The value of South Australia's exports nearly halved.

In 1978, the term Barassi Line was used to describe the dichotomy that existed in Australia's football culture, where Australian Football was most popular in all states bar New South Wales and Queensland.

For this reason a significant proportion of Australia's indigenous population lives in the Outback, in areas such as the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara lands in northern South Australia.

The early colonial governors held an almost autocratic power due to the distance from and poor communications with Great Britain, until 1824 when the New South Wales Legislative Council, Australia's first legislative body, was appointed to advise the governor.

Hobart is Australia's second oldest capital city after Sydney, New South Wales.

The Murray River ( River Murray in South Australia ) is Australia's longest river.

At in length, the Murray rises in the Australian Alps, draining the western side of Australia's highest mountains and, for most of its length, meanders across Australia's inland plains, forming the border between the states of New South Wales and Victoria as it flows to the northwest, before turning south for its final or so into South Australia, reaching the ocean at Lake Alexandrina.

Margaret River is located inland from the Indian Ocean at a point about halfway between Cape Naturaliste and Cape Leeuwin in Western Australia's South West region.

Labor formed South Australia's first majority government after winning the 1910 state election, two weeks after federal Labor formed Australia's first majority government after winning the 1910 federal election.

The first Test of the season, against the touring South Africans, saw high drama as Australia's left arm paceman Ian Meckiff was called for throwing by Colin Egar and removed from the attack by Benaud after one over.

South Australia's Governor is Kevin Scarce and its Premier is Jay Weatherill of the Australian Labor Party.

More than half of Australia's wines are produced in the South Australian wine regions which principally include: Barossa Valley, Clare Valley, McLaren Vale, Coonawarra, the Riverland and the Adelaide Hills.

According to Australian maps, South Australia's south coast is flanked by the Southern Ocean, but official international consensus defines the Southern Ocean as extending north from the pole only to 60 ° S or 55 ° S, at least 17 degrees of latitude further south than the most southern point of South Australia.

South Australia's main temperature range is in January and in July.

* South Australia's official state abbreviation and postcode

* February 16 – The Ash Wednesday fires in Victoria and South Australia claim the lives of 76 people, in one of Australia's worst bushfires ever.

Royal Mint branches were established in Sydney, New South Wales, Melbourne, Victoria, and Perth, Western Australia for the purpose of minting gold sovereigns from Australia's rich gold deposits.

OzOpera ( Opera Australia's education, access and development arm ) presented the La bohème production in Victoria, Northern Territory and Western Australia, attended by 13, 350 people, while OzOpera's Schools Company performed to over 63, 500 primary age children in more than 360 performances in urban and regional New South Wales and Victoria.

* Underhill, D ( 1993 ) Australia's Dangerous Creatures, Reader's Digest, Sydney, New South Wales, ISBN 0-86438-018-6

Johnson was the only Southern senator who did not resign his seat during the Civil War ; he became the most prominent War Democrat from the South and supported Lincoln's military policies.

The seat of government was moved from Mafikeng in South Africa, to newly established Gaborone in 1965.

These directives implied precise emphasis on: the search for political coordination with emerging and developing countries, namely India, South Africa, Russia and China ; creation of the Union of South American Nations and its derivative bodies, such as the South American Security Council ; strengthening of Mercosul ; projection at the Doha Round and WTO ; maintenance of relations with developed countries, including the United States ; undertaking and narrowing of relations with African countries ; campaign for the reform of the United Nations Security Council and for a permanent seat for Brazil ; and defense of social objectives allowing for a greater equilibrium between the States and populations.

In 1994, the administrative county ( which did not include the county borough of Dublin ) was dissolved and the area divided among the administrative counties of Dún Laoghaire – Rathdown, Fingal and South Dublin each with its county seat.

He unsuccessfully contested the marginal seat of Aberdeen South in the 1964 general election, and won it in the landslide Labour victory at the 1966 general election at the age of 28, defeating Priscilla Tweedsmuir by 1, 799 votes.

* Electoral district of Gosford, a seat in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly

The party continued to struggle until the general election of 1989 when the again renamed party won its first seat in parliament, the Dáil, when Roger Garland was elected in Dublin South.

In the general election of 1997 the party gained a seat when John Gormley won a Dáil seat in Dublin South – East.

Mary White won a seat for the first time in Carlow-Kilkenny however, Dan Boyle lost his seat in Cork South – Central leaving the party with the same number of TDs as before.

* LDS ( automobile ), various single seat race cars built for the South African Formula One Championship by Louis Douglas Serrurier

The VFU won a seat in the House of Representatives in 1918, and at the 1919 federal election the state-based country parties won seats in New South Wales, Victoria and Western Australia.

However, the situation in Western Australia and South Australia, where the party is more clearly differentiable from the Liberals, is quite different, with the Nationals narrowly missing out on winning a second seat in South Australia in 2006 and winning a safe Liberal seat in Western Australia in 2005.

However in 1793, in the Second Partition of Poland, Poznań, came under the control of the Kingdom of Prussia, becoming part of ( and initially the seat of ) the province of South Prussia.

The Union Buildings, seat of South Africa's government

Sidon is the center of the Governorate of South Lebanon, and hosts the seat of the Governor of Southern Lebanon.

He became a vocal leader of the Non-Aligned Movement in the United Nations and while leveraging South Africa's seat on the Security Council, agitating for reform of that body.

There are also countries – such as Portugal, South Africa, Finland, the Netherlands, and the Republic of Macedonia – that have proportional representation systems without a threshold, although the Netherlands has a rule that the first seat can never be a remainder seat, which means that there is an effective threshold of 100 % divided by the total number of seats.

but if justice for Bantus entails driving the government of the Union of South Africa away from the West, then the Bantus must be prepared to carry their identification cards yet a while longer.

An excellent article was published recently in the Journal Of The Church Peace Union by a South African journalist on the inhuman economic conditions of the blacks in South Africa, amounting to virtual slavery, and the economic complicity of both the government and the people of the United States in these conditions.

As the war drew to a close, Lincoln's presidential Reconstruction for the South was in flux ; having believed the federal government had limited responsibility to the millions of freedmen.

They fought against UNITA rebels, based in Angola, and the apartheid-era government in South Africa who supported them.

In 2007, because of widespread poaching of abalone, the South African government listed perlemoen as an endangered species according to the CITES section III appendix, which requests member governments to monitor the trade in this species.

This listing was removed from CITES in June 2010 by the South African government and South African abalone is no longer subject to CITES trade controls.

Arbor Day was celebrated from 1983 until 1999 in South Africa, when the national government extended it to National Arbor Week, which lasts from 1 – 7 September.

The founding of the SANNC was in direct response to injustice against black South Africans at the hands of the government then in power.

The government of the newly formed Union of South Africa began a systematic oppression of black people in South Africa.

During Mbeki's presidency, the government took a more pro-capitalist stance, often running counter to the demands of the South African Communist Party and COSATU.

He continued to correspond with friends in New South Wales and to promote the colony's interests with government officials.

It was known as Anderson Station until the post office was established in November 1855 and the government changed the name of the station from “ Anderson ” to “ Andersonville ” in order to avoid confusion with the post office in Anderson, South Carolina.

2008 has brought announcements of new or additional sales to Singapore, Finland, Morocco and South Korea ; in December 2010 the Swiss government requested 150 AIM-120C-7 missiles.

National Party government in 1948, which instituted apartheid, and South Africa's withdrawal from the Commonwealth in 1961, ended any prospect of incorporation of the territories into South Africa.

However, difficulties in South Africa ( epitomised by the defeat of the British Army at the Battle of Isandlwana ), as well as Afghanistan, weakened his government and led to his party's defeat in the 1880 election.

The South African government has stepped up legal protection for the Blue Crane.

The Maritz Rebellion or the Boer Revolt or the Five Shilling Rebellion or the Third Boer War, occurred in South Africa in 1914 at the start of World War I, in which men who supported the re-creation of the old Boer republics rose up against the government of the Union of South Africa because they did not want to side with the British against Germany so soon after they had had a long bloody war with the British.

Korea had been divided at the end of World War II along the 38th parallel into Soviet and U. S. occupation zones, in which a communist government was installed in the North by the Soviets, and an elected government in the South came to power after UN-supervised elections in 1948.