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Australian fauna - Australia's Culture PortalAlmost all of Australia's native mammals are marsupials. There are only two types of monotreme in the world - the platypus and the echidna - and both of them are found in Australia. Platypuses are found all along the eastern coast of Australia, from Tas...
One of Australia's greatest treasures is her flora - a staggering 24,000 species of native plants have been identified compared to England's 1700 native plants. Australia's native plants vary across the many different natural environments of the country....
Kakadu National Park covers an area of 19,804 square kilometres within the Alligator Rivers region of the Northern Territory. Around 50 per cent of the land in Kakadu National Park is Aboriginal land under the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) ...
Eventually, streams catch more water or join other streams to form a river. The Murray River and its main tributary, the Darling River, are the two main rivers in the Murray-Darling River Basin. The Snowy River is probably Australia's most famous river,...
However, the first zoo in Australia, Melbourne Zoo, wasn't established until 1862. Taronga Zoo and Western Plains Zoo are jointly administered New South Wales public zoos. The zoo features both Australian native species and exotic species of mammals, bi...
While Australia has no single uniform national costume, an Australian national dress style, based on specific local dress styles, has emerged in response to climate, lifestyle and identity. An Australian style can be seen clearly in the main types of loc...
A wide variety of Australian fashion textiles - hand-coloured, printed and painted silks, woven wool, dyed discharge and devore prints, ground velvets, and ochred designs based on traditional Aboriginal body paintings have all contributed to the definitio...
Nicola Finetti, Dress of silk georgette, silk chiffon and metallic embroidery on silk organza. Fashion can be defined by colour, cut, cloth, garment type, garment styles and interpretation of looks. Chinese silk embroidered shawls and Chinese surcoats b...
John Glover (1767-1849), Australian landscape with cattle: the artist's property Patterdale , c. Image courtesy of the National Library of Australia: an2253188. The Heidelberg School was the first significant art movement in Australia. ...
Employing dream imagery, poetry and precarious juxtapositions, Australian artists in the 1930s and early 1940s responded to European surrealists and were part of an international surrealist movement - 'in all its clarity'. Many of Australia's best known a...
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Information on Australia's birds, mammals, and insects. Includes photos, an Australian fauna quiz, and amazing animal facts.
Homepage of artist Glenn Woodley, featuring acrylic paintings, cyber drawings and digital photos of Australian landscapes, fauna, and cave art.
Limited edition handpainted linocuts by Lynette Weir with a focus on Australian flora and fauna.
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ABRS | Australian Flora and Fauna Series 8 (website Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts )Where do the 75 species of Australian banksias grow in the wild? The Western Australian Department of Conservation and Land Management provided support for recording observations in the field. For each Banksia there is an illustration and map, together ...
The Census of Australian Vascular Plants (CAVP) lists the currently accepted scientific names of the vascular plants of Australia. The vascular plants here include all the seed-bearing plants, the ferns and fern allies. CAVP is the first census of vascu...
www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/online-resources/fauna/afd/index.html> Information on the Australian fauna at the species level is available at the Australian Faunal Directory, a free online public enquiry database that provides taxonomic and bio...
Other flora publications may be found under Flora or listed in our special publications list. Other Fauna publications can be found under Fauna. The Australian Flora and Fauna Series of occasional publications was designed to make available as widely as ...
The Australian Biological Resources Study (ABRS) provides online delivery of taxonomic and biological information on species known to occur in Australia. ABRS Fauna Online is a web based source of taxonomic and biological information being compiled for a...
Feral cats and native wildlife - what are the impacts? A series of national overviews were commissioned by the Invasive Species Program to determine the impacts of feral animals on our native wildlife. This overview brings together all of the existing i...
This series of national overviews was commissioned by the Invasive Species Program to enable existing knowledge on the impact of introduced species on the natural environment to be collated and examined for key knowledge gaps. The impact of introduced an...
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