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introduction my approach for gathering these sites... (more)

general Good all-around sites for travelers... (more)

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.au Web sites about Australia...

General Ozzie Stuff

• Ask Jeeves your favorite answer butlet is an Ozzie too!
• Australia.com one of the big tourist and travel oriented web sites, the official site of the Australina Travel Commission.
• Guides to Australia a nice country-wide overview from Charles Sturt University
• Lonely Planet features well organized facts and tidbit submitted by real travellers
• Australia Travel information from rec.travel library includes valuable links are personal travelougues
• Yahoo! Australia
• Australia and New Zealand Web Enquiry Research System is a portal type site with lots of resources
• Hutchinson Family Encyclopedia short history and facts on Australia
• Immigration rules from the Australian embassy
• OzSearch does what it says- a search engine for Australia info
• Picture Australia is an index of Australian images organized by the National Library in Canberra
• Aboriginal Australia connects you to over "fifty Aboriginal enterprises offering a range of authentic Aboriginal products, services and information." Find Art, clothing, travel, art centers, and more.
• Roger Clark's first, and the most authoritative, source of information on the web about the Waltzing Matilda"the real Australian national anthem"

Getting Around

• Whereis Online offers free maps and driving directions, more or less the Ozzie version of Mapquest.
• RailPage Australia
• CountryLink rail service in New South Wales
• Great Southern Railway
• Greyhound Australia bus/coach service
• Qantas airline- good service with their e-Tickets
• Vline bus and train transport information in Victoria

Places to Stay

• Youth Hostel Association in Australia

Specific Locations

• CitySearch Australia helps you find information on the big cities and other popular areas
• Adelaide
• Albury
• Braidwood
• Brisbane
• Melbourne office site
• Melbourne Virtual Tour
• Sydney
• Tourism Victoria includes information on Melbourne

Institutions I visited

• Canberra Institute of Technology (CIT)
• TAFE Institutes New South Wales
  • Riverina Institutes of TAFE
• TAFE South Austalia Institutes
  • Centre For Applied Learning Systems (CALS)
  • TAFE Students On-line
  • AIT - Adelaide Institute of TAFE
  • Onkaparinga Institute of TAFE
    • Fertile Minds
    • Educational Technology Centre
  • Torrens Valley Institute of TAFE
• National Projects
  • Australia National Training Authority (ANTA)
  • Toolbox Central
  • Flexible Learning Leaders
  • NET*working 2000
  • LearnScope
  • CSIRO government sponsored Science and Industry research
• Learning Network Queensland
• Open Learning 2000 Conference
• Charles Sturt University
• Queensland University of Technology (QUT)
  • Communications Design program

Stuff to See and Do

• AMP Tower (Sydney)
• Australia Technology Park (Sydney)
• Australian War Memorial (Canberra)
• Australian National Library (Canberra)
• Burleigh Heads web cam (Gold Coast)
• Byron Bay (Gold Coast)
• Coolangatta (Gold Coast)
• Federation Square (Mlebourne)
• Healesville Sanctuary near Melbourne
• International Car Show (Sydney)
• Maritime Museum (Sydney)
• Melbourne Cup, the nation stops the second Tuesday in November for a horse race. Sounds more fun than the US elections.
• Melbourne International Comedy Festival a full month of laughs!
• Melbourne Moomba Festival
• Migration Museum of South Australia (Adelaide)
• National Art Gallery (Canberra)
• Old Parliament House (Canberra)
• Parliament House (Canberra)
• ParkWeb provides information on nature parks in Victoria
• Philip Island Penguin Parade south of Melborune, yes it is touristy but the little critters are just too cute
• South Australian Museum (Adelaide)
• Southbank (Brisbane)
• Sydney Harbour Bridge
• Sydney Opera House
• Tandanya Aboriginal Art Center (Adelaide)

Get Wired

• BigPond Internet has nationwide 56k dial-up numbers provided from the telecom giant, Telstra- wasthe serivce I used. You get the first month of 50 hours use free with reasonable plans for 40 hours use.
• Ozemail another nationa wide provider, a long time internet player here.

News

• Sydney Morning Herald
• The Age