Fashion Forward

Employability Expertise

All of the wonderful employers who attended the John Pirie Secondary School Employability Forum including keynote speaker, Jarrad Davies from the Southern Flinders Regional Development Board.

Hospitality 101

Students who were particularly interested in Hospitality were treated to some real expertise from Gateway for Youth’s executive officer, and Hospitality Extraordinaire, Liz Sampson-Kelly!

Imparting Wisdom

Crowded House

Employers from all around Port Pirie went to John Pirie Secondary School to speak at the Employability Forum. Students were given an insight into many different industries and also into what emplyers are looking for when employing staff.

Food for Thought

After a long trip and a major influx of information these famished students were fed and watered in the dining room at Olympic Village.

Outdoor learning at BHP

A group of Port Pirie students listening intently while on the outdoor leg of the tour through the BHP Olympic Dam site. Nothing like sunshine and education!!

Hilarious Hairnets

Port Pirie students hamming it up for the Gateways paparazzi in their oh-so-stylish hairnets while touring onsite at Olympic Dam.

Surveyors General’s Corner marker

Western Australia – South Australia – Northern Territory Border

A glance at most maps of Australia will tell you something that isn’t quite true. The border that runs along the eastern edge of Western Australia is not actually one continuous straight line.

The survey of the W.A. border was first discussed in 1911, but it wasn’t until 1922 that an agreement was signed between then Prime Minister W.M. Hughes, and Acting Premier for South Australia, Mr. Bice, and the Premier of Western Australia, Sir James Mitchell. The agreement set out the border as being a line determined by the 129th meridian east longitude. However, the agreement required that the boundary be defined by lines running north and south from independently fixed points at Deakin and Argyle. When survey work began on the South Australia – Northern Territory border in 1963, it was quickly realised that the earlier agreement precluded the possibility of these lines meeting exactly.

Precise survey methods confirmed this, and in June 1968, two monuments – approximately 127 metres apart – were erected at the junction of the boundaries. This ceremony was attended by the respective Surveyor Generals, H.Comm from Western Australia, H.A. Bailey from South Australia, and P.J. Wells from the Northern Territory. The monuments common to all three territories was named Surveyor General’s Corner at the suggestion of the Director of National Mapping. One interesting piece of trivia is that fewer people have visited this site than have been to the South Pole.

Sign post article

When the nearest hamburger is 500km away, the nearest Subway is 1500km away and the State capital 1700km away, you need to take a closer interest in any and all sign posts. In this region we saw over 30 camels for every other vehicle we passed, so you are pretty much on your own for most of the time.

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