Even before the discovery of copper South Australia had turned the corner.
From Catherine Helen Spence
As we grew to love South Australia, we felt that we were in an expanding society, still feeling the bond to the motherland, but eager to develop a perfect society, in the land of our adoption.
Nothing is insignificant in the history of a young community, and - above all - nothing seems impossible.
The Town Clerkship, however, was the means of giving me a lesson in electoral methods.
The first issue of The Register was printed in London, and gave a glowing account of the province that was to be - its climate, its resources, the sound principles on which it was founded.
South Australia was the first community to give the secret ballot for political elections.
Probably my mother's life was prolonged beyond that of a long-lived family by her coming to Australia in middle life; and if I ever had any tendency to consumption, the climate must have helped me.
Our South Australian farmers left their holdings in the hands of their wives and children too young to take with them, but almost all of them returned to grow grain and produce to send to Victoria.
My return to London introduced me to a wider range of society.
My pamphlet did not set the Torrens on fire.
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