Austral-links

SHOPPING

www.lmifox.com

This website offers a set of sport boomerangs made in France, a large choice of decorative boomerangs and didgeridoos from Australia. Besides, in a dedicated webpage, you can choose online a selection of ROADSIGNs products. One of the first and best australian specialist in France.

www.didgeridoo-accessoires.com

French website, specialised in authentic didgeridoos, yidakis, didjeribones, traveldidgs, didgeboxs, and all needed accessories for protection and care of didgeridoo. Discography, and products for the wellness of players.

TOAAC (The Original Australian Art Company)

www.planetexplo.com

LEISURE TIME

www.australieautrement.com

Australie Autrement/Nouvelle-Zélande Voyages:
is the french specialist of South Pacific travels.

PICTURES

A few links that make you want to jump onto the first plane to Sydney, one way. Click and your dream begins.

www.chateaudebrou.com/australie

Very good personal web site, made by 2 French globetrotters crazy about Australia. About the story of their trip through the Outback, their photos are gorgeous originals and the site alone is remarkable : the selections of colours and graphics are very good !

www.univ-lr.fr

A must for the portals on photos of Australia. A good idea : search engines for photos of Australia, ancient or recent.

www.australia-australie.com

An intelligent way to show wonderful Australian landscapes: clicking on spots of a large size map. Useful to locate where the photos come from.

www.library.uq.edu.au/fryer/hume

A web site which shows more than 1,000 photos on and by the Hume family, who lived in Queensland in the 19th century.

www.planetware.com/pictures/australia-aus.htm

An extraordinary collection of more than 150 photos about tourist Australian destinations.

australia.travelphoto.net/ozthumbn0002.html

Exclusively professional photos. Only 60, they are all exceptional.

www.peterlanger.com

Australia seen through the expert eye of Peter Langer, a professional photographer. To visit now.

www.aussieworld.com

A bank of Australian pictures, with a search engine by themes. To consult or to buy.

www.ozoutback.com.au

In Australia, there are also Aborigines . This web site has understood the importance of this people. There is a huge collection of photos found with the help of a search engine. Post cards, bookmarks, posters, etc.

www.nickrains.com

Nick Rains is certainly the specialised photographer who gives the largest choice of photos on Australia on his web site. They are wonderful. Plus some little extra surprises. To be seen without fail.

ABORIGINAL ART AND ARTIFACTS

www.artsdaustralie.com

Stéphane Jacob studied at l'Ecole du Louvre and is a spécialist of contemporary australian art. In 1996, he opened the galery Arts d'Australie - Stephane Jacob in Paris. In this galery, he is promoting and selling paintings and sculptures from australian artists, aborigenes and white people. The galery is located in an appartment. We welcome visitors on appointments.

Don't forget that the first inhabitants of Australia are Aborigines. Though they are less numerous today, their culture has survived through their sculpture, painting, and many fascinating objects. For several years, Aborigines have built and organised modern structures and have taken their destiny in hand. Most of the following web sites are designed and managed by and for Aborigines.
To be discovered immediately.

www.aboriginalaustralia.com.au

Target of this web site : to help aboriginal art centers to promote themselves and their artifacts. Not a lot to see in it , but 100% of sales go directly to the Aborigines.

www.dacou.com.au

The web site of the Dreaming Art Center Of Utopia. In other words : the web site of Aborigines from the Utopia area, 270 km from Alice Springs.

www.aboriginalartonline.com

A large web site selling didjeridoos, paintings, audio CD's, videos about aboriginal art, books, maps, etc.

www.aboriginalart.org

This web site is incredibly rich, with a complete classification of all the web sites of art centers from the Centre and North of Australia (about 50 !), with their own works, artifacts, native artists. Huge !

www.desart.com.au

Same as the preceding web site, with art centers of other areas.

www.aaia.com.au

The merchant web site of Aboriginal Fine Arts Gallery. Superb and with a large and selective choice of paintings of Central Desert and Arnhem lands, bark paintings, artifacts, didjeridoos. On top of that : the biography of each artist.

http://aboriginalart.com.au

The web site of the Aboriginal Art & Culture Center of Alice Springs. We feel that we are no longer in the bush, but downtown, but this site is of a very good quality. It is not only an art gallery : it is also possible to meet with some Aborigines, organise tours, discover the history and culture of the Arrerntes, taught at the Didjeridoo University. A complete educational program.

www.tobwabba.com.au

This web site belongs to a non aboriginal commercial company, but in partnership with the aboriginal Worimi people. Therefore, there are no more artifacts. All that is shown is industrially made : garments, mugs, stationery, souvenirs. But all the designs are made by Worimi artists.

EDUCATION

www.francaustralia.com

Enter the portal website dedicated to studies in Australia. Francaustralia Education is the french speaking ambassador of australian universities, language teaching centers and professional teaching organisations.

AUSTRALIAN WEB RESEARCH ENGINES

Apart from the main international web search engines
(www.google.com.au, http://au.yahoo.com, or http://au.altavista.com), there are also some local Australian engines. Using them may help you find some unique and interesting web sites. As Australia is the speciality of these engines, they are, of course, more targeted in their search.
Here are 2 examples whose methods and designs are different :
www.webwombat.com
www.anzwers.com

Click, surf, and enjoy them...