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Looks at each colonies road to Federation

featuring over 150 film clips showcasing a unique collection of Australian history documentaries matched with selected websites from Australia's national collecting institutions

Australian history is almost always picturesque; indeed, it is also so curious and strange, that it is itself the chiefest novelty the country has to offer and so it pushes the other novelties into second and third place. It does not read like history, but like the most beautiful lies; and all of a fresh new sort, no mouldy old stale ones. It is full of surprises and adventures, the incongruities, and contradictions, and incredibilities; but they are all true, they all happened." ( Mark Twain, 1897 )

The settlement of Sydney began its life as a penal colony, with a total of 568 male and 191 female prisoner convicts with 13 children, 206 marines with 26 wives and 13 children, and 20 officials having made the voyage.

The history of Federation, the peaceful transition from colonies to Commonwealth and the major events that established the Commonwealth and shaped the nation are examined here in Federation Story. There are many Australias, many Australian pasts and many ways of looking at history and we can't present them all here.

The Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act received the royal assent on 9 July 1900 and it was proclaimed that, on the first day of the twentieth century, the six Australian colonies would be united as a federal commonwealth under the name of the Commonwealth of Australia.

Edward John Eyre George Bass Robert O'Hara Burke Matthew Flinders John Forrest Edmund Kennedy Ludwig Leichhardt Thomas Mitchell John Oxley Charles Sturt Gregory Blaxland

Founders & Survivors is a partnership between historians, genealogists, demographers and population health researchers. It seeks to record and study the founding population of 73,000 men women and children who were transported to Tasmania. Many survived their convict experience and went on to help build a new society.

'The Night We Made the Flag, A Eureka Story', is a picture book that imagines what might have happened on the night the Eureka flag was sewn by women on the Ballarat goldfields

This My Place website is where you and your family can explore one place on earth and the kids who have lived there since time began. Like the television series and the book, this site is filled with people, places and objects, each with their own special story. It's a way to have fun with the changing face of time.

Curriculum Corporation : Reading Enriches Learning Books and learning activities for years 5-7