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sue hines

sue hines -lrb- born 1959 -rrb- is an award-winning australian children 's author , chorister and watercolourist .
born in london , she emigrated to sydney in the mid-1960s .
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 far-eastern victoria and now works as a part-time teacher at cann river p-12 college , the state 's smallest school .
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 -lrb- older readers -rrb- .
most recently , she was one of the judges for the 2013 e.j. brady mallacoota prize short story competition .
