Letters of a Nation - Australia Post

This is a good site for history students and anyone looking for PRIMARY source materials https://200years.auspost.com.au/html/loan/archive/
Part of Australia Post's Letters of a Nation campaign, they have developed an online archive that will preserve all letter submissions and act as a resource tool for generations to come.

The original letters have been loaded up, and with transcripts, so you can read them. They are organised in time periods eg 1850-1899 or 1920-1930 and by general topics like sport or war.

Louise

Australian Megafauna

Sites on Australian Megafauna (definition Large Animals)

Mega - very large and Fauna - animals, together mean very large animals. Megafauna did not mean just animals with fur. It also included birds, reptiles and amphibians - animals with backbones or vertebrates.
Megafauna is really a comparative term, meaning put beside other or similar animals or compared to what went before or came afterwards, these animals were very big. For instance, in Australia, the echidna that exists today in Australia and New Guinea is smaller than the echidna which existed at times in the past. The same could be said of the current suite of kangaroos, wombats and koalas. Text from The Age Of Megafauna ABC site listed below.

The Age of Megafauna ABC Science site
Museum of Victoria Megafauna article
Museum of WA Nullabor Megafauna
Museum of Australia & extinction theory & human involvement in megafauna extinction
Wikipedia article
Death of Megafauna ABC science

using the Drug Info website for HSC students

This website is a great resource for HSC students. There is information on alcohol, tobacco and illicit drugs; drug and alcohol effects; mental, health and drug & alcohol use; how to talk to others about drug use and where to go for help.
http://www.druginfo.sl.nsw.gov.au/ is a gateway to both factsheets and detailed information. There is a specific section for Students and Teachers which is particularly useful for PDHPE and Society and Culture students.

Louise (from a SLNSW information sheet)

New HOT topics, great for Legal Studies students

Hot Topics
There are two great new recently released Hot Topics: Human rights and Domestic violence.
Human rights provides an overview of human rights law from its origins and sources, through to the development of modern human rights law. It examines how human rights law operates in Australia, with reference to current issues, and includes the full text of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and further information resources. It is a great resource for HSC Legal Studies students studying the Human Rights topic.
Domestic violence defines domestic violence, gives a detailed explanation of the law on apprehended violence orders, and discusses other legal remedies. It is a very useful resource for those Legal Studies students studying the Crime or Family topic.
Louise (from the LIAC E-News November 2008)

ABS statistics - Statistically Speaking

Statistically Speaking is a blog for librarians and other like-minded information professionals featuring the latest information, news, tips and stories relating to the Australian Bureau of Statistics
http://abs4libraries.blogspot.com/
Louise

visual dictionary

Hello all,

There’s a good visual dictionary I hadn’t seen before at http://visual.merriam-webster.com/ (or Google: Visual Dictionary Online). Worth a look.

John

New NSW legislation site

The website for NSW legislation has just changed to http://www.legislation.nsw.gov.au/ The URLs and core functionality are unchanged but there are additional features, in particular the official authorisation of legislation published online, and a more streamlined interface. The new features will be listed in full in a link from the home page.
The NSW legislation website is the official NSW Government site for the online publication of legislation. The website contains the following features:
The In Force database—NSW legislation in force, both Acts and statutory instruments (regulations etc and environmental planning instruments) that is constantly consolidated and kept up-to-date Historical versions of current legislation, repealed legislation and historical versions
The As Made database—An archival collection of NSW legislation as made since 1990
Advanced searching and browsing facilities.
Louise