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Cultural Background Australia

Aboriginal Festivals

Throughout every season, Canada’s Aboriginal peoples host a variety of colourful and fascinating festivals and events to both celebrate their ancient-yet-still-thriving culture, and also to share the traditional values and way of life that protects and holds the land sacred. With more than 198 distinct First Nations calling it home, British Columbia is fortunate to be able…

Australian Lifestyle facts

These Australia facts give you an insider s grasp of some information about the country, its economy, people, lifestyle, the local slang, the food Australians eat. And about what makes the land down under a knockout destination for any traveller. You need some direction, whether you want to: start a new life in Australia, or just visit it for business, or to enjoy a sunny…

Cultural influences on Australia

Australia is a unique and diverse country in every way - in culture, population, climate, geography, and history. For articles on specific topics about Australian history and culture visit our Australian Stories index. Culture Australian culture is as broad and varied as the country s landscape. Australia is multicultural and multiracial and this is reflected in the country…

Chinese festivals in Australia

The Chongyang Festival falls on the ninth day of the ninth month of the Chinese lunar calendar, so it is also known as the Double Ninth Festival. The festival is based on the theory of Yin and Yang, the two opposing principles in nature. Yin is the feminine and negative principle, while Yang is masculine and positive. The ancients believed that all natural phenomena could be…

Festivals in Australia 2015

US video artist Bill Viola, a big name in the 2015 Adelaide line-up. Photograph: PR From a chamber opera about Marilyn Monroe to a one-woman show that embodies the voice of the river in Finnegans Wake, the line-up for the 2015 Adelaide festival shows a taste for the experimental. Competing with Viola for the limelight is Blinc, an enormous light-show cum digital art showcase…

Indigenous country

Called Tribal Peoples, First Peoples, Native Peoples, Indigenous Peoples constitute about 5% of the world’s population, yet account for about 15% of the world’s poor. There are approximately 370 million Indigenous people in the world, belonging to 5, different groups, in 90 countries worldwide. Indigenous people live in every region of the world, but about 70% of them live…

Christmas in Australia Pictures

Pretty as a picture! Miranda Kerr celebrated Christmas on Friday with an idyllic tree and perfectly wrapped presents from her home country of Australia With perfectly wrapped presents sitting underneath the picturesque tree, red and silver baubles sparkled under the soft light coming through the window. Speaking at a morning tea held at the Sydney Park Hyatt last week, the…

Aboriginal Cultural Heritage

Throughout Victoria, even in the most intensively developed regions, the landscape holds the imprint of thousands of generations of Aboriginal people. Find out more. Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Training Program Aboriginal Victoria (AV) has developed an exciting program of training for Aboriginal Victorians with a role or an interest in the State s unique and irreplaceable…

Typical Christmas tree

Christmas Tree Buyer s Guide Everything you need to help you find your perfect Christmas tree With so many places to buy artificial Christmas trees, it can be challenging to find the best tree for you. This guide will help you through the buying process, so that you can find a tree that you will be proud to display year after year. Find the right artificial Christmas tree size…

What is an Aboriginal person of Australian?

There are about 500 different Aboriginal peoples in Australia, each with their own language and territory and usually made up of a large number of separate clans. An Aboriginal child is being painted for a dance festival in Northern Queensland, Australia. © John Miles/Survival Archaeologists believe that the Aboriginals first came to the Australian continent around 45, years…

Aboriginal Australians today

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Aboriginal culture Definition

THE DREAMTIME According to Aboriginal belief, all life as it is today - Human, Animal, Bird and Fish is part of one vast unchanging network of relationships which can be traced to the great spirit ancestors of the Dreamtime. The Dreamtime continues as the Dreaming in the spiritual lives of aboriginal people today. The events of the ancient era of creation are enacted in ceremonies…

Aboriginal history of Australia

“The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice.” Mark Twain Since the European invasion of Australia in 1788, the Aboriginal people have been oppressed into a world unnatural to their existence for thousands of years. First came the influx of the strangers who carried with them diseases, which decimated the immediate population of the Sydney tribes…

Australia Travelling

Traveling to Australia is a pricey proposition - the airfare alone could bust your budget, and the sheer length of the flight encourages most visitors to stretch their visit for well over a week (it ll take you that long just to get over the jet lag!). So how can you afford a two-week or longer journey to the Land Down Under? It may not be as difficult as you think. We ve put…

Native Australian

Hi my name is Nick and here is how my obsession with these adorable little guys began… A few years ago my brother-in-law found a nest of native bees building in a water meter box. He showed me and instantly I was intrigued. I went home and began to research how to keep these little guys as a pet. I built a box and my wife filmed the process. Since then I have rekindled my obsession…

Typical Australian things

Buying Australian gifts for an American friend and her baby I ve seen similar questions asked but couldn t seem to locate them. I m travelling to the US in the next few months to visit a lifelong pal who s recently had a baby (her daughter will be 7 months old when I arrive in November). Over the 11 years we ve known each other the various differences between Australia and…

Aboriginal wedding ceremony

Warning. Australian Stories may contain the names and images of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people now deceased. Australian Stories also contain links to sites that may use images of Aboriginal and Islander people now deceased. Ceremonial performances are seen as the core of cultural life. For example, for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders these ceremonies bring…