The latest, and possibly the most impressive, resource online is Picture Australia from the Australian National Library. This is a massive collection of photos covering every possible subject. Well worth a visit!

For almost anything about Australia, see Australia in Brief a series of short essays with "facts and figures" on many subjects from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Also check out their Fact Sheet Library. The DFAT directory provides leads to many useful government sites.

Things

• The Australian Constitution is online in various places.

• Words for the National Anthem, Advance Australia Fair.

• For information about Australian flags past and present see Australian Flags from Charles Sturt University. For past, present and future flags see Ausflag.

• Indian Ocean Rim Region Prototype Virtual Library Project. Edith Cowan University.

• And, really, a web site on the virtues (no comment!) of Vegemite.

• AgNet Australian Agriculture.

Information

Various sites give brief summarys of Australia:

• CIA factbook for 2000

• Altapedia

• 1994 Commonwealth Games site
• One of the better new sites with lots of general information about Australia is the Walkabout tourist site from the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper.

• Statistics from the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
  

• Australian Frequently Asked Questions.

• Australia online is a commercial company starting a major site dealing with Australian related information.

• Information about getting a Visa to visit Australia.
  

• One way to find out what is going on in Australia is to visit the Ticketek site which list all the major events. You may even order tickets!
  

• Current time in Australia, and especially in Sydney.

• Check out the Australian weather forcast.

Groups

Bi-national:

• American Australian Association, based in New York City.

• The Australian and New Zealand scientists Connection Information Network is attempting to link expats working around the world.

• Australians Abroad, mostly in the USA.

• Australian New Zealand Safe Boating Education Group
• Royal Flying Doctor Service.

• Australian Society of CPAs

• Australian Cotton Foundation

• The Sunraysia Vietnam Veterans group in Mildura provides much useful information about Australian involvement in the Vietnam conflict.

• Centre for Independent Studies

• Outward Bound Australia.

• An extensive listing of nonprofit organizations in Australia. Arranged by subject area.

• Amnesty International Australia

• Greenpeace Australia

• Australian Republican Movement

• Australian Defence Association

• Community Aid Abroad, Oxfam Australia

• YHA, the Australian Youth Hostel Association.

• Australian Youth Foundation, Inc.

• Commonwealth Journalists Association

Sports

• The best Cricket site now available is CricInfo which operates in partnership with "The Hindu" Indian newspaper (and the server is in Oregon, USA!). They have a massive database of cricket archives and promise to provide live coverage of major matches with special emphasis on India. Well worth a visit. (also see the Bradman Pages)

• Australia Sport, from the National Sport Information Centre at the Australian Sports commission. Includes links to all sports played in Australia.

• Official Australian Rugby League site. (being revised)

• Australian Soccer Results

• Sydney 2000, Sydney organising committee for the olympic games. See also the Australian Sports Commission Olympic Games page with links to other Olympic related sites.
  

• Racing:
  Totalisator Agency Board sites are available for: NSW TAB; Victoria TAB; ACTTAB; WA TAB.
  Rosehill and Canterbury in Sydney.
  Australian Network Racing.
  Victorian Racing Industry.
  And even a site about Totalisator History, invented in Australia, of course!
  Racing info from AAP (requires subscription fee)

• Beer and Wine
  The Australian Beers site is informative and well worth a visit. (However, if your computer is not really fast it may take a while to load!)
  Aussie Beer site includes all you need to know about all Australian beers!
  Australian Wines Online

Places

• Cairns, Qld.

• The State of Victoria is developing Land Channel, a site which will provide detailed online maps of all parts of the state.

• Australian National Parks.

• Port Arthur Historic Site

• Sydney SideWalk (Microsoft), and SydneyCity.Net (Fairfax) are the major web sites to visit for info about Sydney. Also there is Images of Sydney with some pictures and the Sydney visitors guide.

• VICNET, the Victoria state network, a joint project of RMIT Libraries and the State Library of Victoria.

• Far North Queensland, and Port Douglas.

• What's On in Perth and Freemantle

• Tasmania Online is a fast developing site.

General

• Australian Family Tree Connections Magazine, nice set of links related to genealogy, especially for Australia and New Zealand.

• Australian Travel Directory

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