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Picture Australia
Following on from yesterday and talking about old photos, the photo archive for Australia is Picture Australia. Quite apart from their search function — if you know what you’re looking for — they have slideshows on various topics that link in a range of images. They call them picture trails. Topics include cartoons and caricatures.
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Birds of Australia
Following on from yesterday’s post, if you’re curious about the birds we get visiting our backyards here in Australia, Birds Australia is a great resource.
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1895
Support Your Local Suffragette begins mid 1895. It’s winter in the Swan River Colony and times are a’changing. The Swan River Colony is a British settlement on the west coast of Australia. In 1890 it finally achieves self-government. Just in time for a dizzying mining boom. (Sidenote: Australia doesn’t become a nation until federation in…
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Banksia
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Perth, Western Australia.