From an oil painting "Old Gum Tree at Glenelg", by Jack Balitho.

Proclamation Day Ceremony at Glenelg.

At this site on 28 December 1836 Governor John Hindmarsh marked the establishment of colonial government in South Australia. To the gathered colonists who had preceded him he read the proclamation calling upon them to,

...conduct themselves on all occasions with order and quietness, duly to respect the laws, and by a course of industry and sobriety, by the practice of good morality, and a strict observance of the Ordinances of Religion, to prove themselves worthy to be the Founders of a great and free Colony. It is also, at this time especially, my duty to apprise the Colonists of my resolution, to take every lawful means for extending the same protection to the native population as to the rest of His Majesty's Subjects.

Hindmarsh, John, Sir, 1785-1860

Pike, Douglas Paradise of dissent Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1967

Torrens, Robert Colonization of South Australia London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman, 1835

SA Memory, The Foundation of South Australia Proclamation by His Excellency John Hindmarsh

SA Memory, The Foundation of South Australia Proclamation Day Ceremony Glenelg

The Old Gum Tree [Wikipedia]

Letters Patent establishing the Province of South Australia, 1836

SA Memory Radical dream, Foundation