Sue Hines

Sue Hines (born 1959) is an award-winning Australian children's author, radio presenter and watercolourist. Born in London, she emigrated to Sydney in 1966.

Sue Hines
Born (1959-07-15) 15 July 1959
London, England
OccupationAuthor
ChildrenKate and Steve
Websitehttp://suehineswrites.blogspot.com//

Sue completed her secondary schooling at Cabramatta High School in south-western Sydney. In 1976, she appeared as a contestant on the daytime television talent show Pot of Gold on the Seven Network, where she performed an original song entitled 'Newspapers', and in 1977 she spent a year in Japan as a foreign exchange student. Sue studied at Macquarie University while raising her two young children as a solo parent and began her teaching career at Cherrybrook Technology High School when the school opened in 1992. In the mid-1990s she moved to Goulburn and then to Canberra, where she taught English and ESL at a number of secondary schools. In 2012 she moved to Mallacoota in East Gippsland and worked as a part-time teacher at Cann River P-12 College, the state's smallest school.[1]

Sue has written three young adult novels and short stories for younger readers and has taught seminars in creative writing for secondary school students. Her first novel, Out of the Shadows, was awarded the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy 1998 Award Prize for Children's Literature (Older Readers).[2] More recently, she has been one of the judges for the E.J. Brady Mallacoota Prize Short Story Competition since 2013.[3] In 2016, Sue became a regular presenter on the local radio station 3MGB-FM.[4]

Works

Young adult novels
  • Out of the Shadows (1998)
  • The Plunketts (2000)
  • The Water Boy's Story (2008)

Stories for younger readers
  • 'Spiders!' in Spider Mania (2001)
  • 'Nuts!' in Greening the Earth (2002)
  • '... And Then I Woke Up' in Fright Night (2002)

Awards
  • 1998 Family Award for Children's Literature (Older Readers)
gollark: So basically, the "god must exist because the universe is complex" thing ignores the fact that it... isn't really... and that gods would be pretty complex too, and does not answer any questions usefully because it just pushes off the question of why things exist to why *god* exists.
gollark: To randomly interject very late, I don't agree with your reasoning here. As far as physicists can tell, while pretty complex and hard for humans to understand, relative to some other things the universe runs on simple rules - you can probably describe the way it works in maybe a book's worth of material assuming quite a lot of mathematical background. Which is less than you might need for, say, a particularly complex modern computer system. You know what else is quite complex? Gods. They are generally portrayed as acting fairly similarly to humans (humans like modelling other things as basically-humans and writing human-centric stories), and even apart from that are clearly meant to be intelligent agents of some kind. Both of those are complicated - the human genome is something like 6GB, a good deal of which probably codes for brain things. As for other intelligent things, despite having tons of data once trained, modern machine learning things are admittedly not very complex to *describe*, but nobody knows what an architecture for general intelligence would look like.
gollark: https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/348702212110680064/896356765267025940/FB_IMG_1633757163544.jpg
gollark: https://isotropic.org/papers/chicken.pdf
gollark: Frankly, go emit muon neutrinos.

References
  1. Big school, little school
  2. Volume 27, Issue 3, September 2006, pp. 169-170
  3. Mallacoota Arts Council
  4. 3MGB Community Radio Mallacoota and Genoa
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