Parliament House, Adelaide

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Parliament House is the seat of the Parliament of South Australia, located on North Terrace in Adelaide city centre, and since 1889 the House of Assembly has been based at the building, with the Legislative Council being housed in the East Wing since 1939. The building was entered on the South Australian Heritage Register in 1980 and, together with Old Parliament House, was added to the Australian National Heritage List in 2006, which discusses the significance of these locations in respect of voting rights. A parliamentary select committee recommended building a new Parliament House on land adjacent to King William Street, in 1864. A commission formed in 1874 under Governor Anthony Musgrave reviewed designs submitted through an architectural competition and accepted the proposal by Edmund Wright and Lloyd Tayler, although construction was postponed due to cost pressures and uncertainty over the preferred site. During the 1870s, further commissions and debates examined alternative locations...

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