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Australia's pearling industry - Australia's Culture Portal

Bardi people, Cape Leveque, Kimberley region, Western Australia Pearl shell, red pigment. Australia's pearling industry began long before European settlement. Northern Australian coastal dwelling Aborigines harvested the abundant pearl shell from the shal...

Chinatowns across Australia - Australia's Culture Portal

Image courtesy of the National Trust of Queensland, Hou Wang Temple. The businesses in Chinatowns offered accommodation, medicinal herbs, fresh food grown by Chinese market gardeners and groceries. A Chinese school, a language and culture centre and a Ch...

The changing face of modern Australia - Australia's Culture Portal

Image courtesy of the Migration Museum, History Trust of South Australia. The hundreds of thousands of people who arrived in Australia after the First World War greatly influenced Australia becoming a modern society. Image courtesy of the Australian War ...

The Beach - Australia's Culture Portal

Cable Beach, Broome, north-west Kimberley Coast, Western Australia. Most of Australia's population lives close to the coastline and the beach has long occupied a special place in the Australian identity. Based on this definition, the Coastal Studies Uni...

Western Australian Women Indigenous artists - Australia's Culture Portal

Image courtesy of Mangkaja Arts. Women have different Dreaming stories and law to men, and many of the women artists experienced pre-contact traditional life. The first wave of Aboriginal women artists in Western Australia includes Queenie McKenzie, Madi...

Theatre in Australia - Australia's Culture Portal

Like other art forms, Australian theatre has built on previous traditions and developed over time, shaped by local and international artistic movements, events and trends. Australian theatre history incorporates the stories of many actors, entrepreneurs,...

Australian of the Year Award - Australia's Culture Portal

2009 Australian of the Year, Professor Michael Dodson. Image courtesy of the National Australia Day Council. On Australia Day - 26 January - each year, the Prime Minister of Australia announces the Australian of the Year, Young Australian of the Year, Se...

Chinese New Year - Australia's Culture Portal

Chinese New Year is the longest and most important celebration in the Chinese calendar. Memorabilia is displayed in museums like the Chinese Museum, Melbourne, and the Golden Dragon Museum, Bendigo. Bendigo Chinese Association Golden Dragon Museum....

The Japanese bombing of Darwin and northern Australia - Australia's Culture Portal

Merchant vessels Barossa and Neptuna burning in Darwin Harbour near the jetty after receiving direct hits during the first Japanese air raid on 19 February 1942. During the Second World War, the Japanese flew 64 raids on Darwin and 33 raids on other targ...

Australian Indigenous ceremony - Australia's Culture Portal

For example, for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders these ceremonies bring together all aspects of their culture - song, dance, body decoration, sculpture and painting. Anny Nungarrayi (centre) with other Warlpiri women perform a traditional dance dur...

Australian folk music - Australia's Culture Portal

In the early days of the Australian colonies, convict ballads and songs became the foundation of Australia's later day folk music and its first original compositions. Bush songs, ballads and music influenced and defined the folk music of the 1950s. Indi...

The Man from Snowy River - Australia's Culture Portal

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 ...

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Willie Creek Pearls   (more info)

Willie Creek Pearls is a commercial pearling venture located near Broome, WA. The website provides information about the pearling industry, the pearl farm tours, the history of the Willie Creek Pearl Farm and the history of Broome's Pearl Farming and Cult

Magabala Books   (more info)

Magabala Books is an independent Aboriginal Corporation, with the objective of restoring, preserving and maintaining Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and South Sea Islander cultures. Magabala Books publishes works which have major Aboriginal, Torres Str

Short Street Gallery   (more info)

Representing contemporary regional artists and art centres from the Kimberley, Arnhem Land, Tiwi Islands and Western Desert.

The Next Big Thing (NBTWA)   (more info)

The Next Big Thing is Western Australia's richest band competition and one of the stateÆs major musical events. NBTWA gives contemporary musicians and solo acts around WA a chance at national exposure, and it is a truly statewide competition with heats he

Goolarri Media Enterprises Pty Ltd   (more info)

Goolarri Media Enterprises aims to foster the growth of indigenous media in the Kullarri region of Western Australia. To achieve this, Goolarri works in the sectors of radio, television, film and video production, music, events management, technical serv

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ABC Kimberley WA: Broome - Crime   (website Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) )

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ABC Kimberley WA: Broome - Industry   (website Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) )

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ABC Kimberley WA: Broome - Accidents   (website Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) )

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