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Australian Constitution

Australian Newspapers on the Internet

Electronic Australiana
National Library of Australia

Australian Journals
"This is a current listing of over 1,000 Australian electronic journals, magazines, webzines, e-mail fanzines, etc. - including overseas works with Australian content, authorship and/or emphasis."
National Library of Australia

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Aboriginal History Journal
Gopher index for 1977-1990

Access: History
"...is a refereed [electronic] journal produced by the University of Queensland Department of History in association with the University of Queensland History Graduatesí Association.

Australian Federation Full Text Database
"...contains the debates and conventions of the 1890's leading up to Federation, including Bathurst and Corowa, with a range of participants' accounts and other contextual material from the time. These include the Quick and Garran "Annotated Constitution of the Commonwealth of Australia", and "Studies in Australian Constitutional Law" by Andrew Inglis Clark, as well as a large number of books, pamphlets and articles by Deakin, Barton, Griffiths and others
Part of the Scholarly Electronic Text and Image Service (SETIS), University of Sydney

Australian Humanities Review

Australian Studies Bulletin

Australian War Memorial - Online Exhibits

  • Dawn of the Legend
    "Tells the story of the Australians who landed at Gallipoli, and of the creation of the ANZAC legend. It has been chosen by the NSW Board of Studies as an English text for the HSC for 2005-2007."
  • Australians in Iraq 2003 - War in Iraq
    "A snapshot of the experience of Australians fighting the war in Iraq."
  • Captured in Colour
    "Rare Photographs from the First World War."

The Canberra House
Modern Residential Architecture in the Australian Capital Territory
"This site contains a number of detailed profiles and images of significant Canberra houses, many based on the Royal Australian Institute of Architects (RAIA) Register of Significant Twentieth Century Architecture (RSTCA). Listing on the RSTCA is based on criteria specified in Schedule 2 of the Australian Capital Territory Land (Planning and Environment) Act 1991...The house profiles are arranged by decade but can also be accessed through the architect biographies, architectural styles and map pages."

City of Sydney: Historical Sydney
- The Official Site

  • City of Sydney Archives Image Collection - (dead link)
    "The City of Sydney Archives is responsible for managing a collection of more than 120,000 archival photographs and other images of the City. So far we have digitised about 20,000 of them into ARCHIVEpix."

Documenting a Democracy
"...the main map of Australia where you choose a set of documents to see. Australia's founding documents are at the centre of the site. There are eight different sets of original constitutional instruments: a set for each Australian State, one for the Northern Territory, and the set for the Commonwealth of Australia, established by Federation in 1901."

Electronic Journal of Australian and New Zealand History

The Journal of Syms Covington
"An annotated transcription of the journal of Darwin's assistant on the voyage of the HMS Beagle, 1831-1836."
Postmaster of Pambula, New South Wales
Edited and Annotated by Vern Weitzel, Australian National University.
Published by the Australian Science Archives Project.

Journal of the Australian War Memorial

National Library of Australia

  • National Library of Australia's Federation Gateway
    "The National Library of Australia's Federation Gateway has been created to assist you to locate a wide variety of materials like books, web sites, pictures and manuscripts relating to the Federation of Australia...The National Library of Australia has a rich collection of this material which includes early maps from the Federation period, papers from the various Federation movements and conferences of the 19th Century, photos and ephemera relating to Federation as well as information on the recent debates on Australia's constitutional future."
  • Our Nation's Album: A History of the National Library of Australia (1901-2001)
    Sections include: Birth of a Library ; Bush Capital Pioneers ; A Great Public Library ; Our Heritage Revealed ; From the Bush to Beyond ; Housing the Collections.
  • The George Raper Collection
    National Library of Australia Online Exhibit
    "In 1787, when only 17 years old, George Raper joined the crew of HMS Sirius.... Items in this collection provide wonderful insights into the life and work required of eighteenth-century midshipmen in the British Navy. Apart from their intrinsic value as an original record of hydrographic survey during the voyage of the First Fleet, the collection as a whole demonstrates the practical skills required by naval officers to master the theory of navigation. The collection brings together excellent examples of three types of documents of vital importance for sailorsócoastal profiles, maps and navigation calculations."
  • The World Upside Down: Australia 1788-1830
    "...is an eyewitness account of Australia from 1788-1830."

The Papers of Joseph Banks, State Library of New South Wales

Simply Australia
"the e-zine on Australian folklore"

Teaching Heritage
A Professional Development Website for Teachers
Includes an extensive collection of Resources and Teaching Units.
Office of the Board of Studies, New South Wales, Australia

  • State Heritage Inventory (SHI)
    "The State Heritage Inventory is a computer database that lists all items of heritage significance in New South Wales."

University of Melbourne - Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre

  • Technology in Australia 1788-1988 (etext)
    "The online edition of this bicentenary study by the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering of the men, women and organisations involved in the development of technology in Australia."
  • Where are the Women in Australian Science?
    "...provides information about women and the roles they played in the history of Australian science, technology and medicine from the earliest periods of European engagement to the present day."

The Wellington Valley Project
The Letters and Journals Relating to the Church Missionary Society Missions to Wellington Valley New South Wales, 1830-40.
A Critical Electronic Edition.
"They are particularly significant for the account they provide of Wiradjuri society before the destruction of full ceremonial life. This alone would be justification for their publication in full, in both electronic and, it is anticipated, printed formats. Collectively, the Wellington Valley papers provide a wealth of information about the missionaries and their troubled encounter with a people staggering under the impact of European occupation."
Edited by Hilary M Carey and David A. Roberts

Bibliographies

Australian Mining History Association

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