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Women in colonial times - Australia's Culture PortalIn addition to the female colonists there were female Indigenous Australians - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women whose lives were changed dramatically when the English colonists arrived in large numbers. The lives of women like Truganini, Walye...
In 1788, the eleven ships of the First Fleet landed their 'cargo' of around 780 British convicts at Botany Bay in New South Wales. From 1788 to 1823, the Colony of New South Wales was officially a penal colony comprised mainly of convicts, marines and th...
Australian films and filmmakers receive acclaim on the world stage, and the achievements of Australian women onscreen are celebrated. The play's success encouraged Kate to turn the play into a film (1920), which she co-directed with Charles Villiers, mak...
The gold rushes of the nineteenth century and the lives of those who worked the goldfields - the 'diggers' - are etched into our national folklore. There is no doubt that the gold rushes had a huge effect on the Australian economy and our development as a...
Image courtesy of the Australian War Memorial. The myth of the digger and the larrikin hero is an important part of the Australian experience of pastoralism, the goldfields, bushranging, shearing and droving. The slang term 'digger' re-surfaced during th...
In 1788 the First Fleet landed at Camp Cove in Port Jackson with the 'cargo' of convicts which helped establish the penal colony of New South Wales. One in five of the convicts to arrive in the penal colony (1788-1823) was female and they made up the lar...
Nursing staff of a mobile hospital, including four Australian nurses, 1917. The involvement of Australian women as nurses in war began in 1898 with the formation of the Australian Nursing Service of New South Wales, from which sixty nurses served in The ...
Image courtesy of the Australian War Memorial. The involvement of Australian women in each war is closely connected to their role in society at different times, and the nature of each war. Australia has been involved in a number of wars including The Boer...
The first ship and crew to chart the Australian coast and meet with Aboriginal people was the Duyfken captained by Dutchman, Willem Janszoon. In 1770, Englishman Lieutenant James Cook charted the Australian east coast in his ship HM Barque Endeavour. Coo...
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Picturesque Pursuits Colonial Women Artists · Readings.com.au (website Readings: Australia's Finest Book & Music Store )> <meta name="description" content="Readings â~" independent Australian retailers and online merchants of fine books, music and film." A Loud Call: Holly ThrosbySongs To Make You Smile: Justine ClarkeSuccumb: David BridieFleet Foxes: Fleet FoxesMake It! ...
Country Viewpoint: Nathalie Collins, Bunbury Western Australia 27/09/2006Sometimes on a long roadtrip. Nymagee - Stories & Songs 12/09/2006Today in our series 'Nymagee - Stories & Songs', we look at the town's multicultural heritage. Nymagee - Stories & ...
University of Sydney: Dynamic and scholarly, the Dictionary of Australian Artists Online (DAAO) provides biographical data, contextual information, commentary and images. Providing authoritative, contemporary information the Dictionary of Australian Arti...
University of Sydney: Dynamic and scholarly, the Dictionary of Australian Artists Online (DAAO) provides biographical data, contextual information, commentary and images. Providing authoritative, contemporary information the Dictionary of Australian Arti...
The Dictionary of Australian Artists Online (DAAO) is an open access and dynamic scholarly reference work and currently includes 6944 biographies by more than 400 biographers. The foundation data focuses predominantly on colonial artists; women artists t...
University of Sydney: Dynamic and scholarly, the Dictionary of Australian Artists Online (DAAO) provides biographical data, contextual information, commentary and images. Providing authoritative, contemporary information the Dictionary of Australian Arti...
In 1788 the First Fleet landed at Camp Cove in Port Jackson with the 'cargo' of convicts which helped establish the penal colony of New South Wales. One in five of the convicts to arrive in the penal colony (1788-1823) was female and they made up the lar...
Image courtesy of the Australian War Memorial. The involvement of Australian women in each war is closely connected to their role in society at different times, and the nature of each war. Australia has been involved in a number of wars including The Boer...
In addition to the female colonists there were female Indigenous Australians - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women whose lives were changed dramatically when the English colonists arrived in large numbers. The lives of women like Truganini, Walye...
The involvement of Australian women as nurses in war began in 1898 with the formation of the Australian Nursing Service of New South Wales, from which sixty nurses served in The Boer War. According to the Australian Department of Defence, 2,562 AANS nurs...
The gold rushes of the nineteenth century and the lives of those who worked the goldfields - the 'diggers' - are etched into our national folklore. There is no doubt that the gold rushes had a huge effect on the Australian economy and our development as a...
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