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Electoral District Of Dunstan
Dunstan is a single-member Electoral districts of South Australia, electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly, covering the inner eastern suburbs of Beulah Park, South Australia, Beulah Park, College Park, South Australia, College Park, Evandale, South Australia, Evandale, Firle, South Australia, Firle, Hackney, South Australia, Hackney, Joslin, South Australia, Joslin, Kensington, South Australia, Kensington, Kensington Park, South Australia, Kensington Park, Kensington Gardens, South Australia, Kensington Gardens, Kent Town, South Australia, Kent Town, Marden, South Australia, Marden, Maylands, South Australia, Maylands, Norwood, South Australia, Norwood, Payneham, South Australia, Payneham, Payneham South, South Australia, Payneham South, Royston Park, South Australia, Royston Park, St Morris, South Australia, St Morris, St Peters, South Australia, St Peters, Stepney, South Australia, Stepney, and Trinity Gardens, South Australia, Trinity Gardens. The elector ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cressida O'Hanlon
Cressida Clytie O'Hanlon (born 1972) is an Australian politician from the South Australian Labor Party, Labor Party. She has been a member of the South Australian House of Assembly since winning the 2024 Dunstan state by-election. She contested the same seat against Premier Steven Marshall in the 2022 South Australian state election, 2022 state election losing by 260 votes. Cressida previously owned her own corporate mediating business and also worked part-time as a staff member to Reggie Martin, Reggie Martin MLC. Political career In the 2019 Australian federal election she was the Australian Labor Party candidate in the Electoral results for the Division of Sturt, Division of Sturt running unsuccessfully against Liberal Party of Australia, Liberal candidate James Stevens (Australian politician), James Stevens. In the 2024 Dunstan state by-election, 2024 Dunstan by-election, O’Hanlon made political history when she became the first government-backed candidate to win a sea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kensington, South Australia
Kensington is a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia in the City of Norwood, Payneham & St Peters council area. Unlike the rest of the city, Kensington's streets are laid out diagonally. River Torrens#Tributaries, Second Creek runs through and under part of the suburb, which contains many heritage buildings as well as Norwood Swimming Centre and several schools. History The stretch of Portrush Road alongside Kensington was originally known as Kensington Terrace. The village of Kensington was surveyed in November 1838 by J.H. Hughes, the first in the immediate area, and was named after Kensington Palace. The streets were laid out diagonally in order to minimise crossings of Second Creek, with the main streets, High Street and Regent Street, running parallel to the creek. Wellington and Bridge Streets, in the south-western corner of the suburb, were first to be settled, and Bridge Street was the main street until trams in Adelaide, a tramline was laid along High Street in the 1870s. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trinity Gardens, South Australia
Trinity Gardens is a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. The name is taken from Holy Trinity Church on North Terrace, Adelaide, and was formerly known as Trinity Glebe. History On 28 March 1840 the trustees of Holy Trinity Church – Osmond Gilles, Charles Mann and James Hurtle Fisher – were given approximately of land in the area, as ''Glebe'' lands, by Pascoe St Leger Grenfell. The land came to be known as Trinity Glebe. From 1911, the trustees had wanted to sell the Trinity Glebe for housing. However, the terms of the trust deed forbade it and required an act of Parliament to alter. In 1920, the Parliament made the necessary amendment. The land was then immediately subdivided, named Trinity Gardens, and sold for housing by Wilkinson, Sando & Wyles Ltd, who promised to make "liberal provision in the way of space for tennis, bowls and croquet". North Norwood Post Office opened around 1886, which was renamed Trinity Gardens in 1950 and St Morris in 1963, when the second ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stepney, South Australia
Stepney is a small triangular near-city suburb of Adelaide within the City of Norwood Payneham & St Peters. It is known for the historic Maid and Magpie Hotel, which is situated prominently between Magill and Payneham Roads at a large junction. History Before the British colonisation of South Australia and subsequent European settlement, Stepney was inhabited by one of the groups who later collectively became known as the Kaurna peoples. Early European settlement Stepney was named after an inner-city district in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. George Muller, who hailed from there, created the "Village of Stepney" out of section 259, Hundred of Adelaide, in 1850. Muller built the Maid and Magpie Hotel. Whilst Adelaide was to be a city of fine buildings and a refined populace, free from the constraints of convict influence, George Muller's Stepney bore a strong resemblance to its less-refined namesake near the City of London, replete with slums. The early settlement ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Peters, South Australia
St Peters is an inner-eastern suburb of Adelaide, South Australia in the City of Norwood Payneham St Peters. The area was first settled in 1838, with allotments sold to investors in the South Australia Company. It was originally a separate town and was named after the Church of England's school of St Peter. The nearby school, now commonly known as St Peter's College, was relocated to its current site in 1854 on of land in what is now known as Hackney. St Peters Post Office opened on 1 November 1886. It was formerly the seat of its own municipality, the Corporate Town of St Peters, but since 1997 has been part of the City of Norwood Payneham & St Peters. The historic St Peters Town Hall and attached 1911 banquet hall are listed on the South Australian Heritage Register. The East Adelaide Primitive Methodist Church was established in 1883. It became East Adelaide Methodist church in 1901, and Spicer Memorial Church in 1906 following the death of its benefactor, pastorali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Morris, South Australia
St Morris is a suburb of Adelaide, located in the local government area of the City of Norwood Payneham St Peters. History ''North Norwood'' Post Office opened around 1886, was renamed ''Trinity Gardens'' in 1950 and ''St Morris'' in 1963 before closing in 1988. The Windsor Theatre opened at 407 Magill Road in 1931, purpose-built as a picture theatre, on a corner block. It was owned by the Cunnew brothers, was also known as the De Franco at some point, and closed in 1957, by which time the lease had been acquired by Ozone Theatres Ltd. and as of 2022 houses Inspirations paint shop. The suburb was regarded as a middle class one in the 20th century. References Suburbs of Adelaide {{adelaide-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royston Park, South Australia
Royston Park is a suburb of Adelaide in the City of Norwood Payneham St Peters. It is a narrow suburb at a little more than 200 m wide. It was created by a subdivision in 1909. Royston Park is bordered by Joslin and Marden, along with the River Torrens. Royston Park's most notable residents include Adelaide Adelaide ( , ; ) is the list of Australian capital cities, capital and most populous city of South Australia, as well as the list of cities in Australia by population, fifth-most populous city in Australia. The name "Adelaide" may refer to ei ... ABC radio presenter Roger Willis. The Royston Park Post Office closed in 1975. References Suburbs of Adelaide {{adelaide-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Payneham South, South Australia
Payneham South is a suburb of Adelaide in the City of Norwood Payneham St Peters The City of Norwood Payneham & St Peters is a metropolitan local government area of South Australia. It covers the inner eastern suburbs of Adelaide. It is divided into five wards: Torrens, Payneham, West Norwood/Kent Town, Kensington (each ele .... It has traditionally been market gardens but is currently undergoing a building boom in which many smaller houses are being built. Payneham South Post Office closed in 1982. Payneham Cemetery is located on Marian Road. References Suburbs of Adelaide {{adelaide-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Payneham, South Australia
Payneham is an eastern suburb of Adelaide in the City of Norwood Payneham St Peters. It is part of a string of suburbs in Adelaide's east with a high proportion of Adelaide's Italian-Australian and French-Australian residents, many of whom can be traced back to the large-scale migration following World War II. Payneham's northern boundary is Payneham Road with Portrush Road passing south–north through the middle of the suburb. History In 1866, Payneham was a small agricultural village of farms growing wheat and hey. Payneham was named for himself by Samuel Payne (c. 1803–1847), who with his wife Ann, née Maslen, and two children arrived in April 1838 aboard ''Lord Goderich'' from London, and occupied section 285, Hundred of Adelaide in 1839. Payneham Post Office opened on 18 July 1850 and was renamed Marden in 1968. Notable People Samuel Payne After Payne's arrival in South Australia in 1838, he lived with his wife and children at ''Payneham House'' in Rosella Street ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norwood, South Australia
Norwood is a suburb of Adelaide, about east of the Adelaide city centre. The suburb is in the City of Norwood Payneham & St Peters, whose predecessor was the oldest South Australian local government municipality. The Parade, Adelaide, The Parade runs east to west through the centre of the suburb. Two roads run parallel to this, also along the whole length of the suburb: Beulah Road to the north, and William Street to the south. History Before British colonisation of South Australia and subsequent European settlement, Norwood was inhabited by one of the groups who later collectively became known as the Kaurna peoples. Early settler Edward Stephens (Australian settler), Edward Stephens, who arrived in the colony in 1839, wrote: "Norwood and Kent Town, South Australia, Kent Town were unknown then. The site of the present Norwood was then a magnificent eucalypt, gum forest, with an undergrowth of kangaroo grass, too high in places for a man to see over; in fact persons lost their ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maylands, South Australia
Maylands is a suburb of Adelaide located within the City of Norwood Payneham St Peters, and bounded by the main roads Portrush Road and Magill Road. History Maylands was named by William Wadham (who married Jane Cooper circa 1852 in Adelaide) and Luke M Cullen, early settlers who sold the land that made up the original town in 1876. There is a Mayland in the English county of Essex from whence the Cooper family emigrated. Maylands consists of mostly medium density residential properties, predominantly in an east–west elevation with most streets in the suburb oriented north–south. Many of its houses having been built in the late 19th century and early 20th century, there are South Australian examples of colonial, Federation and some art deco architecture. Unlike Stepney, to Maylands' west, the dwellings are usually larger with some remaining homes attached to small market gardens. There are few "workers cottages", but most are found in the north-western section of the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marden, South Australia
Marden is a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia in the City of Norwood Payneham St Peters. The suburb is bordered by the River Torrens The River Torrens (Karrawirra Parri / Karrawirraparri) is the most significant river of the Adelaide Plains. It was one of the main reasons for the siting of the city of Adelaide, capital of South Australia. It flows from its source in the Ad ... to the north, O.G. Rd to the east, Payneham Rd to the south and Battams Rd to the west. History The Marden suburb grew out of ribbon development on Payneham Road, providing services to people travelling between Athelstone and the city of Adelaide. The suburb was the 'silent partner' in the development of Payneham, the suburb to the south, which eventually gave name to the council area. The suburb has a rich history of market gardening on the flats area, near the River Torrens boundary, having a fresh water supply via Third Creek and the Torrens River. It became part of the Payneham Council, housin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
