South Australia Quotes

• 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.

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  Catherine Helen Spence

  Love   Land   Australia  

  Catherine Helen Spence “An Autobiography”, Library of Alexandria

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• I had learned what wealth was, and a great deal about production and exchange for myself in the early history of South Australia - of the value of machinery, of roads and bridges, and of ports for transport and export.

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  Catherine Helen Spence

  Bridges   Australia   Wealth  

  Catherine Helen Spence, Susan Magarey, Maryan Beams (2005). “Ever Yours, C.H. Spence: Catherine Helen Spence's An Autobiography (1825-1910), Diary (1894) and Some Correspondence (1894-1910)”, p.49, Wakefield Press

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• South Australia has transformed. There has been a range of changes to our economy over the past 10 years in which we have genuinely set ourselves up for the future. I think we have to start behaving like that's real and project a quiet confidence in the future of our state.

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  Jay Weatherill

  Real   Past   Thinking  

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• South Australia was the first community to give the secret ballot for political elections.

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  Catherine Helen Spence

  Australia   Giving   Community  

  Catherine Helen Spence “An Autobiography”, Library of Alexandria

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• A child came up to me and asked 'am I dreaming?' I had a similar experience coming to the Art Gallery of South Australia when I was a child. My mum had done a workshop here and it stayed with me. It's an important formative time.

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  Patricia Piccinini

  Dream   Art   Children  

  Source: www.lucyreesart.com

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• Even before the discovery of copper South Australia had turned the corner.

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  Catherine Helen Spence

  Discovery   Australia   Copper  

  Catherine Helen Spence, Susan Magarey, Maryan Beams (2005). “Ever Yours, C.H. Spence: Catherine Helen Spence's An Autobiography (1825-1910), Diary (1894) and Some Correspondence (1894-1910)”, p.49, Wakefield Press

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