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National Council of Women of South Australia
The National Council of Women of South Australia argued for pensions for widows with children, raising the marriage age for…
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National Trust of South Australia
With 50 branches, 138 properties and 4500 members, the National Trust of South Australia is the largest historical organisation in…
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Norman William Jolly
Norman Jolly was born on August 5th 1882 at Mintaro, South Australia, the son of storekeeper Henry Jolly and his…
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Nursing
On-the-job experience was the only training for the earliest nurses, but the profession is now part of the higher education…
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Oral History
There’s a lot to talk about with history – while history doesn’t stop being made it, record it while you…
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Perry Engineering Co.
Samuel Perry was an Adelaide born manufacturer whose business made munitions during the Second World War.
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Peter Smith Dawson
Peter Smith Dawson said of himself, ‘I am a man of the soil, I come from the people and what…
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Philanthropy
‘South Australia’, wrote the early twentieth-century author of The Cyclopedia of South Australia, ‘owes its existence to a movement which…
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Pirie Street
Pirie Street has been home to cottages, churches, commerce and clubs
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Playford Family
A Baptist minister and Waterloo veteran with a dragoon’s pension, South Australia’s first Thomas Playford arrived in 1844 to claim…
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Police
Arising by accident rather than design, South Australia’s Police Force has maintained a high reputation
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Poltpalingada Booboorowie
From the 1880s Tommy Walker, or Poltpalingada Booboorowie, was a leading figure among the community of Aboriginal people who lived…
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Population
South Australia’s demography is in many ways the most distinctive of all Australia’s states, but the wealth of historical population…
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Port Adelaide Customs House
Construction of Port Adelaide’s fourth customs house commenced in 1878, following demolition of the timber customs house established on the…
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Prisons
Although South Australia was proclaimed a free settlement, colonial officials soon found they needed a gaol to house lawbreakers.
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Probation
In South Australia probation encapsulated several kinds of opportunity, not only for those prosecuted but also for the criminal justice…
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Public Libraries
South Australia was unique among the Australian colonies in that the South Australian Literary and Scientific Association assembled a subscription…
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Pubs
JM Freeland characterises Australian pubs as among ‘the most socially significant, historically valuable, architecturally interesting and colourful features of Australian…
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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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Retail Trade
In the early years of European settlement the distinction between retail trade, wholesale trade and importing in South Australia was…
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River Murray
The River Murray has been central to South Australia’s existence. Named in 1830 by Charles Sturt after Sir George Murray,…
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Roads
This is the story of how an efficient road system was created in South Australia
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Robert Barr Smith
When Robert Barr Smith died in 1915 at the age of 91, long obituaries extolled his role as an astute…
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Royal Adelaide Show
The Royal Adelaide Show has become the annual meeting place for country and city.
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Rundle Street
Rundle Street has been a centre of shops and arcades, theatre and cafes, as well as acrimonious debate
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Saint Mary’s Dominican Convent and School
Saint Mary’s Convent and School is one of several historically significant Catholic church buildings and religious community residences based on Franklin Street and…
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Saint Patrick’s Church
Saint Patrick’s Church on Grote Street is one of several historically significant Catholic church buildings in the southwest corner of…