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Australian Studies

The most relevant website for Australian Studies

International Australian Studies Association
The International Australian Studies Association (InASA) was formed in 1995, in recognition that Australian studies is an international enterprise with Australian studies centres and professional associations throughout Asia, Europe and North America.

AIATSIS (Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Studies)
Worldwide knowledge and understanding of Australian Indigenous cultures, past and present.

Archives of Australia Network
This site is a starting point for exploring many Australian archive-related sites and resources.


Also worth a look

Australian Place Names
A Gazetteer of Australian cities, towns and suburbs.

Australians at War
A website designed to complement the Australians at War TV series, and dedicated to those Australians who served their nation over the past one hundred years.

Parliament of Australia
Parliamentary research papers online

Electronic Encyclopedia of Gold in Australia
This website was produced by the Cultural Heritage Unit in the School of Historical Studies at the University of Melbourne, which is undertaking Australian Research Council research projects on the Australian goldfields and on rural and regional history

Decisions of the Superior Courts of New South Wales, 1788-1899 
This site was created by Macquarie University to publish many of the hidden court records of the superior courts of New South Wales. Superior courts (those of the highest jurisdiction in the colony) include the Court of Criminal Jurisdiction (1788-1824), Court of Civil Jurisdiction (1788-1814), and both courts called the Supreme Court (1815-1824, and 1824 to the present)