Dame Roma Mitchell
Dame Roma Mitchell was the first Austrlian women judge, a Queen’s Counsel, a chancellor and Governor of an Australian state. What a lady !
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Albert Namatjira
Albert Namatjira is perhaps the best known Aboriginal painter. He is best known for his watercolour Australian outback desert landscapes.
Sir Edward Hallstrom
Posted in Tips and Hints for podcasting, Being Aussie, Famous Aussies by Neroli Gilmour on September 13th, 2009 Sir Edward Hallstrom - a famous Aussie inventor and philanthropists. He invented the kerosene powered refrigerator call the Icy Ball. What an amazing Aussie !
Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith
Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith also known by his nickname, Smithy, was a well-known early Australian aviator.
Beth Cuthbert
Betty Cuthbert is known as “The Golden Girl”. She has won four Olympic gold medals for Australia. After this podcast why not complete some further research about this famous Aussie.
Phar Lap
Phar Lap is arguably on of Australia’s greatest racehorses. Why not make up your own mind with this podcast episode.
Biographies
Students have been studying Notable Australians and creating their own written biographies. As part of their studies, students also created an oral version as a podcast. These podcast have been totally created by the students with no help from the classroom teacher.
As part of this episode you will be redirected to our website to view related written versions and other mp4 versions of this classroom activity.
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Welcome to our second episode in our series Aussie Kids, Flying High. This project was completed within a multiage classroom with a vast range of abilities. Students who may have concerns in producing work in a written format are encouraged to try this new verbal medium, many of them with tremendous success and great enthusiasm.
Within this flight we will be discovering the history of some of Australia’s more famous aviators.
Why not let us know what you want to hear more about?
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There are many stories of brave and courageous Australian Defence Personnel. Within this episode we are looking at 3 brave men of the Gallipoli campaign.
Why not try some of these links:
Australian War Memorial - Kids HQ
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We have many famous and infamous Aussie people in our history. Within this episode we will be talking about some of our more famous, but perhaps not so well know Aussie people.
Ned Kelly - the Iron Outlaw Bail Up The Story Of
Dawn Fraser - Aussie Women ABC Kids
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