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Great and Glorious Reformation
Greg Taylor
Wakefield Press, Adelaide, 2005
In its early days, South Australia was responsible for a large number of legal innovations which have spread all around Australia and, in some cases, around the world. Greg Taylor has selected six of the most important of these and looks at their origin and effect on the law and society. The first is the Torrens system of lands titles registration, now established all around the world. The author, after outlining the breakthrough Torrens made, establishes that the idea was really a South Australian one, not an import from Germany as some have claimed.
Further South Australian legal innovations dealt with in the book include the recognition of Aboriginal customary law at the urging of a grand jury, the associations incorporation legislation, the statute permitting accused people to give evidence, legislation permitting people to sue the government, and an important procedural reform. All these innovations made the law more useful to the citizens and the community it is meant to serve, and are contributions to legal progress of which South Australians can be proud. In fact, some of these innovations have been so successful that people have forgotten that they were even developed in South Australia in the first place.
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Adelaide
Technical High School – The Story – 1897-1974
Bryce Kohler
Hyde Park Press, Adelaide, 2005
After years of effort the Old Scholars Association has published a history of the Adelaide Technical High School, as written by ex-student and teacher, Bryce Kohler.
The Adelaide Technical High School was situated on North Terrace in the Brookman building. The Tech was a department of the School of Mines and Industries in 1903 then renamed Junior Technical School in 1914 and Adelaide Technical High School in 1918. Later, in 1960 it became the South Australian Institute of Technology. It was not under the jurisdiction of the South Australian Education Department and due to overwhelming demand for placements, the school required strict entry requirements and imposed an entrance exam. In the late 1950’s the school was threatened with closure, however, with strong support from its old scholars, the school continued at a new site, Glenunga, which then put it under the control of the South Australian Education Department. The school remained at Glenunga until 1974 when it was renamed Glenunga High School.
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State
of South Australia – Trends & Issues
Edited by John Spoehr
Wakefield Press, Adelaide, 2005
State of South Australia is the only comprehensive overview of key social, economic, environmental and cultural trends and policy issues in South Australia. The book makes an important contribution to thinking about future directions in the context of South Australia’s Strategic Plan, bringing together leading South Australian commentators. They review the policies that affect our lives in a wide range of areas, including education, health, community services, law, the Arts, the environment, and Indigenous affairs.
The book addresses whether South Australia can achieve sustained economic and social prosperity. It includes contributions from 20 writers on 16 areas of social, economic and cultural policy with thorough analysis, researched data and forthright conclusions. State of South Australia is a reference journal that speaks equally to the media, students, bureaucrats, business leaders, academics and the general public.
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