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Natural disasters in Australia - Australia's Culture Portal

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. I love a sunburnt country, a land of sweeping plains, Of ra...

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...

The Australian Bush - Australia's Culture Portal

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...

Federation - Australia's Culture Portal

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...

Australian food and drink - Australia's Culture Portal

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...

Australian surrealism - Australia's Culture Portal

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...

Australian weather and the seasons - Australia's Culture Portal

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 in Australia - Australia's Culture Portal   (website Culture Portal )

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 ...

Natural Disasters   (website Questacon - The National Science and Technology Centre )

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...

Natural Disasters - Geoscience Australia   (website Geosciences Australia )

The images on the following pages may be reproduced on the condition they are accompanied with the accreditation shown in the caption for each image. Please note the conditions in the disclaimer. Users of this site are deemed to have accepted those condi...

Australian Governments' Interactive Functions Thesaurus - Natural disasters   (website National Archives of Australia (NAA) )

See also COMMUNITY SERVICES - Accommodation services - Emergency accommodation: for providing housing after a crisis. See also COMMUNITY SERVICES - Emergency services - Firefighting services: for managing localised fire emergencies. See also DEFENCE - Eme...

M/C Reviews - In Defence of the Natural Disaster Movie: The Day After Tomorrow   (website M/C Online: a journal of media and culture )

Natural disaster movies have long provided a soft target for critics. Just as Biblical disasters punished those who worshipped mammon and false idols, films such as Twister, DanteÆs Peak and The Day After Tomorrow preach against the unbridled worship of ...

ABC Local: Australia Wide - Storm   (website Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) )

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ABC Local: Australia Wide - Weather   (website Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) )

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Natural disasters: Emergency management   (website Australian Local Government Association (ALGA) )

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...

MIXED RESPONSE TO ONE-YEAR EXTENSION OF NATURAL DISASTER MITIGATION PROGRAM   (website Australian Local Government Association (ALGA) )

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ABC Local: Australia Wide - Floods   (website Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) )

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Nicholson Cartoons : NATURAL DISASTERS : Australia   (website Nicholson )

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Nicholson Cartoons : NATURAL DISASTERS : International   (website Nicholson )

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ABC Local: Australia Wide - Rainfall   (website Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) )

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