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Highgate, South Australia

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Highgate is a suburb of Adelaide in the City of Unley. It is surrounded by Fullarton and Malvern.

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Highgate, South Australia
Wilkinson Road, Adelaide Parkside

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Wilkinson Road
5063 Adelaide, Parkside
South Australia, Australia
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Electoral district of Unley
Electoral district of Unley

Unley is a single-member electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly. Named after the suburb of the same name, it is the state's smallest electorate by area at just 14.1 km2 (5.4 sq mi). It is a suburban electorate in Adelaide's inner south, taking in the suburbs of Eastwood, Frewville, Fullarton, Glenside, Glenunga, Goodwood, Highgate, Hyde Park, Kings Park, Malvern, Myrtle Bank, Parkside, Unley, Unley Park and Wayville, as well as parts of Glen Osmond and Millswood. Unley was created as a conservative seat. It was first contested at the 1938 election, where it was held by conservatives until the 1962 election, when Gil Langley captured the seat for Labor. Unley was one of the seats that put Labor in government at the 1965 election after decades of the Playmander in opposition, with Labor managing to retain Unley in the close 1968 and 1975 elections and the 1979 election loss. Langley was succeeded by Labor's Kym Mayes at the 1982 election, a state government minister. In the close 1989 election Labor again managed to retain Unley. However, Mayes was heavily defeated at the 1993 election landslide by Liberal Mark Brindal on a swing of over 12 percent, on paper turning Unley from marginal Labor to safe Liberal at one stroke. Brindal went on to serve as a minister in the government of John Olsen. The electoral redistribution ahead of the 2002 election had a large effect on Unley, which lost several suburbs west of Goodwood Road while gaining several suburbs east of Fullarton Road, changing Unley from a marginal seat to a fairly safe to safe Liberal seat. This helped Brindal retain Unley with only a small swing against him as the Liberals lost government. Brindal relinquished preselection of Unley prior to the 2006 election, contesting instead the electoral district of Adelaide held by the then Minister for Education, Jane Lomax-Smith. Despite a statewide Labor landslide, David Pisoni narrowly won with a 51 percent two-party vote despite a challenge from City of Unley mayor and Labor candidate Michael Keenan. It has since reverted to a fairly safe to safe Liberal seat.

Unley Museum
Unley Museum

The Unley Museum is a local history museum in Unley, South Australia located at 80 Edmund Avenue in the former Unley Fire Station building, built in 1898. It was founded as a museum in 1971, and operated by the City of Unley. The museum with five gallery spaces has more than 12,000 photographs and objects, and has grown from donations of Unley people. The Unley Museum incorporates several display galleries, a research library, and conducts research into house histories and families of Unley. In 2012 The Unley Museum won the Museums and National Galleries Award MAGNA 2012 (Level 2), the nomination "Permanent Exhibition" for "Gorgeous Gardens". The judges described the project: "An engaging project, innovatively presented, well researched and visually appealing, with strong connections to a diversity of community members through a subject to which all can relate positively."In 2016 The Unley Museum won the Museums and National Galleries Award MAGNA 2016 (Level 1), the nomination "Permanent Exhibition or Gallery Fitout" for the best permanent exhibition "200 Years of Change". This permanent exhibition tells about two centuries of history from the Kaurna people to Unley today. The interactive exhibition includes displays, photographs, videos and objects that could be touched and used in order to discover exciting stories about the history of Unley.In 2017 the Unley Museum won the Museums and National Galleries Award MAGNA 2017 (Level 1), the nomination "Permanent Exhibition or Gallery Fitout" for the exhibition "Terrible Tales of Unley". The exhibition explores the stories from Unley's past related to mystery, murder, and fire. The interactive displays include activities to keep visitors entertained in order to solve an Unley mystery.In 2019 the Unley Museum was awarded an Adelaide Fringe Festival Award for the contemporary art exhibition. "Things of Nature". A contemporary art exhibition explores the significance of nature.

Glenside Hospital (Adelaide)

Glenside Hospital, as it was known from 1967, previously the Public Colonial Lunatic Asylum of South Australia, Parkside Lunatic Asylum and Parkside Mental Hospital, was a complex of buildings used as a psychiatric hospital in Glenside, South Australia.Since the 1970s the original site has been subdivided and parcels of land sold off, largely for housing. The large administration building fronting the side was refurbished to house the Adelaide Studios of the South Australian Film Corporation in 2011. The site is sometimes referred to as "the old Glenside Hospital", the "Glenside Hospital historical precinct" or "Glenside Campus".As of April 2019, Glenside Health Services was built at the southern end of the site to co-locate mental health services with beautiful surroundings and shared garden spaces to enhance recovery. Services on site include Acute Care (Central Adelaide Local Health Network), Rural and Remote (Barossa Hills Fleurieu Local Health Network), Helen Mayo House (Women's and Children's Health Network), Inpatient Rehabilitation Services (Central Adelaide Local Health Network), Inpatient Alcohol and Other Drug Withdrawal Service (Southern Adelaide Local Health Network) and the Tarnanthi Forensic Sub-Acute Unit (Northern Adelaide Local Health Network). Adjacent to Glenside Health Services is the Jamie Larcombe Centre, providing mental health and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) services to veterans."