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Modern Australian architecture - Australia's Culture Portal

This is reflected in the development of an alternative model for public spaces and urban living based on social architecture and the 'green' apartment. Australia's modern residential architecture also reflects this change with architects using new environ...

Australian architecture - Australia's Culture Portal

Internationally recognised Australian icons include buildings like the Sydney Opera House (architect Jørn Utzon) and the new Parliament House in Canberra (architect Romaldo Giurgola). Distinctive Australian architecture is also recognisable in the rural ...

Australia at a glance - Australia's Culture Portal

Australia is a unique and diverse country in every way - in culture, population, climate, geography, and history. For articles on specific topics about Australian history and culture visit our Australian Stories Index. Australia's population is concentrat...

The Beach - Australia's Culture Portal

Cable Beach, Broome, north-west Kimberley Coast, Western Australia. Most of Australia's population lives close to the coastline and the beach has long occupied a special place in the Australian identity. Based on this definition, the Coastal Studies Uni...

Australia's fossil past - Australia's Culture Portal

This includes Pleistocene era Aboriginal body fossils, many of which were removed and sent overseas. Riversleigh, north-west Queensland, one of the most important fossil sites in the world. The Riversleigh fossil site, near Mount Isa Queensland, is reco...

Great Barrier Reef - Australia's Culture Portal

Image courtesy of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority. The Great Barrier Reef, off the east coast of Australia, is one of the wonders of the natural world - it is the world's largest coral reef ecosystem. In 2003, the previous Australian Governm...

Australian islands - Australia's Culture Portal

World Heritage-listed Fraser Island. However, Australia is actually made up of more than 8,000 islands, including the island state of Tasmania. Norfolk Island is located far off the east coast of Australia. ...

Kakadu National Park - Australia's Culture Portal

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) ...

National parks - Australia's Culture Portal

Blue Lake, Kosciuszko National Park. Australia has over 500 national parks. Most of our national parks are managed by the States and Territories of Australia; however the Commonwealth of Australia manages six national parks and a further 13 marine parks...

Australian rocks and mountains - Australia's Culture Portal

Mount Kosciuszko is part of the Great Dividing Range. Other rock structures in Australia, like Uluru, Mount Augustus and Bald Rock, have been described as monoliths. Uluru is located in the Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park about 335km to the south-west of ...

Walks - Australia's Culture Portal

Heritage walks and tours in Melbourne offer a range of guided and self guided tours including the Golden Mile Heritage Trail, and the National Trust conducts walking tours of the city which 'take you down the hidden laneways and tell the stories of the in...

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Cooperative Research Centre for the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area   (more info)

Knowledge-based partnership of coral reef managers, researchers and industry. Its mission is to plan, fund and manage world-leading science for the sustainable use of the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area. Find out about the Centre, it's activities a

Big Volcano Earth Sciences and Natural History Index   (more info)

The natural history, national parks and reserves of the Northern Rivers - Gold Coast region of north-eastern New South Wales and south-eastern Queensland. Includes geology, rainforests, flora and fauna, World Heritage and general information.

Cairns Festival   (more info)

21 days of celebrations, food, wine, art, performance, music, family fun and sport. Points of celebration includes the Great Barrier Reef, the surrounding World Heritage Rainforest and the relaxed tropical lifestyle in Cairns, Queensland. Find out more de

NSW Toy & Railway Museum   (more info)

A visit to Leuralla, the historic home, allows you to explore one of the oldest Blue Mountains' heritage listed homes set within 12 acres of temperate gardens. The historic home was completed just prior to World War I and is located in Leura, the garden

Daintree River Tours and Cruises   (more info)

Daintree near Port Douglas and Cairns, North Queensland, has become well known for birdwatching tours. Chris Dahlberg's Daintree River tours have been operating since July 1992. During the two hour dawn boat cruise, one of the habitats visited is the Worl

Australian Heritage Council   (more info)

The Australian Heritage Council (AHC) is a statutory body administered within the Australian and World Heritage Group of Environment Australia. This comprehensive site provides information about the Australian Heritage Commission including the Register of

State Library of Victoria (SLV)   (more info)

Through the State Library of Victoria's website you can discover Victoria's cultural and documentary heritage. The State Library links Victorians to the world's knowledge, and the world to our documentary heritage.

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Royal Exhibition Building nominated for World Heritage Listing - State of the Arts   (website State of the Arts )

Receive our FREE arts newsletter, with reviews and the latest arts news. Melbourne s Royal Exhibition Building has been nominated by UNESCO for a World Heritage Listing. >>A World Heritage listing would protect the building in future by imposing certain ...

Australian Antarctic Division - World Heritage listed Heard Island   (website Antarctica Online )

» Australia prioritises environment protection » Human impacts in Antarctica: what are we doing? In January 2001 Senator Hill, Minister for the Environment and Heritage, announced plans to establish a Marine Reserve adjacent to Heard Island. ...