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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 ...
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 .
This new Legislative Council was the first true parliamentary body in South Australia. The Act also made provision for a commission to initiate the establishment of democratic government, electoral districts, requirements for voting rights, and terms of office. [5]
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.
One of its first responsibilities was the care of Constitutional Museum, Australia's first political museum, later known as Old Parliament House, before reverting to use by the South Australian Parliament in 1995. [4] From 2013, the History Trust has been a member of the Federation of Australian Historical Societies. [5]
Tom Price emigrated to South Australia with his family in 1883. [3] He was a stonecutter, teacher, lay preacher, businessman, stonemason and clerk-of-works. As a stonemason, Price helped to build the Parliament House of South Australia, a building he would later serve in as an elected politician. [2] [3]