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	Casino Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Broad Australian English is recognisable by a perceived drawl and by the prevalence of dipthongs.
		Australian English on the other hand has turned most of the tense vowels into diphthongs, and turned some of what are diphthongs in RP into long vowels, thus replacing the tense-lax distinction (one of quality) with a long-short distinction (one of quantity).
		The widespread desire among Australians to avoid pomposity, or even polite, formal or dignified speech, is sometimes seen as reflecting a suspicion of success in general, a phenomenon sometimes known as the tall poppy syndrome.
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	AUSTRALIAN ENGLISH FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Australian English began to diverge from British_English after the foundation of the Colony of New_South_Wales in 1788.
		As a result, for example, Australians use the word ''truck'' instead of the British ''lorry'', and ''freeway'' is the most common word for a high-speed, grade-separated road, though ''motorway'' is also sometimes used, particularly for toll roads (although tollway is also used).
		Broad Australian English is recognisable by a perceived drawl and by the prevalence of diphthongs.
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	Australian English - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Australian English (AuE) is the form of the English language used in Australia.
		As a result, for example, Australians use the word truck instead of the British lorry, and freeway is the most common word for a high-speed, grade-separated road, although motorway is also used in some regions.
		Broad Australian English is recognisable by a certain nasal drawl and the prevalence of long diphthongs.
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	Online Encyclopedia and Dictionary - Australian English (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Broad Australian English is the archetypal and most recognisable variety and is familiar to English speakers around the world because of its prevalence in films and television programs depicting Australia and/or Australians.
		General Australian English is in the middle of this continuum between Broad and Cultivated Australian English.
		Negative evaluations of Australian English, like those of many other English dialects, tend to centre on the belief, or come from the perspective that other forms of English (especially Received Pronunciation British English) are superior.
	fact-archive.com /encyclopedia/Australian_English (2542 words)

	Australian English (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Broad Australian English is the archetypearchetypal and most recognisable variety and is familiar to English speakers around the world because of its prevalence in films and television/ programs depicting Australia and/or Australians.
		Australian English is a Rhoticismnon-rhotic/ dialect: the consonant /r/ can occur only before a vowel.
		Australian English on the other hand has turned most of the tense vowels into diphthongs, and turned some of what are diphthongs in Received Pronunciation into long vowels, thus replacing the tense-lax distinction (one of quality) with a long-short distinction (one of quantity).
	www.infothis.com /find/Australian_English (2786 words)

	Gold Rush Education - Australian History Mogo South Coast NSW
		The goldrushes are a rich and fascinating part of our history and were highlighted by the exploits and deeds of those pioneers.
		But their efforts to populate were also being thwarted by the Californian goldrush, which was luring diggers to America, and the growing opposition to the transportation of convicts.
		The "epicentre" of the goldrush in New South Wales was the Bathurst district and with the word spreading, hopeful prospectors started to arrive from the British Isles, Europe, China and America.
	www.oldmogotown.com.au /education.html (1464 words)

	Australian English - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		There is some influence from Hiberno-English, but perhaps not as much as might be expected given that many Australians are of Irish descent.
		Convicts were mostly people from large English cities, such as Cockneys, and many words widely used by country Australians are or were also used in England, with variations in meaning.
		Australian English makes much more frequent use of diminutives than other varieties of English.
	www.wikipedia.com /wiki/Australian%2BEnglish (2314 words)

	Read about Australian English at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Australian English and learn about Australian ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Australian goldrushes – which began in the 1850s – Australian English has borrowed increasingly from external sources, including
		Australian actors provided voices for Finding Nemo, although many caricatured the Broad accent when voicing these roles.
		The widespread desire among Australians to avoid pomposity, or even polite, formal or dignified speech, is sometimes seen as reflecting a suspicion of success in general, a phenomenon sometimes known as the
	encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/Australian_English (2414 words)

	Oxford University Press - Why do I need an Australian dictionary?
		An Australian dictionary gives you more than other dictionaries, combining in one reference book information on English as it is used worldwide and as it is used particularly in Australia.
		It records the historical development of Australian words and idioms from their earliest use to the present day, providing evidence of this history in some 60,000 quotations drawn from over 9000 Australian sources.
		Thus The Australian Oxford Dictionary is up-to-date with Australian and International English, combining authentic description of Australian English with the authority for which Oxford dictionaries are renowned.
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	Lingua Franca - 26/2/2000: Bruce Moore on Gold! Gold! Gold! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The importance of the term 'digger' in Australian myth derives from its First World War associations, but its appearance in that war owes much to the analogy drawn between the often deep holes which had to be dug arduously in the search for gold, and the trenches which the soldiers had to dig.
		There are still the pages devoted to news from abroad, to Australian parliamentary proceedings, and so on, and these pages are written in a style that is generally indistinguishable from their British counterparts.
		Gold!' is the title of his dictionary of the language of the 19th century Australian goldrushes.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/arts/ling/stories/s103275.htm (1514 words)

	Valentine Alana - playwright (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The play is about the relationship between the great Australian denominator and navigator Matthew Flinders and his less well known brother, Samuel who accompanied him on many of his voyages, including aboard 'The Investigator' as they charted and named the South Australian coastline.
		The story of an Australian woman in London, the two Australian celebrity chefs she lives with, and a love affair with a British museum guard, Jamie, who guards the famous Lycian tomb of the Harpies in the British museum.
		When Promise is invited to showcase these ideas at a TV Conference in America, her ambition entangles her in a nightmare drama of her own making and she must confront what truly whispers both in herself and the ever shrinking forests of the natural world, in order to redeem herself.
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	The Australian Gold Rush - Stories from Australia's Cuilture and Recreation Portal
		There is no doubt that the gold rushes had a huge effect on the Australian economy and our development as a nation.
		The discovery marked the beginning of the Australian gold rushes and a radical change in the economic and social fabric of the nation.
		The largest foreign contingent on the goldfields was the 40,000 Chinese who made their way to Australia.
	www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au /articles/goldrush (1490 words)

	Bendigo - Victoria - Australia - Travel - smh.com.au
		If she did discover it, she could not have known that her discovery would create one of the greatest goldrushes in Australian history, that Bendigo bloated by the wealth from gold would build huge buildings celebrating its new wealth, or that the Bendigo gold seam covered an area of 3600 hectares.
		Australian flwood was used to build the pews and Sicilian marble was used for the sanctuary walls.
		It was used during the Australian Federation ceremonies in Melbourne in 1901 and appeared again at the 2001 festivities.
	www.smh.com.au /news/Victoria/Bendigo/2005/02/17/1108500206244.html (4318 words)

	eurekaSydney
		However, when thousands of Australian workers left for California in 1849 and 1850, the Government became alarmed and was ready to welcome a discovery in Australia which would bring a rush of workers to this country.
		So great were their numbers that the population of Australian almost trebled in 10 years.
		Mainly it was the squatters who framed the first constitution of self-government in an undemocratic way designed to keep power in their hands and deny votes to the great majority of unpropertied citizens.
	www.eurekasydney.com /notes.html (1509 words)

	Victorian History Links - By Region - General Victoria
		Australian Places - A Gazetteer of Australian Cities, Towns and Suburbs - much historical information is included in this site, which has a definate Victorian bias.
		Klondike Pioneers from Australia - Australian names from a database of pioneers of the Yukon in Alaska (where a goldrush took place in 1898).
		The Australian and New Zealand Victoria Cross Website - includes all recipients, many with details of their lives, for this medal, the highest British award for bravery.
	freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~nuttall/links/generalvic.htm (2162 words)

	The Eureka Stockade 1854 -- 1954 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		It is necessary to stress this prior Australian occupation of the goldfields because a myth is abroad that the period 1788-1850 is a sort of colorful but inconsequential prehistory, while the “real” history of Australia begins with the goldrushes.
		Amidst this rising turbulence of the ‘Eighties and interwoven with the strands of the new unionism and republicanism and Australian nationalism, arose a new force — socialism.
		The Australian Commonwealth replaced the separate states, national defence measures were devised, the trade unions were enjoying considerable freedom of action, and a mass of legislation on land, customs, working conditions, and particularly the system of arbitration, was standardising and seemed likely to improve the conditions of the people.
	www.agitprop.org.au /lefthistory/19541101_rdw_the_eureka_stockade_1854_1954.php (9246 words)

	Walkabout - Sandstone
		Located 157 km east of Mount Magnet and 661 km north of Perth, Sandstone is a town which started life as a boom goldrush town in the late 1890s and had become a virtual ghost town by the end of World War 1.
		The first European into the area was John Forrest who, in 1869, led an expedition through the East Murchison in search of the remains of Ludwig Leichhardt.
		In 1894 a prospector, Ernest Shillington, discovered gold about 20 km south of the present site of Sandstone and in 1903 (very late in the history of the region) George Dent and two brothers from the Hack family found gold only a few hundred metres from the present townsite.
	www.walkabout.fairfax.com.au /locations/WASandstone.shtml (638 words)

	Ned Kelly: Australian Ironoutlaw \|\| Writings On Ned
		Another shows her at the age of 79 in 1911 with two grand-daughters, sitting outside the last house she occupied, while a third, a 1917 portrait, was taken at Benalla railway station as she waited for the Melbourne train.
		Nell Kelly lived through the days of the Victorian goldrushes, the pioneering horse-and-buggy, candles and kerosene-lamp era.
		She was still alive when the first steam trains puffed their way north to the Murray River at Echuca, when the first motor cars coughed their way across the dirt roads, when the first planes spluttered across the sky, when electricity replaced gas lamps and ghostly voices could be heard coming from the wireless.
	www.ironoutlaw.com /html/writings_maslen_02.html (937 words)

	RGM Associates - Plays
		Alana was invited to Canada's Banff Colony for the Arts for the "Playrites 99 Colony" in September 1999, and in August 2002 she was the Writing Fellow of the International Artistic Fellowship at London's Shakespeare Globe Theatre.
		Set in the lively and extravagant urban subculture of an early 90’s dance party, is the story of a love triangle between a young woman, her unreconstructed feminist guardian, and an elusive male object of desire.
		A haunting play about the generative power of the Australian inland, this play was the recipient of the 1989 NSW State Literary Award for Radio in its original conception as a radio play.
	www.rgm.com.au /av_lit.html (2219 words)

	People's Voice (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		There was little growth in the area until 1930 when gold was discovered and the last of the major Australian goldrushes began.
		In a period of general economic depression the Tennant Creek gold was seen as something of a Godsend for the nation.
		Today, with a population of about 4000, Tennant Creek is an important regional centre for tourism and an important watering hole on the road between Darwin to Alice Springs.
	www.peoplesvoice.gov.au /stories/nt/tennantcreek/tennantcreek_c.htm (384 words)

	Australias Gold Rushes; Author: Coupe, Robert; Paperback
		Easy-to-read text is accompanied by historical illustrations and photographs that help recreate life on the goldfields, and reveal the significance of the gold rushes in Australian history.
		Read about the lure of gold, early finds throughout the Australian states, and thegold rushes in California and their effects on the Australian colonies.
		Easy-to-read text is accompanied by historical illustrations and photographs that help to recreate life on the goldfields, and reveal the significance of the goldrushes in Australian history.
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	Australian History and Culture
		I hope you enjoy the series I am doing on the early discovery of Australia, starting with the Dutch mariners who were the first recorded Europeans to find the Australian continent.
		A summary of the effects on Australia and the Australian people of the September 11 2001 attacks by terrorists on the USA.
		The story of the wreck of the Dutch ship Batavia in 1629 off the Western Australian coast and the subsequent murder of most of the passengers by mutineers.
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	SOSE (Humanities) Info resources - DECV Resource Centre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Comprises a range of resources and links on Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander issues and culture.
		For information on the Australian goldrushes of the 1850s.
		This is the official Website of the Australian Antarctic Division, which is responsible for administering Australia's wide-ranging activities in Antarctic and subantarctic regions.
	www.distance.vic.edu.au /rescen/soseh.html (624 words)

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	HOME
		The aim of this webquest is to discover the difference between the American and Australian Goldrush eras.
		1.What were the major differences between the Australian and the American Goldrushes?
		2.What factors influenced the differences between the clothing, lifestyle and living conditions in the Australian and the American Goldrushes?
	www.homestead.com /goldrushuts/HOME.html (138 words)

	H-ALBION Postings (May 1995): SARGOOD Family Papers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		I wonder if anyone out there, by some fluke has any knowledge
		Victoria, and in 1901 one of the first Australian senators.
		thus of some interest to Australian cultural and political history.
	www.h-net.msu.edu /~albion/logs/logsmay95/0083.html (219 words)

	Themes
		An Australian site, includes myths, legends and stories from indigenous peoples all over the globe.
		With the help of Gary Clark's Swamp cartoon characters, this web site teaches children under 13 years old, the fundamentals of money, earning their own money, saving their money and the technologies involved in accessing their money.
		This site is developed for schools interested in the Australian goldrushes of the 1850s and in particular, Ballarat, Victoria.
	www.ceo.woll.catholic.edu.au /themes (839 words)

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