Joy Noble has worked as a social worker and administrator in South Australia, and as a community worker with women in New Guinea. She was the first woman to be appointed, in the early 1970s, to the position of regional director in South Australia’s Department for Community Welfare. Her books relating in particular to volunteering have sold widely throughout Australia. In 2002, she was awarded an AM for ‘services to the development of the principles and practice of volunteering and as a contributor to the academic body of knowledge in the field of volunteering’.
Fiona Verity has a background in community work andactivism. She is a lecturer in the School of Social Administration and Social Work at Flinders University, Adelaide, and has a keen interest in astronomy.