Australian History

My Place . Living our history. fabulous resource with re-inactions of life as it was at different times throughout our history

Australia day! Why do we celebrate the 26th January every year?

Convicts 1788 - 1868

Search the first fleet data base

Everything about Australian Convicts
This website was launched on June 30, 1998, it provides varying depths of information, while at the same time, endeavouring to make the visit to the site as enjoyable as possible.Their goal has always been to provide an overview of the settlement of Australia during its formative convict years while providing information on a wide range of themes. To further that aim, they have provided a wealth of on-line databases and have linked to many more elsewhere.

Convict Count on the Game

http://www.pcug.org.au/~pdownes/
1st Fleet and early immigrants information

First fleet Quiz

Time line of Australian Convict settlement

http://members.iinet.net.au/~perthdps/convicts/res-03.html

Convicts ships

Australian Expansion Aussie Exploration Go to explorers

Australian Settlement Quiz

Australian History timeline. Terrific resource. Videos, images and summaries of the entire history of Australia. Before time to recent times.

Key points in Australia's History Interactive. In this activity you get the chance to be a decision-maker in some of the most significant events in Australian history

Gold Rush go to Gold Rush page for more online resources

Immigration

Interactive data on Australia's growing population.

Immigration in Victoria a timeline

Immigration in Australia Phases/waves Timeline

Summary of Australian Immigration

Passenger arrives since 1887 to Australia. Search this massive data base.

National Archives Immigration. Search thousands of images and records

Family journeys - case studies

Destination Australia - lots of info

Record Search for names of people who immigrated to Australia. Find out their nationality.

ABC Splash Consensus. Work with real census data to learn about Australia's demographics

Data sets from ABS on population and Immigration

NED KELLY and other Australian Bushrangers

Australian bushrangers Find out about 46 other famous bushrangers including Captain Moonlight, Harry POwer, Captain Midnight, The Wild Scotchman and many more

http://www.ironoutlaw.com/

http://www.nedkellysworld.com.au/

http://www.oldmelbournegaol.com.au/the_gaol_s_history/ned_kelly

http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/kelly-edward-ned-3933

http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/explore/fact-sheets/ned-kelly-fact-sheet

http://www.abc.net.au/schoolstv/australians/nedkelly.htm

http://homepage.tinet.ie/~kellyned/

ttp://adlovell.8m.com/nedkelly.html

http://www.abc.net.au/schoolstv/australians/nedkelly.htm

Other Famous Bushrangers

http://scs.une.edu.au/Bushrangers/home.htm

Other Australain Bushrangers