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British Colonialisation of Australia

Text

• Visual texts relating to the early settlement of Sydney at the National Library - Background Sheets and Visual Texts sections on this website.
• Pemulwuy - Darlington Public School, Metropolitan East DSP, Erskineville, 1992
• Reaching Australia: Cook's Voyages to the Southern Continent - National Parks and Wildlife Service, National Parks and Wildlife Service, 1965 (reprinted 1997)
• Tasmania's Colonial Years - Alexander, A., Hodder Australia, 1986 (Everyday Life in Australia series)
• Shaping Australia series: European Colonisation - Barwick J. and J, Heinemann Library, 1999
• Eureka Stockade - Boardman, A., Scholastic, 1997
• The Crossing of the Blue Mountains - Boardman, A., Scholastic, 1997
• The First Fleet - Boardman, A. and Harvey, R, Scholastic, 1997
• Pilawuk: When I Was Young - Brian, J., Era Publications, 1997 (Big book/Small books)
• South Australia's Colonial Years - Brain, J.,Hodder Australia, 1986 (Everyday Life in Australia series)
• Convicts and Conscripts - Cameron, L., Macmillan, 1997
• The First Fleet - Cameron, L., Macmillan, 1997
• Victoria's Colonial Years - Carnegie, M.,Hodder Australia, 1986 (Everyday Life in Australia series)
• Story of Australia - Cattell, T., Dabill, 1987
• Fragile Paradise: The real story of Fletcher Christian, Bounty Mutineer - Christian, G., Doubleday, 1999
• Through Children's Eyes: Early Colonial Times - Ciddor, A., Macmillan, 1995
• Federation Times - Coupe, S, Hodder Australia, 1984 (Everyday Life in Australia series)
• Their Ghosts May Be Heard: Australia to 1900 - Coupe, S,, Addison, Wesley, Longmans, 1997
• Their Ghosts May Be Heard: Australia to 1900 - Coupe, S,Addison Wesley Longmans, 1987
• Teaching Aboriginal Studies, - Craven, R, Allen and Unwin
• Claiming a Continent: A New History of Australia - Day, D., Angus and Robertson, 1997
• Australia's Children: The Convict Years 1788-1830 - Dugan, M., Macmillan, 1997
• Fleeting Encounters: Pictures and Chronicles of the First Fleet - Emmelt, P., Historical Houses Trust of NSW, 1995
• The Antipodes: Observed Artists of Australia 1788-1850 - Flower, C., Sun Books, 1983
• Settling Australia (series): The Convicts, The Settlers, The Gold Seekers, The Bushrangers - Gard, S., Macmillan, 1998
• Convicts and Penal Settlements - Goode, J., Hodder Australia, 1980 (Everyday Life in Australia series)
• Earliest Life in the Bush - Goode, J.,Hodder Australia, 1982 (Everyday Life in Australia series)
• First Settlement Days - Goode, J.,Hodder Australia, 1980 (Everyday Life in Australia series)
• The Selectors - Goode, J., Hodder Australia, 1982 (Everyday Life in Australia series)
• The Gold Rushes - Goode, J., Hodder Australia, 1982 (Everyday Life in Australia series)
• Queensland's Colonial Years - Gough, S., Hodder Australia, 1984 (Everyday Life in Australia series)
• Burke and Wills - Harvey, R., Scholastic, 1997
• Western Australia's Colonial Years - Hasluck, A., Hodder Australia, 1984 (Everyday Life in Australia series)
• Convict - Jarman, J., Franklin Watts Australia, 1997
• Australian Explorers series: Edward Eyre; Charles Sturt; Burke and Wills; John Oxley; Ludwig Leichhardt; Thomas Mitchell; Alan Cunningham; Blaxland, Wentworth and Lawson; Edmond Kennedy - Jensen, J. and Barnett, P., Future Horizons, 1996
• Australian Library series: First Settlement and Exploration - Low J., Heinemann Library, 1997
• First Settlement and Exploration - Low, J., Jacaranda, 1990
• Australia's Convicts series: Criminals or Victims?; Life at Sea, Life in a New Land, Transportation Ends - McDonald W., Macmillan, 1999
• The Secret Discovery of Australia: Portuguese Venture 250 Years before Captain Cook - McIntyre, K.G., Pan Books, 1982
• Australian History audio tapes - Manning Clarke
• The Story of 200 Years - Molony, J., Penguin, 1987
• The First Fleet : A New Beginning in an Old Land - Nicholson, J., Allenand Unwin, 1995
• Excuse Me Captain Cook: Who Did Discover Australia? - Salmon, M., Martin Educational, 1988
• Amazing Facts about Australia's Heritage - Slate, P., Steve Parish Publishing, 1997
• Simpson M., Australian Library series: The First Australians - Heinemann Library, 1997
• Everyday Life in Australia series: Bushrangers - Spencer, R., Hodder Australia, 1985
• Aboard Endeavour: Cook's Voyage 1768-1771 - Stannard, B., Scholastic, 1995
• Bush Foods: Arrente Foods from Central Australia - Taylor, M., Dominie, 1994
• Too Many Captain Cooks - Tucker, A., Omnibus, 1995
• The Letters of Rosie O'Brien - Walker, K., illustrated by Paul Borg, Scholastic, 1988
• Castles of Tuhbowgule - Willmott, H., Weldon, 1992

Video, CD-ROM and Web

• Bound for Botany Bay - Maxwell's Multimedia Collection (video and book)
• Peach's Explorers - Maxwell's Multimedia Collection (10 videos)
• Rewind: Law of the Land - Film Australia National Interest Program, Film Australia, 1997 (5 minute video)
• Sailors, Settlers and Sydney Town - Australia Post, 1987 (video)
• Australian Explorers Database - Apple Macintosh (CD-ROM)
• Endeavour - Captain Cook's Journals 1768 - 71 - (CD-ROM) 1998
• Encyclopedia of Aboriginal Australia - Aboriginal Studies Press (CD-ROM)
• Explorers Database - Know Ware (CD-ROM)
• First Fleet Journals - Scholastic, 1991 (CD-ROM)
• Frontier, Stories from White Australia's Forgotten War - 1997, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, (CD-ROM)
• The First Fleet Journey, Journals and Biographies - 1996, Know Ware, (CD-ROM)
• The Story of Australia - Part 1, 2, 3 and 4 - New Horizons (CD-ROM)
• Australia's First Fleet 1788 - Shoalhaven Inews includes information about Ulludulla's `Blessing of The First Fleet' Festival held each Easter.
• Discoverer's Web - Includes links to other websites which contain information about significant events and people in Australia's history.

Kit

• Our Origins - (Slide set) Department of Education, 1977
• Captain James Cook, Navigator - (Teacher and students book) Australian Maritime Museum and Department of School Education, 1989