Settlement of Victoria kit

Not sure on this source but some of the content will give students plenty to debate

Reserch source for John Batman

A quick bio to help students researching John Batman

An example for students of how they could create a story line of significant historical events

I can't quite work out who published this but it contains some interesting primary sources in a diary entry and a letter by Edward Henty

This page is part of the Ergo website produced by the State Library of Victoria for secondary students. It provides a couple of primary sources as well as a desription of the Hentys

This is an 1856 newspaper article from the Argus in Melbourne telling the story of William Buckley. It comes from Trove.

This is a Culture Victoria web page about William Buckley. It contains sources from the State Library of Victoria and the Koorie Heritage Trust

This is the official ABC website for the telemovie of the same name.

This site is managed by the Australian National University and provides biographical information on important Australians. It is sometimes very adult language but may be a good place to start your research. It also provides ideas of other references.

This site is provided by the National Library of Australia who are digitising most of Australia's newspapers. Type in the name of the person you are researching to see if there are any newspaper articles about them. Hopefully you will find reports from the time they were alive (a contemporary source). Be careful! - there may be too many articles. Your job will be to use the titles to decide which articles might be the most relevant to your research.

You can download the Settlement of Victoria AusVELS teaching kit form this site.