This activity asks you to list major events in Australia's evolution into four groups from the past 65 million years using as the source of information Episode 4 of Australia: The Time Traveller's Guide.
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Of all continents on Earth, none preserve the story of the formation of our planet and the evolution of life quite like Australia. Nowhere else can you simply jump in a car and travel back through the entire history of the world. This series takes you on a rollicking adventure from the birth of t...
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This activity asks you to create a timeline of events using four events described in episode 1 of Australia: A Time Traveller's Guide as the source of information.
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In this, the second program in the four part series telling the story of our evolving Earth through a geologist visiting important geological sites of Australia, we experience great waves of biological invasion. The oceans, replete from the explosion of life that began in the Cambrian, are now sp...
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This activity asks you to create a timeline of events using as the source of information events described in Episode 2 of Australia: The Time Traveller's Guide.
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In this, the third program in the four part series telling the story of our evolving earth through a geologist visiting important geological sites of Australia, after navigating the perils at the end of the Permian, our journey spends tonight in the Mesozoic just in time for the Age of Dinosaurs,...
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This activity asks you to place on the three periods of the time of the Mesozoic Era major events in Australia's distant past using as the source of information from Episode 3 of Australia: The Time Traveller's Guide.
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Inga Clendinnen is a renowned writer and historian whose work on Aztec and Mayan culture and the Holocaust has been praised around the world.
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Nurse, midwife, academic, educator...Joan Winch has overcome numerous professional and personal hurdles to make an extraordinary contribution to Aboriginal health. This program will have interest and relevance for teachers and students at middle to senior secondary and tertiary levels. Curriculum...
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Writer, broadcaster and filmmaker Anne Deveson has been on the leading edge of social change throughout her varied career. Through her ground-breaking television and radio documentaries, books and articles, and her membership of numerous boards and organisations, she has illuminated social issues...
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This program will have interest and relevance for teachers and students at middle to senior secondary and tertiary levels. It is particularly suitable and valuable for courses in Art, English, History, Media Studies, Psychology, Personal Development and Religious Studies.
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This program will have interest and relevance for teachers and students at middle to senior secondary and tertiary levels. Curriculum links include Art, Curatorial Studies, English, SOSE/HSIE, Education, Women's Studies and Personal Development.
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Born in Tasmania in 1928, Bill Mollison has been vitally concerned about the environment for over 30 years, as a scientist, naturalist, teacher and campaigner. He is the founder of permaculture, an innovative and extraordinarily influential strategy for environmental design. This program will ha...
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A profile of one of Australia's best loved actors. His career began in radio but soon moved to the movies, scoring a role in Hollywood by age 30. 16 years in London television made him one of Britain's most famous faces. This program will have interest and relevance for teachers and students a...
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Charles Birch has never shied away from tackling the big questions. As one of the world's leading geneticists, he has had a hand in discoveries that have revolutionised our thinking. At the same time, he has applied his ever-questing intellect to one of the oldest questions of all - the search fo...
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The first Aboriginal Australian to graduate from university, Charles Perkins was also one of the most controversial of Indigenous leaders. As a pioneering Aboriginal spokesman and bureaucrat, his determined and occasionally combative stance and his energetic entrepreneurial and reformist activiti...
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Born in 1923, women's activist Dame Beryl Beaurepaire is a pioneering Australian feminist. After serving in the Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force during World War II, she married Ian Beaurepaire of the Olympic Tyre dynasty and became Melbourne's Lady Mayoress. At a time when few women were i...
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Dame Roma Mitchell, former Governor of South Australia, was the first Australian woman to be admitted as a Queen's Council and the first woman judge in a State Supreme Court. This program will have interest and relevance for teachers and students at secondary and tertiary levels. Curriculum link...
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Born in 1942, writer David Williamson studied mechanical engineering, then lectured in thermodynamics and studied social psychology before discarding academic life. After his early successes in Melbourne, he moved to Sydney and rose to prominence in the 1970s, becoming Australia's most successful...
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Born in 1928, jazz and swing musician Don Burrows is a household name in Australia. A composer and arranger, he's one of the world's finest interpreters of the jazz tradition and highly respected internationally, where he's toured to great acclaim since 1960. This program will have interest and ...
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Donald Horne was well known as an editor, author and academic. He wrote 24 books including an autobiographical trilogy, three novels and social criticism including The Lucky Country and God is an Englishman. This program will have interest and relevance for teachers and students at middle to sen...
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Professor Donald Metcalf is internationally renowned for his pioneering medical research on the control of blood cell formation. This fundamental research has been used in the treatment of millions of cancer patients around the world. This program will have interest and relevance for teachers and...
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In religious circles the ordination of women remains a burning issue. On the world stage women have been excluded from leadership roles in the Christian church. Eva Burrows is an outstanding exception. From humble beginnings, this unusually capable and wise human being went on to become world lea...
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Jack Hazlitt could be described as a 'survivor's survivor'. When war broke out in 1914, Jack lied about his age and enlisted in the Australian Infantry Forces. He was looking forward to a life of adventure and overseas travel. In July 1915 Jack arrived at Gallipoli where he became a 'runner', ju...
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