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Australian folklore - Australia's Culture Portal (website Culture and Recreation Portal )Australian 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...
The gold rushes of the nineteenth century, especially those of the 1850s, were a defining point in Australian history, bringing with them far-reaching social and economic changes. is the title of a new dictionary of the language of the nineteenth-century...
> Collins Street, Melbourne, 1858, by Fauchery, Antoine (1823 - 1861), Daintree, Richard (1832 - 1878), courtesy of State Library of Victoria. More permanent though rapidly-built housing sprang up rapidly in suburbs such as South Melbourne, Port Melbourne...
THE VOCABULARY OF AUSTRALIAN ENGLISH Bruce Moore Australian National Dictionary Centre Australian National University The vocabulary of Australian English comes from many sources. This document outlines some of the most important sources of Australian wo...
THE ENDLESS PLAYGROUND: CELEBRATING AUSTRALIAN CHILDHOOD Paul Cliff introduces the Library's latest publication GOLD! THE LANGUAGE OF THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY AUSTRALIAN GOLD RUSHES Bruce Moore reveals the fascinating legacy the language of the goldfields ...
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