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1. Introduction During December 2023 the author, during a conversation with Robyn Atherton, president of the Harden Murrumburrah Historical Society, was made aware of an interesting event from 1963 concerning the Australian pop music television program Sing Sing Sing . The story was outlined in the following reminiscences by Atherton: I was a member of the girls choir at St Margaret Mary’s primary school in Merrylands, as was my sister Jeanette, aged 2 years younger than I. We practiced every lunch time in the corridor and on Saturdays at the convent on the verandah. The convent was the home of the Marist Sisters. All the grounds are now taken up by Cerdon College and Southern Cross Retirement Village. In 1963 I was in 6th class. Our choir was led by Sister Nathaniel. We had entered, and won, eisteddfods, and had an LP record pressed at Festival Records in Sydney. I was not pictured on the cover of the LP due to a friend and I talking or something, and we were not on the final tak...

The Owen Gun Chronological Bibliography and Catalogue of Memorabilia and Published Document Alan Stein & Michael Organ 28 October 2008 The following is an edited version of Alan Stein’s original listing as distributed to various libraries and archives during October 2008. It was the result of decades of research by the then 84 year old Mr. Stein. The list has here been rearranged chronologically, plus all dates standardised along with author citations. No other changes have been made to Mr. Stein’s original document – a brief biography of Evelyn Owen has also been inserted, taken from the Australian War Memorial web site - Michael Organ, 1 December 2008 Brief Biography of Lieutenant Evelyn Ernest Owen Date of birth: 15 May 1915 Place of birth: Wollongong, NSW Date of death: 1 April 1949 Place of death: Wollongong, NSW Inventor of the Owen sub-machine gun, Evelyn Owen was born on 15 May 1915 in Wollongong, New South Wales. Despite the conside...

Five Islands Press List of Publications 1988 - 2010 Compiled by Susan Jones, Library, University of Wollongong Introduction Five Islands Press was formed in Wollongong during 1987 by Ron Pretty of the University of Wollongong as a vehicle for the publication of Australian poetry and short stores. It has continued in print since that date, following a move of its operations to Victoria in 2005. Ron Pretty ran the Poetry Australia Foundation and was director of Five Islands Press until he retired in 2007. He taught creative writing at the University of Wollongong and University of Melbourne and edited the literary journals ‘SCARP’ and ‘Blue Dog: Australian Poetry’. His book of poetry, ‘Postcards From the Centre’ was published in 2010. Copies of Five Island Press publications can be found in public collections such as the National Library of Australia, the State Library of New South Wales and libraries at the University of Wollongong and Wollongong City Council. Ron...