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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...
In 1788, the eleven ships of the First Fleet landed their 'cargo' of around 780 British convicts at Botany Bay in New South Wales. From 1788 to 1823, the Colony of New South Wales was officially a penal colony comprised mainly of convicts, marines and th...
Australian films and filmmakers receive acclaim on the world stage, and the achievements of Australian women onscreen are celebrated. The play's success encouraged Kate to turn the play into a film (1920), which she co-directed with Charles Villiers, mak...
The gold rushes of the nineteenth century and the lives of those who worked the goldfields - the 'diggers' - are etched into our national folklore. There is no doubt that the gold rushes had a huge effect on the Australian economy and our development as a...
Image courtesy of the Australian War Memorial. The myth of the digger and the larrikin hero is an important part of the Australian experience of pastoralism, the goldfields, bushranging, shearing and droving. The slang term 'digger' re-surfaced during th...
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...
Nursing staff of a mobile hospital, including four Australian nurses, 1917. The involvement of Australian women as nurses in war began in 1898 with the formation of the Australian Nursing Service of New South Wales, from which sixty nurses served in The ...
Image courtesy of the Australian War Memorial. The involvement of Australian women in each war is closely connected to their role in society at different times, and the nature of each war. Australia has been involved in a number of wars including The Boer...
The first ship and crew to chart the Australian coast and meet with Aboriginal people was the Duyfken captained by Dutchman, Willem Janszoon. In 1770, Englishman Lieutenant James Cook charted the Australian east coast in his ship HM Barque Endeavour. Coo...
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Colonial Eve. Sources on Women in Australia 1788-1914. Teale Ruth, Editor. Dee Why Books (website Bookshops.com.au - your guide to Australian Bookshops )Description:Dee Why Books opened in 1994 at Dee Why, a suburb on the Northern Beaches of Sydney. > In January 1996, we combined our small shop in Dee Why with the larger neighbouring shop and created a bookshop with the space our books demanded. > July ...
Title: The Swampers (1897) Author: Nisbet, Hume * A Project Gutenberg of Australia eBook * eBook No. Project Gutenberg of Australia eBooks are created from printed editions which are in the public domain in Australia, unless a copyright notice is included...
Title: Policy and Passion Author: Rosa Praed * A Project Gutenberg of Australia eBook * eBook No. Project Gutenberg of Australia eBooks are created from printed editions which are in the public domain in Australia, unless a copyright notice is included. ...
Project Gutenberg of Australia eBooks are created from printed editions which are in the public domain in Australia, unless a copyright notice is included. I built the "Chester Hotel" entirely at my own expense, and as my own speculation. --JACK MILTON ...
Title: Policy and Passion Author: Rosa Praed * A Project Gutenberg of Australia eBook * eBook No. IN placing before the English public a novel dealing exclusively with Australian life, a few prefatory remarks may not be inapplicable. By means of books, mo...
The Australian Children s Music Foundation ( ACMF) thinks so. au/ acmf SETTING YOUNG MINDS FREE APRA is an association of composers, authors and publishers of music in Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific having affi liations with similarly cons...
The gold rushes of the nineteenth century and the lives of those who worked the goldfields - the 'diggers' - are etched into our national folklore. There is no doubt that the gold rushes had a huge effect on the Australian economy and our development as a...
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In 1788, the eleven ships of the First Fleet landed their 'cargo' of around 780 British convicts at Botany Bay in New South Wales. From 1788 to 1823, the Colony of New South Wales was officially a penal colony comprised mainly of convicts, marines and th...
Australian films and filmmakers receive acclaim on the world stage, and the achievements of Australian women onscreen are celebrated. In directing her first feature film, My Brilliant Career (1979), Armstrong became the first woman to direct a feature-le...
In 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...
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