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The Archibald Prize - Australia's Culture PortalWinner of the 2008 Archibald Prize. Image courtesy of the Art Gallery of New South Wales. An exhibition of the paintings shortlisted for judging, in conjunction with those shortlisted for the Wynne Prize and the Sulman Prize, is held at the Art Gallery o...
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...
Australia has a strong and vibrant history of political cartooning. Since the 1830s, when political cartoons were first featured in Australian newspapers, they have provided satirical, witty or humorous comment on political and public affairs, social cus...
Colin Roderick , who published a biography of Lawson called Henry Lawson: a life, suggests that Lawson suffered from manic depression and sought refuge from his mood swings in alcohol. Much of Lawson's work was set in the Australian bush, or was about bus...
From the Australian Magazine's debut in 1821, Australia's magazine industry developed rapidly in the late nineteenth century through popular titles such as the Bulletin and Melbourne Punch. Alongside these more mainstream publications, a series of small,...
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 ...
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...
For many Australians the phrase 'the lucky country' has a particular resonance. It has been paraphrased by politicians - 'the clever country' - and when Kylie Minogue sings we're 'lucky, lucky, lucky', we all know what she means. Those countries were cle...
The songs and music that has come from people's experiences of living and surviving in the Australian bush has become known in Australia as 'bush music'. The convict songs of the early days of the Australian colonies became the foundation of Australia's ...
Since then, Australian television has grown to include: five national free-to-air stations; regional stations; community stations; and countless cable stations. The government-owned Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC) also expanded its radio broadca...
Comedy is central to Australian cultural identity. Comedy forms the basis of many forms of popular entertainment from live cabaret with stand up comedians to television sketch shows. Australia is a country of climatic and geographic extremes and Austral...
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The Australian Bush Balladeers Association Incorporated (ABBA) (more info)
The associaton unites and promotes Australian Bush Balladeers and Bush Ballad music. The website includes news and events, membership details, the Balladeers Bulletin, and the monthly newsletter Bush Poets News where Bush Poet Merv Webster keeps you infor
Melbourne Writers' Network (more info)
The Melbourne Writers' Network is a forum on the internet for writers in Melbourne and Victoria, Australia. Authors, journalists, poets, script writers, playwrights and other creative writers are welcome to join this Ezboard forum. Members are asked to he
Independent Country Music Bulletin (more info)
The Country Music Bulletin is Australia's independent country music industry quarterly and provides useful information for Australian artists, musicians, recording studios, booking agents, festival organisers, radio presenters and other country music indu
Country Music Bulletin (more info)
This website is an extension of the printed Country Music Bulletin and is designed to provide a service and resource for the general public, as well as the Australian country music industry.
Arts Hub provides a comprehensive online arts jobs classifieds service for Australian arts workers, across all arts categories. Arts Hub is a leading online source of Australian arts news, including exclusive feature stories and regular columns, all publi
DramaWest is about the teaching and learning of drama and theatre. It provides professional development, information and advice on pedagogy and policy and a conduit for the discussion of issues in drama education. On the website there is the DramaWest new
The East Coast Blues and Roots Music Festival (more info)
The Blues and Roots Festival is held annually over the Easter weekend in Bryon Bay on the NSW north coast. The website includes news, an archive of information on previous years' festivals, the lineup for the current year's festival, ticket information an
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About the Bulletin (website Independent Country Music Bulletin )Regular surveys show the Independent Country Music Bulletin has a readership conservatively estimated at between 6,000 and 8,000. The Bulletin is a national target based trade publication focusing on the Australian country music industry. Running paralle...
The COUNTRY MUSIC BULLETIN is Australia's independent country music industry quarterly. The publication was launched in June 1999 following comments from the Musicians' Headquarters during the annual Tamworth Country Music Festival in January of that year...
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