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Unley High School

The Utmost for the Highest

1910

Greg Rolton

1260 (2021)

the blue and the lighter blue

Sports[edit]

Unley High School is a member of the Sports Association for Adelaide Schools (SAAS). The school operates an extensive sporting program, both for after-school sport and weekend sport. It participates in South Australian Secondary Schools' Sports Associations programs and also in the Independent Schools' Sporting Association for cricket, hockey and football. It is a member of the Heads of Rowing Schools and has a strong Rowing Club. In 2015 the school hosted the annual schools Head of the River regatta at West Lakes.

Academic[edit]

The Environment Group helps to increase the sustainability of the school, while decreasing the negative impact it has on the earth because of energy consumption, water usage and waste. Recent achievements include the purchase of a 24,000-litre rainwater tank to replace the water used in the hand basins and showers in the Life Be In It Gym, the purchase of solar panels on the roof of the school, a water grant to replace all the toilets in the school with dual-flush toilets, and an intensive recycling program.

– paralympic swimmer

Jesse Aungles

– historian and academic

Joan Beaumont

– mathematician

Keith Briggs

AO[1] – Premier of South Australia and Liberal Member for Finniss

Dean Brown

[3] – writer, director, body image campaigner

Taryn Brumfitt

[1] – Federal Labor Member for Hindmarsh

Mark Butler

[4] – author

Leon Carmen

– member of the South Australian Legislative Council

Tom Casey

AC FRS FAA FTSE – scientist who determined the structure of the influenza virus, leading to the development of the drug Relenza.

Peter Colman

OAM – ARIA Award-winning children's singer/songwriter and entertainer

Peter Combe

– basketball player with the Adelaide 36ers[5]

Tom Daly

– basketball player with the Wollongong Hawks

Oscar Forman

AC[6] – first woman Prime Minister of Australia

Julia Gillard

[7]Australian rules football player and captain of the Adelaide Crows, coach of the Melbourne Demons

Simon Goodwin

AOAustralian Army officer and director of the Australian War Memorial

Steve Gower

[1] – Australian rules football player

Malcolm Greenslade

MBE[1] – a former Australian rules football player who played with and captained Sturt in the SANFL

John Halbert

AM – real estate agent

Cliff Hawkins

QC (1918–2011)[1]Justice of the Supreme Court of South Australia and Commissioner for the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody

Elliott Johnston

[8] – Labor Senator for South Australia

Linda Kirk

– South Australian Independent Commissioner Against Corruption

Bruce Lander

Australian hockey player

Paul Lewis

AC FRS FAA FAGU FInstP FRSN – physical oceanographer and climate researcher

Trevor McDougall

(1900–1965)[9]CSIRO biochemist

Hedley Marston

AC CBE Aboriginal Australian public administrator, Australian of the Year in 1984

Lowitja O'Donoghue

AC KBE FRS FAA (1901–2000)[1]physicist, humanitarian and Governor of South Australia

Mark Oliphant

– his nephew, cartoonist with The Advertiser, then a notable career in America

Pat Oliphant

State Labor Minister for Health and Wellbeing and Member for Kaurna

Chris Picton

[8] – Federal Labor Member for Kingston

Amanda Rishworth

KCVO OBE[1] – Governor of South Australia

Keith Seaman

– DSO & Bar, DFC & Bar, World War II "Dambuster" pilot

Dave Shannon

AO (1921–2013)[1] – cityscape painter

Jeffrey Smart

(1900–1959) – botanist and president of the Royal Society of South Australia

Joseph Garnett Wood

[10] – member of the South Australian Legislative Council representing the Dignity for Disability party

Kelly Vincent

– poet

Leon Gellert

– pioneering sports educator and administrator

May Mills

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