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Ash Wednesday
The bushfires of 16 February 1983 had a devastating impact on many South Australians.
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Chinese
A small presence for much of the time, but growing in number and contribution to the community
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Gas
Domestic oil and gas exploration and discoveries have been vital for South Australia’s development
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HMCS Protector
Built between 1882 and 1884, South Australia’s only colonial warship was a veteran of three major conflicts and still exists today as…
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Julian Edmund Tenison Woods
This creative priest who has left an enduring legacy to education, to science and to the history of the Catholic…
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Labour Settlements
Labour settlements were created during the 1890s to trial collective ownership, new farming technology and the high unemployment created by…
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Mary MacKillop
Mary Helen MacKillop was born at Fitzroy, Victoria, on 15th January 1842, the first of eight children of Scottish immigrants,…
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Ngadlu Padninthi Kamangka (We Walk Together) mural
Narisha Cash’s mural acknowledges and celebrates the Kaurna people as the traditional owners and custodians of Adelaide and the Adelaide…
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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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Sir Robert Helpmann, CBE
Robert Helpmann was comprehensively described by Ninette de Valois, the head of the Vic-Wells Ballet, as ‘talented, enthusiastic, extremely intelligent,…
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Walter Gill
When Walter Gill retired in 1923 after thirty-three years as South Australia’s third Conservator of Forests, he encapsulated his life…
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