Australian History

Resources in this category:

Australian Children’s Music Foundation
http://www.acmf.com.au/default.htm

A collection of Australian sheet music for music educators. The downloads section includes the songs "Kookaburra", "I Love My Echidna", and "Dig, Dig, Dig (Like a Wombat)".

Australian Heritage Database
http://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/ahdb/search.pl

A searchable database that "contains information about more than 20,000 natural, historic, and Indigenous places." Includes a shipwreck database and "places in the World Heritage list, the National Heritage list, the Commonwealth Heritage list, the List of Overseas Places of Historic Significance to Australia, and the Register of the National Estate."

Australian History on the Internet
http://www.nla.gov.au/oz/histsite.html

Links to Australian history institutions, organizations, journals, and other information sources, both in Australia and abroad. Includes information on Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History Sources. Part of the National Library of Australia Internet Subject Lists project.

Didjeridu & Traditional Music of the Top End
http://manikay.com/didjeridu/

A site dedicated to the "promotion and enjoyment of traditional Arnhem land music. The included glossary of musical terms provides definitions for terms from "Aeroplane noises" to "Dja tpangarri" to "Yuta". An additional section includes a map with links to representative audio examples for particular regions.

Guide to Australia: Culture
http://www.csu.edu.au/australia/

This site has links to information on Australian culture in sections like Art, Film, Dance, Festivals, Food and Drink, Literature, Music, Sports, and Religion.

Indigenous Australia
http://www.dreamtime.net.au/

"Information on Indigenous Australia including Cultural Heritage, Spirituality, Family, Land and Social Justice... a Glossary and an Indigenous Australia Timeline. Stories of the Dreaming section features 20 stories from the cultures of Indigenous Australians, collected from all over Australia. They reflect an essential part of the life of Indigenous Australians."

Music Australia
http://www.musicaustralia.org/

"A collaboration between the National Library of Australia, ScreenSound Australia, the National Screen and Sound Archive and other national cultural institutions and the wider Australian music community." This site contains "more than 100 pieces of digitized sheet music, most dating from before 1930, more than 60 digital audio files, with most recordings dating from before 1952, several 'digital scores' - contemporary music scores created using music notation software, several synchronized multimedia items, which integrate digitized score and audio elements, and a small number of related music resources including text, pictorial and manuscript items."

PhotoSearch National Archives of Australia
http://www.naa.gov.au/collection/photosearch/index.aspx

"An online catalogue containing a selection of image descriptions and digital images from the National Archives' photographic collections. Several thousand images are added to PhotoSearch each month."

Project Gutenberg of Australia
http://gutenberg.net.au/index.html

A "treasure trove of literature:" online texts by Australians or about Australia.

Register of the National Estate
http://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/ahdb/search.pl

The Register of the National Estate is a list of significant natural, historic, and indigenous places in Australia. Use the Advanced Search drop-down menu to choose the Register of the National Estate, or other Australian heritage designations.

Southern Cross University: Music Archive for the Pacific
http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/arts/music/musicarchive/Archiv...

Music of the indigenous people of Australia (incl. Torres Strait), Papua New Guinea (incl. Bougainville), New Zealand as well as the nations of the Pacific Islands - Cook Islands, Easter Island, Fiji, Hawaii, Nauru, New Caledonia, Rarotonga, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tahiti, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu.? Resources on this site include general information articles about musical styles, audio examples, and a bibliography for further research.