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57 Spence, An Agnostic’s Progress, pp.157, 159-60.
58 Spence, Autobiography, p.56.
59 B.S. Roach, ‘Literature, Art, and Music’, The Centenary History of South Australia, Adelaide,
1936, p.352.
60 Spence, Autobiography, p.55.
7 Prophet of the effective vote
1 Spence, Autobiography, p.45.
2 Catherine Helen Spence 1825-1905, reprinted from the Register, 31 October 1905, p.29.
3 Spence, Autobiography, p.23.
4 Report of meeting on ‘Proportional Representation’, or effective voting, held at River House, Chelsea
on Tuesday, July 10th 1894, p.6.
5 Spence, Autobiography, p.45.
6 Enid Lakeman, How Democracies Vote. A Study of Majority and Proportional Electoral Systems,
London, first published 1955, 3 rd and revised edition 1970, p.108; Hill was secretary to the first
board of the Colonization Commissioners, see Pike, Paradise of Dissent, p.171.
7 Southern Australian, 30 October 1840.
8 Spence, Autobiography, p.24.
9 J.S. Mill, ‘Recent Writers on Reform’, Fraser’s Magazine, April 1859; Spence, Autobiography,
p.23.
10 Mill, ‘Recent Writers on Reform’, pp.489, 500, 503, 502.
11 SA Parliament, Papers, 1859, vol.i, p.67 ; Cook, ‘Faction in South Australian Politics’, pp.112,
115 ; Edwin Hodder, History of South Australia, London, 2 vols., vol.i, p.319; Spence,
Autobiography, p.24.
12 Spence, Autobiography, pp.23, 24.
13 See, for example, Argus: 2 September; 3 September; 5 September 1859; Spence, Autobiography,
p.24.
14 SA Parliament, Debates, 3 May 1861, c.48 ; 1 August 1861, cc.557, 652-4.
15 Register, 30 August 1861.
16 Register, 31 August 1861, 9 September 1861.
17 [SA] 14 & 15 Vic., 1861, No.20; see also J.B. Stephenson, ‘The Electoral Districts of South
Australia and Population as the Bases of Representation 1851-1882’, BA Hons thesis, University
of Adelaide, 1952.
18 Thomas Hare, A Treatise on the Election of Representatives, Parliamentary and Municipal, London,
1859; Lakeman, How Democracies Vote, p.268.
19 Mill, ‘Recent Writers on Reform’, p.505.
20 Hare, A Treatise on the Election of Representatives, 4 th edition, 1873, p.150.
21 C.H.S., A Plea for Pure Democracy. Mr Hare’s reform bill applied to South Australia, Adelaide,
1861, p.5; Spence, Autobiography, p.24.
22 Spence, Plea for Pure Democracy, p.5.
23 Ibid., pp.i, 24.
24 Spence, Autobiography, p.24.
25 Argus : 5 September, 6 September, 11 September, 18 October, 28 October 1861 ; Lakeman,
How Democracies Vote, p.224.
26 This point is made forcefully by R.B. Walker, echoing Peter Cook, in his article, ‘Catherine
Helen Spence and South Australian Politics’, Australian Journal of Politics and History, xv, 1,
p.36. This helpful article is marred by a number of misprints. In the text: p.40 ‘R.C. Butler’
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