia in 1976 and has spent most of his career working for ABC television current affairs programs. He has won many awards, including a Walkley Award, and has been a Walkley finalist on several other occasions.

Lex Bartlem's diplomatic career with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade took him to overseas postings including including Caracas, Ankara, Madrid, Bonn, Cairo, Paris and twice to Beirut. In 2003 he was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for services through the provision of assistance to victims and to their families following the bombings that occurred in Bali on 12 October 2002. In 2010 he was appointed Australia's Ambassador to Lebanon. Lex travels regularly and volunteers as an English teacher with the Adult Migrant English Program (AMEP), helping newly arrived migrants improve their English and settle into Australia.

Born in Uganda, raised in Kenya and England, Scott Hicks migrated to Australia in 1967 aged 14, completing his schooling in Adelaide, South Australia. He discovered film at Flinders University, along with his wife Kerry Heysen, followed by a lifetime of filmmaking.

Mary Talbot Cross is a pseudonym of Jennifer M.T. Carter. Jennifer M.T. Carter grew up in the United Kingdom and took an honours degree in French language, literature and civilization at Aberdeen University in Scotland. She is an independent researcher and writer, and the author of a number of non-fiction titles. Research for her historical novels (written as Mary Talbot Cross) has taken her to England, India and France. She lists among her interests gardening and the pursuit of the eccentric.

Troy-Anthony Baylis is a descendant of the Jawoyn people from the Northern Territory and also of Irish ancestry. He was born in 1976 and has been creating works of art since 1993. His multifaceted artistic practice is founded in the process of 'queering' and unsettling 'traditional' ways of representing Aboriginality.

Jennifer Humphries is a genealogist and family historian whose interest in the Boer War was originally sparked by reading the diary of Private Griffith Cadwallader Davies (1868-1913), her grandfather, who served in the Queensland militia before volunteering for the 1st South Australian Mounted Rifles and service in South Africa. She is secretary of South Australian Boer War Association.

Anthony Stimson has a PhD in History from Flinders University (Adelaide) and is president of the South Australian Boer War Association, a descendants' organisation. His interest in the Anglo-Boer War started with his grandfather, Captain A.E.M. Norton (1869-1922), who commanded a squadron of mounted infantry in the 4th South Australian Imperial Bushmen and was awarded a DSO for the action fought at Leeuwkop near Lindley on 3 June 1900.

For over thirty years, Brenton Mauriello AM has lived at the intersection of diverse cultures and high-stakes industry. In Another Round, Brenton steps away from the corporate lens to share the personal philosophies that have guided him through the peaks and valleys of a life lived globally.

Tikari Rigney is a queer Kaurna, Narrunga, Ngarrindjeri multidisciplinary artist living and working on unceded Kaurna Country. Their storytelling practice traverses poetry, visual art and community-based arts projects and often centres around themes of belonging, identity, place and body.

Adele Sliuzas is an arts writer, curator and textile artist. Adele is Assistant Curator at JamFactory (South Australia), and also the Visual Arts Curator at The Mill. They have contributed to arts publications including Artlink, Fine Print, Runway, Art and Australia and Un.

Chris Burrell has had a successful career as a medical virologist and university academic in Edinburgh and Adelaide. He has also been active musically throughout his life as a pianist and accompanist, organist, choral conductor and singer.

Louise Nunn joined the Advertiser as a cadet journalist in the 1980s while living in Unley, before moving to Sydney to work in arts publicity. In the 1990s, she returned to the Advertiser as a writer and sub-editor on the Saturday magazine, and worked as arts editor from the late 1990s to the early 2000s. Her arts reports appeared in the Advertiser for more than 30 years in news, reviews, features, editorials, columns and opinion pieces.

Tim Lloyd has lived in Unley most of his life. He took a degree in history at the University of Adelaide and joined Adelaide's Advertiser in 1974. For many years he wrote the newspaper's obituary pages and a weekly Heritage Matters column. He was arts editor for the paper from 1987 to 1995 and its theatre critic since 1977. In 2024 be became a member of the South Australian Heritage Council.

Professor Donald Markwell AM served as Head of St Mark's College, Adelaide, and as an Adjunct Professor of the University of Adelaide from 2019 to 2025. In December 2025, he became Head of King's College at the University of Queensland. Professor Markwell studied at the universities of Queensland and Oxford (as a Rhodes Scholar), and at Princeton. He taught politics and international relations in Oxford for a decade before becoming Warden of Trinity College at the University of Melbourne. He has since served as the global head of the Rhodes Scholarships as Warden of Rhodes House, Oxford, and as senior advisor to the Australian Minister for Education and to the Attorney-General of Australia.