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Emigration Square
Care for migrants, the unemployed and the destitute was evident from South Australia’s foundation days.
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English in South Australia
Since 1836 the majority of immigrants to South Australia have come from England.
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Estonians in South Australia
Estonian-born people were not shown separately in Australian census data until 1933
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Estonians in South Australia
Geographic Origins The Republic of Estonia lies on the Baltic Sea in north-eastern Europe. It is bordered by Latvia to…
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Eyre Peninsula
South Australia’s largest peninsula and best-defined region has a long history but to date no general historian.
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Fijians in South Australia
A Fijian presence in Australia has been evident since the late nineteenth century.
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Filipinos in South Australia
Small numbers of Filipinos began arriving in South Australia after the Second World War but during the 1970s the number…
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Fire Cracker Box
Packaging and remnats from firecrackers stocked at Gordon Sym Choon’s Union Street shop.
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Fleurieu Peninsula
From prehistoric times through the Aboriginal Dreaming to a modern region popular for settlement, farming, tourism and recreation.
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Flinders Street
From ‘City of Churches’ to the ‘City of Cars’, Flinders Street reflects changes in Adelaide
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Foundation
South Australia’s foundation – envisaged as the perfect ‘Wakefieldian’ colony – but was it?
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French in South Australia
The first French people came to Australia as convicts or as free settlers who had fled France in the wake…
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Frenchman’s Rock
EXPEDI/TION DE DE/COUVERTE/PAR LE COMMEND/ANT BAUDIN/SUR LE GEOGRAPHE/1803 is carved into the boulder known as Frenchman’s Rock.
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George Woodroffe Goyder, CMG
George Woodroffe Goyder was born in London, England, in 1826, the eldest son of physician and preacher David George Goyder…
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Gepps Cross Migrant Hostel
At the time it operated, Gepps Cross hostel was called a ‘miniature suburb’. It was ‘purpose built’ using Nissen huts,…
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Germans in South Australia
Germans have been arriving in South Australia since the beginnings of the new colony in 1836
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Ghanaian in South Australia
African and Asian Ghanaians have immigrated to Australia since 1973, when the White Australia policy was abolished.
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Gladys Sym Choon
Gladys Sym Choon’s Chinese heritage and her business selling oriental goods were an exotic attraction at a time when the…
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Glenelg Migrant Hostel
Officially referred to as Glenelg North, the hostel off Warren Avenue had the advantage of being close to existing suburbs…
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Good Neighbour Council
The South Australian branch of the Good Neighbour Council was founded in 1949. Its aim was to assist in the…
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Greeks in South Australia
Greek arrivals in South Australia increased in the years after the First World War
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HMS Buffalo
The Buffalo was the largest of the first nine ships to bring British settlers to South Australia, bringing Governor Hindmarsh to the…
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Holy Trinity Church
Holy Trinity Church is the earliest surviving Anglican Church building in South Australia, and one of Adelaide’s oldest standing structures.
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Hungarians in South Australia
The first Hungarians arrived in South Australia after the failed 1848 revolution against the Hapsburg rulers of Austria