Statement of Significance
The building is notable for its use in a distinctive manner of Venetian Gothic design elements, a rare instance of the use of this style in residential design. Architectural details are particlarly fine and well executed.
(The Commission is in the process of developing and/or upgrading official statements for places listed prior to 1991. The above data was mainly provided by the nominator and has not yet been revised by the Commission.)
Description
Two storey town-house in Venetian Gothic style with a mid-Victorian verandah and balcony with decorative cast iron work, built in 1884 for F F Turner, Registrar-General of Deeds. Only the western half is original. In 1910 Sir Arthur Cudmore bought the house and lived in it until his death in 1951. A drawing room designed by W H Bagot, architect, was added to the east in 1920 and in the 1960s the street front was completed.
Location
61-65 Pennington Terrace, North Adelaide.
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John Robert Cornwall (born Bendigo, Victoria, Australia, 1 January 1935) was a Labor member of the South Australian Legislative Council for 14 years, from 1975 to 1988. He was a senior member of the front bench for most of his political career.
Political career
Dr Cornwall served for more than six years in the State Cabinet, first as Minister for Environment and Lands in 1979, and then as Minister of Health and Community Services in two John Bannon governments, from 1982 to the end of 1988.
In the 1980s state health Ministers faced a number of challenges, among them Commonwealth-State financial arrangements under a new Medicare agreement, the structure of the State's health care delivery system, and questions about social justice and equity in public health. Dr Cornwall tightened central government control on hospital administration to improve public accountability and allow hospital services to be shared across the system to better meet patient needs and reduce waiting times.
Dr Cornwall fostered a new approach to health care in Australia that was inspired by the Health For All agenda of the World Health Organisation in the 1970s. It championed people increasing control over and improving their health, and viewed health status as inextricably linked to social well-being and economic conditions.
Dr Cornwall championed the development of health and community services for disadvantaged groups, such as women's health services, Aboriginal health services, child and adolescent mental health services, and child protection services. He developed a community-based system of health care that linked health care services to specific population or geographic areas, with funding granted on the basis of the needs of those areas. As part of these reforms a proportion of health care funds were reallocated from hospitals into areas of social disadvantage, resulting in better access to health services for people in social need.
Between 1983 and 1987, Dr Cornwall led the effort to clear environmental lead pollutants in Port Pirie, a town in South Australia whose economy is based on a major lead smelter. The project is widely regarded as one of the most significant public health projects among developed countries.
Dr Cornwall ran an anti-smoking program and introduced Australia's first comprehensive legislative package to restrict tobacco advertising in cinemas, prohibit tobacco sponsorship of sporting events, and establish an independent trust to provide replacement funding for sponsorship of sport and cultural activities (Foundation South Australia). The legislation was significant in paving the way for reforms in other states and the Commonwealth.
Dr Cornwall introduced legislation decriminalising possession of small quantities of cannabis. He introduced the legislation as a private members bill, having secured support for the policy at the Labor Party convention. He was motivated by a strong belief that decriminalisation would break the nexus between soft and hard drugs, which cause much greater harm to individuals and society.
Cornwall's ministerial career came to an end on 4 August 1988. As a result of Dr Peter Humble successfully suing Cornwall for libel, Cornwall was advised by Cabinet to resign from his ministerial post, which he subsequently did. Cornwall then resigned from parliament on 31 January 1989.
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The sign reads:
Adelaide Woman's Community Health Center
for the women of South Australia
officially opened by
John Cornwall. MLC
Minister of Health
on the 22nd June 1984