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22.01.2022 Fran Baum, your tribute leaves me almost lost for words. A heartfelt thank you for your very generous assessment of what can be achieved in a social health program when all the stars align - and at times even when they don’t.

21.01.2022 Gratified to still be labelled as "controversial" 29 years after leaving town. Thank you InDaily for the book launch coverage. And Chris Sumner, you really should read the book!

20.01.2022 What a great experience today catching up with so many old friends and colleagues in Adelaide all together again for the first time in 29 years. I was deeply moved in fact a little overwhelmed seeing so many people I worked so closely nearly 3 decades ago. The redoubtable Chris Schacht. Lynn Arnold, Anne Levy, Chris Sumner. Crack ministerial staffers - Loine Sweeney, Anne Lambert and Peter Baker. And my old mates Owen Brown and Phil Robins.... A very special thanks to SA’s own global leader in social health research, Professor Fran Baum, for her extremely generous speech launching my political memoir, After Work, After Play, After All. And, of course, a heartfelt thank you to the Hagar Club for graciously hosting the event. For those of you keen for more details on the book please see my afterworkafterplay.com website.

19.01.2022 The man under the hat is Gary Foley. Photo taken after an overnight stay at Uluru during our visit to the APY Lands in 1983. We visited several Aboriginal settlements in the Lands to consult the communities, bumping through turbulence in the Beechcrat Queenair. During the trip we negotiated details with Yami Lester for the agreement that established the Ngnampa Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Council. I had recruited Gary to review Aboriginal health and services and i...n 1984 he presented the Report of the Committee of Review into Aboriginal Health in South Australia which led to the establishment of several other Aboriginal community controlled health services around the State. Last week I met Gary for lunch during a visit he made to Sydney, the first time I had seen him since he completed and wrote the report well over 30 years ago. Pleased to find him as committed and irrepressible as ever.

08.01.2022 Camping out in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Lands - 1979 ‘When we camped at sundown the experienced bushmen In the party lit the camp fire, carved the mutton chops for the evening meal on the tailgate of one of the Range Rovers and produced some very welcome cold cans of beer from the portable refrigerators. ..at night (in zero temperatures) we slept snug in our sleeping bags under the stars, covered by small tarpaulins, feet towards the fire. No pitching tents to slow us down o...n this trip. As we woke at first light the occasional dingo could be seen, shy, careful but interested in what we were up to’. Extract from "After work, After play, After all" (www.afterworkafterplay.com) In July 1979 I was little more than two months into incumbency as South Australian Minister of Environment and Lands and blissfully unaware that Premier Corcoran would take us to a disastrous early state election just three months later. I wanted to find out about this vast arid area in the north west of the state, particularly the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Lands. Legislation recognizing the rights of the traditional owners to their land had been introduced while Don Dunstan was still Premier and was still on the parliamentary notice paper for debate when he retired in February. With half a dozen experienced officers from both departments we set out from Coober Pedy, travelling north west, paying our respects to the Aboriginal communities in the area. At Vokes Hill we got a taste of the larrikin outback humour in a photo we took of an improvised signpost for the ‘Vokes Hill Country Club’ where the track from the now deserted township of Cook on the Trans Australian Railway joins the Anne Beadell ‘Highway’. Closer inspection reveals the true magnificence of this mirage in the desert, under the management of ‘Fred and Bryan’. A swimming pool and sauna complement the licensed bar-restaurant and golf course. Membership fees ‘ ‘ doz ECHOS’, a particularly South Australian name given to ‘stubbies’. We turned south off the Anne Beadell ‘Highway’ (named after his wife by the legendary surveyor Len Beadell) and travelled a further 270 kilometres to Cook, at that time still a small township serving the Trans Australian Railway. Just prior to our trip there had been almost two inches of rain in parts of the desert country and the ephemeral plants were in full bloom.

08.01.2022 A big thank you to all my friends, colleagues, comrades & family for the overwhelming response and messages of support for my book. I must confess I have found the whole business of trying to write my own life story both excruciating and therapeutic. I am extremely grateful for the help and advice of family members throughout the process. With special thanks to my middle daughter Jennifer - the historian/lawyer of the family - who has been my chief guide & advisor. ... For those of you who have been asking where you can grab a copy of the book it is available online as a paperback or e-book. Please see my website afterworkafterplay.com for all retail links.

07.01.2022 Huge thrill last night watching Sticky’s Fingers do their magic with a fantastic crowd at the Big Top in Luna Park - the first concert to kick off their sold out world tour. Big thank you to my grandson Paddy Cornwall for giving me a backstage perch - then dedicating the Stickies latest single Kick On" to your very proud ‘ole grandpa. I am suitably shocked and awed.

05.01.2022 Cornwall from child to SA Health Minister

02.01.2022 Looking forward to being among old friends in Adelaide next week for the launch of my memoir by Professor Fran Baum. Please Like and follow this page for further exciting news.