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Australian architecture - Australia's Culture Portal

Internationally recognised Australian icons include buildings like the Sydney Opera House (architect Jørn Utzon) and the new Parliament House in Canberra (architect Romaldo Giurgola). Distinctive Australian architecture is also recognisable in the rural ...

Ben Hall and the outlawed bushrangers - Australia's Culture Portal

Unknown artist, Ben Hall, the bushranger, c. The exploits, capture and death of 'Brave' Ben Hall in the 1860s are part of Australian folklore, as well as marking a historical shift in the treatment of bushrangers. Hall's exploits and the apparent ineffi...

Women in colonial times - Australia's Culture Portal

In addition to the female colonists there were female Indigenous Australians - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women whose lives were changed dramatically when the English colonists arrived in large numbers. The lives of women like Truganini, Walye...

Convicts and the British colonies in Australia - Australia's Culture Portal

Image courtesy of the National Library of Australia:nla.pic-an6065451. From 1788 to 1823, the Colony of New South Wales was officially a penal colony comprised mainly of convicts, marines and the wives of the marines. The majority of women convicts, and m...

Convict women in Port Jackson - Australia's Culture Portal

In 1788 the First Fleet landed at Camp Cove in Port Jackson with the 'cargo' of convicts which helped establish the penal colony of New South Wales. One in five of the convicts to arrive in the penal colony (1788-1823) was female and they made up the lar...

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Cascades Female Factory - Photos - National Heritage - Tasmania   (website(s) Our House: Histories of Australian homes    Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts    Australia's heritage )

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Cascades Female Factory - National Heritage - Tasmania - more information   (website(s) Our House: Histories of Australian homes    Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts    Australia's heritage )

Over half the convict women sent to Australia were sent to Tasmania and the majority spent some time at the Cascades Female Factory as it was the main place for their reception and imprisonment. The majority of these spent some time at Cascades Female Fac...

Cascades Female Factory - National Heritage - Tasmania   (website(s) Our House: Histories of Australian homes    Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts    Australia's heritage )

The Cascades Female Factory is important as the only remaining female factory with visual fabric and ruins remaining. The Cascades Female Factory was included in the National Heritage List on 1 August 2007. The Cascades Female Factory Yard 4 North was in...

Cascades Female Factory - National Heritage Assessments   (website(s) Our House: Histories of Australian homes    Australian Heritage Council    Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts    Australia's heritage )

The Australian Heritage Council found Cascades Female Factory place nationally significant for its association with the lives of convict women, its demonstration of the changing philosophies of punishment and reform relating to women, and as a place of gr...

CAN - Collections Australia Network - Save the Parramatta Female Factory Precinct   (website Collections Australia Network (CAN) )

It is a little known fact that the Parramatta Female Factory Precinct is the location of Australia’s first purpose built convict establishment for women and children. Despite this rich and important history, the Precinct has not been recognised as a...

CAN - Collections Australia Network - Cascades Female Factory Historic Site   (website Collections Australia Network (CAN) )

A not for profit organisation at the Cascades Female Factory, built in 1828 for female convicts transported to Australia. The site is viewed as the most significant one in Australia telling the story of the forced migration of these women and has been no...

CAN - Collections Australia Network - Parramatta Female Factory Precinct   (website Collections Australia Network (CAN) )

Parramatta Female Factory Precinct Inc is a non-profit organisation established in 2006 to raise awareness about the history and heritage of the Precinct and its historical institutions. Covering an area of approximately 35 hectares the Precinct is locat...

Conference Paper - Fingersmiths, Female Factories and the Famous - Encyclopedia of Australian Science   (website Bright Sparcs )

Society of the History of Medicine, Brisbane, 1996, pp. The Encyclopedia of Australian Science brings together Bright Sparcs and Australian Science at Work. See the background page for more information. ...

Parramatta City Council’s Women Transported - Life in Australia's Convict Female Factories Cultural Award 2010 Project Photo “Parramtta Female Factory courtesy of Ralph Hawkins”   (website Local Government Cultural Awards )

Stroke patients regain the power of speech through singing (Guardian)... I think Ben's hit the nail here: we've got to advance our definition of "the arts"... If you'd like to receive updates about new projects and postings to our blog, just enter your em...

Parramatta City Council’s Women Transported - Life in Australia's Convict Female Factories Cultural Award 2010 Project Photo “Women transported launch attended by 400 people”   (website Local Government Cultural Awards )

Stroke patients regain the power of speech through singing (Guardian)... I think Ben's hit the nail here: we've got to advance our definition of "the arts"... If you'd like to receive updates about new projects and postings to our blog, just enter your em...

Parramatta City Council’s Women Transported - Life in Australia's Convict Female Factories Cultural Award 2010 Project Photo “Emma Mayner and her children ”   (website Local Government Cultural Awards )

Stroke patients regain the power of speech through singing (Guardian)... I think Ben's hit the nail here: we've got to advance our definition of "the arts"... If you'd like to receive updates about new projects and postings to our blog, just enter your em...

Parramatta City Council’s Women Transported - Life in Australia's Convict Female Factories Cultural Award 2010 Project Photo “Elizabeth Fry reading the bible to convict women at Newgate Prison, courtesy of the National Library of Australia&rdq   (website Local Government Cultural Awards )

Stroke patients regain the power of speech through singing (Guardian)... I think Ben's hit the nail here: we've got to advance our definition of "the arts"... If you'd like to receive updates about new projects and postings to our blog, just enter your em...

Parramatta City Council’s Women Transported - Life in Australia's Convict Female Factories Cultural Award 2010 Project   (website Local Government Cultural Awards )

The project provided insight into the lives of over 9,000 women from factories spanning most of the convict transportation period. This exhibition explores life in Australia's Convict Female Factories through people and places from a contemporary perspec...

Tasmania in Photographs: Female Factory at Cascades   (website Tasmania in Photographs )

>>>A John Watt Beattie reprint of an earlier photographer's view of the Female Factory, the prison for women transportees and other offenders at Cascades, Hobart, 1868. >>Courtesy of the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery>Ref: Q5696 HCC1860/46>ITEM NAME: ph...

Tasmania in Photographs: J.S. Prout at the Female Factory 1844   (website Tasmania in Photographs )

>>>Many of John Skinner Prout's watercolours and lithographs are held at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery. This lithograph is dated 1844 of the Female Factory - the women's prison - at Cascades:>>Lithograph: TMAG Ref: AG1928>ITEM NAME: Print lithogra...