DOCSLIB.ORG

Divorce and Divorce Law in South Australia, 1859-1918

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Divorce and Divorce Law in South Australia, 1859-1918 SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW Divorce and divorce law in South Austalia, 1859-1918 Bridget Brooklyn Thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requircments for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of History at the University of Adelaide 1988 Summary respectively, The two propositions put forward in the thesis concern' the first instance, I claim that divorce law in particular and the law in general. In 'safety valve' thesis, see other analyses of divorce, notably william o'Neill's marriage among the ascendant divorce as a product of the rise of the companionate rejecting this ¿lfgument out of middle class of the nineteenth century. while not in English (and consequently hand, I argue that the most sweeping change wrought to formal divorce increased South Austalian) divorce was its formalization. Access century that'instead of focusing upon so greatly in the second half of the nineteenth law, it is more appropriate to talk change in marriage as a cause of change in divorce The thesis measures about the influence of divorce law upon change in ma¡riage' men and women who seldom this influence by examining the use of divorce taw by played an important part in came from powerful social gloups but who nevertheless society' changing the dominant mafital values of South Australian material: court The sources used in the thesis are two distinct bodies of marital values shared by the records and fictional literature. They reveal a set of was based on strong opposition South Australian judiciary and the novelists which marriage. Each of these two to the resofi to divorce as an alternative to unhappy members of south groups attempted to oppose divorce: the judiciary by using marriage and the novelists by a Australia's ruling élite asmoral exemplars of good Each failed to forestall combination of moral imperatives and romantic enticements. inconsistencies which were the resort to divärce because their positions entailed for divorce. Finalþ, the exposed as untenable against the pressure of the demand of divorce about the thesis draws conclusions from the South Australian example historians of the relationship between the law and its users, taking issue with other and victim' powerful left who see this relationship as necessarily one of oppressor and powerless. Declaration This thesis contains no material which has been accepted for the award of any other degree or diploma in any university and, to the best of my knowledge and belief it contains no material previously published or written by another person, except where due reference is made in the text. I consent to it being made available for photocopying and loan. Bridget Brooklyn Acknowledgments My thanks go to Dr Vivien Brodsþ, of the History Department of the University of Adelaide, for providing a topic and supervising the first eighteen months of the project and to Dr Robert Dare, of the History Department of the University of Adelaide, who assumed supervision thereafter. I also wish to thank other members of the university community who offered me encouragement, help and advice: Dr Carol Bacchi, Dr Ian Davey and Dr John Wanna. Of all those who smoothed over the difficulties of postgraduate research in other ways I would like to thank in particular Ms Leonie Kallis, Ms Chris Reardon, N{r Rodney Teakle and N{n Val Siebert, all at some stage during my research on the staff of what is now the Public Record Office of South Australia. I would also like to thank Ms Margy Burn and Ms Susan Woodburn, both Special Collections librarians at the Barr Smith Library of the Univenity of Adelaide during the time of my research. Abbreviations Register The S outh Australian Re gister P.R.O.S.A. The Public Record Office of South Austalia G.R.G. Government Record GrouP A.E.R. ReP. All England RePorts RePrint L.T. (N.S.) Law Times Reporß (New Series) CONTENTS page Introduction 1 PART I: THE COURT Prologue to Part I 7 Chapter One: The Imperial law in the colonial courEoom 9 chapærTwo: Noblesse oblige andjudicial opposition 1p divorce 46 Chapúer Three: The reüeat of the judiciary 79 Epilogue to Part I L12 PART II: THE NOVELS Prologue to Part II rL6 ChapterFour: "Apearl of greatprice": thedutiful spousein the nineteenth century novel 118 Chapter Five: "The pearl of m¡th": marital duty and romantic love r57 Chapær Six: "A full-blown fose": romantic love and the resort to divorce 187 Epilogue to Part II 2t6 PART III: THE OLD AND THE NEW Prologue to Part III 2t9 Chapter Seven: Women, marriage and divorce law 221 Chapter Eight: Duty and happiness in the South Australian divorce court 257 Epilogue to Part III 286 Conclusion 289 Appendices 293 Bibliography 30s Introduction The sixty years of divorce with which this thesis is concerned encompass the filing of South Australia's first petition under the Matrimonial Causes Act, No 22 of 1858, and the last filed in 1918 before the amendment of that year received royal assent on29 May 1919 (No. 1356 of 1918). This amendment gave women equal access with men to the single ground of adultery for the dissolution of marriage for the first time. The thesis studies South Ausfralian divorce as an aspect of legal history and thus says little about what was peculiar to divorce in South Australia. As a piece of colonial legislation, the Matrimonial Causes Act closely resembled both the English Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Act 1857 and divorce legislation enacted in other British colonies. The following history examines South Australian divorce law between 1859 and 1918 as a case study of the use of English divorce law in a predominantly British society; the characteristics of South Australian divorce no doubt had their counterparts in other nineteenth century English societies. South Australian historiography has to some extent defined itself with reference to what South Australia was not. It was not a penal colony. If the absence of convicts was considered a virtue by South Australia's founders and early colonists, a disproportionately strong odour of self-congratulation still pervades the South Australian atmosphere and is exhaled through its histories, which R. J. Holton describes as predominantly Whiggish.l Holton's call for a South Austalian history which celebrates its "plebeian" contribution, however, stresses the importance of the rise of the suburban middle classes in the twentieth century. Yet their histories are as susceptible to Whiggish interpretation as the "patrician" ones because it is the questions asked of historical material rather than the material itself which determines the Whiggishness of an historical tradition. I n. J. Holton, "Twentieth Century South Australia: From a Patrician to a Plebeian View", in E. Richa¡ds (ed.), The Flinders history of South Australia: social history (Netley, S. 4., 1986), p.550. 2 Our preoccupation with what South Australia was not nevertheless incorporates emanating an assertion of what it was and was intended to be: a concentrated settlement is an from a planned city peopled by equal numbers of men and women.2 The result historical tradition defined with almost exclusive reference to these origins. What it posing lacks more than the voices of unheard groups are the answers to (and the of) questions which our Wakefieldian tone has tended to silence. Holton exposes this lack calls more effectively in his conclusion than in his inroductory criticisms, when he for twentieth century South Australian history comprising "dilemmas such as the compatibility of community and individualism, of sectional interest and public welfare, from of individual freedom and family responsibility".3 These are universal dilemmas, which no history can claim exemption. The problem, then, is not South Australian patricianism but an exaggerated be dismissed sense of South Australian uniqueness. This thesis should therefore not families; for its unabashed preoccupation with a handful of prominent South Ausffalian South Australian history is characterized less by its "patrician" themes than its Wakefieldian overtones. Our gentry is regarded as peculiar because Wakefield planned gentries to have one from the outset,5 an emphasis which ignores the fact that colonial which are not planned still develop. Scratch the surface of the most rough-and-tumble ouÞost of Empire and you find a colonial "aristocracy" almost as old as the colony particular ißelf.6 J. B. Hirst has argued that our gentry did have local idiosyncracies, in its tendency toward urban living and the conglomeration of its dwellings with the humble cottages of plebeian South Australians.T But in South AusEalian historiography pp.78-80. 2 D. pike, psradise of dissent: South Austrslia 1829-1857,2nd. ed. (l¡ndon, 1967), 3 Holton,"Twentieth Century South Aust¡alia", p.564. a Ã-ri"Ji- foiniïur U""n made by Peter Muni in "Gesta Dei per Australianos", Australia 1888, Bulletin No.3, (December, 1979), pq.s-n. 5 -s;;;'¡";Pike, Paradise of dissent,P38. weste.rn district of 6 ;;ñ;t; M.l. üi¿¿te, Men of yesterday: a sociat li!.tory of the Victoria tB34-t'8g0 (I-ondon, 1961) and Þ.-De Serville, Port Phillip gentlemen and good sociery in Melbourne before the gold rushes (Melbourne, 1980). (Clayton' il. B. iiÀt Aietaide oid th, country 1870-1917: their social and political relctionship Vic., 1973), p.38. 3 in general, even our plebeians are depicted as peculiar because Wakefietd planned to have them too. Both too much and not enough has been made of South Australia's specialness. The need to reassert it for its own sake is reminiscent of Oscar Wilde's observation that the only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about. The persisænce of the theme of our individuality, symbolized in the motif of the Wakefield plan, suggests an adolescent unease about our identity manifested in a reticence to explore conflicts which South Australia shares with all societies.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • FSMA HOUSE, 52-56 Gawler Place ZONE/POLICY AREA: CBA - PA14 Former Claridge House
    City of Adelaide Heritage Survey (2008) NAME: FSMA HOUSE, 52-56 Gawler Place ZONE/POLICY AREA: CBA - PA14 Former Claridge House APPROVED / CURRENT USE: Offices / Shop FORMER USE: Commercial DATE(S) OF CONSTRUCTION: 1926–1927 LOCATION: 52-56 Gawler Place ADELAIDE SA 5000 LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA: Adelaide City Council LAND DESCRIPTION: CT-5556/385 HERITAGE STATUS: Local Heritage Place OTHER ASSESSMENTS Donovan, Marsden & Stark, 1982; McDougall & Vines, 1993 FSMA House (Former Claridge House), 52-54 Gawler Place—View to southeast NAME: FSMA HOUSE, 52-56 Gawler Place ZONE/POLICY AREA: CBA - PA14 Former Claridge House DESCRIPTION: Six-storey Inter-War Classical Revival commercial building constructed to Gawler Place alignment and extending through to Francis Street at rear. Built on a medium sized city allotment, the reinforced concrete rendered building has strong vertical façade surmounted by projecting cornice with brackets and central protruding bay with elaborate pediment treatment with brackets beneath the cornice and recessed balcony on fifth floor. Façade articulated by metal panels to window widths and metal framed windows. Strongly coursed vertical pilasters which vertically divide façade. Cantilevered awning. Major alterations at ground floor level. Francis Street façade of unadorned render. Basement windows evident. The assessment includes the whole of the building, with particular attention to the detailing of the western elevation: it also includes an appropriate relationship between interior floors and external features such as windows and doors. The assessment does not include detailing to southern eastern and northern elevations, alterations to the ground floor shopfront, the cantilevered verandah, nor interiors. STATEMENT OF HERITAGE VALUE: The building is of heritage value as a prominent work of architect Philip Claridge with its fine detailing in Classical Revival style, because it retains original fabric and for the manner in which it reflects the changed nature of commercial activity in Gawler Place.
    [Show full text]
  • The Brutal Truth: What Happened in the Gulf Country
    ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ THE BRUTAL TRUTH What happened in the gulf country BY TONY ROBERTS Sir John Downer, who twice served as premier of South Australia (1885-1887 and 1892-93). © National Library of Australia NOVEMBER 2009 In the last six months, my curiosity about the extent to which governments in Adelaide condoned or turned a blind eye to frontier massacres in the Gulf Country of the Northern Territory, up until 1910, has led me to fresh evidence that has shocked me. It has unsettled the world I thought I knew. I was born in Adelaide, a fourth-generation South Australian, and have resided there for much of my life. The city’s cathedrals and fine old buildings are very familiar to me. When I was young, I heard or read in newspapers the names of the old and powerful families, but took little notice. Even now, I feel uneasy revealing all that I have uncovered. In 1881, a massive pastoral boom commenced in the top half of the Northern Territory, administered by the colonial government in Adelaide.1 Elsey Station on the Roper River – romanticised in Jeannie Gunn’s We of the Never Never – was the first to be established. 2 These were huge stations, with an average size of almost 16,000 square kilometres. By the end of the year the entire Gulf district (an area the size of Victoria, which accounted for a quarter of the Territory’s pastoral country) had been leased to just 14 landholders, all but two of whom were wealthy businessmen and investors from the eastern colonies.2 Once they had taken up their lease, landholders had only three years to comply with a minimum stocking rate.
    [Show full text]
  • A General History of the Burr Family, 1902
    historyAoftheBurrfamily general Todd BurrCharles A GENERAL HISTORY OF THE BURR FAMILY WITH A GENEALOGICAL RECORD FROM 1193 TO 1902 BY CHARLES BURR TODD AUTHOB OF "LIFE AND LETTERS OF JOBL BARLOW," " STORY OF THB CITY OF NEW YORK," "STORY OF WASHINGTON,'' ETC. "tyc mis deserves to be remembered by posterity, vebo treasures up and preserves tbe bistort of bis ancestors."— Edmund Burkb. FOURTH EDITION PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR BY <f(jt Jtnuhtrboclur $«88 NEW YORK 1902 COPYRIGHT, 1878 BY CHARLES BURR TODD COPYRIGHT, 190a »Y CHARLES BURR TODD JUN 19 1941 89. / - CONTENTS Preface . ...... Preface to the Fourth Edition The Name . ...... Introduction ...... The Burres of England ..... The Author's Researches in England . PART I HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL Jehue Burr ....... Jehue Burr, Jr. ...... Major John Burr ...... Judge Peter Burr ...... Col. John Burr ...... Col. Andrew Burr ...... Rev. Aaron Burr ...... Thaddeus Burr ...... Col. Aaron Burr ...... Theodosia Burr Alston ..... PART II GENEALOGY Fairfield Branch . ..... The Gould Family ...... Hartford Branch ...... Dorchester Branch ..... New Jersey Branch ..... Appendices ....... Index ........ iii PART I. HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL PREFACE. HERE are people in our time who treat the inquiries of the genealogist with indifference, and even with contempt. His researches seem to them a waste of time and energy. Interest in ancestors, love of family and kindred, those subtle questions of race, origin, even of life itself, which they involve, are quite beyond their com prehension. They live only in the present, care nothing for the past and little for the future; for " he who cares not whence he cometh, cares not whither he goeth." When such persons are approached with questions of ancestry, they retire to their stronghold of apathy; and the querist learns, without diffi culty, that whether their ancestors were vile or illustrious, virtuous or vicious, or whether, indeed, they ever had any, is to them a matter of supreme indifference.
    [Show full text]
  • Votes for Women ©
    1 VOTES FOR WOMEN © Condensed for the Women & Politics website by Dr Helen Jones from her book In her own name: a history of women in South Australia revised edition (Adelaide, Wakefield Press, 1994). On a hot December morning in 1894, a week before Christmas, the South Australian House of Assembly voted on the third reading of the Constitution Amendment Bill: ‘The Ayes were sonorous and cheery, the Noes despondent like muffled bells’. When the result was announced, thirty-one in favour and fourteen against, the House resounded to loud cheering as South Australia’s Parliament acknowledged its decision to give votes to women. The legislation made South Australia one of the first places in the world to admit women to the parliamentary suffrage; it was alone in giving them the right to stand for Parliament. Its passage caused elation, rejoicing and relief among those who had laboured to achieve it, for the Act opened the way for women’s political equality and their fuller participation in public life. Before this Act, one level of rights and responsibilities existed for men, another for women. These were determined under the Constitution of 1855-56, which allowed eligible men over twenty-one years to vote and to stand for election for the House of Assembly. Men over thirty years with further residential and property qualifications were eligible to vote and stand for election to the Legislative Council. The masculine gender only, or the word ‘person’, assumed to be male, was used in the Constitution. Women could neither vote nor stand for Parliament.
    [Show full text]
  • Duplicate Cable Conference Report of Conference
    (No. 26.) 187 7. SESSION II. TASMAN .I A. HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY. DUPLICATE CABLE CONFER.ENCE: REPOR'l' OF CONFERENCE. Laid upon the Table by the Colonial Secretary, and ordered by the House to be . printeq, April 24, 1877. 1877. LEGISLATIVE .ASSEMBLY. NEW SOUTH WALES. , REPORT, MINUTES -OF PROCEEDINGS, &c. OF THE CABL-E· 00-NFERENCE, HELD IN SYDNEY, JANUARY-FEBRUARY, 1877. _ ORDERED BY THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY TO BE PRINTED, · 6 February, 1877. SYDNEY: CHARLES POTTER, ACTING GOVERNM;ENT PRINTER. 1877. 3a 28-77 LIST OF PAPERS. \ 1. Report of the Proceedings of the Conference. 2. Minutes of the Conference~ 3, Papel's laid before the Conference. 4. Evidence of Professional Gentlemen in attendance on the Conference; 5 NEW SOUTH W.ALES. CABLE CONFERENCE. / \ REPORT of the PROCEEDINGS of the Conference on Duplication of the Cable between .Australasia and Europe, held in Sydney in January, 1877. - - THE Conference on the subject of Duplication of the Telegraph Cable between Australasia and Europe assembled in Sydney, and held their first meeting on the 25th January, 1877. The whole of the Australasian Colonies_ were.represented, as follows, viz.:- New Soutlt Wales : TH~ HoNORABLli: JOHN ROBERTSON, Colonial Secretary. THE HoNORABLE ALEXANDER STUART,. Colonial Treasurer. ' THE HoNORAilLE J. ]!,. BURNS, Postmaster General. New Zealand: THE HoNORAilLE G. McLEAN, Postmaste~ General and Commissioner of Teiegraphs, and Commissioner of Customs. Queensland: THE HoNORAilLE SAMUEL WALKER GRIFFITH, Q.C., Attorney General, and Secretary for Public Instruction., THE HoNORABLE CHARLES STUART MEIN, Postmaster General. Soutlt .Australia : THE HoNoR.-\IlLE 13m HENRY AYERS, K.C:M.G., Chief Secretary. {_ THE HoNOR.A.IlLE EnENEZER WARD, Ministei' of Agriculture and Education.
    [Show full text]
  • Port Elliot and Goolwa Heritage Study (1981)
    J. ' i .·.. l .. ., -.... "'-.... ! .. •* ..... I .,. o '}'I ' ·..:unp. ;·,_. Jl ... -.. ~ ...... .. /had /1.1/\' .\. : ~.:i • • j . -. ' : I . " .. , ... I; ·:./ 6/'f'l'. \.- . ' ' Port Elliot and Goolwa Heritage Study PORT ELLIOT AND GOOU'A HERITAGE STUDY STEERING COMMITTEE PORT ELLIOT AND GOOLWA HERITAGE STUDY PREPARED BY: Edwin L. Noack Susan Harsden John C. Da11witz STATE HERITAGE BRANCH DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING ED. NOACK AND ASSOCIATES, TOWN AND REGIONAL PLANNERS in association with HERITAGE INVESTIGATIONS. Corrected Copy May, 1981 CONTENTS Page Introduction ( i ) Summary of Recommendations ( i i ) Acknowledgements ( i v) PART 1. Summary of History 1 1802 - 1839 1 1840 - 1890 4 1891 - Present 10 References 13 PART 2. Sites Structure and Buildings of general heritage interest 17 Goolwa Township 17 Port Elliot Township 42 Middleton Township 60 Rural Areas: 70 Goo lwa vJard 70 Sturt Ward 71 Hindmarsh Island Ward 76 Middleton Lvard 79 Port Elliot Ward 86 Currency Creek Ward 93 Nangkita Lvard 97 References 99 PART 3. Recommendations 101 Proposed Heritage Areas 101 Development Control 102 Nomination of Items 104 Information 116 Restoration 118 Further Work 119 APPENDIX. A. Items on the Register of the National Estate B. Items on the Register of State Heritage Items C. The National Trust List D. Division of Tourism List ( i ) Introduction This study commenced in October 1980 with the main aim of identifying the sites, buildings and structures of heritage significance within the area of the District Council of Port Elliot and Goolwa. The study was carried out under the supervision of a Steering Committee comprising members of the Heritage Unit of the Department for the Environment, the District Council of Port Elliot and Goolwa and members of the district's community.
    [Show full text]
  • Ashford House Any Other Or Former Name(S): Is the Place Already on Another City of West Torrens Local Heritage Item Heritage List?
    SA Heritage Register Nomination form To help your nomination be successful, please fill out this form with as much information as possible. Feel free to expand the answer fields as much as you require or append information to the form. It is important that you attach images and a map of what you are nominating by email or by fax. Please note that places which have been nominated during past three years will not be reconsidered by the South Australian Heritage Council unless you can provide significant new information not provided through the previous nomination and assessment. For assistance with this form you may contact: Your local historical society or heritage adviser may be of assistance OR you may telephone an assessment officer in Heritage South Australia on (08) 8124 4960. A. Nominated Place 1. Name Name of Place: Ashford House Any other or former name(s): Is the place already on another City of West Torrens Local Heritage Item heritage list? 2. Location Street Address: 87 Anzac Highway Suburb / Town: Ashford Post Code: 5035 Local Council Name: City of West Torrens Land Description: Title: Volume: Folio: Parcel Type: Parcel No: (if known) Plan Type: Plan No: Section: Hundred: GPS Location/s: Longitude / Easting / X Latitude / Northing / Y (Datum = ) (If known) 3. Ownership Name of Owner(s): Contact person: (if different from owner explain relationship) Postal Address: Phone Number: Ownership History: 4. Nominator (your details) Your Name/s: Organisation/Position: Daytime Phone: Fax: Postal Address: Email Address: Page 1 SA Heritage
    [Show full text]
  • NUMBER 18, 1990 the HISTORICAL SOCIETY of SOUTH AUSTRALIA Founded 1974
    JOURNAL of the HISTORICAL SOCIETY of SOUTH AUSTRALIA CO NUMBER 18, 1990 THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA Founded 1974 Objects: (a) to arouse interest in and to promote the study and discussion of South Australian and Australian history. (b)to promote the collection, preservation and classification of source material of all kinds relating to South Australian and Australian history. (c) to publish historical records and articles. (d)to promote the interchange of information among members of the Society by lectures, readings, discussions and exhibitions. (e)to co-operate with similar Societies throughout Australia. (f) to do all such things as are conductive or incidental to the attainment of the above objects or any of them. ********** Council 1990 Patron: Sir Walter Crocker, K.B.E. President: Dr R.P.J. Nicol Vice- President: Mr B J. Samuels Secretary: Mr M.B. Keaire Treasurer: Mrs A.A. Huckel Members: Mr A.H.F. Angas Mr R.M. Gibbs, A.M. Dr PA. Howell Ms S.E. Marsden Dr J.D. Playford, O.A.M. Mr W.S. Stacy Ms P. Sumerling Mrs E. Ulbrich All enquiries about membeship of the Society or purchase of the Journal should be directed to the Secretary. The Historical Society of South Australia. Institute Building, 122 Kintore Avenue, Adelaide, S.A. 5000. Correspondence with the Editor of the Journal should be directed to the same address. CONTENTS ARTIC:[.FS The Stretton Symposium: Social Science and Public Policy Robert Dare 5 Hugh Stretton's University of Adelaide, 1954-56 KS. Inglis 7 Committed Historians: Charles Pearson and Hugh Stretton
    [Show full text]
  • Ministers Responsible for Agriculture Since Parliamentary Government Commenced in October 1856 and Heads of the Department of Agriculture/PISA/PIRSA
    Ministers responsible for Agriculture since Parliamentary government commenced in October 1856 and Heads of the Department of Agriculture/PISA/PIRSA Dates Government Dates of Minister Ministerial title Name of Head of Date range portfolio Department Department of Head 1856– Boyle Travers 24.10.1856– Charles Bonney Commissioner of Crown 1857 Finniss 21.8.1857 Lands and Immigration 1857 John Baker 21.8.1857– William Milne Commissioner of Crown 1.9.1857 Lands and Immigration 1857 Robert Torrens 1.9.1857– Marshall McDermott Commissioner of Crown 30.10.1857 Lands and Immigration 1857– Richard Hanson 30.9.1857– Francis Stacker Dutton Commissioner of Crown 1860 2.6.1859 Lands and Immigration 2.6.1859– John Bentham Neales Commissioner of Crown 5.7.1859 Lands and Immigration 5.7.1859– William Milne Commissioner of Crown 9.5.1860 Lands and Immigration 1860– Thomas 9.5.1860– John Tuthill Bagot Commissioner of Crown 1861 Reynolds 20.5.1861 Lands and Immigration 1861 Thomas 20.5.1861– Henry Bull Templar Commissioner of Crown Reynolds 8.10.1861 Strangways Lands and Immigration 1861 George 8.10.1861– Matthew Moorhouse Commissioner of Crown Waterhouse 17.10.1861 Lands and Immigration 1861– George 17.10.1861– Henry Bull Templar Commissioner of Crown 1863 Waterhouse 4.7.1863 Strangways Lands and Immigration 1863 Francis Dutton 4.7.1863– Francis Stacker Dutton Commissioner of Crown 15.7.1863 Lands and Immigration 1863– Henry Ayers 15.7.1863– Lavington Glyde Commissioner of Crown 1864 22.7.1864 Lands and Immigration 1864 Henry Ayers 22.7.1864– William Milne
    [Show full text]
  • Boolcoomatta Reserve CLICK WENT the SHEARS
    Boolcoomatta Reserve CLICK WENT THE SHEARS A social history of Boolcoomatta Station, 1857 to 2020 Judy D. Johnson Editor: Eva Finzel Collated and written by Judy Johnson 2019 Edited version by Eva Finzel 2021 We acknowledge the Adnyamathanha People and Wilyakali People as the Traditional Owners of what we know as Boolcoomatta. We recognise and respect the enduring relationship they have with their lands and waters, and we pay our respects to Elders past, present and future. Front page map based on Pastoral Run Sheet 5, 1936-1964, (163-0031) Courtesy of the State Library of South Australia Bush Heritage Australia Level 1, 395 Collins Street | PO Box 329 Flinders Lane Melbourne, VIC 8009 T: (03) 8610 9100 T: 1300 628 873 (1300 NATURE) F: (03) 8610 9199 E: [email protected] W: www.bushheritage.org.au Content Author’s note and acknowledgements viii Editor’s note ix Timeline, 1830 to 2020 x Conversions xiv Abbreviations xiv An introduction to Boolcoomatta 1 The Adnyamathanha People and Wilyakali People 4 The European history of Boolcoomatta 6 European settlement 6 From sheep station to a place of conservation 8 Notes 9 Early explorers, surveyors and settlers, 1830 to 1859 10 Early European exploration and settlement 10 Goyder’s discoveries and Line 11 Settlement during the 1800s 13 The shepherd and the top hats The Tapley family, 1857 to 1858 14 The shepherds 15 The top hats 16 The Tapleys’ short lease of Boolcoomatta 16 Thomas and John E Tapley's life after the sale of Boolcoomatta 17 Boolcoomatta’s neighbours in 1857 18 The timber
    [Show full text]
  • Kunapipi 25(2) 2003 Full Version
    Kunapipi Volume 25 Issue 2 Article 1 2003 Kunapipi 25(2) 2003 Full version Anne Collett University of Wollongong, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://ro.uow.edu.au/kunapipi Part of the Arts and Humanities Commons Recommended Citation Collett, Anne, Kunapipi 25(2) 2003 Full version, Kunapipi, 25(2), 2003. Available at:https://ro.uow.edu.au/kunapipi/vol25/iss2/1 Research Online is the open access institutional repository for the University of Wollongong. For further information contact the UOW Library: [email protected] Kunapipi 25(2) 2003 Full version Abstract Full text of issue. This full issue is available in Kunapipi: https://ro.uow.edu.au/kunapipi/vol25/iss2/1 KUNAPIPI Journal of Post-Colonial Writing i, the M in ister m. any purpose that and welfare of ires out of t.:ne revenue moneys o th e band itute Indl an af of the band, to pj ¡vid e for i of the band jand to provide for! :nt In su ra n ce ftct or. behal f cf e* th e ir «rr.ploymfent out c f moneys \ R ke expend it Vi res out of the revenue moneys, of a band jRade pursuant tc paragraph 81 •, 1 > t p . 3 • fo r th e p u rp o s e person whose name was deleted from the Sand List of th> exceeding one per capita 'is ha re cf the ‘reverse me r.eyr ■nue moneys with .n o n w»y authorize the expend it following purposes, name! ,on of noxious weeds and chef prev 5, pests or diseases that may des :?eas< sanitary conditions in private premises i on reserve® ; and ruction and maintenance of boundary fences 12 : 1996 satisfied that family without ¡efficient cause GENERAL ISSUE KUNAPIPI Journal of Post-Colonial Writing VOLUME XXV NUMBER 2 2003 11 Kunapipi is a bi-annual arts magazine with special but not exclusive emphasis on the new literatures written in English.
    [Show full text]
  • 'Knuckles' Connolly | Former Wallabies Head Coach
    Borneo ANZAC Day Cup Tournament and Bears Sportsman’s night 2013 Special Guests John 'Knuckles' Connolly | Former Wallabies Head Coach John "Knuckles" Connolly is a rugby union coach and the former head coach of the Wallabies. Connolly has in the past worked with the Queensland Reds, Stade Francois, Swansea RFC as well as Bath Rugby. As a rugby player, Connolly played hooker for the Brothers club in Brisbane. From 1980 through to 1982, Connolly acted as a player and a coach for a rugby team in Darwin. His first major coaching position was with the Brothers club in Brisbane in 1983, acting as the reserve grade coach for three years, taking the team to two premierships. Subsequent roles came to him as he was appointed as the Under 19s and Under 21s Queensland rugby union coach. In 1989, Connolly took up a coaching position within the Queensland Rugby team. In 1991, Connolly served as an Australian selector. During his time with Queensland, the side won the Super Six in 1992 and the Super 10 Championship in 1994 and 1995. With the inception of the Super 12 competition in Australia in 1996, Connolly continued his position at the Queensland Reds. The Reds won the minor premiership that year, and Connolly went on to win the Super 12 Coach of the Year award in both 1998 and 1999, the Reds also winning the minor premiership in 1999 as well. He went over to France the following season, where he took up a position at the Stade Francois rugby club. The club won the premiership during the 1999-2000 season and were Heineken Cup finalists that same year as well as the next.
    [Show full text]