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Category Archives: Australian history


Resources for Anzac Day, 25 April

April 22, 2009 – 8:46 am

A new resource has been released this week for Anzac day by the ABC
It is an interactive 3D exploration of Anzac Cove and the events around 25 April 1915.
There is also an edna theme page which contains a number of customised search links drawing on the edna database.
The Australian Department of Veteran Affairs has a […]

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Riding on the back of the kangaroo?

April 20, 2009 – 8:00 am

When I was a child lessons were full of how Australia was riding on the sheep’s back. In history we learnt about John MacArthur and the importance of the introduction of merinos (from Spain), and about explorers who opened up the inland so that the flocks could have new grazing land. In geography we mapped […]

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Should July 9 be Australia Day?

July 11, 2008 – 10:16 am

I’m recalling all the controversial discussion we’ve had in the past about the appropriateness of January 26, the date of Cook’s landing at Botany Bay in 1788, and the consequent annexing of Australia to the British Empire by the simple planting of a flag that ignored the rights of the traditional owners, as a day […]

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