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Natural disasters in Australia - Australia's Culture Portal

Australia experiences a range of 'natural disasters' including bushfires, floods, severe storms, earthquakes and landslides. Fire can often follow drought, and drought can be followed by flood. I love a sunburnt country, a land of sweeping plains, Of ra...

Australian weather and the seasons - Australia's Culture Portal

Even though the four 'official' calendar seasons have the same names as the northern hemisphere seasons, the weather during these seasons is very different to northern hemisphere weather patterns. Indigenous Australians have long had their own seasonal c...

Australian novels - Australia's Culture Portal

Australian novels are an impressive collection of written works, and represent a dynamic body of excellent writers, some with significant international awards to their credit. The Australian poet Alec Hope said that, 'The Bunyip of Australian literature ...

The Australian Bush - Australia's Culture Portal

The bush has an iconic status in Australian life and features strongly in any debate about national identity, especially as expressed in Australian literature, painting, popular music, films and foods. The bush was revered as a source of national ideals b...

Christmas season celebrations in Australia - Australia's Culture Portal

Protestant and Roman Catholic churches hold Christmas Day services on 25 December. The Eastern churches - the Ethiopian Orthodox church, Russian Orthodox church and the Armenian church - celebrate Christmas on 6 or 7 January. Christmas is the celebratio...

Australian folklore - Australia's Culture Portal

Australian folklore, its traditions, customs and beliefs are based on both Indigenous and also non-Indigenous people's knowledge and experience of history in Australia. Some of Australia's folklore remembers the relationship between Europeans and Aborigi...

Papunya Tula art movement of the Western Desert - Australia's Culture Portal

The emergence of 'dot' paintings by Indigenous men from the western deserts of Central Australia in the early 1970s has been called the greatest art movement of the twentieth century. Papunya was described as a 'centralised government settlement establis...

Australian language, letters and literature - Australia's Culture Portal

Australian language, letters and literature in Australia has been influenced by Aboriginal storytelling, convict tales and the desire by colonists to relate their experiences in a new country. Similarly, the bush ballads of Henry Lawson and Andrew 'Banjo...

The Overland Telegraph - Australia's Culture Portal

Jack Laver, Bob Carew up a pole of the Overland Telegraph Line, 1921. Image courtesy of the State Library of South Australia: b2100793. Image courtesy of the State Library of South Australia: B 6793....

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ABC Melbourne: Melbourne - Event   (website Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) )

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ABC Melbourne: Melbourne - Event   (website Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) )

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ABC Local: Australia Wide - Bushfire   (website Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) )

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ABC Melbourne: Melbourne - Bushfire   (website Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) )

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ABC Local: Australia Wide - ROYAL COMMISSION. Victoria 2009 (Bushfires)   (website Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) )

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ABC Melbourne: Melbourne - Fires   (website Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) )

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New to Bushfires   (website CSIRO )

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ABC Local: Australia Wide - Fires   (website Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) )

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ABC Southern Queensland: Toowoomba - Fires   (website Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) )

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ABC Local: Australia Wide - Royal Commissions   (website Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) )

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ABC Local: Australia Wide - Event   (website Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) )

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