The discovery of schoolboy signatures - hidden under peeling wallpaper in an old Adelaide schoolhouse for 130 years - has led to this documentary history of John Lorenzo Young's school and its 1600 students, among them the leading lights of the colony and many still prominent in South Australian business and academic life today. John Lorenzo Young, the dissenting headmaster, was a brilliant and creative teacher, a graduate in the 'sciences of the enlightenment' from King's College London. He taught these new sciences to the sons of Adelaide's dissenting majority from 1852-1880, just 16 years after settlement. ...

Adopting a child can be a journey of great joy but the path is never without challenges. In Adopting, Australian parents recount their experiences of local and intercountry adoption. ...

Marcello Costa is a neuroscientist retired in 2022 as Matthew Flinders Distinguished Emeritus Professor after 47 years of teaching and research at the School of Medicine of Flinders University in South Australia. ...

Marcello Costa is a Neuroscientist retired in 2022 as Matthew Flinders Distinguished Emeritus Professor after 47 years of teaching and research at the School of Medicine of Flinders University in South Australia. ...

Marcello Costa is a Neuroscientist retired in 2022 as Matthew Flinders Distinguished Emeritus Professor after 47 years of teaching and research at the School of Medicine of Flinders University in South Australia. ...

Growing up in country Australia, and after years of below-average school results, Jon Johanson was told by career advisers that he would achieve little. But Jon has gone on to become the holder of over thirty world aviation records. ...

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Poking Seaweed with a Stick and Running Away from the Smell
Alison Whitelock dreamed of shooting her father with a sawn-off shotgun. Her brother planned to use the longest knife in the cutlery drawer, and her mother tried to poison him with out-of-date tranquillisers. This wee book is a bittersweet account of growing up in Scotland in the strange and brutal kingdom we call home. But Poking Seaweed with a Stick is anything but a tale of childhood suffering; it is an enchanted Scottish tale that will have you smiling through your tears and laughing till you cry.

And My Heart Crumples Like a Coke Can
Raw and beautiful and completely devoid of pretension, Ali Whitelock's poems will speak to anyone who's ever messed up, been confused, wished they'd done things differently; to anyone who's had an affair and regretted it, who's been loved completely but was too blind to see it.

The Lactic Acid in the Calves of Your Despair
Political, profound, profane. These poems of defiant disobedience crash through the barriers erected to keep us contained. Writing with humour and tenderness, Ali Whitelock takes us through the parched landscape of life, death, love, fear, regret and the unbearable sadness of losing a dog.

A Brief Letter to the Sea About a Couple of Things
Ali Whitelock's poems are bold, loud and heartbreaking. They howl and they ache, they hoot and they pine, they curl up with the sea urchins, sing to the starfish, waltz with the seahorses - they sleep with the moon.

Not all interventions in Aboriginal Australia are inspired by external agents, politics or ideology. Some arise from simple, pragmatic responses to community needs where people and their aspirations are central.

Historian Alan Mayne unravels a story of people, place and relationships. At once both personal and intensely political, this is a journey of ideas into action; intervention through innovation.

Within the narrative of An Accidental Engineer there is a revealing truth about a kid from the bush who never had a life plan but always seemed to enjoy the journey. A story familiar to many.

David Jellie was lucky in the timing of his engineering career. Following the Second World War, Australia was throwing off the shackles of austerity with the rapid expansion and upgrading of the road network. In the second half of his career, he worked on international projects in Asia, the Pacific Islands, Africa and the Middle East. He witnessed the start of the rise of China, the aftermath of partition of Pakistan and India, and the aspirations of the people of the world for security, shelter, food and love - regardless of their ethnicity. ...

This is the story of a wonderful South Australian woman who devoted much of her talents, energy and creativity to working with community groups. Members of Margaret Lurline Davey's family were extremely civic minded, a trait which she exhibited throughout her life.

Two organisations with which Margaret worked for long periods were the National Council of Women and The Young Women's Christian Association. It was with the latter organisation that her creative and interpersonal skills became evident, namely being the spirit behind the Christmas Festivals which delighted thousands of children and adults.