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Linking a Nation: Australia's transport and communications 1788-1970 - Chapter 7: Communication by Post, Telephones and Telegraph, 1800-1970   (website(s) Our House: Histories of Australian homes    Australian Heritage Council    Australia's heritage )

The Australian colonies were themselves subsidisers of mail steamers, since their post offices operated independently of the British mails. From Adelaide, a special mail train ran to Melbourne with the mails for Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland. ...

Linking a Nation: Australia's transport and communications 1788-1970 - Chapter 2: Ports and Shipping, 1788-1970   (website(s) Our House: Histories of Australian homes    Australian Heritage Council    Australia's heritage )

Australian ports she served included Melbourne, Sydney, Newcastle and Brisbane. 8 However, right up until World War II, clipper ships were regular visitors to Australian ports, especially the South Australian wheat ports such as Port Lincoln, Wallaroo an...

Linking a Nation: Australia's transport and communications 1788-1970 - Chapter 3: By Track and Road: Animal Power and Australian Transport, 1788-1920   (website(s) Our House: Histories of Australian homes    Australian Heritage Council    Australia's heritage )

Convicts were used for transportation purposes in early colonial New South Wales, as is apparent from early paintings of Sydney, which feature convicts hauling and carrying very considerable loads indeed. This was a South Australian project, and South Au...

ANDC - Gold Documents   (website Australian National Dictionary Centre )

document location: http://www-dev.anu.edu.au/ANDC/res/aus_words/gold/7_life_(trials). Oh, ye gold hunter’s [sic] who may see or hear, Poor Tim’s sad tale as ’tis ....... FOREST CREEK DIGGINGS, MOUNT ALEXANDER. ...

ANDC - Gold Documents   (website Australian National Dictionary Centre )

Oh, ye gold hunter’s [sic] who may see or hear, Poor Tim’s sad tale as ’tis ....... FOREST CREEK DIGGINGS, MOUNT ALEXANDER. Geelong Advertiser 2 October 1852, 2/2: [from the Geelong Advertiser correspondent at the Eureka diggings, A.C.]...

Maritime Affairs   (website State Library of South Australia (SLSA) )

"Our Maritime Laws" is in the Register, 10 June 1881, page 6d, 23 July 1881, page 6b, 9 August 1881, page 6d. The arrival of HMS Nelson is reported in the Register, 2 December 1882, page 6b, 3 March 1886, page 6d. Photographs are in the Observer, 10 Febru...

Cold and Wet - Colton   (website State Library of South Australia (SLSA) )

"The Garden Suburb" is in the Register, 15 June 1920, page 8c; also see 3 June 1921, page 6g, 22 August 1921, page 9g, 24 November 1921, page 5, Advertiser, 18 August 1921, page 9a, Register, 5 July 1923, page 5c, 31 January 1924, page 5g, 2 July 1924, pa...

Copeville - Corunna   (website State Library of South Australia (SLSA) )

Information on the pastoral station is in the Observer, 4 August 1894, page 25e (poem), 1 December 1894, page 43a, Advertiser, 20 and 22 April 1898, pages 6g and 6e, Observer, 30 April 1898, page 2b. Information on the school is in the Chronicle, 23 Janua...

Communications   (website State Library of South Australia (SLSA) )

"Adelaide's Postal History" is in The Mail, 19 March 1927, page 1a; also see 24 March 1928, page 2e, The News, 1 November 1928, page 18f, 26 October 1933, page 13e. and 7c, 2 and 23 October 1858, pages 6c and 6e, 5 March 1859, page 6d, 21 July 1860, pages...

Glenelg   (website State Library of South Australia (SLSA) )

Also see Register, 10 October 1863, page 2e, Register, 10 October 1863, page 2e, Observer, 24 October 1863, page 1e (supp.), "Glenelg as a Mail Station" is in the Register, 6 June 1871, page 5e; Chronicle, 17 June 1871, page 12f, Observer, 24 February 187...

Hamlin - Hartley Vale   (website State Library of South Australia (SLSA) )

Information on the mine is in the Observer, 3 and 10 May 1873, pages 3g and 13d, Advertiser, 6 March 1894, page 6h, 5 June 1895, page 6f, Register, 15 June 1895, page 6d. The town is described in the Register, 25 June 1885, page 7g, Parliamentary Paper 66...

Taperoo - Tea Tree Gully   (website State Library of South Australia (SLSA) )

Also see Register, 16 January 1908, page 4g, Observer, 13 June 1908, page 32 (photos), Register, 31 August 1910, page 6f. A sports meeting is reported in the Register, 29 April 1881, page 6f, Chronicle, 14 January 1882, page 15a, 3 January 1885, page 13c...

Communications   (website State Library of South Australia (SLSA) )

"Postal History of the State" is in the Register, 3 August 1906, page 5c, "Early Day Postal Matters" on 30 June 1919, page 6e. page 2f; also see South Australia - Miscellany - Clocks and Time and 16 February 1876, page 5f for a letter from Charles Todd, 1...

No Title   (website Western Australian Museum )

1 Back 5 A LBANYS COAL HULKS Introduction By 1950 the port of Albany was largely inactive. In 1851, the first mail service contract was signed, establishing Albany as the colony s only port of call for the overseas mail service between England and Sydne...

Tenders and templates   (website Department of Veterans' Affairs )

Who manages the DVA rehabilitation process? In compliance with Australian Government policy, all publicly available open and closed business opportunities can be found on the AusTender website. For prospective tenderers or other agencies wishing to know ...

Last Mail from Birdsville: The Story of Tom Kruse (2000) clip 1 on ASO - Australia's audio and visual heritage online   (website australianscreen )

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Sydney 2000 Games Collection -   (website Powerhouse Museum )

This presentation box and its contents document Ansettís proposal to be the official airline of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. In 1935 after the Victorian Government passed legislation which ended Reg Ansett's road freight operation, his response was to ...

RMIT - Mail Administration   (website RMIT Gallery )

Search Entire RMIT web site -------------------------- Home pages Contact details Degrees, certificates... The central University mail administration is managed by Contracts and Services. The RMIT mail contract is awarded by public tender....

Last Mail from Birdsville: The Story of Tom Kruse (2000) clip 3 on ASO - Australia's audio and visual heritage online   (website australianscreen )

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AUSTRALIAN FOLKLORE UNIT - Warren Fahey   (website Warren Fahey: Australian Folklore Unit )

The Story of The Black Ball Line. The Black Ball Line was a fleet of packet ships running between Liverpool, England and New York, the first scheduled trans-Atlantic service, founded in 1817. In the Black Ball Line I served my time, Hurrah for the Black ...