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ABC Rural Online - Rural Links A comprehensive list of links to information about agricultural and primary industries.
Department of Agriculture - Australian Government Includes information about primary and secondary industries, climate change, farming, pests, diseases and weeds, and biosecurity.
Screen Australia This Australian Government site provides information to support current filmmakers and their films, including information about how to produce, budget, pitch and market their projects.
Artcyclopaedia A search engine of international artists and art movements. It allows browsing by artist, medium, subject, nationality, and gender.
Trove Search Trove for printed music, sheet music, musical sound recordings, interviews with significant people, audiobooks, movies and other videos.
Australian Poetry Library This site provides access to a wide range of poetic texts as well as the critical and contextual material relating to them, including interviews, photographs and audio/visual recordings.
Spark Notes – Literature Study Guide An online database of readers' study guides to literature, including Shakespeare and poetry. Suitable for high school and tertiary students.
CIA World Factbook The World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities.
Europa World Plus Economic, political, historical, and geographic profiles of 250+ countries and global regions. Contact information for political, business, media, and cultural agencies and officials, including 1,900 international organisations. Search or browse by country, region, organisation, or people. Login using a Queensland State Library membership. How to join
Geoscience Australia An Australian Government website that offers information on geoscience topics, including mapping, energy, natural resources, and hazards.
The World’s Biomes Contains information about the world's six major types of biomes, as well as conservation and preservation information. Presented by the University of California's Museum of Palaeontology.
About the Queensland Government Official site of the Queensland government, providing information about the state's system, government departments, priorities and achievements. Media statements, budget information and other Queensland Government publications can be accessed through this site.
Australian Electoral Commission Official site of the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC), providing information about democracy, electorates and voting. Includes maps and the teaching guide: Democracy Rules - an electoral education resource.
Australian Government & Parliament Find information on Parliament and the government ministry, budget and electoral information, and general government information.
Australia’s Prime Ministers This site contains profiles of Australia's 28 prime ministers, sample documents in the National Archives and pathways to records in collections in Australia and overseas.
Queensland Parliament The official website of the Queensland Parliament. It includes educational information in the form of fact sheets and activities, as well as live video and audio feeds from the Queensland Parliamentary chambers.
Department of Health and Ageing Includes information on Departmental records and history, budgets, annual reports, recent publications, featured articles and latest news.
National Health and Medical Research Provided by the Australian Government, this site includes information about health and medical research ethics, indigenous health, nutrition, genetics as well as publications that can be read online and podcasts.
Historical Maps of the World The Perry-Castaneda Library's Map Collection, at the University of Texas. Includes historical maps of the world, continents, countries, counties and cities.
Spark Notes – History Study Guide An online database of readers' study guides to history.
Australian Democracy Look at how the country started. Search via state, theme or timeline.
Australian History - Project Gutenberg Australia
PictureQueensland - State Library of Queensland Picture Queensland is an online collection of images that documents Queensland’s people, places and events. This includes historical and contemporary images from across the state
Digital Dialects: Language Learning Games Digital Dialects features free to use games for learning 70 languages+.
Languages Online Learn a language online… for free!!
ComLaw -Australian Government ComLaw has complete and up-to-date Commonwealth legislation.
Lawstuff
Provides information about Australia's child and youth laws.
A Maths Dictionary for Kids An animated, interactive online math dictionary that explains over 600 common mathematical terms and mathematical works in simple language.
CSIRO Provides information about CSIRO projects and activities and includes online interactive learning activities.
Extreme Science Extreme Science is the place online to find the biggest, baddest, and the best in the world of extremes and learn about the science behind what makes each the most extreme example of its kind.
Encyclopedia of Australian Science The Encyclopedia of Australian Science brings together Bright Sparcs and Australian Science at Work to form a register of the people and the many industries, corporations, research institutions, scientific societies and other organisations that have contributed to Australia's scientific, technological and medical heritage.
Science Daily Provides top science news headlines daily as well as news, articles, images, books and videos that can be browsed by topic.
Australian Astronomy Features extensive links to astronomical research, teaching, and public education facilities and activities in Australia..
National Geographic Interactive map of the solar system with links to further information.
Solar System Exploration -NASA Provides information about exploration missions, planets, science and technology and includes a timeline of explorations and interactive learning resources.
Night Sky Pix Answering commonly asked questions and queries regarding the moon, sun and stars, alongside professional astrophotography.
Biology-Online Dictionary Dictionary of cell biology that includes links to further information.
Botany.Com: Encyclopedia of Plants and Flowers Encyclopedia and dictionary of plants and flowers, as well as links to further resources.
EcoCyc A scientific database for the bacterium Escherichia coli, including podcasts and videos.
Encyclopaedia of Life Sciences Citable articles about life sciences with topics including Biochemistry, bioethics, ecology, evolution, genetics and disease, neuroscience, plant science and science and society.
Chemical Elements.com An online, interactive periodic table of the elements.
The Physics Classroom Practical resources, tutorials and review sessions covering a wide range of physics topics.
Physics for Kids: Simple Machines in Automobiles Simple machines explained in basic terms. Includes activities, examples and worksheets.
Parliamentary Education Office Great Government links for assignments.
The Five-Paragraph Essay Provides instructions on how to write a five-part essay and includes a sample essay.
Speed Writing A tool to help you break your writing into paragraphs and to guide you through the writing process with the goal of being able to write efficiently and to produce high-quality work.
A citation Builder or Reference Generator offers students a simple way to keep track of the resources used to write an assignment or assessment. Students then copy and paste the citation to their Bibliography or Reference page.
While researching and writing assignments, it is easy to make a mistake and include copied information from the internet. To use the work of someone else is called plagiarism. If you are caught, it is an instant fail and at a university level, you may find yourself under disciplinary action. Use one of these checkers to avoid this.