Portal:Australia

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Government works

• Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act (1900)
• Constitution Act 1867
• Extraordinary Government Gazette of Western Australia (No.48 of 1890)
• Governor Bourke's Proclamation, 26 August 1835
• Lieutenant-Governor Stirling's Instructions 30 December 1828
• Lieutenant-Governor Stirling's Proclamation of the Colony 18 June 1829
• Masters and Servants Act, N.S.W. (1902)
• The Troubles Of Australian Federation, by G. B. Barton
• War Precautions Act 1914
• Western Australia Act (14 May 1829)

Treaties

• Kyoto Protocol (1997)
• Agreement between the Government of Australia and the Government of the Russian Federation on Cooperation in the Use of Nuclear Energy for Peaceful Purposes (2007)

Speeches and addresses

• Address on the opening of the Free Public Library of Ballarat East, on Friday, 1st. January, 1869 by Redmond Barry
• U.S.-Australia-Japan Trilateral Strategic Dialogue (2022)

Parliament of Australia

• Criminal Code Act 1995 (Australia)

Law

• Portal:Western Australian parliamentary debates
• Copyright Act 1968 (transcription project)
• Kevin and the validity of marriage

Biographical works

• The Dictionary of Australasian Biography (1892), by Philip Mennell
• Life and Adventures of William Buckley by John Morgan
• The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders, R.N. by Ernest Scott

History

• Portal:History of Australia

Historical journals and manuscripts

• A Continuation of a Voyage to New Holland by William Dampier
• A New Voyage Round the World by William Dampier
• A Voyage to New Holland by William Dampier
• A Voyage to Terra Australis by Matthew Flinders
• A Voyage Towards the South pole and Around the World by James Cook
• An account of a voyage to establish a colony at Port Philip in Bass's Strait on the south coast of New South Wales, in His Majesty's Ship Calcutta, in the years 1802-3-4 by James Hingston Tuckey
• An Australian Parsonage by Janet Millett (1872)
• Australia Twice Traversed by Ernest Giles
• Batman's Treaty (6 June 1835)
• Captain Cook's Journal During the First Voyage Round the World made in H.M. bark "Endeavour" by James Cook
• Discoveries in Australia by John Lort Stokes
• Explorations in Australia by John Forrest
• Explorations in Australia by John McDouall Stuart
• Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia by Thomas Mitchell
• Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia by Ludwig Leichhardt
• Journal of Expedition in search of Burke and Wills by Frederick Walker
• Journals of Australian Exploration by Francis and Augustus Gregory
• Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia by Edward John Eyre
• Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales by John Oxley
• Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia by George Grey
• Journey of Discovery to Port Phillip by William Hovell and Hamilton Hume
• Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia by Phillip Parker King
• Narrative of a Voyage Round the World by Thomas Braidwood Wilson (1835)
• Narrative of an Expedition into Central Australia by Charles Sturt
• Spinifex and Sand by David Carnegie
• Successful Exploration through the Interior of Australia by William John Wills
• The Endeavour Journal of Sir Joseph Banks by Joseph Banks
• The Jerilderie Letter, 1879 by Ned Kelly
• The Journal of Abel Jansz Tasman by Abel Tasman
• The Journal of Gregory Blaxland by Gregory Blaxland
• Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia by Thomas Mitchell
• Tracks of McKinlay and party across Australia by John Davis (1863)
• Two expeditions into the interior of Southern Australia by Charles Sturt

Works of historical scholarship

• A Dictionary of Australian Words And Terms, 1924 by Gilbert H. Lawson
• A History of the Australian Ballot System in the United States, 1917
• Australia, from Port Macquarie to Moreton Bay, 1845 by Clement Hodgkinson
• Cattle Chosen by Edward Shann
• Early Voyages to Terra Australis by Richard Henry Major
• History of West Australia, 1897 by W.B. Kimberly
• Notes on the Aborigines of New South Wales, 1907 by R. H. Mathews
• Old Melbourne Memories, 1896 by Rolf Boldrewood
• The Coming Colony, 1892 by Philip Mennell
• The Cyclopedia of Western Australia: an historical and commercial review: descriptive and biographical facts, figures and illustrations: an epitome of progress, 1912 by James Sykes Battye
• The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888, by Ernest Favenc[1]
• The Irish in Australia, 1888 by James Francis Hogan
• The Last of the Bushrangers: An Account of the Capture of the Kelly Gang, 1895 by Francis Augustus Hare[2]
• The Passing of the Aborigines by Daisy Bates
• Victoria: with a description of its principal cities, Melbourne and Geelong, 1856 by Henry Butler Stoney
• Western Australia: a History from its Discovery to the Inauguration of the Commonwealth, 1924 by James Sykes Battye
• The Australian Commonwealth and her relation to the British Empire (1912) by George Houston Reid
• Admiral Phillip (1899) by Louis Becke and Walter Jeffery
• Our Social System (1890) by David A. Andrade
• Emigration and immigration (1888) by Charles Francis Bastable
• Australia and the Empire (1889) by Arthur Patchett Martin
• "Australia and its Critics," by B. R. Wise in The Empire and the century (pp. 424−445), London: John Murray (1905)
• The three colonies of Australia (1853) by Samuel Sidney

Indigenous Australia

See also: Category:Indigenous people of Australia and Portal:Western Australia#Noongar

• The Aborigines of Australia (1888) by Roderick Flanagan
• The Aborigines of Victoria: with notes relating to the habits of the natives of other parts of Australia and Tasmania Volume 1 and Volume 2 by Robert Brough Smyth
• The Aborigines of Victoria and Riverina (1889) by Peter Beveridge
• Aboriginal Welfare (1937), initial conference of Commonwealth and State Aboriginal Authorities
• The Euahlayi Tribe (1905) by K. Langloh Parker
• More Australian legendary tales (1898) by K. Langloh Parker
• Native Tribes of South-East Australia (1904) by Alfred William Howitt
• Australia, from Port Macquarie to Moreton Bay (1845) by Clement Hodgkinson

Natural history

• West Australian Orchids by Emily Pelloe
• Flora Australiensis by George Bentham
• A specimen of the botany of New Holland by James Edward Smith
• A Sketch of the Vegetation of the Swan River Colony by John Lindley
• A sketch of the physical structure of Australia, so far as it is at present known (1850) by Joseph Beete Jukes
• Sea and River-side Rambles in Victoria (1860) by Samuel Hannaford
• Acclimatisation: its eminent adaptation to Australia (1862) by George Bennett

Encyclopedias

• "Australia," in The Nuttall Encyclopædia, (ed.) by James Wood, London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd. (1907)
• "Australia," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Australia," in Encyclopædia Britannica (12th ed., 1922)
• "Australia," in Catholic Encyclopedia, (ed.) by Charles G. Herbermann and others, New York: The Encyclopaedia Press (1913)
• "Australia," in The World Factbook, (ed.) by CIA (1982)
• "Australia," in The World Factbook, (ed.) by CIA (1990)
• "Australia," in CIA World Fact Book, (ed.) by CIA (2004)

Periodicals

• The Perth Gazette (1833 - )
• Fremantle Herald
• The Review of Reviews for Australasia
  • Saw Milling in Tasmania, 1905
  • Central Australia and the Aborigines, 1905
  • A Continent in a Death Grip, 1905
  • Australian Friendly Societies, 1905
  • Tasmanian Lakes, 1905

Specific events

Sydney Riot of 1879

The Sydney Riot of 1879 was the first riot to occur at an international cricket match. It threatened the immediate future of England-Australia cricket tours. The problems were exacerbated by the appearance of a letter from Lord Harris in the London press, and a reply from the New South Wales Cricket Association.

• Letter from Lord Harris on 11 February 1879
• Reply from the New South Wales Cricket Association on 4 June 1879

Federation

• Federated Australia (1901) by Alfred Odgers

Songs

• Botany Bay
• Waltzing Matilda
• Ten Thousand Miles Away

Suffrage

• Women and the State (c. 1900) by Annie Osborn

Transcription projects

To be proofread

• Index:An Australian language as spoken by the Awabakal.djvu, by Lancelot Edward Threlkeld, 1892
• Index:A_voyage_to_New_Holland_-_Dampier.djvu Vol III by William Dampier, 1703
• Index:Coo-ee - tales of Australian life by Australian ladies.djvu
• Index:Dawson - Australian aborigines (1900).djvu, by James Dawson, 1881
• Index:Early struggles of the Australian press.djvu, by James Bonwick, 1890
• Index:Edwards's Australasian Catalogue 1899.djvu
• Index:Historical records of Port Phillip.djvu, by John Joseph Shillinglaw, 1879
• Index:Johns's notable Australians 1908.djvu
• Index:Journals of Several Expeditions Made in Western Australia.djvu, various authors, 1833
• Index:Some account of the wars, extirpation, habits.djvu James Erskine Calder
• Index:The Eureka Stockade.djvu
• Index:The Exploration of Australia - Calvert - 1896.djvu, by Albert Frederick Calvert, 1896
• Index:The History of Ballarat.djvu
• Index:The New Arcadia (Tucker).djvu Horace Tucker
• Index:The new British province of South Australia.djvu
• Index:Tom Petrie's reminiscences of early Queensland.djvu, Constance Campbell Petrie, 1904
• Index:Two Representative Tribes of Queensland.djvu

To be validated

• Index:An Australian Parsonage.djvu, by Janet Millett, 1872
• Index:Australia, from Port Macquarie to Moreton Bay.djvu
• Index:Extracts from the letters and journals of George Fletcher Moore.djvu, by George Fletcher Moore, 1834
• Index:Germ Growers.djvu, by Robert Potter, 1892
• Index:Life and Adventures of William Buckley.djvu, John Morgan, 1852
• Index:Native Tribes of South-East Australia.djvu, Alfred William Howitt, 1904

Validated

• Index:Feilberg.djvu (The Way We Civilise) Carl Adolf Feilberg, 1880
• Index:Last of the tasmanians.djvu, James Bonwick, 1870

Literature

• Portal:Australian literature
• Portal:Australian poetry

See also

Some Australian states have their own portals; others have their works listed here until there are enough to warrant their own portal.

• Portal:Queensland
• Portal:Western Australia

New South Wales

• The History of Botany-Bay (1798)
• New history of Botanybay and Port Jackson (1821)
• Felons Apprehension Act (1865) N.S.W.
• The Condition and Resources of New South Wales (1867), by Christopher Rolleston
• "Waterloo and Alexandria - A description and anecdotal account of their rise and progress" (1890)
• Wagga Wagga Cattle Driving Act of 1902
• A colonial autocracy, New South Wales under Governor Macquarie, 1810-1821 (1909) by Marion Phillips
• Fair Rents Act 1915
• Mock Auctions Act 1973

South Australia

• History of Adelaide and vicinity (transcription project)
• Notable South Australians (1885) by George E. Loyau
• South Australia: Exploring Expedition Into the Interior of the Continent (1860) by John McDouall Stuart
• "Expeditions of Discovery in South Australia" by Edward John Eyre in Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of London, 13 (1843), pp. 161–182

Victoria

• Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities Act 2006
• My Life in Two Hemispheres (1898) by Charles Gavan Duffy
• The Aborigines of Victoria and Riverina (1889), by Peter Beveridge
• "The progress of the colony of Victoria" (1856) by Alfred Webb
• The Present State and Prospects of the Port Phillip District of New South Wales (1845) by Charles Griffith
• The Medical School of the Melbourne University: an address delivered on the twenty fifth anniversary of the opening of the Medical School, in the Wilson Hall, March 23, 1887 by James Edward Neild
• Inaugural address, delivered before the members of the Victorian Institute, on Friday the 21st of September, 1854 (1854) by Redmond Barry
• Report on the extent of the deep leads of Victoria (1898) by R. A. F. Murray