Articles related to "Australia"



Sydney guide: Things to do
Travel to Australia's biggest city to climb the Harbour Bridge, go to a concert at the Opera House, get the ferry to Manly, surf on Bondi beach and more.
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Australia's Monolingual Mindset
Australia's international relations, its economy and the cognitive development of its people could all improve immensely were its rich linguistic potential tapped.
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Australia’s big roadside things
Visitors to Australia can find the world's biggest banana, prawn, crocodile, bull, pineapple, mushroom, sheep, wine bottle, guitar, spider and rocking horse.
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Going to the Races in Australia
Going to the races is considered a grand social event for many Australians. This article will explain why a tourist should go and how they can best blend in.
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Aussie Zinfandel and Cab Sauvignon
Aussie Cabernet and Zinfandel meet the California standard and offer value for your wine dollar.
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Quick beach travel guide: Perth
Visitors to the world's most isolated city should check out Cottesloe, Scarborough, Floreat, Leighton or City Beach and have a dip in the Indian Ocean.
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The Champagne of Diamonds
With flashes of gold and pink, copper and peach, champagne diamonds captivate and enthrall to earn their fare share of the diamond market.
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Voyage of the First Fleet
Banished from their homeland in 1787, more than 750 of Britain's convicts were launched on a perilous sea voyage to the other side of the world.
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Easter Bunny and the Bilby
The common symbol of Easter the Easter bunny is being replaced by the Easter Bilby in Australia. The rabbit introduced by the first settlers became a plague pest whereas
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Free Tours At Port Arthur
Visit Australia's convict past at Port Arthur Historic Site on the Tasman Peninsula near Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. Free tours are offered with a two-day entry pass.
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Film Review: Gallipoli (1981)

Aboriginal And Macassan Traders
The myth of "first contact". Europeans were the last in Australia. International relations were established with Asia long before, between scholars, traders and farmers.
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Master Race Science
Here we explore the way the science of eugenics has been used to justify and popularise racial mythology.
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Romantic Babymoon Trips Abroad
Luxury resorts and 5-star hotels are increasingly offering pregnancy packages for baby moon vacations. Prenatal massage treatments are part of these romantic packages.
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Sexy Pirates Of Reconciliation
Australians won't achieve reconciliation with Aboriginal people until they can stop feeling guilty. How? Let's make Prime Minister Johnny Howard look like Johnny Depp.
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Hitching Down Under: Still a Very Happening Thing
In Australia, like in the United States there's a general feeling that hitching is a thing of the past, just not viable any more. The murder of seven hitch-hikers not far from my home didn't help lighten that view any! Still, I wasn't about to let that shake me -- well I was, but I hitched anyway ... believe me, hitching is alive and well in Oz, and thumbing there was one of the most beautiful months I can remember. Here's the story.
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Come for a stroll in my garden
I live and garden in Tasmania, the beautiful island state of Australia. Our island is made up of mountains, lakes and rivers.

Daffodils Down Under
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Film Review, The Proposition
Nick Cave's film "The Proposition" shows great courage in its portrayal of the covered-up frontier Aboriginal war. But does that courage extend to the marketing?
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Gay Klok's Tasmanian Garden Story: Garden #1 on the Virtual Gard
A Tasmanian Paradise
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Music Libraries around the World
Quite possibly when using these resources you will find that you need to TELNET the materials you desire. Basically what my articles point to are web sites, but some of these will lead you into tapping into the Internet, which is something that I have not HAD to do for several years.
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Babymoon Luxury Pregnancy Getaways
Baby-Moon is a new website that describes luxury resorts with pregnancy packages for mothers-to-be. Top hotels all over the world are offering babymoon pre-birth trips.
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Old vs New World White Wine Styles
Old World Style vs. New World Style
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Port Arthur Historic Site Tours,
Port Arthur, a restored convict penal settlement on the Tasman Peninsula, near Hobart, Tasmania, Australia has on offer several excellent and cheap tours of the site.
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Puglia travel facts and trivia
Southern Italy: Information and statistics on St Nicholas' bones, Greek-speaking communities, tarantulism dances, massacres, pasta, Europe's first cat & Roman bronzes
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Still Going to School: A follow-up

Swine Flu becomes Pandemic
The A(H1N1) virus, or swine flu as it is more commonly known has become a pandemic, spurring governments into recognising it as a health crisis.
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Apple Fighting Back: Nice big guns not aimed at their feet.

Motorcycle Legend Harry Hinton
The story of a remarkable Aussie motorcyclist - Harry Hinton. For over two decades he was the outstanding national and international road racer from 'down under'.
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Spain Facts: Aragon Travel Trivia
Spain: Information on bombs in Zaragoza's basilica, Teruel, Henry VIII's wife Catherine, Alquezar canyoning, filming at Loarre castle & the birthplaces of Opus Dei & Goya
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US: Chicago Travel Facts & Trivia
Illinois, United States: Information on Cubs baseball, Ernest Hemingway's house, hotdogs, deep dish pizza, Museum of Contemporary Photography & Valentines Day Massacre
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US: Kentucky Travel Facts & Trivia
United States: Information on the Bourbon Festival & the birthplaces of Mohammad Ali, KFC, Jim Beam whiskey, mint Julep, Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln.
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"It Isn't Easy Being Green," <em>Kermit the Frog</em>: Frogs - P

Aboriginal Humour
Colonists retaining Indigenous place names for towns are not always thrilled to find out what the Aboriginal language words actually mean...
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Another week at Apple

Greyhound Trivia

The Fraternity Among Hitch-hikers
Hitch-hiker's are usually pretty independent, or solitary beasts. They frown when another hitcheer or two turns up to compete for rides, and crowds don't travel as well as loners or pairs. But there is something all the same, that makes them mighty glad to see one another much of the time. A certain fraternity. Here's what reminded me so strongly of it.
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Film Review: Doing Time For Patsy Cline (1997)

Film Review: Mad Max (1979)

The internet, modems and Macs: History and Hardware

"TO THE LISTS!"
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Hip-Hop Gets WIRED?: Digital magazine meets digital music

Workplace Mothering
Do you leave your mothering skills at home when you enter your workplace? Or do you enjoy mothering co-workers and employees?
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Canadian Residential Schools
A legacy of physical and sexual abuse of Aboriginal students in religious-run residential schools has come to light in recent court cases.
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Definition of Aboriginal
The myth of race has long dominated definitions of Aboriginality in Australia, impacting on the plethora of Aboriginal policies that continue to marginalise our peoples.
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Diversity In Cinema
Can the future of multiculturalism be forecast from film trends? Is the secret to the survival of Indigenous cultures contained in the ethnic versatility of actors?
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English Playwright Caryl Churchill
As part of its 50th anniversary celebrations, The Royal Court is presenting Caryl Churchill's Top Girls in July 2006.
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False Protocols
Non-Indigenous workers entering Indigenous communities should follow local protocols. However, often they are given "gammon protocol" based on colonial mythologies.
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Native Quarantine Law
Part of Aboriginal Sovereignty is the right to impose native quarantine to stem the onslaught of foreign invaders (plants, I mean!)
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