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Sydney Harbour Bridge - Australia's Culture Portal

Sydney Harbour Bridge at sunset. The Sydney Harbour Bridge is one of Australia's most well known and photographed landmarks. It is the world's largest (but not the longest) steel arch bridge with the top of the bridge standing 134 metres above the harbo...

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...

Australia at a glance - Australia's Culture Portal

Australia is a unique and diverse country in every way - in culture, population, climate, geography, and history. For articles on specific topics about Australian history and culture visit our Australian Stories Index. Australia's population is concentrat...

Grace Cossington Smith - Australia's Culture Portal

Grace Cossington Smith (1892-1984) was a leading Sydney painter in the Australian modernist movement, and her painting The Sock Knitter (1915) is generally regarded as Australia's first modernist work. Grace Cossington Smith, The Bridge in-Curve, c.1930, ...

Frank Hurley - Australia's Culture Portal

James Francis (Frank) Hurley (1885-1962) is regarded as an extraordinary Australian photographer, adventurer, filmmaker and writer. Image courtesy National Library of Australia: nla.pic-an23478581. In 1911, Australian explorer Douglas Mawson hired Hurley...

The Heidelberg School: Sydney, its beaches, the harbour and the Hawkesbury - Australia's Culture Portal

These painters, amongst them Tom Roberts, Arthur Streeton, Frederick McCubbin and Charles Conder, were known by this name because of the artists' camps they shared in areas around Melbourne, including Heidelberg. Image courtesy of the National Gallery of ...

Reconciliation - Australia's Culture Portal

Reconciliation is about unity and respect between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders and non-Indigenous Australians. It is about respect for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander heritage and valuing justice and equity for all Australians. National R...

Sorry Day and the Stolen Generation - Australia's Culture Portal

The first National Sorry Day was held on 26 May 1998 - one year after the tabling of the report Bringing them Home, May 1997. Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission into the removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their fami...

Margaret Preston - Australia's Culture Portal

Margaret Preston was an Australian painter and printmaker who was a leading example of early Australian modernism. Her essays and articles were published in Australian journals including Art in Australia , Undergrowth, Jindyworobak Review and Australia N...

Sydney Opera House - Australia's Culture Portal

Sydney Opera House from the harbour. The skyline of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, the blue water of the harbour and the Sydney Opera House, viewed from a ferry or from the air, is dramatic and unforgettable. The Sydney Opera House was included in the Nation...

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Self Guided Walking Tours   (more info)

Self Guided Walking Tours provide digital audio commentaries for walks around the Sydney region, including the Sydney Harbour Bridge, Bondi to Bronte and the Rocks. Each commentary is accompanied by a map providing directions and further information.

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Powerhouse Museum Collection   (website Powerhouse Museum )

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irn=28692&search=middle+harbour&site_id=3 > 85/1284-2040 Glass negative, half plate, 'Middle Harbour', Kerry and Co., c. 1884-1917 http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/? irn=28718&search=middle+harbour&site_id=3 > 85/1284-2064 Glass negativ...

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96/5/1 Reports (4), and photographs (3), construction of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, New South Wales Department of Public Works, Sydney, 1921-1932. - Powerhouse Museum Collection   (website Powerhouse Museum )

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