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Monash University study notes from the National Centre for Australian Studies' course.
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References and Further Information


These links, suggested by Monash University's National Centre for Australian Studies, complement the topics and themes addressed on the People page and in Contemporary Australia study notes.

Symbols

ABC Online - Australian Regionalisms
http://abc.net.au/wordmap/

Art Gallery of NSW - Australian Icons
http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/media/archives_2000/australian_icons

Commonwealth Flag Network
http://www.itsanhonour.gov.au/flying_flag.html

National Symbols
http://www.pm.gov.au/aus_in_focus/nat_symbols/index.html

Australian National Flag Association
http://www.australianationalflag.com.au/html/02_intro.htm

Australia Day Orations

Tim Flannery Australia Day Address 2002
http://www.adc.nsw.gov.au/tim_welcome.html
http://www.abc.net.au/public/austday2002/default.htm

John Carroll and Rodney Hall - ABC Deakin Lectures
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/deakin/content/session_4.html

Australia Day Committee (Victoria)
http://www.australiaday.vic.gov.au/home.asp

Peter Carey John Batman Australia Day Oration 2002
http://www.abc.net.au/public/austday2002/carey.htm

ABC Radio National Essays and Commentary

ABC Barton Lectures
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/sunspec/barton/default.htm

ABC 2001 Boyer Lectures
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/boyers/

Australia's Sacred Sites
http://www.abc.net.au/religion/features/sacredsite

Online exhibitions

National Museum of Australia - Nation
http://www.nma.gov.au/exhibitions_and_events/museum_themes2/nation

State Library of Victoria - Belonging
http://www.belonging.org

Cultural Representations

Australian Authors
http://www.middlemiss.org/lit/lit.html

Great Moments on the Australian Screen
http://www.sna.net.au/greatmoments/movies/moviemenu.html

Archives of 19th century racial images
http://www.newcastle.edu.au/discipline/fine-art/theory/race/race2.htm

Indigenous Australia
http://www.dreamtime.net.au

Indigenous Imaging

The Peoplescape Stories - Centenary of Federation project
http://www.peoplescape.com.au/home.cfm?a=stories

Remarkable 19th Germans in Melbourne
http://www.slv.vic.gov.au./slv/exhibitions/vonmueller/

Irish Australia on the web
http://www.irishaustralia.com

Chinese Heritage of Australian Federation
http://www.chaf.lib.latrobe.edu.au

Italy Down Under - the National Magazine of Italian Australian Affairs and Culture
http://www.italydownunder.com.au

National Pioneer Women's Hall of Fame
http://www.pioneerwomen.com.au

Population

Australian Bureau of Statistics
http://www.abs.gov.au

Australian Indigenous Health Info Net - Population
http://www.healthinfonet.ecu.edu.au

Demography and Population Studies - The Internet Guide, ANU
http://demography.anu.edu.au/VirtualLibrary/

Australian Centre for Population Research
http://www.acpr.edu.au

Migration

Immigration Museum Victoria
http://immigration.museum.vic.gov.au

Migration
http://www.minister.immi.gov.au/migration/index.htm

The Australian Immigration Portal
http://immigrationportal.gov.au/index.htm

Public Forum on Immigration, Public Journalism Australia
http://www.publicjournalism.qut.edu.au/public/immig/immig.html

Alfred Deakin Lecture - The Curious Ambivalence of Australia's Immigration Policy, ABC Radio National
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/deakin/content/session_5.html

Neville Roach address at Monash University Leading Ideas Forum, March 19, 2002
http://www.monash.edu.au/alumni/events/leading_ideas/roach_transcript.html

The Public Record - Immigration Issues, ABC News Online
http://www.abc.net.au/public/dimia2002/default.htm

The Population Debate

The Public Record - Population Issues, ABC News Online
http://www.abc.net.au/public/indexes/features/population.htm

ABC Radio National 'Australia Forum' - Population Debate
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/bigidea/stories/s596388.htm

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