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ausculture newsletter November 2003

Welcome to Australia's Culture and Recreation Portal Newsletter for November 2003

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Do you want to explore the many faces of Barry Humphries? Or 'read' up on the Miles Franklin Literary Awards? Find out more about Dorothy Tangney, Enid Lyons and other women in politics in Australia?

Did you know when Cyclone Tracy struck the city of Darwin, 195 mm of rain fell in less than 9 hours and winds of around 250 km/h flattened the city? Find out more about this and other Natural Disasters in Australia in our article. And you can discover the opinions of many prominent Australians on social, scientific and cultural issues in Australia in the ABCs Boyer Lectures.

We have some really interesting new articles and you can see them, and loads more articles about Australia's culture, its environment, its people and their recreational pursuits, right here at the Culture and Recreation Portal.
http://www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au/articles/

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A new Australian cultural search engine is now available for use in any website, anywhere - and its **FREE**! The 'Bluey' search is a collection of over 1.3 million web pages from over 2,700 evaluated Australian cultural websites.

By using an Application Program Interface (API) - a bit of HTML code which sends a query to the Culture and Recreation Portal's search database - you can install Bluey in your own website to give you, and all your visitors, direct access to the index.

It's as easy as 1, 2, 3:
1) Visit Bluey's home; 2) Copy the code; 3) drop the code into your own web page and then go searching! Bluey is the search engine powering Australia's Culture and Recreation Portal - an initiative of the Australian Government Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts.

Visit Bluey's home at http://www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au/bluey/ for installation instructions.

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Snippets from our What's New page for November 2003
http://www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au/news/

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French Paintings from the Musée Fabre, Montpellier is an exhibition of 84 outstanding masterpieces never before seen in this country and is being shown at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory until 15 February 2004. Covering three centuries of French art the exhibition features works by great artists and brings together an exceptional array of iconic paintings covering all artistic movements from 1600 to 1900, including Baroque, Rococo, Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Realism and Impressionism.
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Discover the Outlawed! from across the world by looking into the lives of outlaws who became figures of national significance. This new exhibition from National Museum of Australia will explore the personas and stories of outlaws from Robin Hood to Pancho Villa, from Ned Kelly to Jesse James. On display are objects, film, and interactives that reveal the evolution of outlaw legends in popular culture and legend making. It's on until 26 April 2004 at the National Museum of Australia, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory.
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Share the excitement of the Rugby World Cup 2003! Running from 10 October until 22 November 2003 in venues all across Australia, there are 20 nations playing rugby from Australia to France, Samoa to Italy, Namibia to Romania, and South Africa to Tonga.
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The Snapshot of Glory exhibition showing some wonderful moments from past Rugby World Cups from the photographic archives of Colin Whelan will be on until 8 February 2004 at the National Museum of Australia.
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The SUMMERJAM Festival is set to rock the region for a long time to come. The Vodafone SUMMERJAM Festival featuring INXS, Diesel, The Androids, One Dollar Short, Waikiki, Andromeda, Brat, Tapered Edges and many more is on 13 December 2003 at Lavington Panthers Sports Oval, Lavington, New South Wales.
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The Australian Government has released a new strategy - Indigenous Art Centres - Strategy and Action Plan - to build a stronger Indigenous art industry. The aim of the initiative is to strengthen art centres so that our Indigenous artists can strive to attain new levels of excellence.
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For further details of these and other Australian cultural and recreational news items visit our regularly updated
What's New page at http://www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au/news/.

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We have another free email newsletter - the Portal contributors newsletter - produced and distributed by the Culture and Recreation Portal for the owners and managers of websites listed or indexed by our site.

The Portal contributors newsletter focuses on the online environment, website design, technical innovation, educational opportunities and provides specific information to ensure sites can be indexed successfully through our portal.

If you are one of the over 2,700 Australian culture and recreation websites in our directory, go and subscribe to the Portal contributors newsletter at http://www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au/contributors/.

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