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Stephen Orr

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Stephen Orr is an Adelaide-based writer of both fiction and non-fiction.

Articles by Stephen

Requiem for a school

Is a bigger school better for smaller people? Author Stephen Orr (writing as The Poet) thinks not, as he laments the loss of his old primary school at Gilles Plains and the memories it rekindles of gum nuts, mad dogs, marbles and square dancing.

Our libraries need more, not less, money

The State Library of South Australia is a treasure offering knowledge, pleasure, a window to enlightenment – all of which are threatened when libraries become a soft target for government cost-cutting, writes author Stephen Orr.

As George Orwell said, we have a duty to know what's going on in our own backyard. File photo.

The power of facing unpleasant facts