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Australian folklore - Australia's Culture PortalAustralian folklore, its traditions, customs and beliefs are based on both Indigenous and also non-Indigenous people's knowledge and experience of history in Australia. Some of Australia's folklore remembers the relationship between Europeans and Aborigi...
Unknown, Portrait of the bushranger Ned Kelly, 1880, glass plate negative. More books, songs and websites have been written about Ned Kelly and the Kelly Gang than any other group of Australian historical figures. Unknown, Kate Kelly, sister of Ned Kelly...
McFarlane & Erskine, Gold escort attacked by bushrangers, 187-, print: lithograph. Image courtesy of the National Library of Australia: nla.pic-an8420450. Black Caesar escaped into the bush in 1790 with a musket where he later joined five or six other es...
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National Museum of Australia - Media Releases Index (website National Museum of Australia (NMA) )Public Affairs teamMedia image galleryMedia KitsMedia Releases Inde ... For more information or media releases prior to 2003, contact the Museum's Public Affairs team. India's recently murdered Bandit Queen leads the female outlaws legends portrayed in a...
Public Affairs teamMedia image galleryMedia KitsMedia Releases Inde ... The National Museum showcases two of Australia's icons next week when it displays the Melbourne Cup matched by, from its own collection, the heart of the legendary Phar Lap. The Worl...
Innocent Convicts and Respectable Bushrangers: History and the Nation in Melbourne Melodrama, 1890ñ 1914 Gabrielle Wolf For a young city with only a brief history of stage performance, federation- era Melbourne had a remarkably lively theatre scene. This...
> Our Patch>>How is Australian sovereignty being acted out at home and abroad in the second century of federation? In this agenda setting book, Suvendrini Perera brings together leading thinkers to map the imaginative and political space claimed as 'Our ...
> > > > > Network Books: Complete Catalogue>>To order any of the books listed below, please contact the Network Books office in Perth, Western Australia, with your details by phone 08 9266 4788, or email orders@api-network.com or download our order form f...
Edited by Richard Nile>Contributions include: "Myths and Non-Myths: Frontier 'Massacres' in Australian History -- The Woppaburra of the Keppel Islands" by Michael Rowland; "The 'little empire of Wybalenna': Becoming Colonial in Australia" by Anna Johnston...
> Senor Pilich>>This is the saga of Senor Pilich and how he saved the monastery. Senor Pilich, monastery cat extraordinaire, is struck by the sinister Mr Dreggs. Drew Cottle>>The Brisbane Line: An episode in capital history>>The Dominant Views of the Br...
Edited by Richard Nile>Contributions include: "Myths and Non-Myths: Frontier 'Massacres' in Australian History -- The Woppaburra of the Keppel Islands" by Michael Rowland; "The 'little empire of Wybalenna': Becoming Colonial in Australia" by Anna Johnston...
> Discordant Notes>>Journal of Australian Studies 88>Bart Ziino Who Owns Gallipoli? Australia's Gallipoli Anxieties 1915-2005, Sue Lovell, 'Dew to the Soul': One Australian Artist's Response to War, Peter Kirkpatrick Hunting the Wild Reciter: Elocution a...
This article explores how federation historical melodramas depicted past Australians as honourable and successful, bold adventurers and risk-takers. It argues that Melbourne audiences inferred from these plays that their ancestors shaped a spirited, resp...
On the afternoon of Tuesday, 1 August, Max Harris was at work on the new issue of Angry Penguins in the Reed & Harris office in the centre of Adelaide. Harris had published a poem called Birdsong in the Autumn issue of Angry Penguins but Vogelesang passe...
Orienteering Australia Operational Manual 1 1.4DUTIES OF OFFICERS AND COMMITTEES 1.4 1 THE BOARD 1.1 General a) To administer and manage the affairs of the Orienteering Australia between Council meetings in accordance with relevant decisions of the Counci...
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World Champs Mens Coach: >To Be Announced> National Junior and JWOC Manager: >Hilary Wood>h: 02 4384 3627 National MTBO Coach: >Kay Haarsma>h: 02 6254 4704 National MTBO Support Coach: >Paul Darvodelsky>h: 02 9449 8144>> Contact Us> Copyright Orienteeri...
INTRODUCTION Cricket Victoriaís strategic plan (2007ñ 2011) outlines the path we will take to achieve our vision of positioning Victoria as Australiaís leading cricket state. Achieving our goals will also allow us to effectively contribute to Cricket Au...
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Panel member, Abby Cooper's PhD, 'Victorian Aboriginal sporting history: Towards a display of Brambuk Aboriginal Cultural Centre', The Australian National University, Canberra. Member, Editorial Board, Aboriginal History Journal, The Australian National U...
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