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This category contains links to states and localities with history related sites.

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• Organisations
• People
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• Tasmania
• Victoria
• Western Australia

Resources in This Category

• Australia Beyond the Fatal Shore

  http://www.pbs.org/wnet/australia/
  Companion website to the PBS series written and hosted by Robert Hughes. An introduction to some of the individuals Robert Hughes talks with and about as he explores the history and culture of Australia.

• Australian Explorers

  http://www.davidreilly.com/australian_explorers/
  General information on eleven different explorers for primary school children.

• Australian Medical Pioneers Index

  http://www.medicalpioneers.com/
  A biographical database of Australian doctors to 1875. Includes background material on medical history, colonial medical life, medical qualifications and timeline

• Convict Creations

  http://www.convictcreations.com/
  Historical background on Australian convict culture, information on a selection of artists, and convict-inspired crafts.

• Documenting a Democracy - Australia's story

  http://www.foundingdocs.gov.au/
  Through this site you can see some of the documents that helped create the Federation of Australia.

• History of Australia

  http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/24/index-c.html
  General history of Australia, from the World History Archives.

• Indigenous Peoples: the Aboriginal Peoples of Australia

  http://www.mythinglinks.org/ip~australia.html
  Illustrated and carefully annotated guide to links focused specifically on the history, lore, sacred traditions, arts, and beliefs of the Aboriginal Peoples of Australia by Kathleen Jenks, Ph.D.

• Nineteenth Century Exploration of Australia

  http://people.wku.edu/charles.smith/australia/
  Features an 1893 map of explorers' routes, plus links to online biographies of the explorers, and the text of a book chapter on Australian exploration by naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace.

• Radical Tradition

  http://www.takver.com/history/index.htm
  Articles on "the history of working class struggle and anarchism in Australia".

• Totalisator history a world's first

  http://members.ozemail.com.au/~bconlon/
  The history of the invention of the world's first automatic totalisator in Australia in 1913 by George Julius.

• VL: Australia History

  http://vlib.iue.it/history/oceania/Australia/index.html
  Extensive links to articles and scholarly resources from the WWW Virtual Library History Network, maintained by Philip George of Index NZ.

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