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'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

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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.

Cook's journal written on board the Endeavour during his trip down under in 1770.

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

Resources to support the Australian History Curriculum

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 )

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.

Primary sources are objects in the collection of the National Museum of Australia. Many of them are relevant to educators and students; below is a sample. Each one has an image, a detailed description, and a statement of its educational value.

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

See pictures of Australia's past and present - photographs, objects, maps and works of art

Teachers notes from Film Australia

"First Fleet Online consists of information about the convicts who were transported to Australia in 1787."