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Capital Cities Across Australia: Darwin by William Day
$29.99 AUD
Category: Junior Nonfiction
As the most northerly capital city on the Australian continent, Darwin is unique in many ways. It has a tropical climate, it is the capital of the largest Australian territory, and its people manage to share the coast and waterways with a crocodile population that would terrify southerners. Darwin has s ...Show more
Capital Cities Across Australia: Hobart by DAY WILLIAM
$29.99 AUD
Category: Junior Nonfiction
Founded just a few years after Sydney, Hobart is renowned for its historic Georgian buildings and beautiful scenery. The harsh conditions for convicts contrasted grimly with the lifestyle of the free settlers. Find out how both groups actually lived, with extracts from one of Australia's oldest newspape ...Show more
Capital Cities Across Australia: Melbourne by William Day
$29.99 AUD
Category: Junior Nonfiction
Despite its shaky start, the British settlement at Port Phillip developed into a colonial city that rivalled Sydney for its wealth and cultural influence. The Gold Rush provided the funds to build magnificent buildings and provide all the infrastructure needed to turn a colonial outpost into a great cit ...Show more
Capital Cities Across Australia Pack of 8 Paperbacks by William Day
$119.99 AUD
Category: Geography
Each of the eight capital cities are unique and this series details their indigenous colonial and recent history. Today each of the capitals has its own character and attractions and their development plans will determine the shape of Australia's future. Titles include statistics images diagrams timelin ...Show more
Capital Cities Across Australia: Perth by William Day
$29.99 AUD
Category: Junior Nonfiction
Perth is the capital city of the largest Australian state. Isolated on the west coast of the continent for many years, Perth was separated by enormous deserts from all the other colonies until a road was built across the Nullarbor Plain. From the time the British settled there in 1829, Perth's early gro ...Show more
Migration to Australia : Migration From Asia by William Day
$29.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Migration to Australia | Reading Level: Grade 05-08
Australia remained an isolated outpost of British civilisation until the dismantling of the White Australia Policy in the 1970s. Since then, migrants from across Asia have made Australia their home, contributing to the nation's economic development, and helping to make Australian society one of the most ...Show more
Migration to Australia : Migration From Europe by William Day
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Category: History | Series: Migration to Australia | Reading Level: Grade 05-08
Australia was colonised by Britain from 1788 and, since then, people from Britain and Europe have been encouraged to make Australia their home. Sometimes they came as hopeful new settlers, and sometimes as desperate people seeking any refuge from war and destruction in their homeland. Find out about the ...Show more
Migration to Australia : Migration From The Middle East and Africa by William Day
$29.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Migration to Australia | Reading Level: Grade 05-08
Migrants from the Middle East have been making a contribution to Australia's prosperity since the 1800s, when Afghan cameleers provided delivery and transport services to outback areas. Many small settlements would not have been able to survive without the supplies brought to them by the Afghans and the ...Show more
Migration to Australia : Refugees by William Day
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Category: History | Series: Migration to Australia | Reading Level: Grade 05-08
Australia has welcomed refugees and helped them to settle since colonial times. As Australia confirmed its place in world affairs after the Second World War, it accepted thousands of people who were escaping the ruined cities and social upheaval caused by the war. After the fall of Saigon, thousands of ...Show more
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