Australia Educational Posters, Art Prints, & Maps, pg 2 of 3
teaching and curriculum resources for the social studies classroom and home schoolers.

Tropical North Queensland Australia

• more trees posters

Constellations of the Southern Hemisphere, from 'The Celestial Atlas

• astronomy posters

Judith Anderson
b. 2-10-1897; Adelaide, Australia
d. 1-3-1992; Santa Barbara, CA

Dame Judith Anderson's film performance range from the evil Mrs. Danvers in Rebecca to the Vulcan High Priestess “T'Lar” in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock. Stage roles include Olga in Chekhov's Three Sisters, as Lady MacBeth, and as Hamlet.

Helen Caldicott
b. 8-7-1938; Melbourne, Australia

Helen Caldicott is a “physician, author, and anti-nuclear advocate who has founded several associations dedicated to opposing the use of depleted uranium munitions, nuclear weapons, nuclear weapons proliferation, war and military action in general”.

She was also active with Physicians for Social Responsibility. Currently she hosts a weekly radio program, If You Love This Planet.

• If You Love This Planet: A Plan to Save the Earth (book)

Germaine Greer
b. 1-29-1939; Melbourne, Australia

Writer, academic, journalist and scholar Germaine Greer is widely regarded as one of the most significant feminist voices of the later 20th century with the publication of her controversial book, The Female Eunuch. She regards her goal as ‘women's liberation’ as distinct from ‘equality with men’.

Steve Irwin
b. 2-22-1962; Essendon, Victoria, Australia
d. 9-4-2006; Batt Reef, Queensland

Steve Irwin, nicknamed “The Crocodile Hunter”, was an Australian wildlife expert and television personality. Irwin promoted conservation and environmentalism by sharing his excitement about the natural world.

• Steve and Me: Life with the Crocodile Hunter by Terri Irwin

Marjorie Lawrence
b. 2-7-1907; Deans Marsh, Australia
d. 1-13-1979; Arkansas

Soprano Marjorie Lawrence was striken with polio in 1941; her story was told on film in Interrupted Melody, 1955.

Dame Nellie Melba
née Helen Porter Mitchell
b. 5-19-1861; Melbourne
d. 2-23-1931; Sydney

Opera singer Nellie Melba was one of the most famous singer during the Late Victorian Era through the early 20th century. Melba had a reputation as a difficult “diva”.

FYI - several dishes were developed for Melba by French chef Auguste Escoffier - among them Peach Melba and Melba toast.

• opera posters

Curtis Stone
b. 11-4-1975; Melbourne, Australia

Curtis Stone is a celebrity chef, author and television personality.

Waltzing Matilde is song most associated with Australia. The lyrics were written by poet Banjo Paterson in 1895 and first published as sheet music in 1903.

Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong
Under the shade of a coolibah tree,
And he sang as he watched and waited till his billy boiled
“You'll come a-Waltzing Matilda, with me”

Paterson also wrote The Man from Snowy River which was made into a 1982 movie.