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Eureka Stockade - Australia's Culture PortalThe Eureka Flag based on the constellation of the Southern Cross. Image courtesy of the Ballarat Fine Art Gallery and Australian Museums & Galleries Online. The Eureka rebellion, which is often referred to as the 'Eureka Stockade' is a key event in the d...
Image courtesy of the National Trust of Queensland, Hou Wang Temple. The businesses in Chinatowns offered accommodation, medicinal herbs, fresh food grown by Chinese market gardeners and groceries. A Chinese school, a language and culture centre and a Ch...
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The Eureka Centre provides a national focus for debate about, and interpretation of, the Eureka story and is located on what is considered to be the site of the Eureka Rebellion. A popular tourist destination that opened in March 1998, the centre commemor
Sovereign Hill is centrally located in the regional Victorian City of Ballarat, in the heart of Victoria's rich Goldfields Region. The website gives information on school holiday activities, special exhibitions at the gold museum, corporate / media inform
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The significance of the Ballarat Goldfields Diary is outlined below by Geoffrey Blainey, Robyn Annear and Anne-Marie Schwirtlich. 'It is most unusual to find a miner keeping a diary especially of this length about everyday life, and about the little thing...
The Goldfields Diary Appeal was generously supported by:<br/><br/> Information about the Foundation and how you can support the Library. Last updated: 02 July 2009 > © 2004 - 2009 State Library of Victoria> Home | About this Site | Site Map Copyright...
The diary begins on 8 July 1855 and ends at noon on 1 January 1856. While the diarist s identity is unknown, his entries suggest that he came from Scotland, lured by gold fever to the goldfields of Ballarat. Information about the Foundation and how you ...
[Joe] also tells us that while the Bengal Tiger kept at the Montezuma was being taken along on a cart in a strong box (the wood thereof being 2 inches thick) the cart capsized and the box split in two pieces and out sprang the Bengal gent& The tiger spran...
The State Library of Victoria Foundation has raised $50,000 to purchase an extraordinary diary written in 1855 by a Scottish gold-digger residing in Ballarat. <br/><br/>The diary charts six eventful months in the miner's life, telling of a fire that kille...
Performers include Laura Cantagalli, Rosalie Bonighton, Ryoko Mori, Rhys Boak, John O'Donnell, and Sergio de Pieri. organ in the Pleasant St. Uniting Church Toccata on "Puer Nobis" - R. Bonighton"Joshua fought the battle of Jericho" - R. BonightonRosalie ...
Performers include Laura Cantagalli, Rosalie Bonighton, Ryoko Mori, Rhys Boak, John O'Donnell, and Sergio de Pieri. organ in the Pleasant St. Uniting Church Toccata on "Puer Nobis" - R. Bonighton"Joshua fought the battle of Jericho" - R. BonightonRosalie ...
Commandant Dana reports to the Colonial Secretary about incidents which took place on the Ballarat goldfields during a visit by the Commissioner for Crown Lands, accompanied by the Native Police. I accompanied the Commissioner and Mr Armstrong to the Ball...
Commandant Dana reports to the Colonial Secretary about incidents which took place on the Ballarat goldfields during a visit by the Commissioner for Crown Lands, accompanied by the Native Police. Letter from Commandant Dana to Colonial Secretary,, Septemb...
Welcome to our Australiana section, which includes works by writers such as Ion Idriess, Arthur Upfield, Frank Clune, Tom Ronan, H. H. Wilson, Frank Davison, Xavier Herbert, Ernestine Hill, Douglas Lockwood and others. Covers worn, slightly stained, some...
Intro | New Books | New awards | The July Garden> Plants for Chooks | A Few Recipes, including sugar free souffles, Victoria Sponge, corn cakes, zucchini slice, potato latkes. > Plant: Trees, trees, trees - if you don't have fruit trees now is the time t...
How Backyard Chooks Can Save the World | Wombat news> Most Recent Books | Most Recent Awards | The August garden> A few recipes> . Dulcie is what you might call a ‘bit of everything’ chook, her ancestors crossbred for hundreds of generations ...
The newsletters will keep you informed of updates to the website, the latest news on Jackie and her books, and lots of other fun stuff! Dulcie is what you might call a ‘bit of everything’ chook, her ancestors were crossbred for hundreds of gen...
> Both ‘The Shaggy Gully Times’ and ‘Pharaoh’ have been short-listed for the YABBA (Young Australians’ Best Book Award). (‘Pharaoh’ was also a Children’s Book Council (CBC) short-listed book last year, and ...
Avocado trees: Avocados are perfect chook food. Fruit trees: One of the best ways to feed chooks, and to keep your fruit trees pest free, is to run chooks in your orchard, under the fruit trees. Method: Beat butter, sugar, ginger and orange rind; add eg...
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