Search results: Connect - History - Famous Australians

• 1 Australia's Prime Ministers

  Information about Australia's prime ministers. Includes timeline, historical documents and quotes, portraits, biography, political life and the role of their wives.

  URL: http://primeministers.naa.gov.au/ [metadata]
• 2 Bright Sparcs Home Page

  Bright Sparcs is a biographical, bibliographical and archival database of people involved in the development of science, technology and medicine in Australia. Explore the roles these people played. Find out where they worked, who they worked with, what they worked on and what they achieved.

  URL: http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/ [metadata]
• 3 Australian explorers

  Links to all the main early explorers of Australia, including John Eyre, George Bass, Matthew Flinders, John Forrest, Edmund Kennedy, Ludwig Leichhardt, Thomas Mitchell, John Oxley, Charles Sturt, Gregory Blaxland and Burke and Wills.

  URL: http://www.davidreilly.com/australian_explorers/ [metadata]
• 4 Australian Biography

  Film Australia's Australian Biography Online is a web-based biographical resource profiling some of the most extraordinary Australians of our time. For each person it contains a video, full interview, brief biography, study guide and tv script.

  URL: http://www.australianbiography.gov.au/ [metadata]
• 5 Australian Biographies Gallery

  Australian Biographies Gallery: Edmund Barton, Caroline Chisholm, Alfred Deakin, Lord Howard Florey, Cathy Freeman, Sir Charles Kingsford Smith, Banjo Paterson, Truganini Sir Henry Parkes and others.

  URL: http://www.civicsandcitizenship.edu.au/cce/default.asp?id=9075 [metadata]
• 6 Australian Dictionary of Biography Online

  The Australian Dictionary of Biography Online is a biographical dictionary featuring concise, informative and fascinating descriptions of prominent Australian men and women from all walks of life.

  URL: http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/adbonline.htm [metadata]
• 7 Australian of the Year Awards

  Information on the Australian of the Year Awards, including profiles of the award winners. Under award recipients there is biographical information on Australian of the Year, Senior Australian of the Year, Young Australian of the Year, local hero and past finalists.

  URL: http://www.australianoftheyear.gov.au/pages/page22.asp [metadata]
• 8 Australian Stories A-Z index - Australia's Culture and Recreation Portal

  Articles on Australian culture including information on famous Australians like Ned Kelly, Henry Lawson and Don Bradman.

  URL: http://www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au/stories/alpha.htm [metadata]
• 9 Australian Heroes

  Everyone needs a hero, and this series of five-minute profiles on notable and interesting Australians aims to inspire children with the biographies of people who have taken risks, followed their dream or reached for the stars.

  URL: http://www.abc.net.au/schoolstv/australians/ [metadata]
• 10 200 Australian women

  Biographies of famous Australian women.

  URL: http://www.200australianwomen.com/who.html [metadata]