The Australian Colonies

Why colonies were established

Why Van Diemens Land?
History & Heritage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJ_1Syp9aYY
The Tasmanian Tiger
http://australia.gov.au/about-australia/australian-story/tasmaniantiger
Tasmania History
http://www.about-australia.com/facts/tasmania-history/
Invasion of Tasmania Aboriginal Land
http://www.indigenousaustralia.info/land/invasion.html

Why Western Australia?

Why Norfolk Island?
Video of Norfolk Island Convict Life
http://www.heritagetourism.com.au/convict-site-norfolk-islandworld-heritage/
Norfolk Island History
http://www.discovernorfolkisland.com/norfolk/history.html
Pitcairn Island
http://www.onlinepitcairn.com/history.htm
Mutiny on the Bounty
http://militaryhistory.about.com/od/navalbattles16001800/p/RoyalNavy-Mutiny-On-The-Bounty.htm

Convict and Colonial Life

Developing the Colonies
The Samson Family in Freemantle
http://www.valuingheritage.com.au/samson_yr5/Yr5OVERVIEW.pd
f
History of Roads in Australia
http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/0/2e904c15091c39a5ca
2569de0028b416?OpenDocument
Convicts Early Roads Unearthed (Report)
http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/breaking/15365530/convictsearly-roadworks-unearthed/

Convict Story
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1Y7bteEPsk(not available)
Hyde Park Barracks: The Day in the Life of a Convict
www.hht.net.au/discover/highlights/kids_fact_sheets/a_day_in_the
_life_of_a_convict
A Prezi created by a student depicting Convict Life
http://prezi.com/kcqjpfy_lkmh/australian-convicts
Sydney Living Museums Stories and Histories
www.hht.net.au/discover/highlights/videos/a_convict_without_sock
s
The Introduction of Convicts throughout 1850 evoked change
http://www.maikeru.cc/history_australia_introconvicts1850western
australiagreatchange.htm

A Settlers Life

Bound for South Australia 1836: A digital re-enactment provides a

highly interactive platform for students to engage with South
Australian history. A range of rich resources are used to explore
the voyages of the nine ships that sailed from England in 1836 to
establish the Province of South Australia
http://boundforsouthaustralia.net.au/for-schools.html
Poem:-Settlers On The Riseby EJ Brady
http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/brady-e-j/settlers-on-the-rise0090014
A Brief History of Australia Part 1 of 5
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKMKhCW5Ni8
A Brief History of Australia Part 3 of 5
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTtpZHsInSo

Aboriginal Life
Aborigines
http://www.apex.net.au/~mhumphry/aborigin.html
Australian Aborigines and White Settlers The Breaking Down of
Aboriginal Society
http://www.janesoceania.com/australia_aboriginal_whitesettlers/ind
ex1.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1e62XV0B00 (not Available)
Dreamtime Stories - Tiddalick The Frog
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y3Ta5xcKV4&NR

Dust Echoes is a series of twelve animated dreamtime stories from

Central Arnhem Land, telling stories of love, loyalty, duty to country
and aboriginal custom and law.
http://www.abc.net.au/dustechoes/dustEchoesFlash.htm
Indigenous People: Culture and Change

http://www.skwirk.com.au/index.php?
option=com_class&view=contents&layout=topic&cattitle=Indigenou
speoplecultureandchange&catid=915&bcumb=915_915_15_135&t
ab=b2&Itemid=339

Changing the Environment

http://www.skwirk.com.au/p-c_s-56_u-426_t-1075_c4150/WA/10/Impact-of-European-settlement-on-flora-and
fauna/Mass-migration/Becoming-australian/SOSE-History/
(Not Available)

Environmental devastation on the diggings

http://www.sbs.com.au/gold/story.php?storyid=124

Prickly Pear Images

http://imageevent.com/gladyclancy/floweringplants/pricklypear

The Impact of Major Events

The Gold Rushes
To the Diggings
http://www.sbs.com.au/gold/story.php?storyid=18
Race to the Gold Diggings game
http://www.nma.gov.au/collections/highlights/race-to-the-golddiggings-game
Colonial Conflicts
Eureka Stockade

http://australia.gov.au/about-australia/australian-story/eurekastockade
Eureka Rebellion Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikzXki6-28Q
http://www.nma.gov.au/interactives/tlf/gold_rush_5-6/ (Not
Available)
A musical retelling of Myall Creek Massacre
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4vYmECVSmo

Transport in the 1800s

Cobb & Co coaches: historical transport
http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/journal/cobb-co-coacheshistorical-transport.htm
When Cobb & Co was King
http://www.cobbandco.net.au/features/68-when-cobb-a-co-wasking.html
Bullock Team Facts, History & General Information
http://www.glenedenbullockteam.com.au/bullock-teaminformation/bullock-teams.php

Connected to the World

A Telegraph Line across the Continent
http://dl.nfsa.gov.au/module/1018/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14-JsBc16z4 (not available)
The Overland Telegraph
http://www.southaustralianhistory.com.au/overland.htm
Morse Code Translator
http://morsecode.scphillips.com/jtranslator.html

Workers from Overseas

Asian Workers in Australia
http://www.goldrushcolony.com.au/australian-gold-history-cultureinfo/chinese-australian-gold-fields/anti-chinese-racism
http://www.primaryschool.com.au/library/geographyhistory/gold/year-5-6

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13p3T8mORGQ (Afghans in
Australia)
The Loaded Dog by Henry Lawson

European Workers in Australia

For a fact sheet of information about Italian immigration 1850
1900, compiled by the Italian Historical Society:
www.coasit.com.au/ihs/pdf/Italian_migration_1850-1900.pdf
For background information:
http://www.skwirk.com.au/p-c_s-56_u-426_t1075_c4146/SA/9/Migration-to-Australia-1832-1850/Massmigration/Becoming-Australian/SOSE-History/
To read an article that contains extracts from an immigration
display at the South Australian Maritime Museum, Port Adelaide:
http://www.rogerj.co.uk/ausimm.html

Pacific Islander Workers in Australia and

Its a Childs Life! (Or is it?)
Read:
Kaisinanas Journey to Torres Strait by Trish Albert (First
Australians: Plenty stories published in collaboration with the
National Museum of Australia)
Sweet Tea by Brian Ridden (a novel for very capable readers)
Watch: Revealing a dark stain on Australias history:
www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2012/s3661766.htm (To
Visit: for background information:
http://indymedia.org.au/2011/11/23/free-assistance-to-south-seaisland-descendants-to-trace-their-families-0

Shaping the Colony

Exploring the Interior And Westwards to the
inland sea!

http://www.myplace.edu.au/decades_time
line/1870/decade_landing_13.html
Australias major Rivers
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/geography/australia/rivers/outli
nemap
Explorers biographies
http://www.davidreilly.com/australian_explorers/

History through the Arts

Old Bush Song
http://gutenberg.org/files/10493/10493-h/10493-h.htm
The Drovers Wife
http://alldownunder.com/australian-authors/henry-lawson/droverswife-4.htm
Stockmans Last Bed
http://alldownunder.com/australian-music-songs/stockmans-lastbed.htm

Caroline Chisolm: A Woman who Cared And A

Permanent Reminder
Caroline Chisolms Scrapbook
http://museumvictoria.com.au/collections/items/289732/scrapbookcaroline-chisolm-circa-1844-1861>
http://www.mrschisholm.com/index.htm>
http://www.kidcyber.com.au/topics/chisolm.htm

Taking the Long Paddock And A Drovers Life

Contemporary Female Droving Unit
http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2007/s1857846.htm>
http://www.stockroutes.info/story-and-song/20-long-paddock.html>
(not available)
Australian stockmans Hall of Fame
http://www.outbackheritage.com.au/
The Peace Maker and the Warrior And Truganini Inquiry
A PDF titled An Introduction to Noongar History and Culture to find
out more information about the Noongar People of Western
Australia.
http://www.noongar.org.au/publications-newsletters.php
A Virtual Tour of the Exhibition Reststance which shows how the
Indigenous Australians resisted British Colonisation

http://www.nma.gov.au/educationkids/classroom_learning/multimedia/interactives/resistance_virtual
_tour
A Story that promotes intercultural understanding:
Shake A Leg Monty Pryor