South Australia - Social Matters
- Censorship
- Charity
- Children and Youths
- Dancing and Other Sins
- Domestic Servants
- Early Closing
- Marriage and Divorce
- Men
- Old Age Pensions, etc
- Smoking
- Village Settlements
Gambling
- Card "Sharping"
- Horse Racing
- Miscellany
- State Lotteries
- Totalizator
Temperance and Allied Matters
- Alcoholism and Drunkenness
- Barmaids
- Local Options
- Miscellany
- Shouting
- Sunday Drinking
- Teetotalism and Prohibition
- Treatment of Inebriates
- Miscellany
Miscellany
Miscellany
An essay on "Literary and Aesthetic" features of South Australia from 1837 is in the Register,21 June 1887, page 7e (supp.).
A plan for remedying colonial distress is discussed in the Register,
6 April 1844, page 3a.
Also see Adelaide - Destitution.
"Public Morality" is in the Observer,
25 January 1845, page 3a.
"The Social Aspect of South Australia" is in the Register,
10 April 1850, page 2e:
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If we are to credit Mr John Morphett, society is rapidly running into extremes, of which the antitheses will be the overworked and ill-paid labourer at one end, and the do-nothing and pampered aristocrat at the other - that is to say, if our nobility-mongers be allowed to carry out their projects... Too numerous to be corrupted or intimidated, the people constitute the best bulwarks of liberty, and most efficacious check on the strides of power; they ought, therefore, to know their own consequence, and preserve it with untrusting vigilance.
"Pauperism" is in the Observer,
8 March 1856, page 5h,
"Social Statistics" on
24 September 1859, page 6f.
"Colonial Aristocracy" is in the Observer,
9 April 1864, page 6b.
"Education of the Working Classes" is in the Observer,
18 and 25 July 1868, pages 16e and 12d.
"Can the Pauper Taint be Eradicated?" is in the Observer,
8 May 1869, page 12d.
"Social Well-Being in Australia" is in the Register,
18 May 1869, page 3c.
An editorial on morals among all classes of society is in the Advertiser,
22 December 1879, page 4e.
"Immorality" is in the Express,
3, 7 and 9 June 1886, pages 3f, 3c and 3g,
"Is Immorality Increasing" is in the Advertiser,
24 December 1903, page 4c,
4 January 1904, page 9g.
"Social Changes of [Queen Victoria's] Reign" is discussed in the Advertiser,
12 May 1897, page 4g; also see
18 June 1897, page 4f.
"Modern Standards of Morality" is in the Advertiser,
27 June 1928, page 12f.
"Social Purity" is in the Advertiser,
11 and 12 August 1898, pages 4e and 6c.
Also see Adelaide - Prostitution.
The history of Cottage Homes is in the Register,
31 October 1900, page 8b.
Also see Adelaide - Housing.
"Public Morals in SA" is in the Register,
22 January 1901, page 4c,
"Moral Education" in the Advertiser on
12 and 31 August 1909, pages 8c and 5f.
The age-old custom of "Shaking Hands" is the subject of editorial comment in the Advertiser,
26 July 1902, page 6e.
"Stray Thoughts on Social Problems" is in the Register,
22 and 25 September 1903, pages 6h and 6e.
"Civilisation and Suicide" is in the Advertiser,
3 October 1903, page 6d.
"The Declining Birth Rate" is in the Register,
30 March 1904, page 3g,
6, 13 and 20 April 1904, pages 6f, 4c and 6g,
5 May 1904, page 6c.
A cartoon is in The Critic,
18 July 1903, page 19,
15 November 1905, page 15.
Also see Health.
"Social Problems" is in the Register,
16 February 1905, page 6d:
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Our people have been encouraged to lay down the tools of industry and seek enjoyment and prosperity in the cricket field, the football oval and the racecourse, but satisfaction has not been obtained.
"Prevailing Vices" is in the Register,
22 April 1905, page 4b,
"Sunday Entertainments" on
11, 22 and 27 February 1911, pages 12d-14c, 5g and 11b,
3, 4, 10 and 17 March 1911, pages 8h, 12f-15b, 6a and 9b.
Also see Religion.
"Costume and Custom" is in the Register,
12 October 1912, page 14d,
"Morality and Pictures" on
9 November 1912, page 14f.
"Times and Manners" is in the Register on
29 December 1913, page 6d,
"Duty and Discipline" on
3 April 1914, page 8d,
"Picture Shows and Reform" on
18 May 1914, page 8c, Also see Entertainment
"Is Etiquette Declining?" on
23 May 1914, page 14c,
"Are Art Unions Immoral" on
12, 17 and 28 August 1915, pages 6c, 4f and 11b.
"Art Unions" is in the Register,
10 August 1916, page 4c.
"Publicity and Morals" is in the Register,
15 and 20 March 1922, pages 6b and 9d,
"Too Old at Seventy" on
10 and 11 May 1922, pages 6b and 7d,
"Illegitimacy" on
22 June 1922, page 11a.
"City Life and Country Life" is in the Advertiser,
28 April 1923, page 12h.
"Benjamin Judkins - Chat With a Social Reformer" is in the Observer,
21 February 1925, page 11e.
"Woman versus Man" is in the Register, 29 May 1926, page 8g:
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The attraction and repulsion of the sexes is a phenomenon that will continue whatever the sages may advise or warn. Indeed, it may have a brightening and vivifying effect, like that of the kindred action of the tides upon the shore.
"Six Fundamentals of Happiness" is in the Register,
5 August 1926, page 15c.
"Free Speech" is in the Register,
23 October 1926, page 8h.
"Moral Cowardice" is in the Register,
1 December 1926, page 8f:
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Moral courage... is an essential human virtue, a virtue, perhaps, above all others... The long disregard of [this] quality, which some of our ancestors clearly possessed in a conspicuous degree, has weakened the moral fibre of our race. Even the simplest ethical issue tends to become confused in a conflict of "pros" and "cons" which altogether excludes the operation of the instructive faculty, and a man who would naturally do right without thinking, sometimes thinks himself into doing wrong.
"A Question of Indelicacy" is in the Register, 20 April 1928, page 8c:
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Miss 1928, we are assured, is a very abandoned young person. She has so far forgotten what shame should be and she flaunts her vices in the face of all mankind. Her most blatant offence, however, is her nonchalant exhibition of her knees.
(Also see Register, 14 April 1928, page 8h under "Immodest Dress".)
"Mock Modesty" is in the Register,
18 October 1928, page 8b:
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The time is not long past when mock modesty was a fashionable virtue. Newspapers, in obedience to a popular prejudice, abstained from the mention of topics not then considered proper to be discussed in polite society. The moral ostrich had his head in the sand, while every form of vice flourished exceedingly, in what was thought to be a decent seclusion.
"Braille Librarian and Her Work" is in the Advertiser,
8 August 1931, page 5c.
"Etiquette 80 Years Ago and Now" is in The News,
20 April 1932, page 8c.
