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	History of Australia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		On 1 January 1901, federation of the colonies was achieved after a decade of planning, consultation and voting, and the Commonwealth of Australia was born, as a Dominion of the British Empire.
		The Australian Capital Territory (ACT) was formed from New South Wales in 1911 to provide a location for the proposed new federal capital of Canberra (Melbourne was the capital from 1901 to 1927).
		Australia remains a constitutional monarchy with Queen Elizabeth II the Queen of Australia; the 1999 referendum to establish a republic was marginally rejected.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_Australia (925 words)

	Encyclopedia: Australian history since 1901
		Discussions between Australian and British representatives led to adoption by the British Government of an act to constitute the Commonwealth of Australia late in 1900.
		(See History of Australian Conscription) Hughes united with the Liberals to form the Nationalist Party, and remained in office until 1923, when he was succeeded by Stanley Bruce.
		Australian victory in the Battle of Milne Bay was the first Allied defeat of Japanese land forces.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/australian-history-since-1901 (2481 words)

	Australian History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		This was also a turning point in Australian history as the nation looked to closer ties with the USA and Asia as postwar Britain began to form closer ties with Europe.
		A truly international football sport, the Australian 'Wallabies' are one of the best Rugby Union football teams in the world having defeated in recent times, South Africa, England and the New Zealand 'All Blacks' (NZ have for a long time been considered the best and most ruthless Rugby Union nation in the world).
		The most legendary horse is the history of Australian Horse Racing is without a doubt the New Zealand born and Melbourne Cup winner, Phar Lap who won 14 races in a row in 1930-31 during a time of great hardship in Australia.
	www.showroom.com.au /aushistory.htm (8042 words)

	History - Australian history
		Australian fears of incursion from the north by Europeans (as distinct from Britons) and Asians, first triggered during the 1850s by the Crimean War, provided the spur for the first practical step towards unification in the 1880s.
		Nevertheless, Australians tended to retain their old colonial identities, and the political parties at the national level tended to be loosely defined.
		Australians expected the 1920s and 1930s to reflect a new nationalism in international affairs; yet they themselves tended to reassert their provincialism both within the League of Nations and the Commonwealth of Nations.
	www.australianaustralia.com /page/History/238 (8154 words)

	Ancient heritage, modern society - Australia in Brief - Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
		It was not until 1770 that another Englishman, Captain James Cook, aboard the Endeavour, extended a scientific voyage to the South Pacific in order to further chart the east coast of Australia and claim it for the British Crown.
		The number of Australians employed in the manufacturing industry had grown steadily since the beginning of the century.
		In 1967 the Australian people voted overwhelmingly in a national referendum to give the federal government the power to pass legislation on behalf of Indigenous Australians and to include Indigenous Australians in future censuses.
	www.dfat.gov.au /aib/history.html (1436 words)

	Australian Shepherd History - Herding on the Web (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		With regard to the Australian Shepherd, various theories have arisen: that it is of Australian origin; that it is really a Basque breed; that it is of old Spanish origin.
		Histories of California relate that although there had been many flocks of sheep at the Spanish missions, the number of sheep in the Far West had greatly declined by the time of the Gold Rush at the end of the 1840's.
		The English Shepherd and the Australian Shepherd share the old Collie colors of tricolor, fl-and-tan and fl-and-white, but the sable that is accepted in the English Shepherd, and which did occur in the early Aussie, is not accepted by the Australian Shepherd standard today; likewise, merle colors are not acceptable for the English Shepherd today.
	www.glassportal.com /herding/shepherd.htm (2576 words)

	History of Australian Places Index
		Some "histories" are but a short paragraph, however the decision has been made to include them when no other histories for that location exist.
		The purpose of these histories is to increase the awareness of the depth of history on the Peninsula and to encourage further research into local archives.
		The History of Ocean Grove is an example of a town history with the above components.
	www.zades.com.au /ozindex/ozindex.html (680 words)

	World History Compass Home Page
		Provides scholars studying the contemporary political history of Iran with primary source material consisting of personal accounts of individuals who either played major roles in important political events and decisions from the 1920s to the 1970s or witnessed these events from close range.
		History, culture, and literature of Arkansas and surrounding regions.
		History and archaeology of the Spanish fort and town of Santa Elena on Port Royal Sound in South Carolina.
	www.worldhistorycompass.com (2385 words)

	European discovery and the colonisation of Australia - Stories from Australia's Culture and Recreation Portal
		This would not change until the Australian High Court's decision in the Mabo Case in 1992.
		For many Indigenous Australians however, 26 January is not a day of celebration but one of mourning and protest.
		On the morning of the 26 January for the 1938 sesquicentennial (150th) celebrations, Aboriginal activists met to hold a 'Day of Mourning' conference aimed at securing national citizenship and equal status for Aborigines.
	www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au /articles/australianhistory (2152 words)

	Radical Tradition Main Index - an Australasian History page of working class struggle and anarchism
		This history brings alive the spirit of radical democracy and mateship in the trade union movement in the first decades of the twentieth century.
		In Rebel Worker and Accountability John Englart examines the 20 year history of Rebel Worker, initially the paper of the Australian IWW, then of the Anarcho-Syndicalist Federation, and presently of the Anarcho-Syndicalist Network.
		History, as a subject in school, is increasingly being neglected and relegated as unimportant.
	www.takver.com /history (3295 words)

	Australian Family History Compendium
		The National Archives of Australia is the official repository for records of the Australian Federal Government.
		Their Family History Centres are open to the public at no charge.
		The Kiama Family History Centre has programs for school students visiting the Centre, and study kits for students and teachers.
	www.cohsoft.com.au /afhc (550 words)

	AUSTRALIAN HISTORY
		Daniel Bunce was botanist on Leichhardt's 1846 attempt to cross the Australian Continent.
		BUTLIN N.G. FITZGERALD and R.H. The Australian Economist 1888-1989.
		Published for the Economic Society of Australia and the Ecomomic History Society of Australia and New Zealand to commemorate the centenary of publication of the first Australian economics journal.
	www.bspgallery.com.au /aust.htm (2063 words)

	Postal History. The worldwide postal history website
		If you collect postal history, or are interested in discovering more about this fascinating branch of philately, you will find information here to help you.
		Postal History, therefore, is telling the story of how mail has been handled, who has handled it, and why.
		In postal history, research is necessary to interpret a cover and its postal markings.
	postalhistory.org (463 words)

	Australian Flag Company
		His was the first recorded landing on the Australian east coast, and the act of raising the Union Flag at Botany Bay represented taking possession of the land in the name of the King.
		The Australian National Flag consists of a dark blue background (this was just the designers choice) with the Union Jack contained in the upper hoist (top left corner).
		The most dominant symbols in the Australian national Flag are the five stars of the Southern Cross.
	www.australianflag.biz /history.htm (778 words)

	World History Compass, Australian and New Zealand History
		Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre of the University of Melbourne.
		There are eight different sets of original constitutional instruments: a set for each Australian State, one for the Northern Territory, and the set for the Commonwealth of Australia, established by Federation in 1901.
		History of the industrial labour movement in New Zealand.
	www.worldhistorycompass.com /austral.htm (579 words)

	WWW-VL History Index
		Australian Literary and Historical Texts [Provided by the University of Sydney, and part of the Australian Electronic Texts Collection.
		Australian sketches, by Thomas MacCombie (London, 1861), from the Göttinger Digitalisierungs-Zentrum.
		WWW-VL: History was established as HNSource (Kansas History Gateway) on 6 March 1993.
	vlib.iue.it /history/oceania/Australia (1692 words)

	Australian History
		Picture Australia, is hosted by the National Library of Australia, provides one gateway to images from its own collection and those of the Australian War Memorial, the State Library of New South Wales, the State Library of Tasmania, and the State Library of Victoria.
		An international interdisciplinary database with a large amount of full text in which Australian history is well-represented.
		It is usually best to establish the date of the event you are researching (perhaps by using a chronology) and then browse papers near that time.
	www.library.adelaide.edu.au /guide/hum/history/Aust-general.html (2340 words)

	Amazon.com: The Rush That Never Ended : A History of Australian Mining: Books: Geoffrey Blainey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		This book details the history of Australian Mining, but don't be put off by the seemingly dry subject-it is anything but dry.
		Stories are told of the romantic gold rushes, the lucky, the unlucky, the schemes, plots, the deceptions, the clouded histories, the despair of the many, and the fortune of the few.
		Curiously and well written, it is recommended for those interested in history, particularly Australian, or those simply interested in curious human anecdotes of life.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/052285009X?v=glance (990 words)

	Australia -> History on Encyclopedia.com 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Confederation of the separate Australian colonies did not come until a constitution, drafted in 1897-98, was approved by the British parliament in 1900.
		It was put into operation in 1901; under its terms, the colonies of New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia, and Tasmania, all of which had by then been granted self-government, were federated in the Commonwealth of Australia.
		The new federal government moved quickly to institute high protective tariffs (to restrain competition to Australian industry) and to initiate a strict anti-Asian “White Australia” immigration policy, which was not lifted until 1956.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/section/australi_history.asp (1204 words)

	Radical Tradition Links
		Jay's directory of links is a useful compilation of radical resources and history pages on the net, especially in regard to North America.
		Toward a Fraternal History of Marin County: A Survey of Secret Societies being a General History of Various Fraternities and Their Specific Impact in Marin.
		Thought provoking history from California which mirrors in part the Australian research by Dr Bob James.
	www.takver.com /history/indexlnk.htm (434 words)

	Amazon.com: Strange Constellations : A History of Australian Science Fiction (Contributions to the Study of Science ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		This book surveys the history of Australian science fiction from its nineteenth century origins to the close of the twentieth century.
		Included are discussions of Australian writers who have been substantially engaged with science fiction as a genre.
		The volume proceeds chronologically, with sections devoted to Australian science fiction before 1925, the rise of traditional science fiction from 1926 through 1959, the international recognition of Australian science fiction from 1960 to 1974, and the serious acclaim given to Australian science fiction writers in the last 25 years.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0313251126?v=glance (783 words)

	gchpindixDavid Cameron's Australian History Homepage
		I'm a PhD candidate with the History Department of the University of Queensland, Australia.
		The current focus of my research is on economic development, the manufacturing sector, and the political economy of Queensland in the early twentieth century.
		History Department of the University of Newcastle (Aust)
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Acropolis/9968 (419 words)

	Australian Garden History Society - Welcome
		Garden history is not confined to large, grand or famous gardens.
		It includes the history of front gardens and back yards of suburbs, towns and farms all over the country.
		The transition from wasteland to wonderland has been anything but smooth for most of the gardens, and the exhibition places Melbourne's major gardens in an historical and social context, by illustrating their uses over the last 150 years.
	www.gardenhistorysociety.org.au (670 words)

	Australian history links - Internet links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Australian history links, Centenary of Federation, Historical images NSW Local History
		An annotated directory of websites relating to Australian history compiled by the National Library of Australia.
		Resources relating to the history of the Hunter Valley, including information about cemeteries, churches, historic homes, collieries, and digitised publications such as early directories, newspapers and journals.
	www.sl.nsw.gov.au /links/history/aust.cfm (751 words)

	Aust Stu Net: History resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The "tyranny of distance" is no longer a primary factor in the study of Australian topics.
		History of Science, Technology and Medicine Biographical Dictionary from the University of Melbourne.
		There is considerable material related to the political history of Australia from the Parliamentary Library.
	www.austudies.org /info/docs.html (1230 words)

	Nineteenth Century Exploration of Australia
		Although Australian coasts were charted in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and the first permanent European settlement established in New South Wales in 1788, exploration of the interior of the continent was entirely a nineteenth century phenomenon.
		During the 1800s a great number of intrepid (but sometimes foolhardy) adventurers, prospectors, surveyors and naturalists crisscrossed the continent in all directions, more than a few of them losing their lives along the way.
		History has of course moved on since 1893, and in the interim additional information has come to light regarding both the routes taken by these explorers, and the details of their travels.
	www.wku.edu /~smithch/australia (713 words)

	Australian Economic History Review - Journal Information
		Published on behalf of the Economic History Society of Australia and New Zealand
		The Australian Economic History Review is concerned with the historical treatment of economic, social and business issues, particularly (but not exclusively) relating to Australia, New Zealand and adjoining regions in Asia and the Pacific.
		Papers examine these issues not only from the perspective of economic history but also from the related disciplines of history, economics, history of economic thought, industrial relations, demography, sociology, politics and business studies.
	www.blackwellpublishing.com /journal.asp?ref=0004-8992 (168 words)

	Australia Travel Information \| Lonely Planet Destination Guide
		In spring and autumn the weather is mild.
		On Australian beaches in summer you'll often see two poles, a couple of hundred metres apart, each flying a yellow and red flag.
		These mean the area in between is patrolled by lifeguards: big men and women wearing small hats.
	www.lonelyplanet.com /worldguide/destinations/pacific/australia (263 words)

	Embassy of Australia, Washington, DC
		Australians travelling overseas should register their travel plans so we can find them in an emergency.
		Australian support for APEC initiatives on avian flu
		PM John Howard meets the Australian Special Forces Task Group deployed on Operation Slipper in Afghanistan.
	www.austemb.org (61 words)

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