Collection: History Support Collection

Philip Cox architect and writer on early Australian architecture discusses thirty-four homesteads

Provides a commentary and data on a number of key social indicators from the 1996 Census with the focus on regional distribution and comparisons. Includes population growth and distribution, cultural diversity, living arrangements, education

Presents key findings from the 1991 Census on a wide range of social issues for which census data is available. Includes cultural diversity, living arrangements, education, work, income, religion and housing.

This program contains information commemorating the 50th anniversary of the end of World War 2.

Gives a graphic and summarised conception of Australasian history and life from the days of the earliest Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, English and French navigators to the 1880's.

Explores the changing nature of Australian cities as human environments, examining how they have evolved and continue to develop in response to economic, social and technological forces.

It examines the changing nature of Australia's major cities from a geographical perspective, and discusses the current issues in urban policy.

Decisions made by past government on housing regulations, planning procedures and public rransport have shped today's urban Australia. Urban sprawl leading to inherent car depenedence and placing increasing demand on government sevices

Three essays explore the nature of Australian landscapes, the ways in which we have used and abused them, our attitudes toward them, and the ways we have perceived them. Seven case studies then explore the history of human-environment interactions.