Topic

Waltzing Matilda is recognized as Australia’s most popular folk song.

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This resource is aligned with the Australian Curriculum: Humanities and Social Sciences (Geography), and Science for Year 4, 5 and 6 students.

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Discover how migration has shaped Australia’s diverse identity through stories from the first colonies, the gold rush, refugees and more in this learning module.

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Explore the different ways and reasons that people came to Australia and stayed through the personal migration stories of Kwong Mui Ying, Lorenzo Abrogar Gamboa and Thomas Frankovitz.

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The history of dance performance in Australia, as with all the performing arts, precedes the arrival of settlers from other nations.

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Colonial settlers brought with them to Australia the concept of four distinct seasons. While this works for much of southern Australia, non-Indigenous people in the other parts of Australia identify seasonal change as wet and dry.

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In 1957, Danish architect Jørn Utzon (1918–2008) was announced as the winner of an international design competition for a Sydney opera house, to be built at Bennelong Point.

Module

This resource is aligned to the Australian Curriculum: HASS for Year 6 students.

Topic

The Library holds the archive of the first prime minister of Australia, Edmund Barton (1849–1920). 

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This resource is aligned to the Australian Curriculum: Design and Technologies standards for Year 5 and 6.

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Sievers’ work is a pictorial timeline showing Australia’s social, technological and industrial transformation.

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In 1992, a decade-long legal battle over Indigenous land rights came to an end.