A repetitive strain injury (RSI) is an injury to part of the musculoskeletal or nervous system caused by repetitive use,vibrations,compression or long periods in a fixed position. Other common names include repetitive stress injury,repetitive stress disorders,cumulative trauma disorders (CTDs),and overuse syndrome.
David Oliver Tonkin was an Australian politician who served as the 38th Premier of South Australia from 18 September 1979 to 10 November 1982. He was elected to the House of Assembly seat of Bragg at the 1970 election,serving until 1983. He became the leader of the South Australian Division of the Liberal Party of Australia in 1975,replacing Bruce Eastick. Initially leading the party to defeat at the 1977 election against the Don Dunstan Labor government,his party won the 1979 election against the Des Corcoran Labor government. Following the 1980 Norwood by-election the Tonkin government was reduced to a one-seat majority. His government's policy approach combined economic conservatism with social progressivism. The Tonkin Liberal government was defeated after one term at the 1982 election by Labor led by John Bannon.
Dean Craig Brown,AO is a politician who served as the Premier of South Australia between 14 December 1993 and 28 November 1996,and also served as 10th Deputy Premier of South Australia between 22 October 2001 and 5 March 2002,representing the South Australian Division of the Liberal Party of Australia. He became premier when he led the party to a landslide win at the 1993 state election,and lost the office when he lost a leadership challenge to John Olsen in November 1996.
John Wayne Olsen,AO is an Australian former politician,diplomat and football commissioner. He was Premier of South Australia between 28 November 1996 and 22 October 2001. He is now President of the Federal Liberal Party,Chairman of the Australian American Association,Chairman of the Adelaide Football Club and Deputy Chairman of the Adelaide Oval Stadium Management Authority.
Hedley Grant Pearson Chapman is an Australian politician.
Janine Winton Haines,AM was an Australian politician who was a Senator for South Australia from 1977 to 1978 and again from 1981 to 1990. She represented the Australian Democrats,and served as the party's leader from 1986 to 1990,becoming the first female federal parliamentary leader of an Australian political party. She was pivotal in "shaping the Australian Democrats into a powerful political entity that held the balance of power in the Senate".
Rear Admiral Peter Ross Sinclair,is a retired senior officer of the Royal Australian Navy who served as the 35th Governor of New South Wales from 8 August 1990 to 1 March 1996. Born in Manly,New South Wales,he was educated at North Sydney Boys High School before joining the Navy through the Royal Australian Naval College.
Michael Rueben Egan was an Australian union official and politician,who served as Treasurer of New South Wales between 1995 and 2005. Egan served as the Chancellor of Macquarie University from 2008 until 2019 and sat on a number of government and non-government advisory boards.
Vickie Ann Chapman is a former Australian politician,representing the South Australian House of Assembly seat of Bragg for the South Australian Division of the Liberal Party of Australia between the 2002 election and May 2022. Chapman served as the Deputy Premier of South Australia and Attorney-General between 19 March 2018 and 22 November 2021 in the Marshall government. She was the first woman to hold either post.
Michael Harry Armitage is an Australian former politician. He was a Liberal Party member of the South Australian House of Assembly between 1989 and 2002,representing the electorate of Adelaide.
Nola Therese Fraser is an Australian small business owner,former Registered Nurse and former Liberal Party and Independent candidate for the New South Wales state seat of Macquarie Fields.
Simon Fenton Chapman,AO is an Australian academic and tobacco control activist.
Nicholas David Champion is an Australian politician. He is a member of the South Australian Labor Party and has served in the South Australian House of Assembly since the 2022 South Australian state election,representing the seat of Taylor. He has served as the Minister for Trade and Investment,Minister for Housing and Urban Development and Minister for Planning in the Malinauskas ministry since March 2022.
Ernest Alfred Roberts was an Australian politician and soldier who was a Labor member of the South Australian House of Assembly from 1896 to 1902 and 1905 to 1908 and then the Australian House of Representatives from 1908 to 1913. Roberts also served as an officer in South Africa during the Second Boer War,with South Australian colonial forces in 1900 and Commonwealth forces in 1902. From 1904 to 1908 he was the editor of The Herald,a left-wing newspaper published by the United Labor Party (ULP).
Alexander John McLachlan was an Australian politician. He served as a Senator for South Australia from 1926 to 1944,representing the Nationalist Party and United Australia Party. He held ministerial office in the Lyons government as Vice-President of the Executive Council (1932–1934),Minister in charge of Development and Scientific and Industrial Research (1932–1937),and Postmaster-General of Australia (1934–1938).
Frank Allen Ford is a former Australian businessman and politician. He represented the Liberal Party in the House of Representatives from 1990 to 1993,representing the Victorian seat of Dunkley. In 1996 he was convicted of fraud relating to the liquidation of his engineering firm.
Patrick Galvin was an Australian politician.
John David "Jack" Wright was an Australian politician and Deputy Premier of South Australia under John Bannon from 1982 to 1985. Wright represented the House of Assembly seat of Adelaide for the South Australian Branch of the Australian Labor Party from 1971 to 1985. Wright was made an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in the 1986 Australia Day Honours for "service to politics,industrial relations and the community".
The Avenue Range Station massacre was a murder of a group of Aboriginal Australians by white settlers during the Australian frontier wars. It occurred in about September 1848 at Avenue Range,a sheep station in the southeast of the Colony of South Australia.
Theodore John Nettelbeck is an Australian psychologist and jazz pianist,for some time emeritus professor in the School of Psychology at the University of Adelaide,known for researching human intelligence and inspection time.
