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What would locals like others know about Australia? Presenting relevant links in a somewhat random fashion:
Headlines
Voice to Parliament referendum question and constitutional amendment announced
Lidia Thorpe quitting liberates her and the Greens to advance different Voice positions
Tim Minchin on quitting comedy – @timminchin
Climate change – Some communities are already adapting
Clarice Beckett: Australian artist’s place in global art history cemented in exhibition
The Key of Sea – Broadsheet
Australia changes word in anthem to honor Indigenous people – AP
Spanker Knob, Bullshit Hill and Guys Dirty Hole are all real places in Australia
A sacred site showing 46,000 years of continual occupation and it’s completely legal to blow it up
News
abc.net.au/news
7.30
abcnews24
http://www.abc.net.au/news/photos
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/hamsterwheel
ABC Open
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/gallery-fni0fit3-1226708191571
Laura Tingle
Do we expect too much from governments? – Laura Tingle explains how People’s disillusion with politics is mainly a question of perception.
Quarterly Essay: Great Expectations
Quarterly Essay: Political Amnesia
Laura Tingle – profile
Time
timeanddate.com
YouTube
Northern Territory
Clarke and Dawe
Elsewhere on the Web
reddit.com/r/australia
cbaa.org.au – @CBAA_
Big Things
bigthings.com.au
Larry the Lobster goes under the hammer
Wikipedia
Other things that are big
Think Bigger – Radio National (Facebook)
Thinking Big (2008 Event)
Accommodation
Travel Lodge
Wotif
MGSM Executive Hotel
Arts Factory
Queensland Hotels Association
Australian Hotels Association
Adani Coal Mine
Why the controversial Adani mine could be a make-or-break election issue – SBS News
Morrison government approves next step towards Adani coal mine
Adani: Environment Minister Melissa Price signs off on controversial coal project
Adventure
Outer Edge
Agriculture
Australian Farm Institute
Permaculture Research Institute of Australia
Jerra Park
Birchip Cropping Group
nuffield.com.au
Caring for our Country is one way the Australian Government funds environmental management of our natural resources by supporting communities, farmers and other land managers to protect Australia’s natural environment and sustainability.
Anthem
The Australian National Anthem – Australia Now
Australian National Anthem – Images Australia
Architecture
Australia’s Modernism Top 10, Part 1
Australia’s Modernism Top 10, Part 2
architecture.com.au
engineersaustralia.org.au
greencities.org.au
gbca.org.au
Green Building Council of Australia
A tale of two buildings: The Sydney Opera House and Parliament House
https://twitter.com/cdbisset/status/1166906985247232001
Arts and Culture
https://dailyreview.com.au/watch-katie-noonan-drill-malcolm-turnbull-arts-funding/44478
Joanna Murray Smith’s keynote address at the National Play Festival
http://creativeaustralia.arts.gov.au
http://theconversation.edu.au/joining-the-dots-indigenous-art-and-language-in-the-national-cultural-policy-12806
http://nationalculturalpolicy.com.au
Australia’s Culture Portal
2004 Australian Culture Now
John Olsen’s you beaut country
Art Tours
Palya Art Tours
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/booksandarts/helen-read-on-aboriginal-art/6423522
Astronomy
https://theconversation.com/southern-stars-the-decade-ahead-for-australian-astronomy-46339
http://www.ska.gov.au/multimedia/Documents/Publications/Factsheets/ASKAP_Overview-HR.pdf
Australian of the Year
Australian of the Year
Wikipedia
Awards
http://www.gourmettraveller.com.au/australian-gourmet-traveller-2010-travel-awards.htm
AIMIA Awards 2011
Backpacking
Adventure and Backpacking Conference
Backpacking Australia
Banks
National_Australia_Bank
nab.com.au
Bikes
Maree Bike Tour Oz – audiotour – @mareebiketouroz
Bookstores
bookoccino.com.au
readings.com.au
Burke and Wills
Bush Telegraph (MP3)
Burke and Wills (2010)
Wikipedia
burkeandwills.net.au
Modern tourists following Burke and Wills across Australia
Indigenous perspective on Burke and Wills
Burke and Wills’ fatal error
Bushfires
A horror bushfire season awaits southern Australia this summer as a result of the on-going drought, according to the latest forecast from the Bushfire Cooperative Research Centre.
bushfirecrc.com
You Tube
Publications
Seasonal bushfire outlook map – National 2008-9
aus-emaps.com/bushfires.html
Bushfire
Wildlife Rescue – Wires
Camels
Ships of the Desert: Camels in Australia – Camels were part of some of the important colonial expeditions into the Australian interior, and they carried the railway sleepers and telegraph poles that connected the vast continent and eventually opened it up to the rest of the world.
Caravan parks
Caravanning Qld
Go See Australia
Cartoons
theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/cartoons
theage.com.au/photogallery/2005/10/04/1128191706446.html
First Dog at Crikey
theguardian.com/profile/first-dog-on-the-moon
Climate
Bureau of Meteorology (Weather Forecasts) – National Radar Loop
To see the Miriwoong calendars go to weather calendars
http://www.mirima.org.au/calendar
http://www.abc.net.au/news/specials/heatwave-tracker
http://satview.bom.gov.au
Interactive: 100 years of drought in Australia
Cyclones
Garnaut Review 2011
Australia – Climate of Our Continent – Bureau of Meteorology
Climate change in Australia: technical report 2007
How climate change will affect your backyard – CSIRO (podcast)
Climate Change in Australia
Climate of Australia – Wikipedia
Parliamentary committee on climate change website
National Tidal Centre website
National Sea Change Taskforce website
Gold Coast City Council website
Gold Coast City Cultural and Civic Precinct Master Plan Ideas Competition
Master of Design Future’s website
Australian Government report: Climate Change Risks to Australia’s Coasts
Coasts
Coastal Watch
Coasts and Oceans – Department of the Environment
Oz coasts
Consumers
Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
Deserts
Semi-arid and arid lands (‘deserts’) cover over two-thirds of Australia.
desertknowledge.com.au
desertknowledge2008.com
desertknowledgecrc.com.au
Realising the potential of desert environments – ABC
Listen Now //- 24122008// |Download Audio //- 24122008//
Nearly three quarters of Australia is desert, you know. Consequently, most of our population centres have built up around the edges of the continent.
Recent discussion around deserts here have focused on the viability of remote Indigenous communities, with remote Australia being described by some as a ‘failed state’ … referring to the difficulty maintaining infrastructure like health and housing. But it’s a bitter contradiction — Australia’s deserts and the people living there contribute over ninety billion dollars to Australia’s gross revenue. That’s according to the Desert Knowledge Cooperative Research Centre.
In early November this year, over 300 people got together in Alice Springs to discuss the potential of desert environments. A sixth of the world’s population live in desert regions … and the conference examined the potential of these environments to generate energy, food, knowledge and industry. Sharing and developing knowledge of desert environments seems particularly relevant given climate change.
Energy
Stubborn Mule
Beyond Zero Emissions
University of Newcastle – Coal production research forecast
Grattan Institute- Energy Programs
The zero carbon jump
Coal
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/breakfast/whitehaven-hoax/4457546
Burning desire to put coal industry out to pasture – Sydney Morning Herald
Flag
ausflag.com.au – @ausflag
http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/utterly-jack-of-the-mother-countrys-flag-20120804-23m3n.html
http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/01/31/could-australia-get-a-new-flag
https://researchers.anu.edu.au/researchers/blaxland-jc – @JohnBlaxland1
https://theconversation.com/wave-its-a-flag-for-all-australians-27284
Food
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-01-26/top-10-iconic-foods-to-celebrate-on-australia-day/9355460
http://sydney.edu.au/environment-institute/blog/cash-commodities-or-cultural-icons-the-two-world-story-of-australian-bushfoods/
http://www.australianfoodsovereigntyalliance.org/peoples-food-plan/
http://wp.localharvest.org.au – https://www.facebook.com/localharvest.org.au?sk=wall –
http://www.abc.net.au/rural/telegraph/content/2012/s3434800.htm
Back ‘o’ Bourke Tails And How To Cook ‘Em
Food on Friday – camp cooking
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/earshot/the-origins-of-the-neenish-tart/7585914
Australian cuisine – Meat pie, pavlova, lamingtons – is there such a thing as a national Australian dish? Today Australian cuisine is a mix of cooking styles from all over the world. You particularly see that in the variety of restaurants. But how about our home cooking? What defines Australian cuisine and the Australian eating culture?
De Groots Best Restaurants
Food Standards Australia New Zealand
http://cityfoodgrowers.com.au
http://www.acn.net.au/articles/foodanddrink
http://slowfoodaustralia.com.au
http://www.gourmettraveller.com.au
http://www.ausfoodnews.com.au
http://www.gourmettraveller.com.au
http://foodwatch.com.au
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/rnfirstbite
http://www.bizzylizzysgoodthings.com/blog/macadamia-ice-cream-in-a-wattleseed-honey-sandwich
Organic Growers Australia
Biological Farmers of Australia
Australian Certified Organic
Demeter Biodynamic Agriculture Australia
Australia’s Organic Directory (website of Environment Society of Australia)
Bathurst Agricultural Research Station
Festivals
http://www.abc.net.au/local/sites/festivals/default.htm
Film
How does film-induced tourism affect a country town?
nfsa.gov.au
umbrellaent.com.au
Foundations
hollows.org.au
Gardens
opengarden.org.au
organicgardener.com.au
floriadeaustralia.com
Geology
gsa.org.au
aesc2010.gsa.org.au
The drama of rocks
– Answer to opal mystery shows Red Centre’s links to Red Planet
Government
Australia Bureau of Statistics
Bureau of Rural Sciences
aph.gov.au
watch_read_listen
Parliamentary_Business
Great Artesian Basin
http://www.savethebasin.com
Heritage
heritageatrisk.org.au
nrm.gov.au
Australian Heritage Council
History
Moving forward, looking back
Alfred Deakin Research Institute website
Australian Policy and History Network website
A Merciless Place – When Britain was defeated in the American War of Independence, it had nowhere to send its criminals. Australia wasn’t an option at the time but the British did have many slave-trading ports in West Africa. These convicts could fill the ranks of British soldiers who guarded the forts and their human cargo, kept there before they were shipped to North America, South America and the West Indies. What happened to many of these convicts during Britain’s disastrous West African scheme that led to the colonisation of Australia, is told in a new book by Dr. Emma Christopher
Lost histories of Australia – There are many important accounts of our history which have been overlooked.
http://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/article/2016/04/20/lest-we-forget-why-we-need-remember-frontier-wars
Holidays
http://www.australia.gov.au/topics/australian-facts-and-figures/public-holidays
Homeless
thebigissue.org.au
Humor
The Bladder
The_Adventures_of_Lano_and_Woodley
Humor / Betoota Advocate
betootaadvocate.com – @BetootaAdvocate
Environment Minister Who Used To Work In Mining Sector Bit Skeptical Of 91 Different Scientists
Inside the Advocate
scotty-from-marketing-holds-focus-group-to-suss-out-if-hell-get-booed-at-the-sydney-test
Humor / Chaser
chaser.com.au
Podcasts
Support
@chaser
twitter.com/chaser/status/926272709553729536
twitter.com/chaser/status/1263786717896572928
Huts
The Kosciuszko Huts Association (KHA) is an organisation of concerned people who care about the preservation, maintenance and history of the huts in the Kosciuszko (NSW) and Namadgi (ACT) National Parks.
Mountain Huts Preservation Society – Facebook (Tasmania)
Huts in the wild – Bush Telegraph
Huts and the imagination – By Design
Labels
accc.gov.au
Landcare
http://theconversation.com/is-the-coalitions-green-army-good-news-for-landcare-17936
http://www.landcareonline.com.au
http://www.nrm.gov.au
http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]
Lighthouses
Lighthouses of Australia
http://www.abc.net.au/perth/lighthouses
Mail / Post Office
auspost.com.au
sendle.com – http://support.sendle.com/knowledgebase/articles/442548
Maps
Water Sports Map
Marketing
Where the hell is Lara’s line?- Courier Mail
Matilda
interactive website
The Matilda Myth
Mining
Association of Mining and Exploration Companies (AMEC)
http://australianethical.com.au/news/truth-behind-mining-boom
http://www.miningaustralia.com.au
@LockTheGate
Mountains
Mountains of Australia – Wikipedia
Museums
Australian War Memorial
National Museum of Australia (Canberra)
Museum Victoria
Powerhouse Museum
Music
An interactive guide to the wild, the weird and the vernacular in Australian music
http://ericbogle.net
Folk Art Alliance
Dead Can Dance – Wikipedia
Paul Kelly
Australian music centre
http://www.musicaustralia.org
http://www.australianmusiccentre.com.au
http://www.triplejunearthed.com
http://themusic.com.au
Ngarukuruwala
http://www.australianmusiccentre.com.au
http://www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/artist/harris-sebastian – @aukkestrelmusic
Tame_Impala
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFptt7Cargc
http://www.amws.com.au
Music Shows
Live Set
Music Show
Into the music
Weekend Planet
Wide Open Road
Music Festivals
tamworthcountrymusic.com.au
Elena Kats-Chernin
Elena_Kats-Chernin
Elena Kats-Chernin: Dreams, Energies and Spirits
Neighbour Day
Australia’s annual celebration of community is held on the last Sunday in March
neighbourday.org
@NeighbourDay
Norfolk Island
Norfolk_Island
http://www.norfolk.gov.nf
Norfolk Island fails self governing experiment
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Norfolk-Island-National-Park-and-Botanic-Garden/352922925338
Outback
Outback Now
Photos
Picture Australia
Photographers
Wayne Quilliam
Poetry
Ern Malley Hoax
A secret history of Australian poetry
Politics
Prime_Minister_of_Australia
Australian Labour Party – @australianlabor
Australia Greens
http://greensmps.org.au – @GreensMPs
Australian Greens – Wikipedia
Bob Brown – Wikipedia
Politics
Coalition – Constitution – Constitutional Recognition – Election – Greens – Constitutional Recognition – Election – Liberal Party – Labor Party – Leadership – Liberal – National Party – Parliament- Party – Preferences – Prime Minister – Same Sex Marriage
Green Institute
Founded in 2008, and supported by a grant-in-aid from the Commonwealth government as the official think-tank of The Australian Greens, the Institute has a national and international reputation for high-quality, exciting and influential research, and creating space for deep and rich discussion. Dedicated to the Global Greens’ four pillars of ecological sustainability, grassroots democracy, social and economic justice, and peace and nonviolence, the Institute has focussed its work on key points of intervention including the rights of nature and Earth-centred governance, participatory democracy, and universal basic income and the future of work, as well as over-arching discussions around ecological political theory and practice. The Green Institute is cultivating ecological democracy through ideas, conversation and action.
greeninstitute.org.au – tim-hollo – Facebook – @InstituteGreen
An ecological manifesto for thriving under climate change
Politicians
Alexander Downer
Portals
e-Travel Blackboard
Crikey – @crikey_news
Publishers
spunc.com.au
affirmpress.com.au
Radio
http://www.thewire.org.au – http://twitter.com/thewireradio
http://www.2gb.com
https://www.radioinfo.com.au
http://www.sportfm.com.au –
http://www.sportfm.com.au/media/CS3sampleLive.swf
http://www.triplem.com.au
Apparently this is how I need to sound for radio…
Redfern Speech
http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/on-that-historic-day-in-redfern-the-words-i-spoke-were-mine-20100825-13s5w.html
Redfern_Park_Speech
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/commentary/redfern-speech-flatters-writer-as-well-as-orator/story-e6frgd0x-1225910609841
http://naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/Imagine.asp?B=5006022&I=1&SE=1
Rock Art
Centre for Rock Art Studies UWA
ABC Science – Debate over industry impact on WA rock art
ABC News – Megafauna cave painting could be 40,000 years old
ABC Radio National – Awaye!: Rock of the ages
Rock-art
Protect Australia’s Spirit – a campaign to save our rock art
Australia’s first chair in rock art, Professor Paul Tacon, launched a campaign called Protect Australia’s Spirit.
Traditional owners welcome rock art register – SBS
Royal Commission
Royal Commission
royalcommission.org.au
Science
Our Future World
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)
Australian skeptics
Australian Academy of Science – Youtube – Facebook – @Science_Academy
Government plan won’t save Great Barrier Reef: Academy
Australia’s National Science Week: 15 – 23 August, 2015 #natsciwk
Australia · scienceweek.net.au
@Aus_ScienceWeek
Seafood
Australia’s Sustainable Seafood Guide
Seafood Experience Australia
The Australian Marine Conservation Society
Eat fish (ethically)
Seasons
Changing the seasons to suit Australia – Counterpoint
bom.gov.au/iwk
Signage
Standard Recycling Signs – Environment NSW
Southern Cross
Wikipedia
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/awaye/the-use-and-abuse-of-the-southern-cross/8589540
http://variety.com/2017/film/reviews/we-dont-need-a-map-review-1202459819
Sport
Australian Institute of Sport
Communication and Media Studies, Monash University
Sport Studies, University of Canberra
Australian Sports Commission, Ethics in Sport
St. James Ethics Centre, Sport
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/australiatalks/stories/2009/2746182.htm
The Future of Sport in Australia
Australian Institute of Sport
Australian Canoeing
Independent Sport Panel
ABC Grandstand – Goal posts shift in sport overhaul
ABC News Video – Olympic Committee insulted by sport-funding report
afl.com.au
baseball.com.au
web.theabl.com.au
theroar.com.au
skysportsradio.com.au
@AUSTbaseball @TeamAusBaseball
Sporting Goods
ballsports.com.au
rugbyleaguestore.com.au
Tanami Track
Australia’s epic 1,077km road trip – BBC
Wikipedia
Trains
gsr.com.au
@GreatSthnRail
Transportation
The Car Pool
Road Conditions Reports Site
Triffids
The Triffids mark 30th anniversary of key album with performances
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keYoFOnuHMU
The_Triffids
ersities and Research Centers
Outdoor and Environmental Education – La Trobe University
Australian Catholic University
Australia Institute
Macquarie University
Monash – jennifer-bowen
Charles Darwin University
University of Newcastle
University of Western Sydney
Macquarie Globe
William Angliss Institute
theconversation.edu.au
unisa.edu.au
cwu.edu
Knowledge_Nation
The Great Artesian Basin
nrw.qld.gov.au/water/gab
Great_Artesian_Basin
gabcc.org.au/index.aspx
environment.gov.au/water/environmental/groundwater/gabsi.html
Wine
Yalumba
winedayout.com – @WineDayOut
Videos
From little things big things grow
Get Up Australia
Gunns and labor
River’s End
Sport: a panel discussion with William McInnes, Gideon Haigh and John Harms. Adelaide Writers’ Week
From little things big things grow
A humorous look Gunns, the Tasmanian Government and old growth forestry logging in Tasmania – John Clarke and Brian Dawe
Desert
Simpson_Desert
http://www.nma.gov.au/research/centre_for_historical_research/the_centres_people/dr_mike_smith/into_the_desert
Torres Strait
Torres Strait Islands: Pearlshelling, Treaty, the Sea and Joh
With the announcement of a referendum on the recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in the constitution, Rear Vision asks: what do we know about the history of the people from the second half of that phrase? How is it that Australia recognises two different groups of Indigenous people?
Winton
Winton is the birthplace of QANTAS and the home of Waltzing Matilda, Dinosaurs and Opals.
http://www.experiencewinton.com.au
Walking with Dinosaurs…in Winton
Glass House Mountains National Park
http://www.epa.qld.gov.au/projects/park/index.cgi?noback=1&parkid=112
The great race: Mapping the Australian coastline
Who was the first to map the entire Australian coastline? Was it the British or the French? David Hill presents a gripping account of the competition between those early explorers and their journeys into the unknown.
The Australia Institute
tai.org.au
great-barrier-bleached
Great Barrier Bleached Coral bleaching, the Great Barrier Reef and potential impacts on tourism –
@BenOquist @TheAusInstitute
@theausinstitute
Bingo
Aboriginal – AFL – Australia – Bala – Bush – Cabbage-tree hat – Canberra – Commonwealth – Country – CSIRO – Cyclone – Didgeridoo – Distance – Drover – Elders – Emu – Eternity – Farmers Markets – Food – Fresh Water – Girt – Golden Gumboot – Great Barrier Reef – Great Dividing Range – Hinterlands – Inland Sea – Kangaroo – Koala – Lamington – Larrikin – Lucky – Macadamia Nut – Mining – Murray Darling – Native Title – Northern Territory – One-Term Government – Opal – Opera House – Outback – Oz – Parkes – Pub Test – Qantas – Queensland – Salt Water – Sausage Democracy – Shire – Snap Election – Snowy River – Songlines – Sydney – Territory – Traditional Owners – Tucker – Tyranny of Distance – Uluru – Vegemite – Victoria – Welcome to Country – Westminster System
Wikipedia
Australia
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Great Southern Land
Anzac Day
Australia Institute
Boomerang
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Monkey Grip
Paul Keating
Reg Sprigg
Shooters, Fishers and Farmers Party
Southern Cross
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Tall poppy syndrome
Tasman Sea
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