Article "Opal Capital of Australian Outback" by Kenny Moore, photographs by Penny Tweedie - National Geographic October 1976 Mentions Danny Serdar, Josef Boucek (alias Machine gun Joe), Alice Burke, James Hutchison, Faye Nayler, Trevor and Kate Weatherill, David Genat, Tony Starke, Fred Horie, Tom Kruse, Craig Cameron, Owen Daw, Farid Khan, Jim Ledgard, Harold Binke. GI 80030
30 Years after Student Bus Crash near Coober Pedy, Survivors Plan Documentary, Coober Pedy Regional Times, 23/6/23 45 students and 4 teachers from Mount Lilydale Mercy College were on board. Local responders included Andy Sheils (pictured), Janet Brewer, Veronika Witham, Nora McDonald, Lloyd Hetzel, and Grant Drummond.
Article "Jack Norton revisits" CPT June 1987 by Peter Caust Re. visit to Coober Pedy by George Robert "Jack" Norton after almost 70 years. Jack stayed with Len & Judy Absalom. Jack recalled how he and Archie Burnett drove the first vehicle a Ford, from William Creek to Coober Pedy in 1918 starting a freight and passenger service. The miners called it "Wilful Murder" Also mentioned: Doug McDouall, Sam Ervine and Tom Brady
Article from a magazine re Australian "Coat of Arms" made on a hillside by Steve Matusiak
Coober Pedy Opal Miners "Hall of Fame" Honour Board Listing Inductees from 2004 - 2007
Country Connection article "Destinations - A great year for fossickers" by Doreen Chamberlain - July-September 1989 (Inflight with Kendall Airlines magazine) Includes advertisements mentioning "Toms's Tours", The Big Winch hosted by Gabriele & Claus, "Star Opal" with Robert & Helen McCormack, Umoona Opal Mine & Museum and Opal Motel GI 90023
'Cats and Dogs of Coober,' by Michelle Etheridge, Advertiser 13/3/22 Pictured: Dawn Jones and Hayden Lewis Dawn's Coober Pedy Animals' Second Chance arranges for animals to be rehomed and desexed through Paws & Claws in Adelaide.
The Good Weekend magazine in The Age "A Rock and a Hard Place" 13/3/1999. Stories about Steve Eger, Dean Clee, Joseph Kristo, Damir Adlaf, Sakib Sarajlic, Thelma Bekiaris, Lydia Grava, Maria and David Westneat, Crocodile Harry (Arvid Blumental)
Article Australian Womans weekly 2-2-1964 re Opal Cave. Mentions Faye Nayler & Ettie Hall
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