culture.gov.au
Connecting you with Australian culture online
Top 10 Stories
Australian weather and the seasons The Australian Gold Rush European discovery and the colonisation of Australia Convicts and the British colonies in Australia Great Barrier Reef Australian Indigenous cultural heritage Sydney Opera House Modern Australian fashion Australian food and drink Sydney Harbour BridgeSearch results
Australian Stories matching your query...
Women in colonial times - Australia's Culture PortalIn addition to the female colonists there were female Indigenous Australians - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women whose lives were changed dramatically when the English colonists arrived in large numbers. The lives of women like Truganini, Walye...
Many Australians are directly or indirectly involved in farming. For those Australians not involved with farming, the country's recent rural and agricultural history still has strong links to the heritage and culture of Australia. Wheat and other grain ...
Australia is also recognised as producing the world's highest quality woollen fibre – Australian merino wool. John and Elizabeth Macarthur were married in Devonshire in England in 1788. In 1796, John Macarthur bought his first merino sheep from a ...
In 1788 the First Fleet landed at Camp Cove in Port Jackson with the 'cargo' of convicts which helped establish the penal colony of New South Wales. One in five of the convicts to arrive in the penal colony (1788-1823) was female and they made up the lar...
As Australia had no native grape varieties suitable for wine-making, grapes were imported from Europe and much of the wine produced was shipped back to the United Kingdom. Early wine production at Lindemans, established in the Hunter Valley (New South Wa...
Documents matching your query...
96/207/1 Photographic print, merino sheep, Reserve Grand Champion, Annual Sheep Show, paper/emulsion, maker unknown, Sydney, 1922 - Powerhouse Museum Collection (website Powerhouse Museum )Photographs > Photographic prints>>+ 117 Photographic view, Norwood Model Sch... > >>Photographs > Sepia photographs>>+ H6692 Undress uniform and photograph, Ch... > + 96/68/1 Photographic print, framed, 'C D... > + 97/28/1 Photograph, black & white sepia...
irn=141551&search=philately&site_id=3 http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/? irn=141552&search=philately&site_id=3 > 94/54/3 Counter advertising display, 'Vineyard regions', cardboard, Australia Post, Australia, 1992 http://www.powerhousemu...
irn=368292&search=president&site_id=3 > F4618 Wool specimen, special stud ram 'President No 4', bred by James Gibson, Bellevue, Tasmania, Australia, 1895 http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/? irn=368768&search=president&site_id=3 F6105 Woo...
Australia is also recognised as producing the world's highest quality woollen fibre – Australian merino wool. John and Elizabeth Macarthur were married in Devonshire in England in 1788. In 1796, John Macarthur bought his first merino sheep from a ...
The Nemesis worm-control project used selective breeding of Merino sheep as an effective and sustainable means to control internal parasites. One third of sheep production in Australia is dependent on anthelmintics (anti-worm chemicals) to control the dev...
"text/xsl" href="/files/layout/rss/CSIROau_RSS.xsl"?> http://www.csiro.au/science/FarmingFood/whatsnew.htmlen-auThu, 18 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +1000© 2009, CSIROSciencehttp://www.csiro.au/files/layout/rss/images/rss.jpghttp://www.csiro.au/science/FarmingFood/...
It is my purpose here to exhibit the merino sheep in its true light. "I am killing your sheep. There is another kind of sheep in Australia, as great a curse in his own way as the merino -- namely, the cross-bred, or half-merino-half-Leicester animal. ...
Baa Baa Merino Sheep [sound recording]. 1 sound file (710.5 kb) : digital, 128kb, WMA file. 30 second sound sample available for streaming using Windows Media Player. ...
Baa Baa Merino Sheep [sound recording]. 1 sound file (710.5 kb) : digital, 128kb, WMA file. 30 second sound sample available for streaming using Windows Media Player. ...
irn=348034&search=williamson&site_id=3 http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/? irn=365056&search=williamson&site_id=3 http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/? irn=365286&search=williamson&site_id=3 http://www.powerhousemuseum.co...
irn=362816&search=photo&site_id=3 http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/? irn=131813&search=photo&site_id=3 http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/? irn=342319&search=photo&site_id=3 http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/da...
irn=11693&search=value&site_id=3 http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/? irn=67944&search=value&site_id=3 http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/? irn=133415&search=value&site_id=3 http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/data...
irn=180133&search=curator&site_id=3 http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/? irn=179151&search=curator&site_id=3 http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/? irn=204668&search=curator&site_id=3 A9505 Stamps, book collection, paper, A...
irn=167940&search=Agriculture&site_id=3 http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/? irn=149696&search=Agriculture&site_id=3 96/181/1 Photograph, mounted, 'Stud Lincoln Ram, "Ben"', paper, maker unknown, Australia, 1890-1940 http://www....
irn=345964&search=sheep&site_id=3 http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/? irn=11482&search=sheep&site_id=3 http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/? irn=230218&search=sheep&site_id=3 F9121 Wool specimen, ram, Wagga District, New ...
If you can see this message, you are probably not seeing this site in the way it was designed. This site uses cascading style sheets (CSS2) to control the way in which elements are displayed on the page.
You will still be able to access everything in this site, but we do recommend you upgrade your browser to a more recent, standards compliant, browser.