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| Prime Minister Kevin Rudd delivers the apology to the Stolen Generations |
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| Australian Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd said sorry for the pain, suffering and hurt of the Stolen Generations, their descendents and the families left behind in an historic motion in Federal Parliament, Canberra, on 13 February 2008. |
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Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation - http://antarqld.org.au This Queensland site provides much relevant content concerning Wik, Mabo and other topics relevant to the history of reconciliation.
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Australian Parliament House - http://www.aph.gov.au/education/index.htm The Australian Parliament House web site provides a wealth of material about the Australian Parliament and Hansard records dating back to Federation.
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Australian War Memorial - http://www.awm.gov.au During the First World War, Australian troops were officially encouraged to collect relics of the battles in which they had fought. This web site makes some those collections accessible on-line to everyone for the first time. |
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Australians at War http://www.australiansatwar.gov.au - covers Australia's involvement in sven major wars over the past 100 years, from the Boer War to the Vietnam War and recent overseas peacekeeping efforts. |
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Australia's Prime Ministers - http://primeministers.naa.gov.au This website draws on a rich store of prime ministerial documents, photographs and personal papers. It provides a "one-stop-shop" for information on our prime ministers, from "Fast Facts" to a "Research Map" that shows where to find archives in Australia and overseas.
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Child's Play - http://childsplay.slq.qld.gov.au This is a part of the State Library of Queensland's website. It contains hundreds of historic photographs of children from c.1890 to 1920 and two SOSE moduels that use these photographs. The modules describe activities for upper primary and power secondary students that will assist them to develop historic skills and abilities while also learning to demonstrate specific learning outcomes from the Years 1 to 10 Queensland SOSE syllabus.
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Extension History - http://www.pvhs.chico.k12.ca.us/~bsilva/ib/histo.html There are many different ways of determining how history happens. Historians disagree over why almost any event happened. This web site can give you some ideas of how the great historians 'did' history.
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Fordham University provides a range of primary and secondary sources, from modern to ancient history online. It also includes activities which assist students to check the authenticity of documents and generally apply their historical skills - http://www.fordham.edu/halsoll/mod/modsbook.html |
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National Archives of Australia - http://www.naa.gov.au This collection constitutes the archives of the Commonwealth government and allows access to those records created since the formation of the Commonwealth of Australia in 1901 and other significant nineteenth-century records relating to the colonies at the time of Federation.
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Joint Council of Queensland Teacher Associations provides access to other professional associations in Queensland for all those times when you are considering promoting History by making more links with other subjects - http://www.pa.ash.org.au/jcqta |
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National Centre for History Education - http://www.hyperhistory.org This site is for students and teachers - both primary and secondary - to provide resources for history teachers, and for teachers not specialists in specific areas of History.
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Parliament Education Office - http://www.peo.gov.au The Parliamentary Education Office assists students and teachers to understand the signficance of the Australian Parliament.
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Screenrights and Enhance TV - http://www.enhancetv.com.au ; http://www.screenrights.org Screenrights is a non-profit organisation appointed by the Government to administer the provisions of the Australian Copyright Act that allow for educational copying from radion and television. Screenrights have developed 'enhancetv' - a free website which includes study guides, features articles and a comprehensive television guide that lists education programs for specific learning areas.
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| Queensland Museums and Heritage Places |
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| Queensland Historical Associations |
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