Collection: History Support Collection

This book contains a history of Port Macquarie from its establishment as a penal settlement in 1821 until 1830 when free settlement began to the 1850s when Port Macquarie became a sea-side village.

Outlines the most recent population trends for NSW, its regions and the Sydney Region Statistical Subdivisions.

Australians have accepted with sone complacency that, in the decades surrounding our early nationhood, we were world leaders in social policy. Weren't we among the first to introduce the old age pension? and wasn't Australia the workingman's paradise?

An Australian woman's travels through New Guinea, the Phillipines, Hong Kong, Japan and China in the mid 1930's autographed by the author

Outlines the current position of the items of historic interest which have been found in the Penrith lakes Scheme area and surrounding lands.

This study illustrates the interaction of forces that determine the outcome of statutory land use planning by examining attempts to develop appropriate statutory controls for land in the vicinity of Porto Ridge, Brooklyn.