"The earliest conception on record of a system of representation based on a recognition of the varieties of opinion within the same constituency, is believed to be in a paper suggesting a plan for the establishment of municipal government in South Australia." *

(* Suggested by the founders of South Australia 1835)

Thomas Hare in Fraser's Magazine February 1860.

Catherine Helen Spence 1825 - 1910
For 51 years the Leader of Effective Voting

..." it is left for South Australia to show--that if a people, who, entrusted with the framing of their own laws, and already invested with absolute political power upon the principle of majorities ruling, can voluntarily divest themselves of it and submit to the check of the equal representation of minorities; upon the conviction that such exclusive power as they at present possess is unjust in principle and mischievous in tendency.

...thus would they prove by their noble abnegation of the sole power that majorities are worthy to be entrusted with the supreme power in the State."

(A Plea for Pure Democracy 64.)