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Marryatville High School
Marryatville High School (MHS) is a public state secondary school in Adelaide, South Australia. The school is situated on a large area of land in the eastern suburb of Marryatville, part of the City of Norwood Payneham and St Peters. First Creek cuts through the school grounds and large gum trees line the property. The school was founded in 1976 during the Dunstan era, from the amalgamation of the Norwood Boys' Technical High School and the Kensington & Norwood Girls' High School. History Marryatville High School's roots go back to 1877, moving through several incarnations until its naming in 1976 as a co-educational high school: Norwood Model School (1877–1942) The Norwood Model School was opened on the east side of Osmond Terrace (between the Parade and Beulah Road) in response to the 1875 Act which provided for State funding of school buildings and compulsory education for children aged 7 to 13. With the establishment of Norwood High School in 1910, it continued as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Public School (government Funded)
State schools (in England, Wales, Australia and New Zealand) or public schools (Scottish English and North American English) are generally primary or secondary schools that educate all students without charge. They are funded in whole or in part by taxation. State funded schools exist in virtually every country of the world, though there are significant variations in their structure and educational programmes. State education generally encompasses primary and secondary education (4 years old to 18 years old). By country Africa South Africa In South Africa, a state school or government school refers to a school that is state-controlled. These are officially called public schools according to the South African Schools Act of 1996, but it is a term that is not used colloquially. The Act recognised two categories of schools: public and independent. Independent schools include all private schools and schools that are privately governed. Independent schools with low tui ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Playing Beatie Bow (film)
''Playing Beatie Bow'' is a 1986 Australian time travel drama film. It is directed by Donald Crombie and stars Imogen Annesley, Peter Phelps and Mouche Phillips. The screenplay by Peter Gawler and Irwin Lane is based on the 1980 novel of the same name by Ruth Park. Plot summary Beatrice May "Beatie" Bow, a young Victorian-era girl, is summoned from the past to contemporary 1986 Sydney by children, including eight-year-old Natalie, chanting her name. Sixteen-year-old Abigail Kirk, whose mother Kathy was looking at rekindling her relationship with her estranged husband, accidentally follows Beatie back to September 1873, in Sydney-Town in the colony of New South Wales. Beatie's family, including Granny and Dovey, believe Abigail is the promised "Stranger" who will arrive to save "The Gift" for future generations of Bows. The Gift comes at great sacrifice, though, as one of the Bow children—either Beatie, the "poorly" middle brother Gilbert Samuel (Gibbie) or the oldest brother ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katrina Sedgwick
Katrina Anne-Marie Sedgwick (born 27 December 1967) is the CEO and director of the Australian Centre for the Moving Image.ScreenHub (11 December 2014) ''ABC loss is ACMI gain''. Retrieved 18 February 2015. Early life Sedgwick was born in Sydney but grew up in Adelaide,''Katrina Sedgwick CEO of the Adelaide Film Festival'' where she attended . Career Sedgwick began her career as a nine-year-old performer in the Australi ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adelaide United FC (W-League)
Adelaide United Football Club is an Australian Women's association football, women's soccer team based in Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia. Founded in 2008, it is the affiliated women's team of Adelaide United FC, Adelaide United. The team competes in the country's premier women's soccer competition, the A-League Women. History Establishment Adelaide United's women's team was formed in 2008 with the inception of the W-League, becoming one of the founding eight teams. The inaugural set up saw North Eastern MetroStars coach Michael Barnett (footballer), Michael Barnett take charge with ex-Adelaide United player Richie Alagich take up the assistant coach role and Australia women's national soccer team, Matildas stalwart Dianne Alagich named as captain. 2008–2011 Adelaide's first game was on 25 October 2008 against Brisbane Roar FC W-League, Queensland Roar at the Queensland Sport and Athletics Centre, which ended in a 4–1 loss with Sharon Black getting the consolation g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marijana Rajcic
Marijana Rajčić (born 15 March 1989) is an Australian rules football player with the Adelaide Football Club in the AFL Women's (AFLW). Soccer career Prior to taking up Australian rules football, Rajcic had had previously played soccer with Adelaide United in the Australian W-League. Prior to that she had played fully professionally for Gustafs GoIF in the Elitettan for the 2012 season, and played for Box Hill United in the Victorian Women's Premier League when she returned to soccer after knee surgery. She considers captaining Adelaide United in 2015 the best achievement in her soccer career. AFL Women's Rajčić was drafted by Adelaide Football Club with their fourth selection and 32nd overall in the 2017 AFL Women's draft after just one season with Norwood Football Club in the South Australian National Football League's Statewide Super Women's League. She previously took up the sport on the advice of a friend and in doing so followed the example of fellow dual-code playe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Oates
George Oates (birth name Georgina Oates, born 1973) is an Australian-born designer and entrepreneur, best known for being the first designer of the photo-sharing website Flickr and for creating the Flickr Commons program. Since 2007 she has worked in the cultural heritage sector and is regarded as "increasingly a go-to expert on digital archives". She has also written a book called "If Only The Grimms Had Known Alice", a retelling of the Grimm brothers' fairy tales to include female characters. Early life Oates was born in Adelaide, Australia, to an Australian father and a British mother, and is the youngest of three siblings. Career In 1996, Oates was in the first group of employees at thNgapartji Multimedia Centrein Adelaide, where she taught the general public how to use the internet and went on to teach courses in HTML and web design. After working in the web industry there for the next seven years, she left Australia in 2003 to start work at Ludicorp, the company that we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Melbourne Football Club
The North Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed the Kangaroos, is a professional Australian rules football club. The men's team competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), and the women's team in the AFL Women's (AFLW). The Kangaroos also field a reserves men's team in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Founded in the suburb of North Melbourne in 1869 and based at the Arden Street Oval, it is the 4th oldest club in the competition and one of the oldest surviving clubs in the world. Its original home at Arden Street continues to serve as its headquarters, training facilities and home ground for its women's side. The club's senior men's team plays its home matches at Marvel Stadium in the Docklands area of Melbourne, Victoria, as well as Blundstone Arena in Hobart, Tasmania which is also used by the women's team as a secondary home ground. The club's mascot is a grey kangaroo wearing the club uniform, and its use dates from the mid-20th century. The club is also un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brad McKenzie
Brad McKenzie (born 29 May 1993) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the North Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He was drafted with the eighteenth selection in the 2011 AFL draft from Sturt in the South Australian National Football League. He represented South Australia at the 2011 AFL Under 18 Championships and made his league debut for Sturt late in 2011. At the conclusion of the 2016 season, he was delisted by North Melbourne. He now plays for the Norwood Football Club in the SANFL. Statistics : , - style="background-color: #EAEAEA" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" , 2012 , style="text-align:center;", , 2 , , 2 , , 0 , , 0 , , 3 , , 3 , , 6 , , 4 , , 0 , , 0.0 , , 0.0 , , 1.5 , , 1.5 , , 3.0 , , 2.0 , , 0.0 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" , 2013 , style="text-align:center;", , 2 , , 10 , , 1 , , 3 , , 67 , , 49 , , 116 , , 33 , , 15 , , 0.1 , , 0.3 , , 6. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michelle Lensink
Jacqueline Michelle Ann Lensink (born 20 February 1970) is an Australian politician representing the South Australian Division of the Liberal Party of Australia in the South Australian Legislative Council since 26 June 2003. Lensink served as the Minister for Human Services in the Marshall Ministry between March 2018 and March 2022. Background and early career Lensink was educated at Stirling East Primary School and Marryatville High School, before attending the University of South Australia, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Applied Science (Physiotherapy) in 1991. In 2003 she was awarded an MBA from the University of Adelaide. From 1991 to 1994, Lensink worked as a physiotherapist at Repatriation General Hospital, Daw Park, before moving into the political arena. From 1994 to 1996 she worked as the policy researcher to the federal member for Sturt, who at the time was also parliamentary secretary to the Shadow Minister for Social Security (with responsibility for Chil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Callum Ferguson
Callum James Ferguson (born 21 November 1984) is a former Australian cricketer and commentator who has represented Australia in all three forms of international cricket. He also represented South Australia in the JLT One-Day Cup. He was formerly the captain of the Sydney Thunder in the Big Bash League before being released at the end of the 2020–21 season Ferguson began his domestic career in the 2004–05 season, and by 2009 his form in limited overs cricket was good enough for him to be selected by the Australian national cricket team. Though his form in ODIs was strong, bolstering Australia's middle order, a knee injury in the 2009 ICC Champions Trophy final took him out of competitive cricket for 11 months and he lost his place in the national side. He has played few ODIs since, and he played a single Test match in 2016 against South Africa, scoring 4 runs across his two innings. Ferguson has played for South Australia for his entire domestic career, which spanned over ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Waite
Waite is a single-member electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly. Named after Peter Waite, a 19th century entrepreneur and philanthropist, it covers 75.4 km² of suburbs and foothills in Adelaide's inner south-east, taking in the suburbs of Belair, Blackwood, Brown Hill Creek, Coromandel East, Coromandel Valley, Crafers West, Craigburn Farm, Eden Hills, Glenalta, Hawthorndene, Kingswood, Lynton, Mitcham, Netherby, Springfield, Torrens Park, Urrbrae as well as part of Upper Sturt. Waite was created in the 1991 electoral distribution as a comfortably safe Liberal seat, replacing the abolished district of Mitcham, the only single-member lower house seat anywhere throughout Australia to be won by the Democrats. At the 1993 election, Mitcham's last member, Liberal deputy leader Stephen Baker, easily retained it amid that year's decisive Liberal victory. Baker served as Treasurer from 1993 to 1997. Upon his retirement at the 1997 election, h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Duluk
Samuel John Duluk is an Australian former politician. He was a member of the South Australian House of Assembly from 2015 to 2022, representing Davenport until 2018 and then Waite. He was formerly a Liberal, but resigned to sit as an independent in 2020 after allegations of inappropriate behaviour. He ran in the 2022 South Australian state election as an independent but came in third place. Since retiring from the parliament, Duluk has worked as a political lobbyist. Early life Duluk was born in the Victorian city of Mildura, and is descended from post-war migrants from Poland. He was raised in Adelaide and educated at Marryatville High School, then graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting) from the University of Adelaide, working as an accountant in the banking industry. He was state president of the South Australian Young Liberal Movement. Parliament Duluk won Davenport at a 2015 by-election, despite a five percent two-party-preferred swing against him, which tu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
