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Young Media Australia (YMA) (more info)
Young Media Australia is a national community-based, information, research, training and advocacy organisation working in the field of children, young people and mass media.
Your Library Images (more info)
A database of images from the heritage collections held by the State Library of Tasmania. Includes exhibitions of photographs from Antarctic expeditions and painted landscapes of Tasmania.
The Zig Zag Railway was built between 1866 and 1869, and acclaimed a major engineering feat of its time. It was constructed to enable produce to be taken to Sydney from the prosperous farming areas beyond the Blue Mountains and to develop the coal an...
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