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Australian History

Meet our Indigenous and colonial ancestors; go adventuring with early explorers, settlers and bushrangers; discover the importance of gold, sheep and minerals; learn about our Anzac traditions and the involvement in wars; unpack the turning points in Australia's nationhood and who were the movers and shakers from prime ministers to inventors to artists and discover the rich history of the Australian land and its peoples.


F2F ONL

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$43 Limited inc GST

Two Hawkesbury Women and One Hawkesbury Man

<p>Margaret Catchpole was a convict, Sarah Cobcroft loved a convict, and William Cox sailed with the NSW Corps to supervise convicts. Sarah and William sailed with the notorious Second Fleet, Margaret

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F2F ONL

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$72 Limited inc GST

Shipwrecks of Australia

<p>Everyone talks about the Titanic but what about our shipwrecks? Like the song says, our land is girt (all 34,000km of coastline) by sea, the site for over 8000 shipwrecks. These disasters tell the

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F2F ONL

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$140 Limited inc GST / $126

Family History - Nuts and Bolts

<p>This course provides a basic introduction to the main primary and secondary sources of information required to build family histories, no matter their country of origin. Whilst only

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F2F ONL

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$72 Limited inc GST

The World's Greatest Social Experiment - the First Fleet

<p>Proposition for the world’s greatest social experiment: take hundreds of people who are incorrigibly bad, guarded by others with just as little choice, rip them away from everything they ever knew,

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$72 Limited inc GST

The World's Greatest Social Experiment - the First Fleet

<p>Proposition for the world’s greatest social experiment: take hundreds of people who are incorrigibly bad, guarded by others with just as little choice, rip them away from everything they ever knew,

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F2F ONL

Available Classes

$43 Limited inc GST

From Ross Smith to Kingsford-Smith - Australian Pioneer Pilots

<p>Examine the history making flights of Charles Kingsford-Smith and other Australian pilots between 1919 and 1940. We look at the England to Australia air race (1919), Kingsford-Smith and Charles Ulm

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F2F ONL

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$39 Limited inc GST / $35

Stepping Ashore - Researching Passenger Arrivals in the Australian Colonies

<p><strong>In Association with the Royal Australian Historical Society.</strong></p>

<p><strong>Speaker:</strong> Christine Yeats</p>

<p>Explore the methods and resources that can be used to uncover

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F2F ONL

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$72 Limited inc GST

Up, Up and Away! The History of Aviation in Australia

<p>From the beginning of time humans have dreamt of the magic of flight – a dream that was more urgent in Australia in our attempts to defeat the tyranny of distance. From the 19th century balloonists

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$72 Limited inc GST

Up, Up and Away! The History of Aviation in Australia

<p>From the beginning of time humans have dreamt of the magic of flight – a dream that was more urgent in Australia in our attempts to defeat the tyranny of distance. From the 19th century balloonists

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F2F ONL

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