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Over 250 illustrations
on CD-ROM.
   Viewed directly
from your Web Browser.

  
Cartoons of Australian Federation

  
 
 
Covering 6 months of news and current affairs
surrounding Federation Day, January 1, 1901,
from October 1900 to March 1901.
 

View the samples by clicking in the left-side frame.

Original cartoon text enhanced for improved
on-screen viewing.
  
Topics covered by the cartoons include:
Aborigines; Race; White Australia; Immigration
The Jimmy Governor Aboriginal Bushranger Gang
Federation Celebrations
Colonial, State and Federal Politics
Boer War in South Africa
News Media (inc. David Syme & The Age)
1900 Melbourne Cup
Women's Suffrage
Royalty & the British Empire
Coningham Divorce Trial (Test Cricketer vs Catholic Priest)
Life on Mars?
Interstate Rivalry
Free Trade VS Tariff Protection
and more...

  

  
Background and explanatory text
accompanies the cartoons.

Suitable for SOSE/History, English and
Media Studies.
A set of ideas for classroom activities has been added to all CD-ROMs
issued from 2005 onwards.
Suggestions for classroom activities may also be found in Agora,
the quarterly journal of the History Teachers Association of Victoria,
   Volume 38, No. 2, 2003, page 22 and the right-side column of page 25.
     
Further inquiries may be emailed to:
 info@rmsed.com.au
     

  
Retail price:
  
CD-ROM:  $50 (Australian)
(inc. packaging and post)
       
How to order:
Organisations (e.g. schools) please mail an order form;
or Individuals please mail a cheque
made out to "R. Stitson", to:

RMS Education
P.O. Box 50
Preston
Vic.  3072
  

     
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Updated June, 2008.
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