A History of South Australia

Links in the Chain: British slavery, Victoria and South Australia

“…Not every bluestone in Adelaide is mortared with the blood of a slave as is charged against the bricks of Bristol and Liverpool, yet the fine particles that cemented the City of Light's Proclamation Tree were mixed with the blood of West Indian slaves and Kaurna bones, since plastered over with an insouciant scholarship. 180 This conclusion is by no means hyperbolic. As McQueen identified, and as this article bolsters, South Australians cannot justifiably maintain that the state is Australia's only 'free-state'.…”

“…Initially, they had wanted a new state largely independent from the Crown but this was rejected. 118 However, the separation of church and state was allowed. 119 After setbacks and wrangling, the Imperial Parliament passed the South Australia Act of 1834.…”

“…To satisfy these demands Angas formed the South Australian Company, serving as its chairperson, with the intention of purchasing enough land to satisfy the Act. 182 The list of directors include many names instantly recognisable to any reader familiar with Adelaide and South Australia: Currie, Charles Hindley, Henry Kingscote, John Pirie, John Rundle, and Henry Waymouth. 183 Directors were permitted to 'borrow or raise any sum or sums for the purpose of the said company' with an overall limit of £50,000, but had to buy £2,500 in shares as a minimum.…”

“…According to A History of South Australia, the financial obligations of the Act were met by the colonists. 195 If Finniss was correct then the quadrumvirate (Palmer, Montefiore, Currie and Elder) were wrong. Finniss was a senior politician and also a member of the Old Colonists' Association.…”

Culture and education with Alice Rigney (1942–2017), Australia's first Aboriginal woman school principal

“…Writing in the school magazine, a Point Pearce student registered changes in her community including “new houses, fencing paddocks and yards, new roads” [13]. Closely connected to Point Pearce, Labor attorney-general and minister for Aboriginal affairs, and subsequently premier, Don Dunstan, “sought integration of Aboriginal people into white society on their own terms and recognised that Indigenous people needed the protection of the law, access to their own land and to be conferred the right to self-determination if they were to prosper” (Sendziuk and Foster, 2018, p. 171; Woollacott, 2019). In 1966, South Australia took the lead in land rights with the Aboriginal Lands Trust Act which returned Point Pearce land to Aboriginal hands (Wanganeen, 1987; Woollacott, 2019).…”