Australian stories
Australian stories were originally developed as a part of the Australian Culture Portal with the aim of encouraging “access to evaluated online resources about Australian culture.”
The Australian Culture Portal was closed 1 July 2010, however the Australian Stories will remain available via the Australian Government Portal .
Find out about Australian history, identity, heritage and culture in this collection of stories:
SELECT A TOPIC
Design and architecture
- Architecture
- Architecture, indigenous
- Architecture, modern
- Architecture, modern residential
- Harry Seidler
- Lighthouse design, construction, preservation and restoration
- Sydney Opera House
- Urban renewal: the transformation of Australia's docklands
- Urban renewal of maritime buildings
Festivals and celebrations
- Chinese New Year
- Christmas season celebrations in Australia
- Easter
- Festivals in Australia
- International Museum Day
History - colonial, conflict and modern
Colonial
- Afghan cameleers
- Ben Hall and the outlawed bushrangers
- Changing face of early Australia
- Chinatowns across Australia
- Cobb and Co
- Colonial women
- Convicts and the British colonies in Australia
- Convict women in Port Jackson
- Crossing the Great Dividing Range—surveying an ancient land
- David Mitchell, the Mitchell Library and Australiana
- Early Australian bushrangers
- Early explorers
- European discovery and the colonisation of Australia
- Eureka Stockade
- Gold rush
- Macarthurs and the merino sheep
- Mapping Australia's coastline
- Australia's maritime history under sail
- Ned Kelly
- The Overland Telegraph
- Shipwrecks
War
- ANZAC Day
- Darwin bombing
- Last Post
- Mateship, diggers and wartime
- Remembrance Day
- Sacred places - Australian battlefield pilgrimages
- Second World War shipwrecks in Australian waters
- Women in action - nurses and serving women
- Women and air defence
- Women in wartime
Modern
- Aviation, early Australian
- Aviation, Australian civil
- Aviatrices - Australian women of the air
- Baby boomers
- The Canning stock route
- Changing face of modern Australia
- Chinatowns across Australia
- Federation
- Great Depression
- Pearling industry
- Urban renewal: the transformation of Australia's docklands
- Urban renewal of maritime buildings
Identity
- ANZAC Day
- Australia at a glance
- Australian of the Year Award
- Beach
- Bush, the
- Changing face of early Australia
- Changing face of modern Australia
- Chinatowns across Australia
- Comedy
- David Mitchell, the Mitchell Library and Australiana
- Folklore
- Food and drink
- Holden car in Australia
- Lighthouses
- Australia's maritime history under sail
- Melbourne Cup
- Ned Kelly
- Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia
Indigenous arts, culture and heritage
- Aboriginal trackers
- Bark petitions: Indigenous art and reform for the rights of Indigenous Australians
- The Canning stock route
- Indigenous architecture
- Indigenous art
- Indigenous broadcasting
- Indigenous ceremony - song, music and dance
- Indigenous cultural heritage
- Indigenous film
- Indigenous peoples of the World
- Indigenous tools and technology
- NAIDOC Week
- The Dreaming
- Papunya Tula art movement of the Western Desert
- Reconciliation
- Sorry Day and the Stolen Generations
- Women Indigenous artists in Western Australia - from ochre to video
Inventiveness - technology and science
- Antarctica and Sir Douglas Mawson
- Australia's flora and fauna and Charles Darwin
- Aviation, early Australian
- Aviation, Australian civil
- Aviatrices - Australian women of the air
- Charles Kingsford Smith
- Charles 'Moth' Eaton
- Fred Hollows
- Holden car in Australia
- Howard Florey
- Inventions
- National Science Week
- Nobel Laureates and the Nobel Prize
- Railways in Australia and great train journeys
- Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia
- School of the Air and remote learning
- Science in Australia
- Snowy Mountains Scheme
- Sydney Harbour Bridge
Language and literature
- David Mitchell, the Mitchell Library and Australiana
- Libraries in Australia
- Miles Franklin Literary Award
- The Man from Snowy River
Music and performance
Music
Theatre, dance and other performance
- The Australian Ballet and Dame Peggy van Praagh
- Barry Humphries
- New circus in Australia
- Contemporary dance in Australia
- Dance
- Sydney Opera House
- Theatre
Natural environment
- Antarctica and Sir Douglas Mawson
- Australia's fossil past
- Farms and farming communities
- Fauna
- Flora
- Australia's flora and fauna and Charles Darwin
- Great Barrier Reef
- Islands
- Kakadu National Park
- National parks
- Natural disasters in Australia
- Rivers
- Rocks and mountains
- Tasmanian tiger
- Weather and the seasons
- Wine industry
Political system and institutions
- Australian National Anthem
- Australian political cartooning
- Canberra: Australia's capital city
- Federation
- Governors-General
- Royal visits to Australia
- Suffragettes
- Women in politics
Sport and recreation
- Commonwealth Games - Melbourne 2006
- Don Bradman
- Football in Australia
- Melbourne Cup
- National parks
- Sport and the media
- Sporting greats
- Surf lifesaving
- Swimming success and swimming pools
- Modern swimmers and ocean baths
- Sydney Olympic Games, 2000
- Sydney Olympic Games, 2000: related links
- Tennis
- Walks - city walks, bushwalking and rogaining
- Zoos
Visual arts
Individual artists
- Brett Whiteley
- Fiona Hall
- Frank Hurley
- Grace Cossington Smith
- Harold Cazneaux
- Margaret Olley
- Margaret Preston
- Max Dupain
- Olive Cotton
Art movements
- Angry Penguin painters - Arthur Boyd, Sidney Nolan, Albert Tucker and Joy Hester
- Art of the land in Western Australia
- Contemporary Australian art
- Contemporary Australian artists
- Heidelberg School
- The Heidelberg School: Sydney, its beaches, the harbour and the Hawkesbury
- Hill End painters - Donald Friend, Russell Drysdale, John Olsen & Margaret Olley and their legacy
- Papunya Tula art movement of the Western Desert
- The state of craft in Western Australia
- Surrealism
- Women Indigenous artists in Western Australia - from ochre to video
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