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Australia as a Nation: Australia as a Nation

Books Online

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Books in our Library on Immigration

Civic Issues: Immigration by Terry Hastings
Call Number: 304.894 HAS
Australian Origins: Where the People of Australia Came From by Victoria Macleay
Call Number: 325.94 MAC
2 volume set
Living in Australia by Robert Gott and Alis Brooks
Call Number: 305.8
8 volume set: Chinese Australians; Greek Australians; Sudanese Australians; Vietnamese Australians; Indian Australians; Italian Australians; Japanese Australians; Thai Australians
Australian Immigration Stories
Call Number: 325.94
2 volume set 1900-1940; 1940-1960
Multicultural Australia by Garry Chapman
Call Number: 305.8
6 volume set: Chinese; English; Greeks; Italians; Lebanese; Vietnamese
We Came to Australia by Christine Mulvany and Lucy Carroll
Call Number: 304.8
2 volumes: Looking for Peace and Looking for Freedom

Useful Web Sites

Behind the News: Australia's Federation

Immigration Timeline

from We Came to Australia Looking for Peace by Christine Mulvany and Lucy Carroll (2003) Macmillan: South Yarra

Books in our Library on Australian Government

The Prime Minister of Australia by Jane Pearson
Call Number: 994.0099 PEA
So You Want to be Prime Minister? by Nicolas Brasch
Call Number: 352.23 BRA
Who's Who in Politics by John and Jennifer Barwick
Call Number: 320.994 BAR
Workings of Government by John and Jennifer Barwick
Call Number: 320.994 BAR
Federal, State and Local Government by Rebecca Steinberg
Call Number: 320.494 STE
Federal, State and Local Government by Celia Meehan and Shirley Sydenham
Call Number: 320.494 MEE
Australian Governance by Celia Meehan and Shirley Sydenham
Call Number: 320.494 MEE

Library Webs

Find quality web sites here. Check out the section on Australian History.

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For Teachers

View the digital resources aligned to this section of the Australian Curriculum.

Discovering History: Upper Primary
Call Number: 907.1 LAW
Australia as a Nation
Call Number: 994.0076 AUS
Primary Australian history. Book E: understanding our shared past
Call Number: 994.0071 PRI
Immigration Since 1901 by Barbara Metcalfe
Call Number: 994.04 MET
Across the Seas by Adrian Osterley
Call Number: 325.94 OST
Coming to Australia by Scott Forbes
Call Number: 304.894 FOR

Federation
A unit of work developed by the History Teachers' Association of Australia

Australia in the 20th Century by Mark Anderson and Paul Ashton
Call Number: 994.04 AND
Monumental Humanities 3 by Ken Webb; Romeo Salla
Call Number: 994.007 WEB
Federation: Illustrated blackline masters by Tim Cattell
Call Number: 994.03 CAT
Australia: It's what we make it
Call Number: 994.04 AUS

What impacts has immigration had on Australia?
a unit or work from the National Museum of Australia using primary sources from their collection
Discovering Democracy units

Books in our Library on Federation

Australian Federation: One People, One Destiny by Net Brennan
Call Number: 994.03 BRE
Birth of a Nation by Nicolas Brasch
Call Number: 994.03 BRA
Federation by Ann Parry
Call Number: 994.032 PAR
One People, One Destiny: The Story of Federation by John Ross
Call Number: 994.04 ROS
Australia in the 1900s by Itiel Bereson
Call Number: 994.041 BER

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