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The Australian Colonies Government Act 1850 was a landmark development which granted representative constitutions to New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania and the colonies enthusiastically set about writing constitutions which produced democratically progressive parliaments with the British monarch as the symbolic head of ...
When the Province of South Australia received its original constitution in 1857, it was the most democratic in the British Empire, combining a universal-suffrage lower house (the House of Assembly), with a restricted-suffrage upper house (the Legislative Council). The purpose of the Legislative Council was, as with the 19th century House of ...
The House of Assembly was created in 1857, when South Australia attained self-government. The development of an elected legislature — although only men could vote — marked a significant change from the prior system, where legislative power was in the hands of the Governor and the Legislative Council, which was appointed by the Governor.
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 .
Government in South Australia is delivered by a number of agencies, grouped under areas of portfolio responsibility. Each portfolio is led by a government minister who is a member of the Parliament of South Australia , appointed by the Governor as the representative of the Crown .
South Australia's Constitutional structure has undergone numerous changes since its settlement by Europeans in the 19th century. In 1834 the Imperial Parliament passed the South Australian Colonisation Act 1834, which authorised the King-in-Council to establish a colony called the 'Province of South Australia' and to provide for a government for the province.
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The Aboriginal Heritage Act 1988 (AHA [1]) is the principal South Australian legislation protecting and preserving the state's Aboriginal heritage. [2] It repealed and replaced the Aboriginal and Historic Relics Preservation Act 1965, [3] which was the first state legislation to protect Aboriginal Australian heritage in Australia.