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  1421 Website
Menzies, Gavin
 
Website for the book and TV show "1421" which tells about Chinese Admiral Zheng He and his voyages towards Australia as part of his global adventures.
Format: pdf | Size: 41 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 20 December 2005 | | VIEW |
 
  Across the Coral Sea
State Library of Queensland
 
The website of an exhibition of historic photographs showing how South Sea Islanders came to Queensland, and their lives and work in the nineteenth century.
Format: pdf | Size: 39 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 06 February 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Daring Diving
Queensland Museum
 
A section of the Queensland Museum website "Queensland Stories" in which a former pearl diver tells about the dangers of this type of work in the first half of the twentieth century.
Format: pdf | Size: 42 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 06 February 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Excerpt from Matthew Flinders' log, 1802
Flinders, Matthew
 
Explorer Matthew Flinders describes some of the people with whom he came into contact in what would later become northern Queensland, in his A Voyage to Terra Australis.
Format: pdf | Size: 1.16 MB | Length: 3 pages | Date Added: 22 December 2005 | | VIEW |
 
  Impact of restrictive legislation
Woodford, Charles
 
Letter on the effects of the Pacific Islanders Act on the Solomon Islands from C. Woodford (Commissioner Western Pacific) to A. Barton (Prime Minister), 28 November 1901.
Format: pdf | Size: 396 KB | Length: 3 pages | Date Added: 19 February 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Islam in Australia
Cleland, Bilal
 
An excerpt of a history by Bilal Cleland which describes early contacts with and influences of Muslims in northern Australia. A second excerpt outlines the importance of Afghan camel teams in the opening up of the interior.
Format: pdf | Size: 580 KB | Length: 26 pages | Date Added: 22 December 2005 | | VIEW |
 
  On the Record: a practical guide to oral history
Ashton, Paul
 
Excerpts from Paul Ashton’s discussion of the value of oral sources in constructing histories from teaching heritage
Format: doc | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 16 July 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  On the Record: a practical guide to oral history
Ashton, Paul
 
Excerpts from Paul Ashton’s discussion of the value of oral sources in constructing histories from teaching heritage
Format: doc | Size: | Length: | Date Added: 16 July 2002 | | VIEW |
 
  Pearl Shellers
Queensland Museum
 
A section of the Queensland Museum website "Queensland Stories" about the Japanese who settled on Thursday Island and worked in the pearl-shell industry there.
Format: pdf | Size: 50 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 27 December 2005 | | VIEW |
 
  Queensland's population diversity
Australian Bureau of Statistics
 
Australian Bureau of Statistics historical data on Queensland from colonial status in 1859 to Federation.
Format: pdf | Size: 66 KB | Length: 4 pages | Date Added: 09 February 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Restricted Business
Queensland Museum
 
Link to the Queensland Museum website and the story of George Fong On, who settled in Australia in 1867 and ran a successful business, yet faced severe restrictions under racist legislation most of his life.
Format: pdf | Size: 71 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 08 February 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  South Sea Islanders in Queensland
Moore, Clive
 
Clive Moore tells the history of Pacific Islanders from when they were brought over as indentured labour between 1863 and 1904, to the present, and discusses the problems and issues they currently face.
Format: pdf | Size: 169 KB | Length: 10 pages | Date Added: 22 December 2005 | | VIEW |
 
  Sugar, Shops and Pearls in the 'Alien' North
Queensland Museum
 
Link to a Museum of Queensland website which tells about the varied groups who arrived in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and laid the foundations for some of the diverse communities in the state today.
Format: pdf | Size: 58 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 08 February 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  The Japanese in Torres Strait
Nagata, Yuriko
 
Yuriko Nagata writes about the establishment of the Japanese presence in Torres Strait in the nineteenth century and the community's development from the 1880s to the 1990s.
Format: pdf | Size: 145 KB | Length: 20 pages | Date Added: 20 February 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  The South Sea Islander community
Multicultural Affairs Queensland, Department of Premier and Cabinet
 
Links to a section of the Queensland Government's website which outlines the history of South Sea Islanders in the state.
Format: pdf | Size: 51 KB | Length: 1 page | Date Added: 06 February 2006 | | VIEW |
 
  Turn the map upside down
Ganter, Regina
 
Regina Ganter revisions Australia's history from a northern point of view.
Format: pdf | Size: 193 KB | Length: 9 pages | Date Added: 21 December 2005 | | VIEW |

 
 
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