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Natural disasters in Australia - Australia's Culture Portal

Australia experiences a range of 'natural disasters' including bushfires, floods, severe storms, earthquakes and landslides. Fire can often follow drought, and drought can be followed by flood. I love a sunburnt country, a land of sweeping plains, Of ra...

Modern Australian residential architecture - Australia's Culture Portal

Robin Boyd, Roy Grounds and Harry Seidler have contributed significantly to modern Australian architecture by applying modernist-style principles to Australian homes. Another group of architects, such as Glenn Murcutt, Tina Engelen and Ian Moore, and Trop...

The Australian Bush - Australia's Culture Portal

The bush has an iconic status in Australian life and features strongly in any debate about national identity, especially as expressed in Australian literature, painting, popular music, films and foods. The bush was revered as a source of national ideals b...

Federation - Australia's Culture Portal

The Federation Kiosk, Centennial Park, Sydney at the Proclamation of Federation, 1 January 1901. Image courtesy of the National Archives of Australia. The movement had begun to gather real momentum after Henry Parkes wrote to the other premiers in 1889 an...

Australian food and drink - Australia's Culture Portal

Before white settlement, Aboriginal people survived off the native plants and animals of the Australian environment for thousands of years. Bush foods such as berries, roots and nectars were a vital part of the aboriginal diet in many areas. In the late...

Australian surrealism - Australia's Culture Portal

Employing dream imagery, poetry and precarious juxtapositions, Australian artists in the 1930s and early 1940s responded to European surrealists and were part of an international surrealist movement - 'in all its clarity'. Many of Australia's best known a...

Australian weather and the seasons - Australia's Culture Portal

Even though the four 'official' calendar seasons have the same names as the northern hemisphere seasons, the weather during these seasons is very different to northern hemisphere weather patterns. Indigenous Australians have long had their own seasonal c...

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ABC Local: Australia Wide - Emergency Planning   (website Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) )

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Natural disasters in Australia - Australia's Culture Portal   (website Culture Portal )

Australia experiences a range of 'natural disasters' including bushfires, floods, severe storms, earthquakes and landslides. Fire can often follow drought, and drought can be followed by flood. Floods in Australia range from localised flash flooding as ...

Natural Disasters   (website Questacon - The National Science and Technology Centre )

Compared with other countries around the world Australia is considered geologically stable with a very low record of earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes and meteorite strikes. These plates &lsquo;float&rsquo; on the mantle layer of semi melted rock called m...

Natural disasters have quadrupled in two decades | COSMOS magazine   (website Cosmos Magazine )

> Tempestuous times: Floods and wind storms have increased from 60 events in 1980 to 240 last year, with flooding itself up six-fold, says the report. Floods and wind-storms have increased from 60 events in 1980 to 240 last year, with flooding itself up s...

Natural disasters, 1999 past exhibitions, Monash University Museum of Art   (website Monash University Gallery )

A thematic exhibition which looked at the representation of extreme events, both in the natural world and the human arena, in paintings, drawings and installations. Monash University Museum of Art | MUMA> Ground Floor, Building 55, Clayton Campus, Monash...

Tasmania Online: Home > Categories > Law and public safety > Emergency services > Natural disasters   (website Tasmania Online )

Tasmania Online is a State Library of Tasmania listing of all Tasmanian web sites. The products, services or views found on web sites listed on Tasmania Online are not necessarily endorsed or sanctioned by the Tasmanian Government. The page has been prod...

Tasmania Online: Home > Categories > Law and public safety > Emergency services > Natural disasters   (website Tasmania Online )

Tasmania Online is a State Library of Tasmania listing of all Tasmanian web sites. The products, services or views found on web sites listed on Tasmania Online are not necessarily endorsed or sanctioned by the Tasmanian Government. The page has been prod...

Tasmania Online: Home > Law and public safety > Emergency services > Natural disasters   (website Tasmania Online )

Tasmania Online is a State Library of Tasmania listing of all Tasmanian web sites. The products, services or views found on web sites listed on Tasmania Online are not necessarily endorsed or sanctioned by the Tasmanian Government. The page has been prod...

Tasmania Online: Home > Categories > Law and public safety > Emergency services > Natural disasters   (website Tasmania Online )

Tasmania Online is a State Library of Tasmania listing of all Tasmanian web sites. The products, services or views found on web sites listed on Tasmania Online are not necessarily endorsed or sanctioned by the Tasmanian Government. The page has been prod...

ABC Local: Australia Wide - Weather   (website Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) )

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Floods on Mid North Coast declared natural disaster   (website The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) )

A natural disaster has been declared for parts of the NSW Mid North Coast following recent flooding in the area, state Emergency Services Minister Steve Whan says. The declaration covers the Nambucca and Bellingen shires, which have suffered damage to inf...

Natural disaster declared   (website The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) )

that resulted in minor to moderate main-river flooding and localised flash flooding," Mr Whan said in a statement. The State Emergency Service (SES) says the flood waters will subside within the next 24 hours, restoring access to the isolated communities....

Regional Entry Point - Regional Entry Point - Information - Natural Disaster Mitigation Program   (website Regional and Rural Australia Government Portal )

Natural disasters such as floods, bushfires and tropical cyclones occur regularly across the Australian continent. They cause more than $1 billion damage each year to homes, businesses and the nation's infrastructure, along with serious disruption to com...