Stamp Collecting Month endeavours to interest children in the hobby of stamp collecting and occurs in October each year. Australia Post staff members engage with primary school children and teachers, explaining the background to stamps and stamp collecting through a specially selected theme. This year’s theme is Australian Zoos.
published October 1st, 2012
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published September 9th, 2012
Australia has a strong tradition of innovation and scientific achievement and, in per capita terms, is one of the world’s leading Nobel Prize-winning countries. Since 1915, when Australian William Lawrence Bragg shared the Prize in Physics, there have been some 11 Australian Nobel Laureates.
published August 31st, 2012
Mathew Belcher and Malcolm Page are Australia’s latest Olympic gold medallist athletes to feature on a stamp after winning our third Sailing gold medal in London, this time in the Men’s 470 Class.
published August 16th, 2012
Anna Meares has become the latest Australian athlete to feature on a stamp after winning an Olympic gold medal in the women’s cycle sprint at the London 2012 Olympic Games, her second Olympic gold medal.
published August 9th, 2012
This is the second Living Australian stamp issue celebrating the way Australians seem themselves through the eyes of everyday people.
published August 7th, 2012
Alicia Coutts, Cate Campbell, Brittany Elmslie and Melanie Schlanger are the first Australian athletes to feature on the Australian Gold Medallist stamps for the London 2012 Olympic Games, after their gold-medal-winning performance in the women’s 4 x 100m freestyle relay on Saturday 28 July.
published August 4th, 2012
This issue is the second of three being released for the Games of the XXX Olympiad (27 July-12 August 2012) in London.
published July 24th, 2012
This stamp issue commemorates two anniversaries: in 2012 it is 150 years since John McDouall Stuart returned from his overland crossing of Australia; and in 2013 it will be 200 years since Gregory Blaxland, William Lawson and William Charles Wentworth crossed the Blue Mountains.
published July 23rd, 2012
The character of Hello Kitty was designed by Yuko Shimizo of the Japanese company Sanrio in 1974. She is portrayed as a white Japanese Bobtail cat with a red bow on her left ear.
published July 17th, 2012
Australia Post’s new iphone app, Australia Post Postcards, brings back the tradition of sending postcards with a modern, personalised twist!
Now you can send postcards to anyone, anywhere in the world, without leaving your deckchair using a photo taken with your iPhone camera or from your image library.
published July 15th, 2012
