LibGuides: Significant Australians: Significant Australians

Scientists and Inventors

Australian Academy of Science
Search for a particular scientist to read his or her biography.
Encyclopaedia of Australian Science

Online book. Click cover to read.

Australia's Greatest Inventions and Innovations by Christopher Cheng; Powerhouse Museum Staff; Lindsay Knight
Call Number: 609.94 CHE
Australia's Best Environmentalists by Robert Gott
Call Number: 363.7 GOT
Other titles in this series:
Australia's Best Medical Practitioners
Australia's Best Engineers
Heroes of Australian Science by Astrid Judge
Call Number: 333.79 JUD
Books in this series are:
Astronomy
Health and Medicine
Technology
Plant and Animal Conservation
Environmental Science
Sustainable Energy

Australian Writers of Influence by Bernadette Kelly
Call Number: 820.9 KEL
Meet Banjo Paterson by Kristin Weidenbach; James Gulliver Hancock (Illustrator)
Call Number: PB WEI
Dame Nellie Melba by Gabiann Marin
Call Number: JF MEL
So Much to Tell Us by Dianne Irving
Call Number: 823.3 IRV
Australia's Best Film Makers by Richard Linden
Call Number: 791.43 LIN
Other titles in this series are:
Australia's Best Performers
Australia's Best Writers
Australia's Best Painters

Australian of the Year Awards
View the nominees and winners of the Australian of the Year Awards from 1960 until the present day. Contains a summation of their achievements, photos and video.
Australian Dictionary of Biography
produced by the Australian National University
Australian Biography: Extraordinary Australians Talk about their Lives
An Australian government project; it contains video interviews with a number of significant Australians.
Gallery of Australian Biographies
Produced by Education Services Australia
Australian Story
View episodes of this award-winning ABC programme.
Australia's Nobel Prize Winners- 2015 National Geographic

Online books. Click on the image to view. These books are also available in hardcopy.

Who's on the Money? Meet the Great Australians on our Notes by Chris Miles
Call Number: 332.4994 MIL
100 Australian Legends by Richard Simpkin
Call Number: 920.094 SIM
Great Queensland Women by Heather Grant
Call Number: 305.4209 GRA
Heroes: Australians at their Best by Allan Baillie
Call Number: 920.094 BAI
Australian of the Year (series) by Robert Hillman
Call Number: 920.094 HIL
six books in the series: 1960-1969; 1970-1979; 1980-1989; 1990-2001; Young Australian of the Year 1979-1989; Young Australian of the Year 1990-2001
Aboriginal Australia by John and Jennifer Barwick
Call Number: 305.89915 BAR
ISBN: 9781740703444

Online books. Click cover to view.

True Survivors by John and Jennifer Barwick
Call Number: 613.69 BAR
chapters on: William Buckley, Galmahra, James Johnson, Douglas Mawson, Bas Wie, Val Plumwood, Janine Shepherd and Stuart Diver
Lionheart by Jesse Martin; Ed Gannon
Call Number: 920 MAR
Smithy and the Southern Cross by Robert Hillman
Call Number: 629.13092 KIN
Meet Nancy Bird Walton by Grace Atwood; Harry Slaghekke (Illustrator)
Call Number: PB ATW
Steve Irwin: The Incredible Life of the Crocodile Hunter by Trevor Baker
Call Number: 639.97798 IRW
Makers and Shakers: Dick Smith Australian Adventurer by Robert Gott
Call Number: 338.092 SMI
ISBN: 1863918787
Other title in this series:
Douglas Mawson - Explorer for Science

Biography Writing Workshop
An American site which takes students through the steps of researching and writing a biography.
Biography Lesson Plans
From Education Services Australia

The Invisible Hero by Elizabeth Fensham
Call Number: MF FEN
A good novel to accompany this unit.
A class is asked to each research a hero or villain, which leads to much discussion about what it means to be a hero. Through their research they are inspired to act heroically by standing up to a school bully. Contains examples of biographical writing from the various students.
They Shaped Australia by Aisling Marlor
Call Number: 920.094 MAR

Online books. Click cover to view.

Mary's Australia by Pamela Freeman
Call Number: 271 MAR
Meet Mary MacKillop by Sally Murphy; Sonia Martinez (Illustrator)
Call Number: PB MUR
Century of Australian Prime Ministers by Joanne Holliman
Call Number: 994.009 HOL
Edith Cowan: A Quiet Woman of Note by Hazel Edwards
Call Number: 920 COW
So You Want to Be Prime Minister by Nicolas Brasch
Call Number: 352.23 BRA
Man with a Mission: John Flynn by Robert Gott
Call Number: 362.1809 FLY
Social Reformers by Mark Butler
Call Number: 303.48 BUT
Edward 'Weary' Dunlop by Denise Higgins
Call Number: 940.54 DUN
Rupert Murdoch
Call Number: 338.761 MUR

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