Australian History

 

Trove Pictures of Australia 

Take a look at the Picture Australia site. This site will not be officially lauched for a while yet. I provides a single point of access to over 450,000 digitised images from pictorial collections of many leading cultural heritage institutions. It's a fantastic resource.

 

Bushrangers

The Ned Kelly Gang Would you like to learn what errors there are in the information you may have read about the Kelly gang?

 

Not Just Ned From the National Museum of australia. Contains some great teaching resources as downloadable pdfs with images. Also includes a Biography of Dictionary of Busharangers.  Well presented and easily navigated.

 

Australian Explorers

Project Gutenberg - Australia This site is very comprehensive with many links and covers, a lot of primary source material for download. eBooks and excerpts - quite delightful. It is fantastic to have access to all this primary source material.

 

Convicts

Port Arthur Convict Site. Has some Well thought out teaching resources.

 

Convict Central an interesting resource where you can research your convict past. Read colourful stories about convicts. There are a lot of lnks including the proceedings of the Old Bailey

in London

 

First Fleet

First Fleet Fellowship Lists ships and convicts who were on board each ship, includes images and stories.

 

Mary Bryant

Great series of videos about Mary Bryant a 17 year old convict - YouTube Video

 

Gold

Gold Rushes in Australia Life on the diggings, the Eureka stockade, lot of primary source material as well as descriptions. Covers descriptions of Arts and entertainment, mining methods and sport on the goldfields.

 

War

Australian War Memorial Brilliant resource lots of images. Looks at War through our history.

 

Federation

Federation Fast Facts - Background information, arguments in favour/against, the issue of trade, timeline, & federation resources.

 

The Story of Federation From the ABC - lots of text info.

 

Webquest

Australian Overland Explorers - How would you like to be part of an expedition similar to that of our famous explorers?

 

 

About Australia

 

Emblems

Floral Emblems of Australia

There meaning site includes images. Also links to sites about the Government.

 

Brief Summary About Australia

CIA fact book page about Australia. Includes map, flag and statistics.

 

All about Australian

Australian Government site Lots of information. Australian Stories, our government, indigenous culture etc. Facts are comprehensive but site is a little boring.

 

Government

Prime Ministers of Australia National Museum of Austrlia Site - Compehensive list of Austrlaina Prime Ministers, includes images and biographies. Also some artifacts relating to the Prime Ministers.

 

Parliamentary Education Office

Information, virtual tours, kid's section, links etc. on Australia's Federal Parliament.

 

Australian Parliamentary site includes The House of Reprentatives, The Senate, Hansards transcripts, details of members, Educational materials, and the Australian Constitution which can be downloaded as a pdf

 

 

Famous Australians

 

Sir Donald Bradman

Don Bradman, dubbed ‘the boy from Bowral’, rose to acclaim during times of hardship, depression and recovery. He represented Australia for 20 years, playing 52 Tests from 1928/29-1948.

 

Famous Australians

Aussie Educator Alphabetical listing with biography an dimage, and additional links in some cases.

 

 

Aboriginal Australia

 

Map

Showing Aboriginal Tribal Boundaries across Australia

 

Sharing our Stories ABC with Audio

 

Indigeous Australia Social Structure, culture, food art and languages of Australian Aboriginals.