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	List of Australians - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		See also the list of 100 Australian Living Treasures.
		William Buckley, convict living on the Bellarine Peninsula, famous for escaping and living among the aborigines when transported to the colony of New South Wales
		Dr Fiona Wood- inventor of spray on skin for burns victims and named Australian of the Year for 2005.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Australians (1722 words)

	The Irish in Australia
		It is only of late years that the Australian colonies have completely recovered from the delirium of the gold fever, and have begun to assume the recognized aspect of settled communities.
		The various colonies are no longer isolated settlements; all the leading cities of the Australian continent are connected by railway and telegraph, and the grand idea of an "Australian Federal Union," advocated for many years with all the earnestness of an eloquent Irish-Australian statesman,* is rapidly approaching the practical stage of accomplishment.
		Though New South Wales is the parent colony of the Australian group, she has been outstripped in the race of progress by one of her youngest children-Victoria, the wealthiest, most populous, and most important of the antipodean states.
	www.quinnipiac.edu /other/ABL/etext/Irish/australia/australianirishchapter1.html (4168 words)

	Geoffrey Blainey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He is listed as one of the Australian Living Treasures.
		Some Australians claimed that Blainey's views legitimized the stigmatization of Asian migrants and would hinder their integration into Australian society.
		Although Blainey's book Triumph of the Nomads was considered to be a scholarly study into the history of Australia's original inhabitants, his opinions opposing High Court decisions in favor of Aboriginal land rights put him in the line of fire and once again led to accusations of racism.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Geoffrey_Blainey (836 words)

	Australian Living Treasures - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Australian Living Treasures are people who have been nominated by the National Trust of Australia.
		The first list of 100 Living Treasures was published in 1997.
		The list was recently refreshed with 15 names, following the deaths of notable Australians such as: Sir Donald Bradman, Ruth Cracknell, Slim Dusty, R.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Australian_Living_Treasures (547 words)

	Australian Times - News for Aussies Living in London
		What Flam seemed to lack in the culinary stakes was more than made up for by the view outside across the sparkling waters and toward a landscape containing innumerable natural treasures.
		To gain a glimpse of the source of these waters it was necessary to again ascend to the high mountain passes above these valleys and join with one of the most picturesque and stunning stretches of railway in Europe, the Oslo-Bergen line, which cuts an East-West traverse across the country.
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	www.australiantimes.co.uk /travel.aspx?ID=20 (886 words)

	National Trust of Australia :: Living Treasures
		They replace 15 of the original 100 Living Treasures who have died since the list was first released in 1997.
		Living Treasures committee chair Michael Ball says months of voting by Australians has resulted in a diverse list of new names.
		Director of Western Australia's Institute of Child Health Research and last year's Australian of the Year, Professor Fiona Stanley, says she is extremely proud of her latest award.
	www.nsw.nationaltrust.org.au /about/treasures.asp (485 words)

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		Australian LegendsIssue : 21 Jan 2000 The details of the issue were secret when it was covered in Stamp Bulletin 253.
		“The surviving Anzacs are living treasures who, together with their fallen comrades, must always be remembered and honoured for their bravery and courage in the face of impossible odds.
		The Australian Legends series was initiated by Australia Post in 1997 to honour living Australians who have made a unique contribution to our way of life, who have inspired the community, and who have influenced the way Australians think about themselves and their country.
	members.tripod.com /~OzStampWorld/k3.html (898 words)

	BreakingNews.ie: Kidman, Crowe named Australian 'living treasures' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The two were among 15 new “treasures” on a list that ranged from sports stars to a surgeon who treated the horrific burns of survivors of the 2002 Bali bombings.
		Thousands of people nominated Australians they believed should be on the list of 100 living treasures, after the National Trust of Australia last October said it wanted to replace 15 “treasures” who had died since a top-100 list was first named in 1997.
		Although Crowe was born in New Zealand, he now lives on a farm near Australia’s east coast, about 435 miles north of Sydney.
	www.breakingnews.ie /story.asp?j=80194860&p=8xy9544x&n=80195469&x=&fs=1 (312 words)

	News Compass
		Honours include two Orders of Australia, the Senior ANZAC Fellowship, the Australian Humanist of the Year, the Golden Lion at Cannes, the Longford Award (for services to the film industry), the Henry Lawson Australian Arts Award and an honorary doctorate from Griffith University.
		He was recently elected one of Australia's 100 National Living Treasures in a National Trust poll.
		Australian Jewry succeeded in banning him from entering Australia — the classic Pyrrhic victory.
	newscompass.blogspot.com /2003/11/australian-journalist-philip-adams.html (1138 words)

	Touring Treasures - Luxury customised travel to the South Pacific - Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and Tahiti.
		Imagine living a dream vacation where every facet of your deluxe journey to Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and Tahiti is meticulously designed to suit your desires, personality and lifestyle...
		Touring Treasures constantly updates its portfolio to ensure that the highest of standards are met for our clients.
		Touring Treasures will provide you with the details of our local contacts in the countries you are travelling to.
	www.touringtreasures.com (1871 words)

	Save Ningaloo - Living Treasures
		Amazingly, the closest living relatives of the aquatic stygofauna are in the Caribbean region and the Canary Islands off Africa.
		In contrast to the stygofauna, the closest living relatives of the cave troglobites are animals found in the litter on the floor of tropical and southern temperate forests of Australia.
		Similarly, the stygofauna lives a precarious existence dependent on maintenance of the aquifer and the quality of its waters, and of the waters of the adjacent reef system.
	www.save-ningaloo.org /frames/page2.html (1614 words)

	Australian Festival Profiles - Who's Who
		James was also the first Australian country act to sign to a major label recording deal via Nashville in the USA paving the way for the likes of Keith Urban and Kasey Chambers...
		Founded in 1948, the American Australian Association is the largest non-profit organization in the United States devoted to relations between the United States and Australia and New Zealand; with operations throughout the tri-state and the New England regions.
		Australian Outback plants have been growing Australian Flora since 1978 in the deserts of Arizona and now these unique Australian Plants are available at the Australian Festival.
	www.australianfestival.org /profiles.htm (4374 words)

	Australian Museum Collections - Palaeontology
		Saved for the Australian Museum by a national fund-raising appeal in 1993 by ABC's "Quantum" and a generous donation from Akubra, Eric is now on display in the National Opal Collection in Pitt St. Mall, Sydney
		Only a very small number of all the animals or plants that ever lived on the Earth are preserved as fossils.
		However, fossils are found in quite large numbers, which indicates that an enormous number of plants and animals have lived on the Earth since life evolved more than 3500 million years ago.
	www.amonline.net.au /collections/palaeontology/index.cfm (205 words)

	Australian Celebrities: October 2005
		As was common among Australian actors of the time, Armstrong emigrated to the United States in 1981 to study at the Herbert Berghof acting school in New York City.
		Tottie is the niece of Australian singer and actress Olivia Newton-John.
		Her grandmother, Nikki, was Australian, which made it easier to obtain the documentation necessary, since Naomi and her family were entitled to Australian citizenship.
	celebrities.messengers.com.au /archive/2005_10_01_archive.html (8341 words)

	Travel destinations in Australia - ACT, NSW, NT, QLD, SA, VIC, WA, TAS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Take a closer look at the city one in five Australians call home and you’ll realise the horizon is no longer where you think it is.
		Australian Traveller lets you in on the secrets to have the “Perfect” Uluru experience.
		In Arnhem Land, where red dirt roads lead to sacred lands, Indigenous musicians such as the Nabarlek Band are creating songs capable of crossing cultures and intersecting lives.
	www.australiantraveller.com /index.cfm?page_id=1037 (2069 words)

	vacation UK
		Served by a major international airport, with comprehensive tourist services and featuring the some of the nation's treasures, Canberra is a great starting point for your tour of this awesome continent.
		Almost half of the Australian Capital Territory is parkland or bush-land, so you can escape into the Great Outdoors into surprising landscape of high plateaus, thick forest and grasslands dotted often with wildflowers and roamed by hundreds of kangaroos.
		The Margaret River region is a superb blend of good living and stunning nature just three and a half hours' drive south of Perth.
	www.australian-holiday-package.co.uk (3323 words)

	Newsletter no.23 Autumn 2000: Australian Alps national parks
		Population ecology of feral horses in the Australian Alps
		In 1999, Michelle Walter commenced a PhD partly funded by the Australian Alps national parks at the University of Canberra (Applied Ecology Research Group) on the population ecology of feral horses in the Australian Alps.
		The science of the Australian Alps is stimulating and complex - nowhere else in the world is quite the same - recently the natural treasures of the Alps was put under the microscope at a workshop in Canberra.
	www.australianalps.deh.gov.au /publications/newsletter/no23.html (8650 words)

	American Australian Association \| Australian Women in New York (AWNY)
		AWNY (Australian Women In New York - a program of the American Australian Association) is holding a specially guided walking tour of Midtown's great holiday delights on Wednesday December 14.
		AWNY (Australian Women In New York, a program of the American Australian Association) welcomes Fiona Tuite, AICI, a Professional Image Consultant as the guest speaker at their coffee morning on Wednesday November 9.
		Australian Women In New York (AWNY) was established in June 1999 by a small group of interested women who formed a committee to discuss options for providing a social focus and networking opportunities for expatriate women living in the New York area.
	www.americanaustralian.org /Social/awny.php (886 words)

	Living Treasures: Masters of Australian craft - 6 December 2004
		Object is pleased to announce a new exhibition series Living Treasures recognising three of Australia's leading senior craft practitioners as masters of Australian craft and design.
		Living Treasures: Masters of Australian craft will open at Object Gallery (12 November - 18 December 2005) then tour nationally.
		Living Treasures is presented by Object in collaboration with Craft Australia, Museums and Galleries Foundation NSW, and University of Wollongong, and is supported by Object's National Exhibitions Strategy funded by the Australia Council.
	www.craftaus.com.au /articles/20041206.php?catAcr=min (267 words)

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		Sarah's hand-painted animated films are distinguished by her comic exploration of personal states, set against lush Australian landscapes.
		From 1996 to 2000 she was general manager of SBS Independent, responsible for more than 400 hours of distinctive Australian programming.
		She was associate director, film section, of the 2002 Adelaide Festival which, in a world first, commissioned four new feature films—The Tracker, Australian Rules, Walking on Water and the short feature Kabbarli.
	www.afc.gov.au /filmsandawards/recentfilms/cannes05/feature_142.aspx (299 words)

	curly flat ~ the Michael Leunig appreciation site
		Once, it seemed to me that I was living in a world that was dominated by a status quo.
		There is an illusion of freedomI think we live in a time when we are overwhelmed and repressed.
		You produced a cartoon depicting your Australian flag which was full of stereotypical Aussieness with thongs and beer guts and the “old bitch” down the road.
	www.curlyflat.net /interviews_3.php (2589 words)

	Treasures : Item : Hans Lindau’s coat hanger
		A Berlin-born civilian made this wood and wire coat hanger while confined in an Australian internment camp at Hay, NSW, during World War 2.
		Constructed of what Hans Lindau (b.1895) called ‘materials at hand’, the coat hanger is a symbol of the ingenuity the internees used during their stay in their isolated camps.
		After he was released from Tatura in August 1943, Lindau went to work for a farmer in Sale, Victoria.
	nationaltreasures.nla.gov.au /index/Treasures/item/nla.int-ex13-s1 (173 words)

	Agassi triumphant in theatre of dreams \| Sport \| The Australian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		IT was not enough that Andre Agassi extended his magical run at his farewell tournament; in doing so one of sport's living treasures bequeathed us a match for the ages.
		It was almost 1am on a school night and a sold-out crowd of 23,000 was on its feet, mouths agape and applauding thunderously after experiencing unforgettable theatre worthy of the best of Broadway.
		Before the combatants entered the arena, Baghdatis, who was the revelation of the Australian Open this year, was asked how he could possibly play the villain considering the fact that he is one of the sport's genuinely good guys.
	www.theaustralian.news.com.au /story/0,20867,20329040-2722,00.html (1007 words)

	Teaching Treasures Articles of Interest Homeschool Zone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Pet ownership is a fact of Australian life and more than 66% of households have one or more pets.
		Australians living in a country known for its beautiful, sparkling rainwater, which incidentally is shipped overseas in quantities of hundreds of thousands of litres for consumption, are realizing the importance of storing those precious drops which in some parts of this vast country come far and few between.
		Farms are dotted around the countryside and people living in communities don't have much to worry about when it comes to that lovely, cold, clean water flowing from their taps, but it's a different story for those farms where main water supply is non-existent.
	www.teachingtreasures.com.au /homeschool/articles_of_interest.html (5621 words)

	Prisoners of War: Torrens Island
		Some internees were crew members of enemy nationality who were taken from ships in Australian ports.
		Many prisoners, including South Australian internees, were transferred to Holdsworthy camp near Liverpool in New South Wales.
		The attitudes towards South Australians of German descent during World War I. Cabbages and kings: selected essays in history and Australian studies, vol.
	www.slsa.sa.gov.au /exhibitions/treasures/d7738_l_2_fc.htm (540 words)

	AustLit News August/September 2005
		Emery is currently the co-head of Screenwriting at the Australian Film Television and Radio School and he is already a member of the Literature Board.
		A feature of the Australian contribution is the Arts and Entertainment programme that includes workshops with Australian authors and illustrators Alison Lester and Ron Brooks.
		Ten years ago, Australian newspapers and literary journals were crammed with hundreds of columns, essays, letters and critical articles each putting their own spin on the 'Demidenko Affair'.
	www.austlit.edu.au /news/newsAugustSeptember2005 (5976 words)

	Treasures of the Battye Library - Rica Erickson Botanical Collection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Botanical art is not merely decorative but faithfully and scientifically reproduces the plant, creating a work of art that is not only admired for its beauty but also can be studied or kept as a botanical record.
		Her interest in Western Australian history has been a lifelong passion culminating in the publication of genealogical dictionaries and several books.
		In 2002, then aged 93, Rica was the first recipient of the Friends of Battye Library's Gem of Time award established to honour Western Australia's living treasures with a connection to the Battye Library.
	www.liswa.wa.gov.au /treasures/rica (310 words)

	Sprouted Seeds: The Living Treasures
		“Live” foods help to conserve the body’s enzymes, stimulating metabolism and the regeneration process, contributing to long and healthy lives.
		If your bird only seem to enjoy dry seeds, such as is typical of many Australian species, feeding sprouted seeds may be the answer toward providing it with many important nutrients for a healthier, more active pet.
		Birds that were raised on an all dry seed diet naturally are stubborn to try something new, as they feel threatened and fearful when presented with a new food.
	www.africangreys.com /articles/nutrition/sprouted.htm (1564 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Film \| Kidman and Crowe living treasures
		The National Trust of Australia's living treasures committee honoured the actors alongside other figures including cricketer Steve Waugh.
		Some of the former living treasures who have died in the past seven years include country singer Slim Dusty and actor Ruth Cracknell.
		The awards were given to Kidman and Crowe despite the fact neither are native Australians.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/film/3510324.stm (224 words)

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