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Before the switch to standard time zones, each local city or town was free to determine its local time, called local mean time. Now, Western Australia uses Western Standard Time; South Australia and the Northern Territory use Central Standard Time; while New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria, Jervis Bay Territory, and the Australian ...
For subsequent years, DST in the south-eastern states and SA now starts on the first Sunday in October, finishing on the first Sunday in April the next year. Western Australia was not affected by these changes to DST, being the only state in 2007–08 to observe daylight saving from the last Sunday in October to the last Sunday in March.
Construction of the Adelaide Festival Centre began under Steele Hall in 1970 and was completed under the subsequent government of Don Dunstan, who also established the South Australian Film Corporation in 1972 and the State Opera of South Australia in 1976. Over time, the Adelaide Festival expanded to include Adelaide Writers' Week and ...
South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a state in the southern central part of Australia.With a total land area of 984,321 square kilometres (380,048 sq mi), [6] it is the fourth-largest of Australia's states and territories by area, which includes some of the most arid parts of the continent, and with 1.8 million people [3] it is the fifth-largest of the states and territories by ...
Thebarton (/ ˈ θ ɛ b ər t ən / THEB-ər-tən), formerly Theberton, on Kaurna land, is an inner-western suburb of Adelaide, South Australia in the City of West Torrens.The suburb is bounded by the River Torrens to the north, Port Road and Bonython Park to the east, Kintore Street to the south, and South Road to the west.
The location and characteristic grid layout of the city and North Adelaide, as well as the surrounding parklands, were the result of the work of Colonel William Light (1786–1839), who was the first Surveyor General of South Australia. The area where the Adelaide city centre now exists was once known as "Tarndanya", [8] the Kaurna word for as ...
River Torrens at Vale Park, c.1970s. The part of the River Torrens between Ascot Bridge and the end of Fife Street was originally marshland caused by a sharp meander; to preserve the continuity of the government-owned reserve beside the river, later the site of the Adelaide O-Bahn and Torrens Linear Park, the river was artificially diverted in 1968–1969, and now forms a straight line between ...
The Adelaide plains were inhabited by the Kaurna people before the colonisation of South Australia, their territory extending from what is now Cape Jervis to Port Broughton. The Kaurna lived in family groups called yerta , a word which also referred to the area of land which supported the family group.