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• TLF-IDM009284

This is a historical map of Melbourne town, published c1850, showing a street plan and land allotments north of the Yarra River. Students use the spatial visualisation tool, SpatialGenie, to explore this map as spatial data. They can investigate this map alone or add other map layers. Students use shape tools to measure ...

• TLF-IDM009296

This is an image of the Earth at night, showing the location of permanent lights on the Earth's surface. Students use the spatial visualisation tool, SpatialGenie, to explore the image as spatial data. They can investigate this image alone or add other map layers. Students use shape tools to measure area and distance, and ...

• TLF-IDR11976

This is a collection of 24 digital curriculum resources focusing on the foundation of South Australia and its development in the colonial era. It is organised into seven categories - early years of the colony; migrating to the colony; settling in South Australia; developing the colony; exploring the colony; changing boundaries; ...

• TLF-IDM008124

This video clip looks at the story of the struggle to cross a vast continent and build the telegraph line that would bring Australia to the world and the world to Australia. 'A telegraph line across the continent' is an excerpt from the film 'A Wire Through the Heart' (55 min), the third episode of the three-part series ...

• TLF-IDM017396

Heather Smith is a hemodialysis nurse who travels to remote Australian communities delivering important health services to Australians who don't live in or near major centres. Follow Heather on a typical day in her outback office in the Central Australian location of Ntaria (Hermannsburg) in the Northern Territory.

• TLF-IDR11334

This collection of ten digital curriculum resources about free selectors in Australia is organised into two categories - free selectors on their selections and free selectors portrayed in film. Photographs and a painting show selector families working to clear their selections and posing in front of the houses they have ...

• TLF-IDR5355

This is a hand-coloured map of Australia, printed between about 1859 and 1861, showing boundaries for what were then the colonies of Western Australia, South Australia, New South Wales and Victoria. There is an area labelled 'North Australia', which includes the present-day Northern Territory and Queensland within the same ...

• TLF-IDR5690

This is a clip taken from the beginning of an item about an abandoned uranium-mining town in South Australia that featured in the weekly episode of the black-and-white newsreel Cinesound Review released to cinemas on 21 June 1962. The clip opens with the title screen, 'Radium Hill. / AUSTRALIA'S FIRST ATOM AGE GHOST TOWN ...

• TLF-IDR5693

This is a clip taken from near the end of an item about an abandoned uranium mining town that featured in the weekly episode of the black-and-white newsreel Cinesound Review released to cinemas on 21 June 1962. The clip opens with a scene of closed houses and empty streets as the commentator declares that this was a modern ...

• TLF-IDR6569

This is a highly significant black-and-white map of Australia depicting areas explored by Matthew Flinders between 1798 and 1803. The map is entitled 'GENERAL CHART OF TERRA AUSTRALIS OR AUSTRALIA'. The different ships and routes that Flinders took while charting the coastline of the continent are included, as well as details ...