South Australia's own Peter Goers is a reformed social irritant. Since 1971 he has worked as actor, director, designer, critic, academic and entertainer on two continents. He began writing for the Advertiser in 1985 and has contributed a weekly opinion column in the Sunday Mail since 1991. Peter Goers has won eleven awards as presenter, since 2003, of the Evening Show on ABC Radio Adelaide, across South Australia and into the Silver City of Broken Hill, and in 2013 he was honoured with the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for services to the arts, community and public broadcasting.