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The Flinders History of South Australia - Political History. Adelaide: Wakefield Press. Jaensch, Dean (2002). "Community access to the electoral processes in South Australia since 1850". South Australian State Electoral Office. Archived from the original on 8 March 2016. Stretton, Pat (1988). The Life and Times of Old Parliament House. Old ...
South Australia was the second place in the world to do so after New Zealand in 1893, and the first to allow women to stand for election. [1] (The first woman candidates for the South Australia Assembly ran in 1918 general election, in Adelaide and Sturt. [2]) A painting of the House of Assembly meeting in Old Parliament House in 1867
The history of South Australia includes the history of the Australian state of South Australia since Federation in 1901, and the area's preceding Indigenous and British colonial societies. Aboriginal Australians of various nations or tribes have lived in South Australia for at least thirty thousand years, while British colonists arrived in the ...
Waterhouse was aged 15 when his family migrated in 1839, initially to Hobart.Four years later he moved to Adelaide and set up business as a merchant. [2]He was first elected to parliament in the electoral district of East Torrens in the colony of South Australia in August 1851.
In South Australia, the act was substantially revised in 1886, and this version remains in force in South Australia. The Real Property Act 1886 , updated 3 October 2019, has a long title "An Act to consolidate and amend the Real Property Act 1861, the Real Property Act Amendment Act 1878 and the Rights-of-Way Act 1881, and for other purposes".
The Government of South Australia, also referred to as the South Australian Government or the SA Government, is the executive branch of the state of South Australia. It is modelled on the Westminster system , meaning that the highest ranking members of the executive are drawn from an elected state parliament .
The election was held concurrently with the first referendum in Australia. [ 2 ] Women's suffrage in Australia took a leap forward – enacted in 1895 and taking effect from this election, South Australia was the first in Australia and only the second in the world after New Zealand to allow women to vote, and the first in the world to allow ...
The 1851 election was the first of this type. The election resulted in violence on 20 September 1855 in Hindley Street between opponents and supporters of Anthony Forster, editor and part-owner of the South Australian Register and also one of the candidates for election. A consequence of the violence was the introduction of secret ballots from ...