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- "Charcoal" Williams - Gold in Australia - From Wales at the end of the 18th Century, the story follows "Charcoal" Williams and other free settlers, Irish political prisoners and convicts to New South Wales.
www3.turboweb.net.au/~mcneillc/index.htm
- Australia Beyond the Fatal Shore - Companion website to the PBS series written and hosted by Robert Hughes. The website introduces you to some of the individuals Robert Hughes talk with and about about as he explores the history and culture of Australia.
www.pbs.org/wnet/australia
- Australia's Cultural Network - This site includes interesting articles and links relevant to Australia's history. Take the history path finder to narrow the items down to ones related to history.
www.acn.net.au
- Australian Explorers - General information on eleven different explorers for primary school children.
www.davidreilly.com/australian_explorers
- Australian High Court Judges from Federation - Timeline of Judges, plus selected verdicts.
www.geocities.com/pwdyson/highcourt.html
- Australian History - A good overview of Australian history, which includes history pre-European settlement as well as history after European settlement. Includes a timeline from 1901.
www.austemb.org/history.htm
- Australian History on the Internet - Part of the National Library of Australia site, this site includes many interesting links, including Australian historical documents online.
www.nla.gov.au/oz/histsite.html
- Australian History Online - Articles on events and people in Australia's history. Includes timeline and recommended books.
australianhistoryonline.com
- Australian Studies Net: History resources -
austudies.org/info/docs.html
- Bailup - The truth about the Kelly Gang. Points out errors in books and other reports on the Kelly Gang.
members.fortunecity.com/raacavic1/bailup
- Blue Mountains History Plaza - History of Australia's Blue Mountains. Historic photos & news articles, essays, related links & multi-domain regional search facility.
info.mountains.net.au/history
- Documenting a Democracy - Australia's story - Through this site you can see some of the documents that helped create the Federation of Australia.
www.foundingdocs.gov.au
- German-speakers in Australia - History of German-speakers in Australia, of their immigration and of their contribution to Australia.
www.teachers.ash.org.au/dnutting/germanaustralia
- History of Australia - General history of Australia, from the World History Archives.
www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/24/index-c.html
- Indigenous Peoples: the Aboriginal Peoples of Australia - Illustrated and carefully annotated guide to links focused specifically on the history, lore, sacred traditions, arts, and beliefs of the Aboriginal Peoples of Australia by Kathleen Jenks, Ph.D.
www.mythinglinks.org/ip~australia.html
- Long Road from Tipperary, Ireland to Gundagai, Australia. - Story follows Michael Keefe, Irish Bounty Immigrant to New South Wales. It follows him and his family through 90 years of Australia's growth to Federation, union movement, political parties, war and 1930 Depression.
www3.turboweb.net.au/~mcneillc/keefe
- Ned Kelly: Australian Ironoutlaw - A site devoted to the Kelly Gang and the Australian folk hero Edward Kelly. Biography, landmarks and exhibitions, depictions in the media and the arts, and image gallery included.
www.ironoutlaw.com
- Radical Tradition - Articles on "the history of working class struggle and anarchism in Australia".
www.takver.com/history/index.htm
- Rare Maps Digitisation Project - A selection of rare maps from the National Library of Australia.
www.nla.gov.au/rmaps
- Register of Committee Reports - An index of reports from committees of the House of Representatives and Joint Committees from 1970 to 1996.
www.aph.gov.au/house/committee/reports/index.htm
- Ruyton Girls' School: Celebrating Australian Federation - A collection of links about civics and citizenship and Australian nationhood themes.
federation.ruyton.vic.edu.au
- SNOWY - The Making of Modern Australia - History of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme covering social, political, cultural and industrial aspects.
www.users.bigpond.net.au/snowy
- The Flight of Ducks - An award winning Australian on-line documentary based on a camel expedition to Central Australia in January 1933. Contains cinefilm, photographs, journals, Aboriginal objects and on-line discussion.
www.acmi.net.au/FOD
- The History of Forster - An on-line book featuring the history of Forster, Tiona, Pacific Palms, Smiths Lake, Coomba and Bungwahl in the Great Lakes district of New South Wales.
www3.turboweb.net.au/~glmuseum/index.htm
- The Public History Site - A site offering information, contacts and resources for historians working in the public sphere. Contains a wide range of links.
www.publichistory.uts.edu.au
- The Waltzing Matilda Story - Humpin' the Bluey Pty Limited-- the international home of Waltzing Matilda.
www.waltzingmatilda.com
- Timeline of Aboriginal Resistance - Short descriptions of incidents of aboriginal resistance to European invasion.
www4.tpgi.com.au/2juls/resistance.html
- Totalisator history a world's first - The history of the invention of the world's first automatic totalisator in Australia in 1913 by George Julius.
www.ozemail.com.au/~bconlon/index.html
- VICNET History Page - Historical societies and groups in Victoria and around Australia are listed here.
www.vicnet.net.au/history
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