Australian culture and customs

What does Australia celebrate?

What is Aboriginal cultural?

Christmas around the World Australia

Aboriginal people culture

Aborigines of Australia today

PALS is an initiative of the Department of Aboriginal Affairs which encourages Western Australian schools to develop projects that promote reconciliation in their local community. PALS commenced in 2004 and is based on the core attributes of: artnership between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people; Acceptance of difference as unique and to be respected; Learning more about…

Aboriginal Australian people

Credit: NIH The first complete sequences of the Y chromosomes of Aboriginal Australian men have revealed a deep indigenous genetic history tracing all the way back to the initial settlement of the continent 50 thousand years ago, according to a study published in the journal Current Biology today. The study by researchers from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and collaborators…

Sport in Australian culture

Aussie, Aussie, Aussie, Oi, Oi, Oi: why do we love sport so much?

Some information about Australia

With a lot of concern raised in the media over next week’s Census, we thought it fitting to answer some of the most common queries and concerns raised so far to help put your mind at ease. Is your data safe? Privacy is an important issue. In regards to the Census, it is important to note that names and addresses are kept securely in a separate place to your other Census data…

Australian cultural influences

British settlers arrived in Australia in 1788 and the extent of the British influence is still evident today. The British Union Jack features predominantly on our national flag and the Queen is Australia s Head of State. British models also form the basis of Australia s legal and political systems, as well providing our national language. Up until World War II, Britain remained…

Sacred Place In Australian

An exploration of how and why places become invested with SACREDNESS and how the SACRED is embodied or made manifest through ART and ARCHITECTURE KATA TJUTA, AUSTRALIA Kata Tjuta, meaning many heads to the Australian Aborigines, is a group of more than 30 rounded red conglomerate masses of rock rising out of the desert plain in the Northern Territory of Australia. Some of the…

Information report on Australia

One of the objects of the Privacy Act is to facilitate an efficient credit reporting system while ensuring that the privacy of individuals is respected. In recognition of that objective, the laws about credit reporting are intended to balance individuals’ interest in protecting their personal information with the need to ensure that credit providers have sufficient information…

Australian festivals

Nothing better signals the arrival of spring than a display of bright, colourful flowers carpeting the landscape. It’s a comforting sign, indicating that the cold and wet of winter has passed (for many Australians) and plenty of sun-kissed days lie ahead. A stack of destinations around Australia embrace the floral theme by hosting flower festivals each spring. In fact, some…

Modern Australian Aboriginal

In the discussions about the Shared Responsibility Agreement (SRA) negotiated with the Mulan community, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Tom Calma stated that: It would be unacceptable for Indigenous people to be denied basic citizenship services that all Australians take for grantedany proposals must comply fully with the Racial Discrimination…

Costumes of Australia

Costumes in Australia Welcome to Costumes in Australia! We specialise in women’s costumes, halloween costumes, lingerie, and dresses that are perfect for any occasion that will require you to look drop-dead gorgeous. We design, manufacture, and distribute our own products, allowing us to ensure that every item that leaves the Costumes AU store is made from high-quality materials…

Australian Aboriginal Tribe names

In the reclaiming of heritages forcibly denied people as a result of conversion to Christianity and of government policies such as assimilation, many Indigenous people have rejected the names and naming of the colonisers. Thus Aborigines is not used by many Indigenous Australians. However, because the Indigenous people of this country did not have a generic name for themselves…

Native Peoples of Australia

The Aboriginal Language Map attempts to represent all of the language or tribal or nation groups of Indigenous people of Australia. It indicates general locations of larger groupings of people which may include smaller groups such as clans, dialects or individual languages in a group. David R Horton is the creator of the Indigenous Language Map. This map is based on language…

Christmas in Australia traditions

People of Australia love to send Christmas cards. Each year they send more than 100 million of them. The first Australian Christmas card was made in 1881 by John Sands. In Australia Christmas is celebrated in the summer. There is no snow which many in the northern hemisphere closely relate to Christmas. That is why some Christmas carols we know have been changed a bit. When…

Aboriginal spirituality beliefs

Our spirituality is a oneness and an interconnectedness with all that lives and breathes, even with all that does not live or breathe.—Mudrooroo, Aboriginal writer [1] Aboriginal spirituality, Mudrooroo continues, “is a feeling of oneness, of belonging”, a connectedness with “deep innermost feelings”. Everything else is secondary. Aboriginal spirituality involves the land The…

Information report about Australia

The model Work Health and Safety (WHS) Act sets out certain types of workplace incidents that need to be notified to regulators. Only the most serious safety incidents are intended to be notifiable and they trigger requirements to preserve the incident site pending further direction from the regulator. Notifiable incidents are: the death of a person a ‘serious injury or illness’…

Cultural Background Australia

Parenting is known to vary as a function of culture and education. It may also depend on the nature of the caregiver s relationship to the child (whether the caregiver is a parent or unrelated day care provider, for example), as well as the context in which the relationship takes place. It may therefore be quite common for Australian children to experience differential parenting…