Teaming up with his secretary's husband, George Kirkby, the first edition of Opus was a four-page broadsheet newspaper replete with the refinement and formality of 1950s journalism.
In a 1998 interview, the late emeritus Professor Godfrey Tanner explained that "[The Stockton Ferry was] the brainchild of James Beisers and his co-editor who were into drug reform.
The idea being that readers would be encouraged to take short trips after reading its contents.
"[1] A special edition of the magazine, released in 2002, and edited by BA graduate Matthew Glenn Ward commemorated the life of Godfrey Tanner, a prominent classics professor at the university who had died that year.
Opus is edited by the UNSA Media Officer and a team of volunteers.