Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Upon commission, Torrens University became the 33rd university in Australia and the first new university for 20 years. [9] The go-ahead for the new university was given by the South Australian Cabinet following Premier Mike Rann's negotiations in Australia and in Cancun, Mexico, with Laureate chairman Douglas Becker and Chancellor Michael Mann ...
Torrens (postcode 2607) is a suburb in the Woden Valley district of Canberra, Australia. It is named after Sir Robert Torrens, a former Premier of South Australia and instigator of the Torrens title system of land registration. The suburb was gazetted on 12 May 1966.
Lake Torrens (Kuyani: Ngarndamukia) is a large ephemeral, normally endorheic salt lake in central South Australia. After sufficiently extreme rainfall events, the lake flows out through the Pirie-Torrens corridor to the Spencer Gulf .
So successful was the outcome that it was adopted in the rest of Australia and in many countries throughout the world. The system became known as the Torrens Title system, and the act often referred to as the "Torrens Title Act 1858". [6] Torrens visited Victoria in 1860 and assisted in bringing in the new system in that colony. [14]
Torrens introduced Torrens title to the then colony of South Australia by means of the Real Property Act 1858; it soon spread to the other colonies and to other countries and is still in use today. [6] Circa 1885 it was known as Boorooman. [2] Waterholes along and around Torrens Creek were important places for the Indigenous people living in ...
Mount Torrens is a small town in the eastern Adelaide Hills region of South Australia, 46 kilometres (29 miles) east-north-east of the state capital, Adelaide and 8 kilometres (5 miles) east of Lobethal. It is on Onkaparinga Valley Road (B34) between the towns of Charleston and Birdwood.
The Torrens Island Internment Camp was a World War I concentration camp, [1] located on Torrens Island in the Port River Estuary near Adelaide in South Australia. The camp opened on 9 October 1914 and held up to 400 men of German or Austro-Hungarian background, or crew members of enemy ships who had been caught in Australian ports at the ...
Torrens was born in Cork, Ireland, on 31 May 1812. [4] [5] He was the only surviving son [6] of Robert Torrens FRS and his first wife Charity Herbert née Chute. [7]His father had this marriage nullified and in 1819 married again, to Esther Serle, an English heiress, and had his three children rebaptised to give them a form of legitimacy, [2] Robert Richard's birth year being reset to 1814.