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Queens Wharf
Queen’s Wharf was one of the first two wharves built in Port Adelaide, providing the foundation of the Port we…
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Refugees
In general refugees have enriched and diversified South Australia’s religions, universities and schools, food, the arts, newspapers, clubs and sports.
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Sir Robert Richard Torrens
Robert Richard Chute Torrens was born on 31st May 1812 in Cork, Ireland, the son of Robert Torrens, of the…
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Sir Walter Watson Hughes
Shortly before his death on New Year’s Day, 1887, Walter Watson Hughes wrote to his nephew, ‘I have been a…
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Stag Hotel
This impressive landmark hotel of the Queen Anne style, rebuilt in 1903, was first licensed in 1849. The hotel conveys…
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Strikes
South Australian workers have usually been less militant than their interstate counterparts.
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The South Australian League for the Maintenance of Religious Freedom
The South Australian League for the Maintenance of Religious Freedom was a religious lobby group formed to combat the State-Aid…
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Thomas Quinton Stow
Thomas Quinton Stow was born on 7th July 1801 at Hadleigh, Suffolk, England, a descendant of an old farming family.…
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Ville de Bordeaux
Originally designed as a warship, this French merchant vessel’s first—and only—foray into South Australian waters was fraught with illegality and controversy.
