Australiana

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[|Dust Echoes]
interactive game to explore complete with glossary, downloads and study guide

What Australian animal are you?
quiz from blogthings

[|Picture Australia]
Picture Australia is an Internet based service that allows you to search many significant online pictorial collections at the same time. When you do a search on Picture Australia, thumbnail images are retrieved from[| participating institutions] on the fly and inserted into the search results.

[|Flickr Picture Australia] 10 Feb 09 - Australians are mourning the scale of loss experienced in Victoria as a result of the worst bushfires in Australian history. Picture Australia seeks your assistance to memorialise this tragedy and invites you to document the courage of individuals, emergency and voluntary services by adding your images to the nation’s visual record.
 * Picture Australia (a group admin) says:**

from the[|Learning area 20 blog] three examples of things that are undisputably uniquely Australian 1. The [|Akubra hat]. These hats are great and uniquely Australian because they are quite different from cowboy hats as seen in America. They are made from rabbit fur which is useful because it helped reduce the number of rabbits in Australia, which have at times grown to plague proportions here down under. For more information, try the [|official website]. [|//http://flickr.com/photos/michaelsphotos/2352770948///]

. [|Lamingtons]. Created as a type of cake that is dipped in chocolate syrup and then rolled in coconut, this treat is a messy but tasty treat for sweet tooth Aussies. [|//http://flickr.com/photos/70253321@N00/2498100008///]

. The dismissal of [|Gough Whitlam]. In 1975, Gough Whitlam was the Labor leader and the Prime Minister of Australia when he and his government were dismissed by the then Governor-General, [|Sir John Kerr] in one of the most controversial moments in Australian politics.

Newspapers
only in Australia

[|What’s Unique About Being Australian?]
Posted by: [|alex008] in [|Uncategorized] Our inquiry unit this term is ‘What’s Unique About Being Australian?’. We had to name 10 things that were unique to Australians. Here is my list. In contains a link so just click to see what it is, etc. If you do not know what they are, just click on the word! Simple! Enjoy, and please leave a comment if you have time.
 * 1) [|Bottle Brush]
 * 2) [|Ayers Rock]
 * 3) [|Sydney Harbour Bridge]
 * 4) [|Kookaburra]
 * 5) [|Steve Irwin]
 * 6) [|Anzac Biscuits]
 * 7) [|The Boomerang]
 * 8) [|Gum Tree]
 * 9) [|Milo]
 * 10) [|Koala]

[|What’s Unique About Being Australian 2?]
Posted by: **danni16** | October 15, 2008 [|| 7 Comments] | This term for our inquiry unit we are focusing on the topic of “What’s Unique About Being Australian?” In class Mr, Wegner told us to write ten things that are uniquely Australian. My ten are: 1. [|Wooly jumpers from sheep wool.] 2. [|Frangipanis] 3.[| Vegemite] 4. [|Koalas] 5. [|INXS (band)] 6. [|The fact that we say “outback” rather then country] 7. [|Southern cross in the sky] 8. [|The Green and Gold colours] 9. [|Wattle branch] 10. [|Sydney Opera House] If there is anything I have written down that you know is not uniquely Australian please let me know. (I couldn’t find a proper link for wooly jumpers so I have linked it to sheep shearing which has a part to do with wooly jumpers from sheep’s wool.)

Dingo Creek This resource is centred on the fictitious town of 'Dingo Creek.' The online game allows students to identify risks from natural disasters, face the effect of severe weather emergencies, reduce the risk to their communities and stay safe with their families. [|'Southern Cross' above Sydney Harbour Bridge, 1931]

=Melbourne= [|City Cite]

= ANZACS = [|Edna Links]

There is an edna Schools category on Australian Studies at http://url.edna.edu.au/TQnh You can use the category search in the middle of this page to search within the category for more specific terms, and narrow down your results. Related theme pages include: Australian Authors http://url.edna.edu.au/UXUK Australian culture and identity http://url.edna.edu.au/d4yb Australian democracy and elections http://url.edna.edu.au/qkcT Australian History http://www.edna.edu.au/edna/go/schooled/school_theme_pages/history Indigenous Australians http://url.edna.edu.au/SddS
 * Australian Studies **

[|Gallipolli and the ANZACS]

[|ABC Gallipolli] An interactive 3D exploration of Anzac Cove and the events around 25 April 1915.

[|Australian War Memorial Commmemoration] The Australian Department of Veteran Affairs
 * The last post MP3
 * [|The Rouse MP3]

[|Anzac Site], a government sponsored page of resources.

[|The London War Memorial site]. Click on Australians in World War I and hear the Last Post, World War II and you hear O God Our Help in Ages Past. Search for the name of your town on the wall.

[|Poppy Gallery]

SouthOzSuz Wiki

[|Wikipedia] Photo courtesy []
 * Statistics** [|(thanks Kerrie's Mysteries in paradise blogspot)]
 * 46,000 Australians died on the Somme
 * 62,000 Australians died altogether in World War One
 * 18,000 Australians who died on the Somme have no known grave.
 * 113,000 Australians were wounded on the Somme.

[|Words of Rememberance]

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old; Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them.

> It is an interactive 3D exploration of Anzac Cove and the events around 25 April 1915. Photo courtesy []
 * More links to check out:**
 * A new resource has been released this week for Anzac day [|by the ABC]
 * Another page to check is the [|Anzac Site], a government sponsored page of resources.
 * Check also ANZAC - newly created by SouthOzSue.
 * Visit the [|The London War Memorial site]. Click on Australians in World War I and hear the Last Post, World War II and you hear O God Our Help in Ages Past. Search for the name of your town on the wall.
 * There is also an [|edna theme page] which contains a number of customised search links drawing on the edna database.
 * More on ANZAC DAY [|at Wikipedia]**S****ome stats:**
 * 46,000 Australians died on the Somme
 * 62,000 Australians died altogether in World War One
 * 18,000 Australians who died on the Somme have no known grave.
 * 113,000 Australians were wounded on the Somme.
 * 113,000 Australians were wounded on the Somme.

And the band played 'Waltzing Matilda'
[|listen here]

Now when I was a young man I carried me pack And I lived the free life of the rover. From the Murray's green basin to the dusty outback, Well, I waltzed my Matilda all over. Then in 1915, my country said, 'Son, It's time you stop rambling, there's work to be done'. So they gave me a tin hat and they gave me a gun, And they marched me away to the war.

And the band played Waltzing Matilda, As the ship pulled away from the quay. And 'midst all the cheers, the flag waving and tears, We sailed off for Gallipoli.

And how well I remember that terrible day, How our blood stained the sand and the water. And of how in that hell that they call Suvla Bay We were butchered like lambs at the slaughter. Johnny Turk he was ready, he primed himself well. He showered us with bullets and he rained us with shell. And in five minutes flat he'd blown us all to hell, Nearly blew us right back to Australia.

But the band played Waltzing Matilda When we stopped to bury our slain. We buried ours and the Turks buried theirs, Then we started all over again.

And those that were left, well, we tried to survive In that mad world of blood, death and fire. And for ten weary weeks I kept myself alive, Though around me the corpses piled higher. Then a big Turkish shell knocked me arse over head And when I woke up in me hospital bed And saw what it had done, well, I wished I was dead. Never knew there was worse things than dying.

But I'll go no more Waltzing Matilda All around the green bush far and free. To hump tent and pegs a man needs both legs, No more Waltzing Matilda for me.

So they gathered the crippled, the wounded and maimed, And they shipped us back home to Australia. The legless, the armless, the blind and insane, Those proud wounded heroes of Suvla. And when our ship pulled into Circular Quay I looked at the place where me legs used to be And thank Christ there was nobody waiting for me To grieve, to mourn and to pity.

But the band played Waltzing Matilda, As they carried us down the gangway. But nobody cheered, they just stood and stared, Then they turned all their faces away.

And so now every April I sit on me porch And I watch the parade pass before me. And I see my old comrades, how proudly they march, Reviving old dreams and past glory. And the old men march slowly, old bones stiff and sore. They're tired old heroes from a forgotten war. And the young people ask 'What are they marching for?' And I ask m'self the same question.

But the band plays Waltzing Matilda, And the old men still answer the call, But as year follows year, more old men disappear. Some day, no one will march there at all. Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda, Who'll come a-Waltzing Matilda with me? And their ghosts may be heard as they march by that billabong, Who'll come a-Waltzing Matilda with me?

Acknowledgements
Reproduced courtesy of National Film and Sound Archive || Eric Bogle, composer Eric Bogle, vocalist || TLF resource R962 || Curriculum Corporation and National Film and Sound Archive, 2008, except where indicated under Acknowledgements Conditions of use (This item contains non-TLF content.)
 * ~ Copyright || With permission of Eric Bogle
 * ~ Creator || Eric Bogle, lyricist
 * ~ Identifiers || National Screen and Sound Archive catalogue number 82399
 * ~ Source || National Screen and Sound Archive, http://www.nfsa.afc.gov.au ||