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FORSTER/TUNCURRY AREA
GREAT LAKES, New South Wales, Australia: [Showcases the Great Lakes Area, including Forster, Tuncurry, Hawks Nest, Pacific Palms, Bulahdelah, Stroud, Tea Gardens, Smiths Lake, Coomba Park and Nabiac.]

HISTORY SITES
HISTORY of TUNCURRY, DARAWANK, FAILFORD, NABIAC, WANG WAUK, COOLONGOLOOK, TELERAREE AND KRAMBACH, New South Wales, Australia: [The book tells of Aboriginal people coming to Australia and some of their customs, timber, shipbuilding, fishing, oyster industry, shipwrecks, floods and lives of some of the pioneer families.]

DATABASE OF HISTORICAL MATERIALS RELATING TO THE ABORIGINES OF THE NEWCASTLE-LAKE MACQUARIE REGION, New South Wales, Australia: [100s of digitised documents and materials about the Awabakal people and language.]

MILITARY HISTORIES
AN AUSTRALIAN PRISONER OF WAR on the BURMA THAILAND (DEATH) RAILWAY: [Elliott McMaster’s experiences with “A” Company, 2/20th Battalion, 8th Division of the Australian Army during World War II. He faced advancing Japanese forces on the Malay Peninsula and Singapore, was captured by the Japanese and spent years as a Prisoner of War in Singapore and “D” Force on the Burma Thailand Railway. He was liberated and returned to Australia in 1945.]

FAMILY HISTORIES
“CHARCOAL” WILLIAMS - GOLD IN AUSTRALIA: [Family history book by Carol McNeill (an Honorary Life Member of the Great Lakes Historical Society): [Starts in Wales at the end of the 18th Century, follows “Charcoal” Williams, other free settlers, Scottish immigrants, Irish political prisoners and convicts, to the young New South Wales colony. Their families intertwine and help build the fabric of today’s Australia.]

THE LONG ROAD FROM TIPPERARY, IRELAND TO GUNDAGAI, AUSTRALIA, MICHAEL O’KEEFE, J.P. (1840-1930): (Another family history book by Carol McNeill):[Starts in Tipperary, Ireland in the 1840s and follows Michael O’Keefe and  his parents, (Bounty Immigrants) to Gundagai, Australia. It follows the O’Keefe family through 90 years of Australia’s growth to Federation, the rise of the Union Movement, the establishment of Political Parties, Australia’s involvement in World War II and the effect of The Great Depression in the 1930s.]

MUSEUMS
Great Lakes Museum:
Australian War Memorial, Canberra:
National Museum of Australia, Canberra
Australian Museum, Sydney
Powerhouse Museum, Sydney

LIBRARIES
National Library of Australia, Canberra
New South Wales State Library, Sydney
Great Lakes Library, Forster

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