One of the most important  issues for Australians at the moment is the recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders as the oringal  inhabitants and owners of Australia, and the implications of this for future action.

If you want to brush up on the issues why not head off to the Council for Australian Reconciliation at http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/orgs/car/,   Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation (ANTaR) http://www.antar.org.au/, Treaty Now http://www.treatynow.org/ or the ACTSIC site http://www.atsic.gov.au.

You can also get the full text of Bringing Them Home, the Stolen Children report at http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/special/rsjproject/rsjlibrary/hreoc/stolen/
 

Another major outrage in Australia at the moment is the mandatory detention and inhumane treatment of Asylum seekers. For information try:

A Just Australia - http://www.ajustaustralia.com.au/
Rural Australians for Refugees - http://www.ruralaustraliansforrefugees.org
(includes "Debunking the Myths")
UNHCR - United Nations High Commission for Refugees
http://www.unhcr.ch/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/home
Edmund Rice Centre  - http://www.erc.org.au
 

To write an email to the leaders of the major parties or your local member of Federal parliament, about these or any other issues, go to: http://www.aph.gov.au/house/members/Email.asp
and for the Senate: http://www.aph.gov.au/Senate/senators/email.htm
 
 
 

The National Library of Australia's  Electronic Journals website, for a full listing of Australian online journals - http://www.nla.gov.au/oz/ausejour.html

The Well Bookshop is a good source of Australian books, many not available in overseas-based online shops, and they can ship them to you anywhere in the world.
http://www.thewellbookshop.com/

Ozlit -  unfortunatly no longer active because it couldn't get funding - but still an amazing archive of Australian literary culture http://home.vicnet.net.au/~ozlit/ 

ABC Radio (Radio National, JJJ and ABC-FM) http://www.abc.net.au/surf/radio.htm - the Australian Broadcasting Corporation 
is a national treasure and this is a huge site with lots of archived transcripts 
of interviews and  programs and other great information 

You can join the Austlit mailing list to keep up to date with or discuss Australian literature at http://cf.vicnet.net.au/ozlit/austlit.htm  (although it's been pretty quiet lately)

Australian Society of Authors  http://www.asauthors.org

Fellowship of Australian Writers http://www.ozemail.com.au:80/~faw/

Varuna Writers' Centre http://www.varuna.com.au/

Five Islands Press: http://www.5islands.1earth.net/

And for a full directory of Australian poets and lots of other goodies, see Thylazine - http://thylazine.org
 
 
 

Film Art Doco -- director-writer Daryl Dellora, writers Ian Wansbrough &  Jennifer Hocking, and producer Sue Maslin, with films such as Mr Neal Is Entitled To Be An Agitator, and The Edge of the Possible (about Jorn Utzon and the Opera House) -- at http://www.filmartdoco.com

Jenny Hocking (author of Lionel Murphy: A Political Biography) -- http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/ncas/staff/jhocking.html

Jennifer Kremmer, winner of the Australian Vogel Award with Pegasus in the Suburbs --  http://www.localnet.com.au/~kremj

..and another former Vogel winner, Bernard Cohen (Tourism, Blindmans' Hat, Snowdome, etc) -- http://www.hermes.net.au/bernard/

Pam Brown, author of over fifteen  books of poetry, including Dear Deliria: New and Selected Poems (Salt publications 2002). http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Workshop/7629/ 

Warrick Wynne, whose poetry books include The Colour of Maps and The State of the Rivers and Streams (Five Islands Press) -- http://warrickwynne.org

Organic Wholefoods and Cafe Organix in Brunswick and Fitzroy, run by 
Anita Hoare and Scott Kinnear -- http://www.wholefoods.com.au

If you're interested in the difference between Sidereal Astrology and the kind generally practiced in the west these days, Paul Brick has a webpage explaining why he thinks Sidereal is more accurate, and how to find out your Sidereal astrology sign at
http://www.astroplot.com/

If you're looking for editorial or scriptwriting services, check out Stephen Thompson's EsteeMedia page at http://www.essteemedia.com/.. Stephen also edits the free online magazine of speculative fiction, Fantastic Queensland, available at http://www.fantasticqueensland.com and by subscription.

If you're thinking of purchasing a domain name - for excellent value and great service - (my nephew, Ian,  works with them), have a look at www.oz2.com

And my original webmaster: Richard Martin, of  Temporal Expansion - Multimedia Productions & Internet Services 
 
 
 

Catalist - http://www.lsoft.com/catalist.html - the official catalogue of LISTSERV lists where you can browse any of 26,731 public email lists on a huge range of topics, search for a particular list or topic, and even search the archives of various lists. Or you could try Liszt at http://www.liszt.com for a choice of 90,095 lists. 

The Internet Movie Data Base http://us.imdb.com/

The Internet Public Library http://www.ipl.org/

For information about the geocities free web-sites: 
http://www.geocities.com
 
 
 

The Labrynth Project -  http://www.annenberg.edu/labyrinth
 and the Dreamwaves website at www.dreamwaves.net
- state of the art interactive multimedia 

Tantric Sex (for a huge collection of links to articles) - http://www.tantra-sex.com/tantra-articles.html

If you're interested in Aikido - a martial art known as
"the art of peace" -  http://www.aikiweb.com

Find out about copyright law and issues relevant to creators at Brad Templeton’s excellent Copyright Myths site http://www.clarinet.com/brad/copymyths.html

If you have any doubts about the dangers of silicone implants and the 
culpability of the manufacturers over the past thirty years, you could start with 
a visit to http://www.siliconeholocaust.org/WhatDowKnew.html

Visit the Earthcore site to find out about Australia's most progressive and independant outdoor dance festivals - http://www.earthcore.com.au

For some school and educational resources about racism and human rights:
http://racismnoway.com.au/classroom/
http://www.hreoc.gov.au/info_for_students/index.html
http://www.humanrights.gov.au/youthchallenge/index.html
and http://www.cmyi.net.au/

Go to Sharkfeed for an unusual audio-visual exploration of the Graeme Thorne kidnapping.

Search the Archive of Misheard Lyrics, and contribute your own specimen http://www.kissthisguy.com/

The Erle Stanley Gardner Homepage now even includes a mailing-list about The Incomparable One (creator of Perry Mason and Barbara Boulevard's favourite writer) http://www.phantoms.com/gardner/

For some good meditative fun - http://www.permadi.com/java/spaint/spaint.html

And then of course there's the ultimate site... 
http://www.shibumi.org/eoti.htm

Please always be an environmentally responsible cyber-traveller and respect the copyright needs and rights of creators. If any of these links are out of date or wrong, please let me know.