Articles related to "Australian Culture"



Higher Status for Music Education
Every Australian school student should have an effective music education. But certain major steps must be taken to give music in schools much higher priority.
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Miles Franklin Literary Award
The Miles Franklin Literary Award is the highlight of the Australian literary calendar, highlighting novels and plays focusing on Australian culture and lifestyle.
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Quality Teaching and Song Lyrics
Music teachers and students should be aware of how values, music and politics all intersect in Australia's favourite song.
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Australia's Egalitarian Honours
The current honours system reflects the national culture by rewarding achievements and service in a down-to-earth, relaxed way. Why turn it into a class struggle?
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Book Review: Sacred Places by Ken Inglis
K S Inglis's award winning Sacred Places offers exhaustively researched facts and informed insights into the significance of war memorials in Australian culture.
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What's Next On The Agenda For This Topic?
This is just my thoughts and plans for future directions for this topic.
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Diana Deified
Analysis of Diana and Me, a tragically prophetic Australian film.
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HOW DIFFERING CULTURES HELPED MAKE AUSTRALIA WHAT IT IS TODAY
An overview of how different groups of immigrants have brought their cultures to Australia and the changes the has brought. The major groups of immigrants and their contributions will be dealt with in separate articles.
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How to Talk to Your Doctor
A recent study from Australia challenges some stereotypes about men seeking help from the medical profession.
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The Archibald Prize
Every year Australians across the country join in debate over the awarding of the nation's highest honour in the visual arts: the Archibald Prize for portraiture.
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Book Review: Mahtab's Story
Inspired by the real life experiences of Muslim refugees, Mahtab's Story is a fictional tale of one girl's journey with her family from Afghanistan to Australia.
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Book Review: The Build Up by Phillip Gwynne
Detective Dusty Buchanan has something to prove as her search for a killer in Australia's tropical north leads her in an unexpected direction.
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Book Review: The Tall Man by Chloe Hooper
The death in custody of Cameron Mulrunji Doomadgee in November 2004 was the beginning of a legal process that is still ongoing almost four years later.
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Cyclone Tracy Destroyed Darwin, Christmas 1974
On Christmas Day 1974, Australians and people around the world heard the city of Darwin had been flattened by Cyclone Tracy. Seventy-one lives were lost in the disaster.
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Melbourne's Best Cheap Museums
Melbourne has lots of free stuff to do for visitors but there are plenty of fee-paying city attractions doable on a budget, such as the cheap and cheerful museums below.
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Nutritional Benefits and History of Vegemite - A Beginners Guide
The unofficial national food of Australia, Vegemite is a cultural icon that also delivers important health benefits.
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Picture Books with an Australian Theme
There are many picture books for children that include Australian characters and celebrate the Australian culture.
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State Broadcasting - A Commercial Liability?
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Book Review – It's Yr Life by Deckert and Bancks
Two teens, one in Australia and one in the US, teamed together for a school assignment think that they have nothing in common, until they have no-one else they can trust.
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Click Goes the Shears - Meaning of Aussie Lyrics
Click Goes the Shears is a famous old Australian Bush Ballad. The Aussie slang and sheep shearing terms used baffle many overseas visitors to Australia. All is revealed.
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Secret English Myth
The myth of one Black culture and one White culture is a myth fueled by greed, fostered by ignorance and carried by language. This language hides a monocultural agenda.
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(Folk)writing in post-colonial Australia
Australian performance poet, Jeltje, responds to the ongoing debate about multi-culturalism, and how her perceptions and the perceptions of other migrant poets and writers are shaping a "new" folk literature.
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Walkabout Art
An account of the American Walkabout Tour to the United States, by one of the poets who survived it.
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Global Hip Hip
From the U.S. to Senegal, Italy to Japan, Cuba to Australia and all of the various locales in between, hip hop has become a worldwide phenomenon.
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