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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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Natural disasters | Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy (website Australian Government Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy (DBCDE) )One such initiative is the >Trusted Information Sharing Network for Critical Infrastructure Protection (TISN). What is the Trusted Information Sharing Network for Critical Infrastructure Protection? Further information on Critical infrastructure protectio...
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 ...
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...
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> Tempestuous times: Floods and wind storms have increased from 60 events in 1980 to 240 last year, with flooding itself up six-fold, says the report. Floods and wind-storms have increased from 60 events in 1980 to 240 last year, with flooding itself up s...
"Rivers of Rain" is in the Observer, 26 December 1914, page 34a, "Another Flood" on 15 September 1917, page 18c, "Record Floods" on 5 March 1921, page 30, 14 February 1925. "Locusts Here and Elsewhere" is in the Register, 18 December 1879, page 5f, Observ...
"Inquest on Fires" is in the Observer, 17 April 1858, page 6b, "Police and the Fires" on 19 February 1859, page 6c, "Australian Droughts" on 29 April 1865, page 6a. Also see Register, 21 December 1864, page 2g, 28 November 1865, page 2c, 17 December 1866,...
25 October 1862, page 5c, 1 November 1862, page 4f, Register, 14 May 1917, page 6h. An earthquake is reported in the Register, 29 July 1837, page 3c, 26 June 1856, page 2h, Chronicle, 15 May 1897, page 17, Express, 20 September 1902, page 1d, The Critic, ...
Deep Impact> 04/08/2005> Catalyst goes behind the scenes of space scienceís most audacious missions: Deep Impact. Fighting fire with fire> 29/10/2009> Paul Willis examines the history of fire in Australia and how best to manage bushfires. Grose River> 1...
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A thematic exhibition which looked at the representation of extreme events, both in the natural world and the human arena, in paintings, drawings and installations. Monash University Museum of Art | MUMA> Ground Floor, Building 55, Clayton Campus, Monash...
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