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Aboriginal Policy and Administration
South Australia’s Foundation Act, passed by the British parliament in 1834, made no reference to the Aboriginal peoples who owned…
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Adelaide
The city of Adelaide refers here to the area within the outer boundary of the parklands; that is, the ‘square…
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Adelaide 1875
Adelaide: Supplement to the Australasian Sketcher. Courtesy of the State Library of South Australia, SLSA: B1452 The ‘bird’s eye’ view of Adelaide…
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Adelaide 1876
Adelaide: supplement to the Illustrated Sydney News; ‘A Capital View of the City of Adelaide’. Image courtesy of the State Library…
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Adelaide General Post Office
The classically styled freestone Adelaide General Post Office housed both the post and telegraph offices which connected South Australia with…
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Adelaide Steamship Company
The Adelaide Steamship Company was Australia’s largest shipping company and one of South Australia’s most successful business ventures.
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Adelaide Steamship Company
Collection held by the South Australian Maritime Museum relating to Australia’s largest shipping company and one of South Australia’s most successful…
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Angas Family
George Fife Angas (1789–1879), described by his biographer Edwin Hodder, who was attracted to Angas’s nonconformist piety, as ‘one of…
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Architecture
The distinctive architectural character of Adelaide and its suburbs has disappeared since 1980 – city high-rise offices and derivative styles…
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Armenians in South Australia
The Armenian Cultural Association of South Australia was founded in 1960.
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Barr Smith Family
Robert Barr Smith (1824–1915), the son of a Scottish clergyman and his wife Marjory, née Barr, migrated to Melbourne in…
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Benjamin Herschel Babbage
Benjamin Herschel Babbage superintended construction of the first Port Adelaide railway line.
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Bonython Hall
Since 1936 this hall in Gothic style has served the University of Adelaide and the community
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Book Plan of South Adelaide
Book Plan of South Adelaide. Courtesy of the State Library of South Australia, SLSA: B1578746 Prior to the development of…
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Broken Hill Proprietary Co. Ltd
South Australia has very close historic and daily links to the mining and processing activities of BHP Billiton.
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Brookman Building
Developing technical education via a School of Mines and Industries leading to SAIT and then UniSA
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Brown Street
Brown Street, running from South Terrace to Grote Street, morphed into Morphett Street in 1967 but the area retains its out-of-the-way feel
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Building Materials
Diverse materials have been used for building houses, structures and other constructions in South Australia with distinctive local stone giving…
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Closer Settlement
Settlers believed that using land intensively maximised its value and civilised its occupants, and that holdings should be small to…
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Colonel Light Survey Marker
Colonel William Light’s survey marker from 1837 is to be incorporated in the new Royal Adelaide Hospital site
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Colonel William Light Grave and Monument
Colonel William Light’s grave remains in Light Square, while Light’s Monument there has been replaced and embellished over time
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Colonial Laws Validity Act
The powers of colonial legislatures to create courts, alter local constitutions and authenticate laws were confirmed by the British statute.
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Distance
Geographical position and distance have strongly shaped the European history of South Australia.
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Duryea Panorama
Panorama of Adelaide, 1865. Photographer: Townsend Duryea. Courtesy of the State Library of South Australia, SLSA: B5099 The Duryea Panorama is a…
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