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Australian civil aviation - Australia's Culture Portal

The Australian Flying Corps (AFC) was as influential on Australian civil aviation as it was on early Australian aviation. Two former AFC officers, Hudson Fysh and Paul McGinness, established what later became known as Qantas, with Fysh also supporting th...

Early Australian aviation - Australia's Culture Portal

Until the Second World War, Australia was one of the world's leaders in aviation in terms of both air mileage and prominent aviation pioneers. Since the early development of powered flight in Australia in 1910, various air services have been established:...

Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia - Australia's Culture Portal

Organisations such as the Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) have been established to bring these important health services to remote and regional Australian communities. The Royal Flying Doctor Service provides free emergency and medical care to people w...

The School of the Air and remote learning - Australia's Culture Portal

The answer is Community Government schooling and the School of the Air. School of the Air is one of the means by which children in remote communities can access schools. Alternatively, community schools provide an opportunity for children to attend scho...

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Archive - July 2009 - Landline   (website Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) )

It's almost six months since the most destructive bushfires in Australia's history swept through the heavily populated hills to Melbourne's north. But a farming family with an idea to rebuild vital fencing has escalated into an international aid effort. ...

Archive - June 2008 - Landline   (website Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) )

The Peanut Company of Australia says its shift north is all about water security. Anne Kruger also talks to the Coalitionís former Northern Taskforce Chairman, Senator Bill Heffernan about the idea of moving Australiaís agriculture north. Sean Murphy's a...

Museum of Australian Currency Notes: A Complete Series of Polymer Notes   (website Museum of Australian Currency Notes )

How are Australia's Currency Notes Made? These were early designs of the $10 note featuring Banjo Paterson and Dame Mary Gilmore. For additional information about the people on our currency notes, please visit the Notes in Circulation page on the Reserve...

The School of the Air and remote learning - Australia's Culture Portal   (website Culture Portal )

The answer is Community Government schooling and the School of the Air. School of the Air is one of the means by which children in remote communities can access schools. Alternatively, community schools provide an opportunity for children to attend scho...

Early Australian aviation - Australia's Culture Portal   (website Culture Portal )

Until the Second World War, Australia was one of the world's leaders in aviation in terms of both air mileage and prominent aviation pioneers. RAAF, World War I. Image courtesy of Royal Australian Air Force. The Heroic Age of Australian Aviation, Linking...

Australian civil aviation - Australia's Culture Portal   (website Culture Portal )

The Australian Flying Corps (AFC) was as influential on Australian civil aviation as it was on early Australian aviation. After the Second World War, in 1946, the Australian Government established TAA as a government airline in 'competition' with Ansett ...

Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia - Australia's Culture Portal   (website Culture Portal )

Organisations such as the Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) have been established to bring these important health services to remote and regional Australian communities. The Royal Flying Doctor Service provides free emergency and medical care to people w...

Australian Heritage Database   (website(s) Our House: Histories of Australian homes    Australian Heritage Council    Australia's heritage )

Address: Landsborough Hwy, Longreach, QLD, 4730 LGA: Longreach Shire QLD Location/Boundaries: Landsborough Highway, 2km east of Longreach, comprising the whole of the Qantas Hangar building. Assessor's Summary of Significance: The Queensland and Northern ...

Australia's National Heritage   (website(s) Our House: Histories of Australian homes    Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts    Australia's heritage )

It is closely associated with Hudson Fysh, Paul~J~McGinness, Fergus McMaster and Arthur Baird. The hangar also has strong links to the start of~the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia. The Aerial Medical Service grew to become the Royal Flying Doct...

?Our heritage provides an enduring golden thread   (website(s) Our House: Histories of Australian homes    Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts    Australia's heritage )

s National Heritage celebrating the 87 special places on Australia? 1. Budj Bim National Heritage Landscape 2. Royal Exhibition Building and Carlton Gardens 3. Dinosaur Stampede National Monument, Lark Quarry 4. Kurnell Peninsula: Captain Cook? Australian...

No Title   (website(s) Our House: Histories of Australian homes    Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts    Australia's heritage )

Also in this issue: $60 million for Jobs Fund projects Kimberley heritage assessment Australian Alps listed World Heritage news Awards for Fremantle Prison Qantas Hangar and the Tree of Knowledge visits Conserving the ? Contents New members welcomed to th...

Living Heritage - Vol. 1 No. 4 Spring 2009   (website(s) Our House: Histories of Australian homes    Australia's heritage )

living heritage AUSTRALIA S NATIONAL HERITAGE MAGAZINE Vol. Minister Garrett welcomed historic heritage expert and former CEO of the Australian Heritage Commission, Adjunct Professor Sharon Sullivan AO; natural heritage and environment expert, Associate ...

QANTAS Hangar, Longreach - National Heritage - Queensland - more information   (website(s) Our House: Histories of Australian homes    Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts    Australia's heritage )

The unassuming galvanised iron hangar is where QANTAS began its operations in 1922, but the QANTAS story began earlier. In 1919, two First World War airmen, Hudson Fysh and Paul McGinness, surveyed an air route from Longreach to Darwin for the first Engl...

  (website(s) Our House: Histories of Australian homes    Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts    Australia's heritage )

The hangar also has strong links to the start of the Royal Flying Doctor Service. The QANTAS hangar at Longreach received the highest possible heritage honour when it was included in the National Heritage List on 2 May 2009. National Heritage List The Na...

ABC Rural Features   (website Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) )

Federal National Party Leader Mark Vaile says a proposal to merge the Queensland National and Liberal Parties now won't go ahead. He's also welcomed Wheat Australia's deal that resumes Australia's wheat trade with Iraq. The Queensland Country Hour team b...

FAQ   (website Brisbane's Living Heritage - a discovery guide )

It commemorates the ministry of Rev Tom Rees Thomas, Minister of City Congregational Church (later Ann Street Uniting) from 1948 to 1981. The Brisbane Concert Choir at St Andrewís also practises and holds regular concerts at St Andrewís. After the Uniti...