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Australian rocks and mountains - Australia's Culture PortalOther rock structures in Australia, like Uluru, Mount Augustus and Bald Rock, have been described as monoliths. Uluru is located in the National Heritage Listed Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park about 335km to the south-west of Alice Springs in Northern Ter...
Traditional Indigenous architecture was domestic - across a range of well crafted and technologically designed shelters and residential camps. Courtesy of Queensland Museum and Aboriginal Environments Research Centre. Annual base camp structures, whether...
Internationally recognised Australian icons include buildings like the Sydney Opera House (architect Jørn Utzon) and the new Parliament House in Canberra (architect Romaldo Giurgola). Distinctive Australian architecture is also recognisable in the rural ...
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...
The Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia represents the monarch of Australia - currently Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia. The functions and roles of the Governor-General include appointing ambassadors, ministers and judges, giving Royal Ass...
It also contains links to sites that may use images of Aboriginal and Islander people now deceased. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures are complex and diverse. In Australia, Indigenous communities keep their cultural heritage alive by passin...
Blue Lake, Kosciuszko National Park. Australia has over 500 national parks. Most of our national parks are managed by the States and Territories of Australia; however the Commonwealth of Australia manages six national parks and a further 13 marine parks...
Australia is a unique and diverse country in every way - in culture, population, climate, geography, and history. For articles on specific topics about Australian history and culture visit our Australian Stories Index. Australia's population is concentrat...
The introduction of camels and the so-called 'Afghan' cameleers proved to be a turning point in the exploration and development of the Australian interior. Image courtesy of the State Library of South Australia: B 14739. Image courtesy of the State Libra...
Gp Capt Eaton Charles, CO RAAF Station Darwin. Image courtesy of the Charles Eaton Photographic Collection and Peter Dunn's Australia @ War. Eaton entered Australian aviation legend when commanding the air searches for two lost aircraft, the Kookaburra ...
With mounting evidence and stories circulating about their seemingly miraculous ability to find people, Aboriginal trackers' abilities became legendary in the minds of white Australians. Paul Raffaele, Aboriginal tracker Teddy Egan and son. The Australi...
Kakadu National Park covers an area of 19,804 square kilometres within the Alligator Rivers region of the Northern Territory. Around 50 per cent of the land in Kakadu National Park is Aboriginal land under the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) ...
Military bands have accompanied Australian ceremonies, parades, church services, mess dinners and performed at concerts on innumerable occasions since then. Band musicians and band music owe a great deal to Australia's Salvation Army. Other Australian p...
But Australia has a significant and untameable high country where another set of Australian myths and traditions of Australian identity were born - the high country of the Snowy Mountains. The Man from Snowy River is one of Australia's most famous poems ...
Public subscription has supported the construction of ocean baths and swimming pools around Australia. An innovative approach to swimming by Australia's first modern swimmers led to the development of the freestyle swimming stroke - the Australian Crawl....
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Uluru, Robert Bachmann Interactive Site (more info)
An interactive, multicultural transmedia project in continuous creation. Includes sound and video files of Aboriginal people singing and playing instruments, fractals, a free poster to download, a news section and a shop. A site created by Swiss composer
Maruku Arts is a craft company, owned and controlled by Anangu - Aboriginal people from the south east and west of Central Australia. Visit this site for information about carvings, spear throwers and shields, bowls, spears, clubs and boomerangs.
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ABC Local: Australia Wide - Sacred Sites (website Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) )Fri, 09 Oct 2009 10:41:00 +1100 http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/10/09/2709257.htm News Online australia <georss:where xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss"> <gml:Point xmlns:gml="http://www.opengis.net/gml"> <gml:pos>-26.000 134.500</gml:pos...
> Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park is inscribed on the World Heritage List for both its natural and cultural values. It is located 440 kilometres south-west of Alice Springs in the Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park. Drive the Red Centre Way>The Red Centre Way...
> Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park is inscribed on the World Heritage List for both its natural and cultural values. It is located 440 kilometres south-west of Alice Springs in the Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park. Drive the Red Centre Way>The Red Centre Way...
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