Charles Sturt University's "Guide to Australia" A useful set of links to websites dealing with Australia and Australians (if you can stand the rather lurid "green and gold" colour scheme.
Phone Directories
Mapquest A site that allows you to create your own maps of most parts of the world
AltaVista Australia Alta Vista's Australian search site
GoEureka - Another AltaVista site - general search site with fast access in Australia
Anzwers - good Australian search site with useful customization facilities
Yahoo Australia - the Australian version of the great category based search engine and listing facility
Web Wombat - one of the first Australian search engines - good Australian focus.
LookSmart - Australian category based site - can use to limit search to particular Australian cities etc
Matilda - Australian based search engine with idyosyncratic attributes
International Search Sites
internet_search.html Netscape's search pages
HotBot yet another. faster than it used to be
Excite Search engine and general on-line information service - current news, tv programs comics, movies etc. Well worth trying out if you haven't already done so. Can be set up as a personal home page.
There is now an Australian Excite site as well - take a look.
Infoseek The GO network (part of the Walt Disney empire) . Search engine + options for web based email etc - similar to Excite. US focus.
Lycos Some similarities to Yahoo - primarily category based search engine etc - US based. When I looked for myself I kept on coming up with a Californian male model with the same name.
WebCrawler Another early offering from Excite
Yahoo One of the early (and big) players in the search directory game.
Starting Point owned by Techlabs. Straightforward interface. I didn't find me when I looked though! I usually do.
WhoWhere? (part of Lycos. Didn't find me at all)
Yahoo! People Search (Found my email address, but also listed two others that I haven't used for years)
WWW browsers like Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator are updated quite frequently.
Click here for the current Mac version of Internet Explorer .
The current download and information site for the latest version of Internet Explorer for Windows.
If they change these links (as they often do) you should be able to track them down through http://www.microsoft.com/, though their Mac stuff can be next to impossible to find at times.
Navigator is available through Netscape. Now that its owned by AOL it doesn't have quite the "underdog" appeal that it used to enjoy. the latest version for the Mac is Version 6, but almost everyone prefers the earlier Version 4.7 (which is still available).
Macintosh users should also consider 'iCab", an excellent WWW browser which consumes far less memory and hard disk space than either Navigator or Explorer.. If you have an older Mac, or limited RAM or Hard Disk space, then iCab will be ideal for you. But even if you have the latest and the greatest G4 it is well worth a look. It has rapidly became my own browser of choice. It is available for download here. The current version takes up about 2.5m of hard disk space and will run quite happily in 4meg of RAM (or as little as 1.5m if you use virtual memory!). The download (1.3meg) of the very latest version took me about 3 minutes on a 56K modem while I was writing this! Stunning piece of work when you consider the current size of Netscape and Explorer!
Opera is another browser worth trying instead of the "big two". I'm just about to test the latest "preview" version for the PPC Mac. Versions are also available for other platforms (Windows, Linux, Beos etc). Its said to be the fastest browser available for the mac at present, but it is still in "preview" mode, so be warned, it may eb a bit buggy still.
If you are fed up with the problems, crashes, viruses etc associated with Outlook Express and other MS email programs take a look at Eudora. The Mac version beats the pants off the Microsoft offerings. Takes up much less space on your hard drive and in memory but somehow manages to be more powerful.
It comes in three "flavours" - full featured and free with adverts ; "lite" and free without ads, and full featured and fee based wiotrhout ads. I've got used to the ads and I like the full features. You can download a version for Windows as well as for Macintosh.
Internet Service Providers
Netspace Online Systems - Home Page
I've been using Netspace Online Systems as my primary service provider for ten years. They provide excellent, very reasonably priced, service. Cheaper and more reliable than most of the big boys like Big Pond, AOL and Ozemail but without the continually engaged lines, limited services, and inadequate support that you tend to find with the "cheapies". I unhesitatingly recommend them. In my experience they are faster most of the time too.
They have centres in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Canberra, Perth, Hobart and Launceston plus the provincial centres of Cranbourne, Geelong, Sale, Traralgon, Gold Coast, Wollongong, Newcastle and Yarram. Recently they have been expanding into Alice Springs, Bacchus Marsh, Ballarat, Balliang, Bendigo, Cairns, Campbelltown, Gisborne, Goulburn, Healesville, Lara, Mackay, Marouchydore, Mildura, Mornington, Penrith, Richmond, Shepparton, Toowoomba, Townsville, Nowra, Pakenham, Wangaratta, Warrnambool, Windsor, Wisemans Ferry, Wollongong, Darwin and Emerald.as well!
You can still get Adam Engst's wonderful Internet Starter Kit for Macintosh 3rd Edition on line, though its getting a bit long in the tooth now
If you are new to the Internet and want to learn more, this is still an excellent resource though.
Another site with may useful links to further information about the Internet and how to use it can be found at http://www.cochran.com/start/guide/overview.html
Rod's list of Mac related links to WWW and FTP sites (Click here to go to a reasonably comprehensive set of links to sites related to Macintosh computers - troubleshooting, news, information, software updates, shareware, other link sites etc etc)
MacDownload An excellent source of Freeware and Shareware for your Macintosh. Well organised.
The Ausmac Archive An excellent Australian Macintosh Shareware / Freeware site - the place to go if you are looking for the files mentioned in Frank O'Connor's "Off the Net" in Australian MacWorld.
Apple User's Society of Melbourne
MacFixit An indispensible "troubleshooting" site. If something goes wrong with your Mac that you can't sort out this should be the first stop.
Office for Macintosh Microsoft Office for Macintosh product information, news, and support
Welcome to Microsoft's home page.
ATSI HERITAGE PROTECTION ACT 1984
National Native Title Tribunal
Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation Home Page
Wired Tracks ©Remote connections
AUSTRALIAN HISTORY: The Flight of Ducks - Contents
MABO AND OTHERS v. QUEENSLAND (No. 2) (1992) 175 CLR 1 F.C. 92/014
ANU - Aboriginal Studies WWW VL - Languages
The Wik Judgment from The Age newspaper
FWDP -- Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
The Australian Anthropological Society Inc.
Welcome to ScalePlus on the Internet Scale's entry point and quick search engine for access to Commonwealth and some state legislation and case information.
Table of contents for Scale database of commonwealth legislation
Australasian Legal Information Institute Indispensable source of case related information with links to many overseas sites as well.
John Toohey Chambers - an excellent new site providing links to materials not found elsewhere as well as general legal materials.
Australian Indigenous Peoples and the Law. An excellent resource site from the Law faculty of the Northern Territory University
Billsnet - Downloadable text of bills currently before parliament, from the official parliamentary web site.
Federal Parliament's legislation links The general entry point for bills, acts and other related material from the Commonwealth parliament.
The Australian Constitution on line.
Hansard For access to the record of proceedings of the Parliament of Australia.
Federal Parliamentary members contact details For contact details for all federal politicians, including email addresses etc.
Parliament Web Site - the general starting point for Federal Parliament's WWW sit
Other government sites
Australian Government Home Page The primary general Australian Government entry point.
Victorian Government - The entry site for the Victorian Government - links to both the bureaucratic and political aparatus of Victoria.
International Environmental and Social Justice Agencies
United Nations
Australian Labor Party - Victorian Branch
Rocket Sometimes entertaining political commentary from the left.
Jeffed! A site created by former Kennett adviser, Stephen Conroy during the 1999 Victorian Election.
(Jeff.com - the former Victorian Premier's own site - has now disappeared)
Opinion on line An excellent opinion site run by Graham Young containing thoughtful, sometimes provocative, articles on various matters. Well worth a look.
Arizona Republic and Phoenix Gazette
Jacksonville Florida Times-Union
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Bureau of Meteorology, Australia
Victorian Weather & Flood Information
Union of Concerned Scientists USA
Australian Geographic Magazine
New Scientist Planet Science: Science City: Hotspots
Human Genome Project home page
bionet.molbio.genome-program newsgroup
The Genome Database (John Hopkins med)
Geneome Therapeutics Corporation
Genome WWW server home page (Japan)
Co-operative Human Linkage server
Genetics - general links (inc HGP) Oak Ridge lab
Human Mitochondrial DNA server (Emory Uni Med )
Applied Robotics (inc evolving robots)
Geneome Project gen description (good) from Japanese HGP site
Uni Victoria (canada) Molecular biology page
National Center for Human Genome Research (NCHGR)
Serendip Home Page "Serendip is a gathering place for people who suspect that life's instructions are always ambiguous and incomplete. Originating in interactions among neurobiologists, computer scientists, business people, and educators, Serendip is both an expanding forum and a continually developing set of resources to explore and support intellectual and social change in education, in social organization... and in how one makes sense of life."
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Electronic Visualization Library
The Parasitology Images List - Protozoa
Jonathan Tward's Multimedia Medical Reference Library
Welcome to the Centre for the Mind
The Financial Aid Information Page
Apple Higher Eductaion page (US)
National Library of Australia entry point
Libraries Vicnet's excellent page of links to Victorian, Australian and World LibrariesNational Libraries Gateway The National Library of Australia's gateway to Australian Libraries.
The University of Melbourne LibraryLa Trobe University Library (Bundoora Campus)
Bibliomania, E-texts on line - from Clausewitz to Culpeper and beyond!
Dymocks booksellers On line bookshop, catalogue and information about new releasesA guide to on line book shops from Australian Book Web provides direct access to on-line catalogues, email addresses, on line ordering etc
Register of Australian Archives & Manuscripts home page Indispensible for any one undertaking archival research - details of collections throughout AustraliaThe search engine of the Register of Australian Archives & Manuscripts searchable by institution, name, all words etc - a quick way of finding where the archival holdings are on many subjects and people, with brief content descriptions. Wonderful resource!
Official Red Dwarf Fan Club Home Page
Dave the Curry Monster's Red Dwarf homepage
Gillen Name, Roots, Things& People
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Julian and Barb Wigley - architects etc
The Lion King - Starting Point
Media Bridge GAME KIDS Home Page
Internet for Kids, Inc. Home Page 5- 4-96
Oz Kidz Internaut Cyber Centre
Telstra SpringBoard: Travel & Tourism
Bali: The Online Travel Guide Index
AFL Official Web Site - Home Page
BomberLand - The Official Essendon Football Clu…
I've always been a fan of French cars - the only cars really designed for Australian bush conditions! My ageing Peugeot 403 used to beat the pants off a variety of employer provided Holdens, Fords and Toyotas as a means of travelling around the Northern Territory (but the Citroën DS is better still). We have also recently acquired a Spanish / German SEAT. Great around the city and on the highway, but I wouldn't try it on the track from Amaroo to Murray Downs! You will find some photos of Peugeots and Citroens I have owned here (It's a slowish load though. I'll have to optimise the photos one day)
For all things related to French cars with an Australian flavour make sure you check out AussieFrogs
When you get there, sign up for the Froggy Forum , where you will find many vastly knowledgable and unbelievably helpful people with an interest in Gallic voitures. For Peugeot, Citroen, or Renault owners its simply the best site around. (Still waiting for them to set up a Simca discussion group - now that;'s something I haven't seen for a while!)
Citroën
The last of the D series - Newspaper advertisement from November 1975
The Citroën Connection - Blair Anderson's wonderful Citroën Site - sadly looking for a new home after 11/12/99
Citroen Andre A dealer site in the Netherlands specialising in the restoration of Citroen's.
If you want to keep in touch with other Citroën fans around the world, then subscribe to these mailing lists, maintained by the inimitable Blair Anderson.
Toaph's Citroen Page - A nice site from another Citroën afficionado
The Citroën Car Club of Victoria, Australia
The CCCV page of Citroën Links from around the world
Peugeot
Peugeot Resources, Worldwide - A great resource for Peugeot owners
The definitive list of Peugeot links - indispensible
Club Peugeot UK - a great site with an excellent "troubleshooting" service and "buyers guides".
Peugeot UK (If your French is suffering from corrosion)
SEAT
A U T O M O B I L E URLs Archives
Electronic Frontiers Australia
Bibiliography on Synthetic Music
Imaja BlissPaint (MIDI software)
Internet Patent News Service Patent Search Site
Computer Science Technical Report Index
Master Index of World-Wide Web Servers
MouseTracks - Marketing Activities and Resources
Australian Geographic Magazine
Australian Family History Compendium
