Australia

Australians at War - Links to sites about Australia's wars, including memorial and ANZAC links.

Tales from the Billabong The games and stories from Tales from the Billabong will delight the under-ten set, especially Where do I Belong?, Tops and Tails and the Australian Slang Dictionary.

History of Immigration to Australia Guide to Australia's history overviews immigration in Australia, from the first Aborigines through the convicts, gold hunters, and refugees.

Australian Geographic Place Names (Gazetteer) www.erin.gov.au/database/MAN200R.html

TRAVEL AUSTRALIA www.atn.com.au/

Aussie Activities: Fun Things for Kids To Do! - Interactive games and sounds, featuring Australian animals and things.

Australia - The Land, The People - learn about the people and tourist attractions Down Under.

Australia 2010: A Future for all of Us - envision what Australia will be like in 2010.

Australia Online - everything you wanted to know about the continent.

Australia Post Stamp Collecting - check out the Stamp Explorer club.

Australian Facts - just the facts, plain and simple.

Australian Museum Online - learn about their exhibitions on spiders, dinosaurs, minerals, indigenous Australians, and more.

Australian People - information on native people and how the arrival of Europeans changed the continent. Includes Aboriginal story of the creation of the world.

Australian Tourism Net - Search for accommodation, tours, and adventures!

Australian Vegetarian Society - recipes, links, information and more.

Coral Research Institute - at the University of Sydney. Provides services to help improve and sustain coral reef health throughout the world.

Flag of Australia - see the current flag, learn the significance of its colors, and read the history behind the previous flags. From the Flags of the World site.

Formation of Australia - learn how scientists think Australia was formed millions of years ago.

Freddo Frog's Pond - Internet home of Cadbury Chocolate's Freddo Frog from Australia. Learn about Australian environmental and swimming safety campaigns, play games, or send e-mail to Freddo.

I am Australian - Past - brief history guide of Australia. Includes info on early settlers, Aboriginal history, explorers, and more.

Nickelodeon Online Treehouse - site for Nickelodeon viewers in Australia!

Oz Kidz Internaut Cyber Centre - an Australian 'zine for kids with national culture, customs, history, and lots of school net links.

Prime Minister of Australia's Home Page - Learn all you ever wanted to know about the Australian prime minister. Test your knowledge of the Australian government with a quiz.

Royal Melbourne Zoological Gardens - tigers, koalas, kangas, and more welcome you to Victoria, Australia.

Sydney Interactive Visitors Guide - features the museums, art galleries, history, maps, attractions, tours, festivals, hotels and fine dining for both visitors and residents of Sydney.

The Push - hopes to raise the profile of drug and alcohol free entertainment through musical events and clubs for young people in Australia.

Fabulous Facts About Australia

Australian Bureau of Statistics - The ABS site contains fascinating statistics that can tell us much about contemporary Australia and offers information support for Australian schools, including statistical material classified by learning area.

Australian Cultural Index - Links to over 150 Link Articles on specific topics about Australian history and culture. Each article has a short introduction and overview with lots of links to more relevant information.

Australia's Cultural Network - an Internet gateway to Australian culture. The web site includes a national calendar of cultural events, and a searchable directory of Australian cultural resources and organizations on-line.

Australian Currency Notes - From the Reserve Bank of Australia, this site gives a history and overview of how our currency is produced and biographies of the people featured on the notes.

Australian Electoral Office - is responsible for providing the Australian people with an independent electoral service which meets their needs and encourages them to understand and participate in the electoral process. Contains information on voting, referendums and elections.

Australian Flags information databases on Australia's flags of the past and present.

Australian Heritage Commission maintains the register of Australia's national heritage, indigenous, historic and natural. Using the on-line database Register of the National Estate, you can access material about all Heritage registered sites in Australia.

Australian History on the Net - A guide to Australian history resources on the web, created by the National Library. Comprehensive links.

Australian National Botanical Gardens

Australian Native Bush Food Links

Australian National Flag Association includes information regarding the way the flag was designed, special flag flying days, the history of the flag and information regarding other flags important to Australia including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islands flags. Children are given an opportunity to paint and make their own virtual flags.

Australian Places - The Australian Places project is an attempt to document the statistics and facilities on offer for 6,000 Australian cities, towns and suburbs.

Australian Unity - Australian Unity has its origins as the Australian Natives Association, founded in 1871. This link briefly describes Australian Unity's historical records relating to Federation.

Bendigo Goldfields of the 1850's - Topics include: discovery, mining methods and effects of the discovery.

Biographies of Australian Sportsmen and Sportswomen

Canberra

Chinese Museum - Chinese Australian history, gold discoveries, racism, map of Chinatown in Melbourne. Exhibits, events, hours.

Cinemedia Access Collection - provides public access to Australia's biggest collection of film, video and new media.

Cinemedia Screen Education - this section of the Cinemedia site provides tools which will enable people to understand and analyse screen content and culture.

Civics and Citizenship Resources

Destination Australia

Dinkum Aussies is a great site about all things Australian. Use the search engine to find brief biographies of many Australians.

Floral Emblems of Australia

Forging the Nation - explores the Australian identity from Bushman to Digger.

Generous Melbourne: developed to recognise and promote existing contributions made by members and organisations within the community and to stimulate further 'giving'. This site has a school's program.

Great Barrier Reef

Fashion in Australia over the 20th Century

Office of National Tourism

Guide to Australia

AUSFLAG Home Page www.ausflag.com.au/

The Australian National Flag Association www.flagaustnat.asn.au/

Images1: National Library of Australia Documentary Image Collection

Immigration, The Facts – Information Kit – From the Australian Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs, this site offers fact sheets and background information about Australia’s multicultural population.

Immigration Museum - Exhibits, tours, history, programs, events, links. Excellent timeline describes the history of immigration to Australia and Victoria. On-line search of library catalogue.

Life on the Goldfields - a State Library of Victoria site.

Lore of the Land - An interactive website seeking to reconcile spirit and place in Australia's story, provides information about land issues, indigenous culture and reconciliation, includes student forums for reconciliation and land issues, teaching activities and a teacher forum, games, news updates, facts and stories.

The Menzies Era - 1949-1966 "This site presents an Australian view of the history of the 1950's and 1960's. It includes information under the following topics: select a year, R.G. Menzies (Australian Prime Minister) sport, books, movies, music, radio, television and cars."

National Archives of Australia - Australia - History, Government: databases, exhibitions, services, education resources. A search for ‘Federation’ will link to ‘Federation : the guide to records’, a comprehensive look at the precursors to Federation through to the legacy of Federation.

The National Australia Day Council - "The National Australia Day Council's charter is a commitment to the development of national pride and identity and the recognition of achievement. This is achieved throughout the entire year via the Australia Day Awards, Celebrations, and other programs which explore National Identity."

Southern Stars: Aboriginal Astronomy - general history of Australia and the Australian Indigenous Inhabitants, information about aboriginal astronomy, star constellations known to different Australian Aboriginal groups and stories to explain the constellations, plus information on 'Tjukurpa' (Aboriginal word for 'The Dreaming').

Sovereign Hill - From the Ballarat tourism site. Find educational activities and information.

State Library of Victoria's Multimedia Catalogue - contains over 160,000 digitised images from the State Library's collection. Each record provides a description of the image.

Virtual Australia, Your Virtual Resource - Comprehensive coverage of Australia. Written in plain English with information given in fact sheet format. Easy to navigate. Topics include Celebrations, Culture, Flora and Fauna, History, Education, Colouring In for Kids, Take a Quiz and links to other Aussie Site.

Waltzing Matilda Story - Find the history of the famous Australian song 'Waltzing Matilda'. Site includes information about the lyrics, and the history of Australia at the time it was written.

Old Melbourne Gaol

Faces of Australia The Faces of Australia Site is a special Online Australia Day initiative to make visible the diversity and richness of the Australian community using the Internet.