28 Facts About South Australia

South Australia is a state in the southern central part of Australia.

Land which now forms the state of South Australia was claimed for Britain in 1788 as part of the colony of New South Wales.

On 15 August 1834, the British Parliament passed the South Australia Act 1834, which empowered His Majesty to erect and establish a province or provinces in southern Australia.

South Australia is the only Australian state to have never received British convicts.

The South Australia Police was formed in April 1838 to protect the community and enforce government regulations.

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Current flag of South Australia was adopted on 13 January 1904, and is a British blue ensign defaced with the state badge.

South Australia has boundaries with every other Australian mainland state and territory except the Australian Capital Territory and the Jervis Bay Territory.

South Australia's economy relies on exports more than any other state in Australia.

South Australia receives the least amount of federal funding for its local road network of all states on a per capita and a per kilometre basis.

In 2013, South Australia was named by CommSec as the second lowest performing economy in Australia.

South Australia came out of the COVID-19 recession better than the other Australian states, with the economy growing by 3.

South Australia has the lead over other Australian states for its commercialisation and commitment to renewable energy.

Crown land held in right of South Australia is managed under the Crown Land Management Act 2009.

South Australia is a constitutional monarchy with King Charles III as sovereign, and the Governor of South Australia as hisrepresentative.

South Australia was accountable only to the British Colonial Office, and thus democracy did not exist in the colony.

Women's suffrage in Australia took a leap forward – enacted in 1895 and taking effect from the 1896 colonial election, South Australia was the first government in Australia and only the second in the world after New Zealand to allow women to vote, and the first in the world to allow women to stand for election.

South Australia became an original state of the Commonwealth of Australia on 1 January 1901.

Local government in South Australia is established by the Constitution Act 1934, the Local Government Act 1999, and the Local Government Act 1999 .

South Australia contains 68 councils and 6 Aboriginal and outback communities.

On 14 June 2013, South Australia became the third Australian state to sign up to the Australian Federal Government's Gonski Reform Program.

Largest public provider of vocational education is TAFE South Australia which is made up of colleges throughout the state, many of these in rural areas, providing tertiary education to as many people as possible.

South Australia has four interstate rail connections, to Perth via the Nullarbor Plain, to Darwin through the centre of the continent, to New South Wales through Broken Hill, and to Melbourne–which is the closest capital city to Adelaide.

South Australia has extensive road networks linking towns and other states.

South Australia has been known as "the Festival State" for many years, for its abundance of arts and gastronomic festivals.

Marshall said when launching the plan: “The arts sector in South Australia is already very strong but it's been operating without a plan for 20 years”.

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The traditional home of Australian rules football in South Australia was Football Park in the western suburb of West Lakes, which was the home ground of both AFL teams until 2013.

South Australia is home to the Adelaide Strikers, an Australian men's professional Twenty20 cricket team, that competes in Australia's domestic Twenty20 cricket competition, the Big Bash League.

Crime in South Australia is managed by the South Australia Police, various state and federal courts in the criminal justice system and the state Department for Correctional Services, which administers the prisons and remand centre.