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Elder Family
Elder Family of Scots merchants and ship owners saw the infant South Australia as an opportunity to expand their business…
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Forestry
With few areas of high rainfall, South Australia lacks abundant native forests.
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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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Strikes
South Australian workers have usually been less militant than their interstate counterparts.
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United Trades and Labor Council
Carpenters, tailors, bakers, carriers, cordwainers and coachmakers had formed unions within ten years of European settlement of South Australia, and…