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Sydney Harbour Bridge - Australia's Culture Portal

Sydney Harbour Bridge at sunset. The Sydney Harbour Bridge is one of Australia's most well known and photographed landmarks. It is the world's largest (but not the longest) steel arch bridge with the top of the bridge standing 134 metres above the harbo...

Modern Australian residential architecture - Australia's Culture Portal

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...

Australia at a glance - Australia's Culture Portal

Australia is a unique and diverse country in every way - in culture, population, climate, geography, and history. For articles on specific topics about Australian history and culture visit our Australian Stories Index. Australia's population is concentrat...

Grace Cossington Smith - Australia's Culture Portal

Grace Cossington Smith (1892-1984) was a leading Sydney painter in the Australian modernist movement, and her painting The Sock Knitter (1915) is generally regarded as Australia's first modernist work. Grace Cossington Smith, The Bridge in-Curve, c.1930, ...

Frank Hurley - Australia's Culture Portal

James Francis (Frank) Hurley (1885-1962) is regarded as an extraordinary Australian photographer, adventurer, filmmaker and writer. Image courtesy National Library of Australia: nla.pic-an23478581. In 1911, Australian explorer Douglas Mawson hired Hurley...

The Heidelberg School: Sydney, its beaches, the harbour and the Hawkesbury - Australia's Culture Portal

These painters, amongst them Tom Roberts, Arthur Streeton, Frederick McCubbin and Charles Conder, were known by this name because of the artists' camps they shared in areas around Melbourne, including Heidelberg. Image courtesy of the National Gallery of ...

Reconciliation - Australia's Culture Portal

Reconciliation is about unity and respect between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders and non-Indigenous Australians. It is about respect for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander heritage and valuing justice and equity for all Australians. National R...

Sorry Day and the Stolen Generation - Australia's Culture Portal

The first National Sorry Day was held on 26 May 1998 - one year after the tabling of the report Bringing them Home, May 1997. Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission into the removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their fami...

Margaret Preston - Australia's Culture Portal

Margaret Preston was an Australian painter and printmaker who was a leading example of early Australian modernism. Her essays and articles were published in Australian journals including Art in Australia , Undergrowth, Jindyworobak Review and Australia N...

Sydney Opera House - Australia's Culture Portal

Sydney Opera House from the harbour. The skyline of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, the blue water of the harbour and the Sydney Opera House, viewed from a ferry or from the air, is dramatic and unforgettable. The Sydney Opera House was included in the Nation...

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Self Guided Walking Tours   (more info)

Self Guided Walking Tours provide digital audio commentaries for walks around the Sydney region, including the Sydney Harbour Bridge, Bondi to Bronte and the Rocks. Each commentary is accompanied by a map providing directions and further information.

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2008/36/27 Carry bag, 'Our Bridge', cotton, maker unknown, made for Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales for the 75th Anniversary of Sydney Harbour Bridge, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 2007 - Powerhouse Museum Collection   (website Powerhouse Museum )

This bag was donated to the Museum by the Office of Protocol and Special Events as part of a collection of objects and designs created in 2007 for the anniversary celebrations. Carry bag, 'Our Bridge', cotton, maker unknown, made for Historic Houses Trust...

2008/36/3 Design for 'Our Bridge' poster, final draft, mounted, paper / foam core, designed by Tony Assness and Deuce Design for the 75th Anniversary of Sydney Harbour Bridge, used by New South Wales Premier's Department, Sydney, New South Wales, Australi   (website Powerhouse Museum )

Designed by Tony Assness, Creative Director, with Deuce Design. > > Working with Deuce Design, Tony Assness created a graphic design concept that was applied to the banner, poster, ribbon, printed material and most other items produced for the 'Our Bridge...

2008/36/2 Design for 'Our Bridge' scrim, mounted, paper / foam core, designed by Tony Assness and Deuce Design for the 75th Anniversary of Sydney Harbour Bridge, used by New South Wales Premier's Department, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 2007 - Powe   (website Powerhouse Museum )

Designed by Tony Assness, Creative Director, with Deuce Design. > > Working with Deuce Design, Tony Assness created a graphic design concept that was applied to the banner, poster, ribbon, printed material and most other items produced for the 'Our Bridg...

2007/147/1 Microphone, Reiss (Reisz) carbon granule, marble / carbon granules / metal, made by AWA, Australia, c. 1930, used at the opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 19 March 1932 - Powerhouse Museum Collection   (website Powerhouse Museum )

> + K306 Microphone, Standard Telephones & C... > + K320 Microphone, RCA ribbon microphone m... > > Of the ten the best known today are Jack Lang New South Wales premier, Sir Philip Game New South Wales Governor and JJC Bradfield New South Wales Chief Eng...

Sydney Harbour Bridge. Oil Painting of Australia for sale by Fred Marsh   (website Impressionist & Realist Oil Paintings by Fred Marsh )

Sydney Harbour BridgeOil on Canvas. Be amongst the first to see new paintings in my periodic online previews. Website created by Fred Marsh All images of paintings are © of Fred Marsh. ...

2008/36/1 Design for 'Our Bridge' banner, mounted, paper / foam core, designed by Tony Assness and Deuce Design for the 75th Anniversary of Sydney Harbour Bridge, used by New South Wales Premier's Department, Sydney, New South Wales, 2007 - Powerhouse Mus   (website Powerhouse Museum )

> > Working with Deuce Design, Tony Assness created a graphic design concept that was applied to the banner, poster, ribbon, printed material and most other items produced for the 'Our Bridge' celebration. Design for 'Our Bridge' banner, mounted, paper /...

95/234/1 Drawing, 'View of Proposed Design for City Railway, Circular Quay and Sydney Harbour Bridge', paper/ink, [JJC Bradfield], Australia, c 1920 - Powerhouse Museum Collection   (website Powerhouse Museum )

> + 90/317-73 Architectural drawing, propose... Drawing, 'View of Proposed Design for City Railway, Circular Quay and Sydney Harbour Bridge', paper/ink, [JJC Bradfield], Australia, c 1920. A copy of this drawing, in the collection (P2657) has the title: '...

Powerhouse Museum Collection   (website Powerhouse Museum )

irn=237492&search=egg+cup&site_id=3 http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/? irn=48251&search=egg+cup&site_id=3 > 85/450 Presentation cup with lid, silver / emu egg, made by William Edwards, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1859 http://www.pow...

2001/70/2-25 Jar of pasta sauce, 'Sydney Harbour Bridge Pasta Sauce', glass/ sauce/ paper/ metal, Done Art and Design, Australia, 1999 - Powerhouse Museum Collection   (website Powerhouse Museum )

Jar of pasta sauce, 'Sydney Harbour Bridge Pasta Sauce', glass/ sauce/ paper/ metal, Done Art and Design, Australia, 1999. The label has a colour image of Sydney Harbour featuring the Opera House, the Bridge, and a sailing ship bobbing on the water. Labe...