Welcome to Australia's Culture and Recreation Portal Newsletter for September 2003
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The Culture and Recreation Portal has recently updated its Training course finder. The Training course finder contains over 1,700 Australian cultural training courses useful to the cultural sector from over 250 organisations.
Visit the Training course finder at http://www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au/training. If you would like to suggest a course visit the add a training course screen at http://www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au/training/add.htm.
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Have your say about our website services
To help us make continuous improvements to the services we provide, we are asking site visitors to complete a short online survey. Trials have shown it takes less than five minutes of your time to tell us what you like or don't like and what you'd like us to change.
Did you find what you were looking for? How can we provide a better service to you? Let us know so we can give you what you're looking for! We really appreciate your feedback. The survey pops up when you visit our home page. Have your say today: http://www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au/.
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Snippets from our What's New page for September 2003
http://www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au/news/
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Floriade - Australia's Celebration of Spring
The Heavens in Bloom is 2003's Floriade theme! Come and gaze at Floriade's offering to the celestial from 13 September to 12 October 2003. 'It is a living tribute to the vast depths of space that encircle our precious earth. More than one million blooms will open in an amazing representation of our earth, planets and Milky Way... Get lost in the gravity of the Black Hole and follow the brilliant Comet Trail before crossing over to The Other Side.'
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Out and About: The National Gallery tours Australia
Over the next year, some of the National Gallery of Australia's most treasured works of art will be exhibited across the nation. The works include Sidney Nolan's Ned Kelly series, Andy Warhol's Elvis, Peter Paul Ruben's Self-portrait, Claude Monet's Haystacks, Midday, Henri Matisse's The Abduction of Europa, Willem De Kooning's Woman V, Lucian Freud's After Cézanne, Jackson Pollock's Blue Poles, Arthur Streeton's Golden Summer, Eaglemont and Eugene von Guérard's North-east View from the Northern Top of Mount Kosciusko and Ferntree Gully in the Dandenong Ranges. The works will be on show at 20 regional, remote and metropolitan galleries in all Australian states and territories over the next few months.
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Australian Masters Games
Ten days of sporting competition and 10 000 participants, the Healthpact 9th Australian Masters Games are on from 31 October - 9 November 2003 at various venues around Canberra, Australian Capital Territory. This event promotes and encourages mature age people to participate in sport regardless of ability, gender or race.
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The Indigenous Portal
The Indigenous Portal, a site for and about Aboriginal peoples and Torres Strait Islanders, is now online! It gives access to Indigenous services and information about: Culture and Heritage: Education and Employment; Families, Society and Social Problems; Government and Business; and Health, Housing and Welfare just to list a few of the themes explored on this website. This Portal has been developed by the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ASTIC) and is part of the Australian government customer-focused portals - providing access to services and information.
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EdNA Online and Theme Pages for Australian Schools
EdNA, Education Network Australia, has online theme pages for Australian schools which look at topics as diverse as Animals and their Welfare through to Volunteers and Volunteering and Youth Issues. The aim of these pages, and there are many, many more, are to provide the educational community with a useful and comprehensive collection of resources for teachers from the evaluated resources in the searchable EdNA Online database.
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For further details of these and other Australian cultural and recreational news items visit our regularly updated
What's New page at http://www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au/news/.
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We have another free email newsletter - the Portal contributors newsletter - produced and distributed by the Culture and Recreation Portal for the owners and managers of websites listed or indexed by our site.
The Portal contributors newsletter focuses on the online environment, website design, technical innovation, educational opportunities and provides specific information to ensure sites can be indexed successfully through our portal.
If you are one of the over 2,600 Australian culture and recreation websites in our directory, go and subscribe to the Portal contributors newsletter at http://www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au/contributors/.
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