Research Guides: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific Islands: Australia

Web Resources for Australia

Australian Anthropological Society
Australian History
Part of Australia's Project Gutenberg. This is the site for the e-books on the history and exploration of Australia.
Australian Indigenous Astronomy. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Astronomy
Australian Memory of the World Register
Australian Museum
Contains publications on items on archaeology and material culture for Australia and the Pacific Islands.
Australian Newspapers online
The Australian South Sea Islanders – Port Jackson
Downloadable Bibliography on Australian South Sea Islanders, the Australian sugar industry and the Pacific labor trade.
Digitalpasifik
This site is a key part of the Pacific Virtual Museum pilot project, funded by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in Australia, and implemented by the National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga in collaboration with the National Library of Australia.
Documenting democracy: Australia's story
Constitutional and political struggles of the country.
Historic Australian Newspapers 1803-1954
National Archives of Australia
Noel Butlin Archives Centre
Southern Cross Log online
Full run of the New Zealand-Australia edition of the Southern Cross Log, 1898-1972, the magazine of the [Anglican] Melanesian Mission
South Seas
History of European explorations and cross-cultural interactions in the Pacific between 1760-1800. Full access to James Cook's endeavour journal.

History

Australian Dreaming: 40,000 Years of Aboriginal History - Aboriginal history of Australia related to us by the Aboriginal peoples themselves. Stories were gathered from the different Aboriginal communities.
Aboriginal Victorians: A history since 1800. - Black and white interaction as documented by Aboriginal communities and their families.
Survival in our Own Land: Aboriginal experiences in Australia since 1836. - History of South Australia from the view of the Aboriginals.

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