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General References
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Particular Areas of Interest
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| Bushrangers | Australian Bushrangers - research project by year 5 and 6 students at Herberton State Primary School |
| Australian Bushrangers - a database | |
| The Bushranger Site | |
| History in songs | Australian Folk Songs - OUTSTANDING |
| Gold | GOLD - OUTSTANDING, explores the impact of the gold rush on Australia.It's all here. |
| Sovereign Hill - EXCELLENT, lots of information here | |
| Life on the Goldfields - EXCELLENT (from State Library of Victoria) | |
| Explorers | Australian Explorers |
| Australian Explorers | Timeline with links to to many ebooks created from the journals and first hand accounts written by Australian land and sea explorers. |
| Early Explorers of Australia | During the Napoleonic Wars France and Britain dispatched naval expeditions of discovery to complete the mapping of Australia and "advance the limits of science". But why? |
| Explorers of Australia | - EXCELLENT for younger kids |
| Australian Inventions | |
| The Story of the Hills Hoist | Tomorrow's World: Notable Australian World Firsts- EXCELLENT |
| Black box Flight Recorder | Australian Inventions - EXCELLENT |
| Other | Australian Family History Compendium - an Internet resource for people researching their family tree |
| Bunyips | - OUTSTANDING From the National Library of Australia . Play games, read Aboriginal stories and find out lots about bunyips. |
| Australian Stamps | - gallery of stamps, information about stamp collecting from Australia Post |
| National Pioneer Women's Hall of Fame | - history, artefacts and personal stories of Australia's pioneering women |
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Indigenous Australia
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| The Australian Aborigine: Adnyamathanha People | OUTSTANDING By kids for kids. Take a tour of the Australian continent and learn about the indigenous people. Discover the lifestyle,beliefs, and social structure of the various groups from this ThinkQuest site. Needs Macromedia Flash Player from macromedia.com |
| The Bundjalung People | - of the Tweed valley, local, excellent !! |
| Stories of the Dreaming | - text, audio or video, OUTSTANDING !! |
| Indigenous Australia | - OUTSTANDING from the Australian Museum |
| History of our ARRERNTE culture | - from the Pwerte Marnte Marnte Aboriginal Corporation's award winning Aboriginal Art and Culture Centre in Alice Springs, excellent. |
| Aboriginal Australia | - written entirely by Aboriginal people - Aboriginal Australia is about Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and Indigenous people. |
| Aboriginal sites of New South Wales | - comprehensive information from NSW National Parks & Wildlife Service |
| The First Australians | - pre 1788 |
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Early European Settlement
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| British Colonisation of Australia | - EXCELLENT comprehensive links guide. |
| The First Fleet Home Page | - excellent !! |
| Sydney Heritage Fleet | - excellent !! |
| Family History - Convict Research | - 17220+ convicts and 98 complete convict ships to NSW, convict details for the first 47 ships to NSW |
| Journeys in Time - the Journals of Elizabeth and Lachlan Macquarie 1809-1822 | - from Macquarie University, outstanding !! |
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Federation Feature
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| Federation of Australia | - outstanding !! |
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