Australian culture and customs

Cultural influences on Australia

Chinese festivals in Australia

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…

Christmas information for Kids

WHAT IS CHRISTMAS ALL ABOUT? Christmas is the date set aside for the celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ. Christians celebrate it on December 25th all over the world. Jesus was not born on December 25th exactly but this date was chosen to coincide with the pagan Roman celebrations honoring Saturnus (Harvest God) and Mithras (Ancient God of Light). The day of this celebrations…

Social Etiquette in Australia

Generally the social and cultural etiquette of Australia differs little from the standard customs of the Western world. But as with any country or region, Australians have their own take on what they consider to be good etiquette. Egalitarians Australia’s history as a British penal colony is somewhat brutal, with many stories of struggle and hardship. It is worth noting that…

Australian Body language

Cross Pose – Body language against the grain brings together Australian artworks from The University of Queensland Art Collection that draw on the human body as expressions of cross-cultural subjectivities and visual politics. The visual languages of the body in these artworks ‘pose’ questions, challenges, and interventions into normative thinking. We confront bodies generating…

Who were the aboriginal?

Avik Roy—a former adviser to Marco Rubio, Rick Perry, and Mitt Romney—wants to rescue conservatism from Trump’s divisive tribalism. But can he persuade his party to join him? Avik Roy, disaffected Republican, surveyed the upstairs room of a tony Palo Alto restaurant where a group of journalists and conservative intellectuals was sipping cocktails before a private dinner. “It’s…

Australian Santa Claus pictures

Vadodara: It was no less than a fairytale for an eight-year-old girl from Vadodara, whom an Australian couple who had clicked her pictures during their India visit, tracked her down with the help of friends without even knowing her name to provide her education and good life. Dick Smith and his wife Pip were on the tour of India in November when they spotted Divya, a homeless…