Growing up in the tight-knit community of Moonta on South Australia’s Yorke Peninsula, Edwin Dyson knew everyone in his school – not just in his year, but three years above and below.

“Being in the country, it was quite different to the city,” he recalls. “When I spoke to people going to school in Adelaide, they would say, ‘Oh yeah, we have 250 Year 12s.’ And even with the names on the back of their jumpers, they didn’t even know all the names.

“At Moonta Area School, I knew everyone in my entire year level, three years above me, I knew everyone’s parents, brothers and sisters, so it was very tight knit. It was pleasant.”

That deep sense of connection and mutual support has stayed with him, and it’s a message he’s carrying into a new statewide initiative celebrating the networks that he

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