Research Guides: South Australian Government publications: Minutes of proceedings

Online

1843-1850 -
Check trove for Legislative Council debates as reported in early South Australian newspapers. Do a broad search using the following words: proceedings legislative council south australia.
Oct 1996 onwards
For the Legislative Council, online minutes from October 1996 (Forty-eighth Parliament, Session 1) can be found online on the Parliament South Australia website.

Printed

Full-text

1843 - 1850
Not held by State Library of Victoria. Libraries Australia lists the State Library of New South Wales as the only holding library for 1843. This title does not appear in the catalogue of the State Library of South Australia.
1851 - 1856
Votes and proceedings of the Legislative Council during the ... session of the year : with the various documents connected therewith / South Australia. Adelaide: Govt. Printer, 1852-1856 (7 vols).
1857/58 - 2010/11
During this time these publications include both Votes and proceedings of the House of Assembly and Minutes of proceedings of the Legislative Council. They are located in volume 1 for each parliamentary sitting period.
- Proceedings of the Parliament of South Australia, with copies of documents ordered to be printed. Adelaide: Govt. Printer.

Indexes

1857-1874
Index to the minutes of the proceedings of the Legislative Council, and to the printed papers connected therewith, from the commencement of the first session of the first Parliament (22nd April, 1857), to the close of the third session of the seventh Parliament (6th November, 1874) / compiled in the Office of the Legislative Council. Adelaide: Govt. Printer, 1875. Adelaide : W.C. Cox, Govt. Printer, 1875.
1875-1884
Index to the minutes of the proceedings of the Legislative Council, and to the printed papers connected therewith, from the commencement of the first session of the eighth Parliament (May 6th, 1875), to the close of the first session of the eleventh Parliament (November 14th, 1884) / compiled in the Office of the Legislative Council. Adelaide : E. Spiller, Govt. Printer, 1885.
1885-1904
General index to the minutes of the proceedings of the Legislative Council, 1885-1904 (in continuation of general indices 1857-1874 and 1875-1884) : together with a supplementary schedule of printed papers and petitions (both Houses), 1900-1904, and a schedule of all bills introduced into either House, 1857-1904 / compiled by the Clerk of the Council, pursuant to order of August 10th, 1904. Adelaide: Govt. Printer, 1905.
1905-1915
General index to the minutes of the proceedings of the Legislative Council, from 1905 to 1915 inclusive / prepared by the clerks of the Legislative Council. Adelaide : R.E.E. Rogers, Govt. Printer, 1917
1917- 1999
Proceedings of the Parliament of South Australia, with copies of documents ordered to be printed. Adelaide: Govt. Printer. There is no separately published index. Indexes to Minutes of proceedings of Legislative Council is included in first volume of item.

Information about Minutes of the Proceedings

Refer to Debates for history of the South Australian houses of Parliament.

Minutes refers to the minutes of the Legislative Council and set out what the Legislative Council has done rather than what was said.

Before the establishment of the House of Assembly, the minutes of the Legislative Council were titled Votes and proceedings.

South Australian Government publications