Sleep Story 241 – South Australia and Western Australia
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The Success and Failure of the South Australian Plan
The act of 1834 enjoined also that no convicts should ever be sent to South Australia, and this enactment has never been infringed. It is decreed that as soon as the population of the new colony should have reached 50,000, a constitution with representative government should be granted to it. At the close of 1849, the population was 52,904,. In 1850 the British Parliament conferred on the colonists the power of returning elected members to serve in the Legislative Council. There was much both of success and of failure, but it may be said that the attempt was made in a true spirit of philanthropy.
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