A Brief History of Canberra & Australia

• Parliament House [easy]
• Parliament House [moderate]
• Images of Parliament House
• Kids View Parliament House

The Prime Minister

• Where does the PM live?
• The Prime Minister's job
• Prime Minister & his family
• Office of the Prime Minister of Australia

• Parliament of Australia
• Parliament@Work - Curriculum Corporation site for information about current Federal, State or Territory parliamentarians and their electorates, including census data & results, major political parties etc. Use the site map to navigate through this site.
• Parliament at a Glance - Curriculum Corporation site for information about current Federal, State or Territory parliaments; members & political parties.
• Parliamentary Education Office - helps students to learn about Federal Parliament. It contains a virtual tour of Parliament House. "For Kids" has an excellent Q&A section about parliament and a glossary of parliamentary words.

ABS - Government  - Information about the levels of government in Australia.

Australia in Focus

• Statistics & Facts

• Structure of the Government

• Current Popular ABS Statistics

• Statistics for Students (from the Education section)

Entry point to Australian Commonwealth Govt & Info services - Want to find a Federal Government Department or Information Service? Try here.

Melbourne Zoo's Australian Emblems website   - specific information about each creature. Learning resources unit in .pdf format.

National anthem and colours of Australia - from the ABS

Australia's icons

The Parliament of NSW - This "For Schools" section helps students and teachers to quickly find information by having, in one place, links for all the parts of the site most useful to schools.

NSW Government - Want to find out about our State Government? Try here.

NSW Government - Popular Searches - here are the links to most NSW Government departments, portfolios & bodies.

Flags & Emblems - click on the link from the For Schools page.

A Look at State Parliament House - click on the link "A look at parliament" from For Schools

NSW Parliament Timeline - Pre 1788 to 2000

State Electoral Office

Victoria

• Government

• Flags & Emblems (harder reading)

• Government

• Emblems - click on the links to the coat of arms, flag & 4 emblems

• Government

• Emblems - click on the link to the emblems including the coat of arms, flag & 4 emblems

• Government

• Symbols of WA  State Emblems (coat of arms, flag & 4 emblems)

• Government

• Flag & Emblems

• Government

• Official Symbols (crest, flag, faunal, floral)

• Government

• Flags, Coat of Arms & Emblems

The Role of Local Government  -  from the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

What do Councils do?

Local Councils - a unit of work on local councils from Discovering Democracy. (For Teachers)