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Natural disasters in Australia - Australia's Culture PortalAustralia experiences a range of 'natural disasters' including bushfires, floods, severe storms, earthquakes and landslides. Fire can often follow drought, and drought can be followed by flood. I love a sunburnt country, a land of sweeping plains, Of ra...
Robin Boyd, Roy Grounds and Harry Seidler have contributed significantly to modern Australian architecture by applying modernist-style principles to Australian homes. Another group of architects, such as Glenn Murcutt, Tina Engelen and Ian Moore, and Trop...
The bush has an iconic status in Australian life and features strongly in any debate about national identity, especially as expressed in Australian literature, painting, popular music, films and foods. The bush was revered as a source of national ideals b...
The Federation Kiosk, Centennial Park, Sydney at the Proclamation of Federation, 1 January 1901. Image courtesy of the National Archives of Australia. The movement had begun to gather real momentum after Henry Parkes wrote to the other premiers in 1889 an...
Before white settlement, Aboriginal people survived off the native plants and animals of the Australian environment for thousands of years. Bush foods such as berries, roots and nectars were a vital part of the aboriginal diet in many areas. In the late...
Employing dream imagery, poetry and precarious juxtapositions, Australian artists in the 1930s and early 1940s responded to European surrealists and were part of an international surrealist movement - 'in all its clarity'. Many of Australia's best known a...
Even though the four 'official' calendar seasons have the same names as the northern hemisphere seasons, the weather during these seasons is very different to northern hemisphere weather patterns. Indigenous Australians have long had their own seasonal c...
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Jeni Mawter - Classroom Focus series about Natural Disasters (website Jeni Mawter )There's something about natural disasters that kids love. From floods to drought, from famine to fire, or storms to volcanoes, this book looks at them all. Copyright © 2009 Jeni Mawter - Site by JR Network Solutions ...
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Compared with other countries around the world Australia is considered geologically stable with a very low record of earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes and meteorite strikes. These plates ‘float’ on the mantle layer of semi melted rock called m...
The Bushfire Cooperative Research Centre involves a wide range of agencies,including fire and land management agencies, universities, CSIRO and Australian Government agencies. The Regional Flood Mitigation Program is an Australian Government initiative t...
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Australia experiences a range of 'natural disasters' including bushfires, floods, severe storms, earthquakes and landslides. Fire can often follow drought, and drought can be followed by flood. Floods in Australia range from localised flash flooding as ...
We are hoping to launch our new Australian Museum collections online program in the next... Who can access the Australian Museum collections? “Who can access the Australian Museum collections on line?...
The papers from this conference cover: A review of the last twenty years of disaster management; General disaster management; Education and training; Technology and disaster reduction; Natural disaster reduction in China; Bushfires; General disaster manag...
An interdisciplinary team has been studying the impacts of volcanic disasters on human history in the Willaumez Peninsula region of West New Britain in Papua New Guinea for over 10 years. Australian Museum Business Services - Ecological, archaeological a...
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Natural Disasters and Culture Change. Attention: Visual Art and Design and Technology Teachers: The Australian Museum presents Design Like an Egyptian: Jewellery Design Competition. Australian Museum Business Services - Ecological, archaeological and he...
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