Officially endorsed by the South Australian Government, this striking $5 fine silver proof coin celebrates South Australia’s evolution of democracy and 150 years since the State of South Australia was granted their own State Government in 1857. South Australia was the only Australian colony without a ‘convict past’, the first of the Australian colonies to introduce universal manhood suffrage – to give all adult men the right to vote (suffrage was granted in 1856) and one of the first places in the world to give women the right to vote and to stand for Parliament.