2025 AGM
The 2025 5049 Coastal Community Association was held on Friday 21 November, 2025
Marino Community Hall, Newland Avenue.
The AGM was a short 30 minutes during which we heard a summary of the 2025 Annual Report by the President and a presentation from the Treasurer on the 2024/25 Financial Reports. These reports were formally approved by the members, in addition to the Minutes of the 2024 AGM.
Committee members for 2026 were elected.
Madge and Bibs and the Advancing Girls
Madeline Rees George was at the forefront of a revolution in women’s education that changed the world. She was the long-serving Headmistress at the very progressive Advanced School for Girls and an indomitable figure in the colony.
Moving between re-enactments of letters and newspaper interviews, personal anecdotes and interviews with leading historians and the Governor of South Australia, Her Excellency, Frances Adamson, “Madge and Bibs and the Advancing Girls” paints an entertaining, engaging and extraordinary picture of a radical colony that uses education to transform the status of women in society, politics and their own hearts and minds.
Endorsements
Greg Mackie AM (History Trust of SA): “An engrossing and entertaining documentary that takes the viewer to a past time when South Australian women were among the first in the world to enjoy a democratic franchise. I commend it to all.”
Elizabeth Ho OAM (Chair History Trust of South Australia) “Rob George has done us an enormous favour by taking the truly extraordinary history of women’s education in SA off the shelves and giving it visual shape in this beautifully crafted film.”
Producer/Director
Rob George. (‘Percy & Rose’, ‘The River Kings’, ‘Selkie’, ‘Captain Johnno’).