ABSTRACT
Flinders University occupies a 370-acre site in the southern suburban fringe of Adelaide, a city of some 800,000 people and the capital of the State of South Australia. Adelaide has been described as a ‘ackwater within a backwate’ (meaning Australia itself). It is a place the international flights pass over. The great mineral discoveries of the 1960s in Australia were in other States. With few exceptions the headquarters of industry and commerce in Australia lie elsewhere. To sustain Adelaide's population, water must now be pumped from the River Murray some 40 miles away to supplement the storage system in the surrounding hills.
