An advocate for the arts

Peter Goers OAM (BA(Hons) ’78) is an actor, director, reviewer, former academic and host of the ABC’s Local Radio program, The Evening Show, which broadcasts throughout […]

Life beyond the ward

When Jessie Yang returned to China in 1997 after training for two years in the Singapore health system, she was brimming with passion to improve Chinese […]

Cultural champion

Intercultural understanding is in Jonathan Tan’s blood, but it is his appreciation of the fundamental needs of people regardless of race that has set his career […]

Reclaiming Life

Frightened and sometimes shamed by the open wounds and misery of people with advanced stages of cancer and other diseases, rural village people of northern India […]

Igniting imaginations

If “a book is a device to ignite the imagination” then Flinders University alumna Zainah Rahmiati has set alight an inferno by establishing a successful community […]

Life behind the silver screen

At the age of 16 Dr Scott Hicks enrolled in a Bachelor of Arts at Flinders University, where he discovered the doorway to what became his […]

The scene setter

A three-year lead time gave emerging playwright Phillip Kavanagh plenty of time to speculate about the response to his newest work, Deluge. While his previous form […]

Captivating generations

It’s a Saturday afternoon. There are three shop assistants lined up at the checkout of an Adelaide sports store, swooning simultaneously. It’s not a footballer or […]

An east-west conduit

While others might feel damned to be cast as an eternal outsider, Mr Sven Meyer has embraced the opportunity to serve as a bridge between east […]