Independent auditing of Government is established in the position of the colonies first auditor general

Leaning forward and shielding his eyes from the sun, this bronze figure of Sturt looks over Victoria Square, not the land he explored

A remarkable and feisty South Australian attorney-general and premier, a father of federation and the first Australian Minster for Trade and Customs is commemorated by this statue

Climate was and still is an important factor in how and where South Australia first settled. 

Colonel William Light’s statue on Montefiore Hill pointing towards the centre of Adelaide has come to symbolise the city that Light laid out.

Colonel William Light’s survey marker from 1837 is to be incorporated in the new Royal Adelaide Hospital site

Colonel William Light’s grave remains in Light Square, while Light's Monument there has been replaced and embellished over time

The first Anzac memorial was once an obelisk in a grove of wattles

In October 1896, within one year of the Lumière brothers’ first public screening of film in Paris, the first public film screening in South Australia occurred at the Theatre Royal in Hindley Street

The first South Australian Freemasons lodge formed in England, before the colony of South Australia was settled. 

There is evidence that hawkers were active in Australia as early as the 1820s. 

The John Jefferson Bray Memorial Fountain commemorates the life of a senior judge, scholar and poet

The statue of inland explorer John McDouall Stuart at the corner of Victoria Square and Flinders Street, Adelaide, commemorates his place in Australian history

An eclectic selection of significant contributors to South Australia to 1986

The evolving profession in South Australia retained some centuries-old practices.

Remembering South Australian Light Horsemen who served in Egypt and Palestine and at Gallipoli

Radicalism has been inherent in South Australian history from its founding as a free settlement.  Based upon the English radical liberal thought of its founders, the State's reputation grew as a progressive colony and the first to entirely separate church from state.

In general refugees have enriched and diversified South Australia’s religions, universities and schools, food, the arts, newspapers, clubs and sports.

The spirit of Antarctic explorer and professor of geology, Sir Douglas Mawson, is captured in the bust by John Dowie

The bust of Sir Lawrence Bragg commemorates a South Australian Nobel Laureate

A statue of Sir Samuel Way reflects his towering presence in legal, political and cultural circles in the last decades of the nineteenth century.

South Australia’s first vice-regal proclamation was read at Holdfast Bay on 28 December 1836

The Torrens title system for land ownership was inaugurated in South Australia  has led the world in the computerisation of real property title information.

Remembering the role of horses in war.

Architect Louis Laybourne-Smith and sculptor George Rayner Hoff created a memorial that conveys the impact of the First World War