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Covers aboriginal rock art sites, ceremonial grounds and sacred sites; important historical and archaeological sites.

Australia's natural and cultural environment including national parks, endangered species, geological features, wilderness areas, world heritage sites and historic towns and precincts.

Australian database focusing on the business, law and health sectors plus social issues. Search for articles in journals published by various Australian genealogical and historical societies such as Early Days (Royal Western Australian Historical Society) and Descent (Society of Australian Genealogists).

Covers the history, economics, politics, current affairs and culture that specifically relates to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders. As far as possible, items are selected to represent various points of view on topics of importance to these people.

A listing of significant events in Australian history with emphasis on current happenings and sourced mainly from the main daily state and territory papers. Short biographical sketches of prominent people are included in births and deaths entries.

Combined searching of the 17th - 18th Century Burney Collection and 19th Century British Library Newspapers 

A useful resource for genealogists, historians and researchers for locating biographical information on Australians.

Indexes journal articles from published material on pre-1980 Australian, New Zealand and Papua-New Guinean military history and related topics. Additions to the database ceased in August 1999.

Over 2 million pages from 19th century newspaper titles held in the British Library. Newspapers were selected from all over Britain including Ireland, Scotland and Wales as well as England.

Nearly 1 million pages of rare 17th and 18th century material published in Britain and the colonies including pamphlets, broadsides and newspapers.

Find every page published in The Times newspaper over a 200 year period, covering political, legal, business and social news. It includes all articles, editorials, birth and death notices, advertisements, illustrations and photographs.
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