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This page links to documents related to the nation of Australia.
Government works
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]Law
[edit]- Portal:Western Australian parliamentary debates
- Copyright Act 1968 (transcription project)
- Kevin and the validity of marriage
High Court of Australia
[edit]- Dow Jones & Company Inc. v Gutnick [2002] HCA 56 (2002)
- Cesan v The Queen [2008] HCA 52
- JT International SA v Commonwealth of Australia [2012] HCA 43 (transcription project)
- Re Canavan; Re Ludlam; Re Waters; Re Roberts [No 2]; Re Joyce; Re Nash; Re Xenophon [2017] HCA 45
- Pell v The Queen [2020] HCA 12 (transcription project)
- Qantas Airways Limited v Transport Workers Union of Australia [2023] HCA 27
- Lesianawai v Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs [2024] HCA 6
- AB (a pseudonym) v Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission [2024] HCA 10
- ASF17 v Commonwealth of Australia [2024] HCA 19
Federal Court of Australia
[edit]- Patrick v Attorney-General (Cth) [2024] FCA 268
- Lehrmann v Network Ten Pty Limited (Trial Judgment) [2024] FCA 369
Biographical works
[edit]- 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
[edit]Historical journals and manuscripts
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- "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
[edit]- 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
[edit]Sydney Riot of 1879
[edit]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
[edit]- Federated Australia (1901) by Alfred Odgers
Songs
[edit]Suffrage
[edit]- Women and the State (c. 1900) by Annie Osborn
Transcription projects
[edit]To be proofread
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Index:Feilberg.djvu (The Way We Civilise) Carl Adolf Feilberg, 1880
- Index:Last of the tasmanians.djvu, James Bonwick, 1870
Literature
[edit]See also
[edit]Some Australian states have their own portals; others have their works listed here until there are enough to warrant their own portal.
New South Wales
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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 in Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of London, 13 (1843), pp. 161–182
Victoria
[edit]- 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