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On 22 September 1871, Mary MacKillop was excommunicated for alleged insubordination by Bishop Sheil in the Chapel of Saint Mary’s Convent and School.
South Australia’s first gay pride march, the ‘Proud Parade’, is held in Adelaide. The next occurs 30 years later in 2003, when the Adelaide Pride March opens the city’s annual Feast Festival.
Governor Buxton laid the foundation stone with great ceremony on 26 September 1898.
