Australian culture and customs

Australian cultural dance

Australian cultural Icons

Family traditions in Australia

Australian Aboriginal gender roles

Traditional Aboriginal culture

What are the countries in Australia?

Australian Custom made knives

Australian Custom knife Maker

Indigenous Cultures

Christmas celebrated in Australia

Arts festivals Australia

Sydney lights up – Australia s most iconic building, the Sydney Opera House, turns into an animated, curved and multi-faceted canvas that features Australian indigenous art, such as the work of artist Donny Woolagoodja (pictured), during the Songlines exhibition. Lights festival brightens up Australia Museum of Contemporary Art – The Matter of Painting by the Paris-based…

Understanding Aboriginal culture

“My goal for the Aboriginal community is that someday we can be seen simply as humans, with the same feelings and fears. That’s what we’re working towards here.” — Dr. Ernie Grant, Jirrbal Rainforest People elder and Aboriginal scholar. Elita, one of the Jirrbal youth involved in Café Chloe. The Aboriginal map of Australia laid out before us on the table at Café Chloe was not…

Indigenous Peoples in Australia

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures have changed and developed over time. However, European colonisation of Australia brought very rapid changes to Aboriginal society and dramatically affected Aboriginal land and the ways people lived. Australia has always had a mix of cultures and people although not in the same way as it does today. Before 1788 Australia was populated…

Australian Arts, culture

Australia s Art and culture is a fine reflection of both contemporary and traditional societies dating back to the era of the Aboriginal Islanders. The indigenous inhabitants of Australia known as the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders were a diverse group of people with varied cultural beliefs, practices and traditions and spoke many different languages. The foundation…

Biggest Festival in Australia

Under the agreements, each organisation has committed to strengthen cultural ties between Adelaide – Australia’s best festival city and Edinburgh, the world’s biggest festival city. Adelaide Fringe and Edinburgh Festival Fringe signed a Memorandum of Understanding which commits the two to explore collaborative opportunities to learn from each other’s event delivery, investigate…

Aboriginal Australian Religion

Its forms and practices have been profoundly influenced by the impact of colonialism, both past and present. Some Indigenous Australians share the religious beliefs and values of religions introduced into Australia from other cultures around the world, particularly Europe. But for most people religious beliefs are derived from a sense of belonging-to the land, to the sea, to…

Racial Demographics of Australia

Overview | Diversity of birthplace | Diversity of language | Diversity of religion and spiritual beliefs Overview This section has been updated by the University of Western Sydney. Australia has a unique history that has shaped the diversity of its peoples, their cultures and lifestyles today. Three major contributors to Australia s demographic make-up are a diverse Indigenous…

Aussie traditions

Thongs these go on your feet. But it occurs to me that for foreigners coming to Australia for the first time, it would seem like we do some pretty strange stuff here as well. So in the interests of fairness, and with a lot of help from a band of expat friends of mine, I ve compiled this list of the bizarre things that Australians get up to. It s a great Aussie tradition to…

Indigenous Religions

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Christmas decorations Australia

Having answered that question on when to put up Christmas decorations I was left wondering what is the significants of the 12 days after Christmas which take us to the 6th January which is the day to take down the decorations. Help arrived in the form of an email From Janet, Charmhaven, NSW. Answer to your question about the 12 days of Xmas. I just read in a magazine that they…