By Nick Glais Wallace McKitrick, perhaps still known by some by his birth name, Peter Hicks, was an advocate for, and creative artist of, progressive Australian culture. Wallace worked for most of his life in community-based artistic and cultural activities. He began writing poetry while at high school, enrolled for a short time at Flinders University. He then worked at …

By Nix Herriot SOE is republishing the transcript of a meeting delivered to the Labour History Society with permission Presentation for Labour History Society (South Australia) Sunday 1 December 2024, 2pm Nix Herriot giving his presentation On August 1st, 1974, over a hundred students launched a sit-in of the Flinders University administration building. Adelaide’s Advertiser offered a sensational portrait of …