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Australian History

General

Documenting a democracy
- timeline 60,000BC-1836 - links to significant events

Follow this trail (Picture Australia)
- a themed trail of historical pictures - includes bushrangers, Depression Years, Sydney Harbour Bridge, Burke and Wills, Chinese-Australian story

Key dates in Australia’s development as a culturally diverse nation
- timeline aims to present an overview of key events in Australia's development as a culturally diverse nation

Moving history
- collection of Australian documentaries from Film Australia organised in decades from 1940s - 2000s

Picture Australia
- Search Australia’s major historical picture collections

Significant dates in Australia’s history
- Project Gutenberg of Australia - Timeline


Caroline Chisholm

The White Hat guide to Caroline Chisholm

Caroline Chisholm 'The emigrant's friend'

Caroline Chisholm (1808-1877)


Convicts

Convicts and the British colonies in Australia
- information on Australia as a penal settlement with further links to information on the First Fleet - Convicts - Convict women - convict songs

Convicts to Australia
- includes timeline, convict ships, convict tales, convict women in NSW, convicts transported to WA and further links

Convict women at Port Jackson
- stories of three very different convict women who lived in colonial Sydney or Port Jackson between 1788 and 1850

Descriptions of convict life
- convict life, crimes, escapes and 'the voice of a convict'

First Fleet online
- information about the convicts who were transported to Australia in 1787

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European Settlement

Agriculture, the early years
- sections on land tenure and settlement, early attempts at agriculture

First Fleet Fellowship
- information on the story of the First Fleet, the ships of the First Fleet and a list of Provisions and Livestock

Ships of the First Fleet
- pictures and information on each of the ships in the First Fleet

The world upside down
- Timeline of European settlement 1788-1830

The Macarthurs and their merino sheep
- story of Captain John and Elizabeth Macarthur

Arthur Phillip
- biography from Project Gutenberg of Australia



Indigenous Australians

Indigenous Australia Timeline
- from pre-contact to 2000

Significant Aboriginal people in Sydney
- includes Arabanoo, Bennelong, Pemulwuy, Bungaree and Cora Gooseberry

Pemulwuy
- Radio National transcript on 200th anniversary of the death of Pemulwuy

Truganini - biography

Truganini - negotiator, diplomat and guerilla fighter

Truganini (1812-1876) - Tasmanian Aboriginal


Lachlan Macquarie

Macquarie's life as governor
- the Macquarie era

Journeys in time 1809-1822
- Journal of Lachlan and Elizabeth Macquarie

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