culture.gov.au
Connecting you with Australian culture online
What's new
Latest news & events (RSS format) New Australian Stories (RSS format)
Monthly newsletter
Featured Stories
F!NK design - an Australia design success story The state of craft in Western Australia Arts and crafts movement in Australia
Top 10 Stories
Australian weather and the seasons European discovery and the colonisation of Australia Convicts and the British colonies in Australia Great Barrier Reef Australian Indigenous cultural heritage Sydney Opera House Australian food and drink The Japanese bombing of Darwin and northern Australia Christmas season celebrations in Australia Modern Australian fashion
Contribute
About Australian Stories
To members of the public contributing comments and ideas on Australian Stories.
Please note that the Culture Portal will close from 1 July 2010. As a result, there will be no further major revisions or updates to Australian Stories beyond those already in progress.
The final deadline for correspondence relating to the Culture Portal Australian Stories is 31 December 2009.
The Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts (DEWHA) will be exploring options to transfer Australian Stories to other relevant websites so that the Australian community will continue to have access.
The public will be advised on any updates to transfer decisions.
Related links:
- Communiqué
- Schedule and closure process
- Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
- Announcements - transfer of functions and content
About Australian Stories
The aim of Australian Stories is to encourage access to evaluated online resources about Australian culture. We are committed to publishing accurate and relevant Australian Stories.
Development of Stories
The development of Australian Stories is an iterative and on-going process. In the next twelve months we propose to continue to develop Stories in identified gap areas as well as popular categories, similar to those categories identified in the Portal's Website Collection Policy.
We publish Australian Stories authored both in-house and on a commissioned basis. Tendering and selection of authors is undertaken with procedures that are compliant with the Commonwealth Procurement Guidelines, 2005.
Style
The style used in Australian Stories is set out in the Culture Portal Style Guide (work in progress).
How to contribute
We rely on our readers to alert us to newly published research and online resources to help keep the Portal's Australian Stories up-to-date.
The Portal welcomes contributions from readers about existing Australian Stories, as well as ideas for new Australian Stories. Please email contributions to the Stories Editor, StoriesEditor at culture dot gov dot au .
If you can see this message, you are probably not seeing this site in the way it was designed. This site uses cascading style sheets (CSS2) to control the way in which elements are displayed on the page.
You will still be able to access everything in this site, but we do recommend you upgrade your browser to a more recent, standards compliant, browser.