South Australia appointed the first Aboriginal governor of an Australian state when Sir Douglas Nicholls was made Governor of South Australia. In 1987, copper, gold, and silver production began at the Olympic Dam mine. Olympic Dam also possesses the world's largest known deposit of uranium. During the commercial property boom of the 1980s the State Bank of South Australia was the fastest growing bank in Australia – but in 1991, the bank collapsed and Labor Premier John Bannon announced that, due to bad debts, the bank would have to be rescued by the taxpayers – subsequently, the bank's book debt rose to $3 billion. A Royal Commission was called and Premier Bannon resigned after appearing before it. See also Aboriginal peoples of South Australia Australian Overland Telegraph Line British nuclear tests at Maralinga Goyder's Line Historical Records of Australia List of cities and towns in South Australia Proclamation Day South Australia-Victoria border dispute Stobie pole Timeline of South Australian history References Bibliography Birchall, Matthew. "History, Sovereignty, Capital: Company Colonization in South Australia and New Zealand." Journal of Global History16.1 (2021): 141-157. online Blewett, Neal, and Dean Jaensch. Playford to Dunstan: the politics of transition (1971) on late 1960s. Brock, Peggy, and Tom Gara. Colonialism and Its Aftermath: A History of Aboriginal South Australia (Wakefield Press, 2017) Clyne, Robert. (1987), Colonial Blue: A history of the South Australian Police Force, 1836-1916, Wakefield Press Collins, Carolyn and Paul Sendziuk, eds. (2018) Foundational Fictions in South Australian History (Wakefield Press, 2018) Douglas, K., 2014. “'For the sake of a little grass': A Comparative History of Settler Science and Environmental Limits in South Australia and the Great Plains." in Climate, Science, and Colonization (pp. 99-117). Palgrave Macmillan, New York. Emerson, J. (2006). History of the independent bar of South Australia. Papinian Publishing. Gara, Tom. Colonialism and its aftermath: a history of Aboriginal South Australia (Adelaide: Wakefield Press, 2017). Godfrey, Barry. "Prison versus Western Australia: Which worked best, the Australian penal colony or the English convict prison system?." British Journal of Criminology 59.5 (2019): 1139–1160. Goldsworthy, David. "Before the Country Party: The Farmers' Mutual Association of South Australia." Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society (Sep 1971), Vol. 57 Issue 3, pp 242–253. Covers 1879 to 1892. Hamshere, Cyril. "Sir George Grey: A Great Proconsul" History Today (April 1979), Vol. 29 Issue 4, pp 240–247. The Governor of South Australia, 1841–45; also New Zealand, 1845–53,