Articles related to "Australian Culture"

First-person storytellers and film makers flex their creative muscles at the last major international film festival of 2009 in a free to the public demonstration.

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.

The Miles Franklin Literary Award is the highlight of the Australian literary calendar, highlighting novels and plays focusing on Australian culture and lifestyle.

Music teachers and students should be aware of how values, music and politics all intersect in Australia's favourite song.

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?

K S Inglis's award winning Sacred Places offers exhaustively researched facts and informed insights into the significance of war memorials in Australian culture.

Award-winning Australian author Tim Winton and photographer Martin Mischkulnig join forces in this photographic tribute to Australian outback towns.

A recent study from Australia challenges some stereotypes about men seeking help from the medical profession.

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.

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.

Detective Dusty Buchanan has something to prove as her search for a killer in Australia's tropical north leads her in an unexpected direction.

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.

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.

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.

The unofficial national food of Australia, Vegemite is a cultural icon that also delivers important health benefits.

There are many picture books for children that include Australian characters and celebrate the Australian culture.

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.

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.

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.

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.