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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 food and drink - Australia's Culture Portal

Before white settlement, Aboriginal people survived off the native plants and animals of the Australian environment for thousands of years. Bush foods such as berries, roots and nectars were a vital part of the aboriginal diet in many areas. In the late...

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

A lady holding a small child [Quarantine Station], Tom Gray Collection, 3. Image courtesy of Manly Quarantine Station. Eventually, the arrival of people from diverse societies created a cultural diversity that is now an integral part of Australian society...

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...

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...

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Frog and Bush Tucker by Flora Holt   (website Julalikari Council Women's Arts and Crafts Centre )

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Budgies and Bush Tucker by Peggy Jones   (website Julalikari Council Women's Arts and Crafts Centre )

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Bush Tucker by Peggy Jones   (website Julalikari Council Women's Arts and Crafts Centre )

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Bush Tucker and Women Grinding Seed by Jessica Jones   (website Julalikari Council Women's Arts and Crafts Centre )

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ARTEREAL BUSH TUCKER   (website Artereal Gallery )

The Association Warlukurlangu Artists Aboriginal Association of Yuendumu was incorporated in 1986. The art centre's share is spent on: operational expenses, such as freight, power, office and IT equipment; promotions; art materials; and staffing costs. ...

ARTEREAL BUSH TUCKER 07   (website Artereal Gallery )

An Aboriginal exhibition with work from three desert communities, Yuendumu on the Tanami track, Haasts Bluff at the foot of the west McDonald Ranges and Amata in the north west corner of South Australia . The exhibition will be opened between 3-5pm Satur...

ARTEREAL Ikuntji Artists BUSH TUCKER   (website Artereal Gallery )

The Ikuntji Women's Centre at Haasts Bluff was opened in 1992 under the influence of then community president Ester Jugadai. Bush trips are regularly organised by the art centre as they are important to the aboriginal artists and their work. Collectivel...

ARTEREAL Tjanpi-Desert-Weavers BUSH TUCKER   (website Artereal Gallery )

Tjanpi (pronounced 'J-um-Py') is the Aboriginal women's basket weaving project and enterprise which started in the Central Western Desert region of Australia. Ngaanyatjarra communities in Western Australia were the first to start weaving in 1995 after th...

ARTEREAL Tjala-Artists BUSH TUCKER   (website Artereal Gallery )

Tjala Arts is a relatively new Aboriginal art organisation compared to the majority of Aboriginal art centres around Australia . In 1997 the women of Amata and Tjurma Homelands began working towards finding a permanent home for what would become Minymaku...

ARTEREAL BUSH TUCKER 08   (website Artereal Gallery )

'Bush Tucker' brings together paintings by artists of the Ikuntji and Warlukurlangu artist communities from the Central Desert regions outside Alice Springs, whose vibrant paintings communicate the intense colours and the changing seasons of the Desert. ...

Rural Online - 11/03/2010: Students plant bush tucker orchard   (website Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) )

Students at Alawa Primary School and Charles Darwin University have teamed up to plant an orchard of 50 bush tucker trees. Scott McDonald is the head of the horticulture and aquaculture department at Charles Darwin University, and explains it's important ...

Aboriginal Bush Tucker Tours, Guides and Information : Top End Australia: Northern Territory Official Travel Site   (website Northern Territory Visitors Centre NT )

Nature's Way>Waterfalls, rock art, culture - discover this enchanted land. Aboriginal Art in Arnhem Land>Arnhem Land is a region rich with Aboriginal culture and art. Aboriginal Art in Alice Springs>Aboriginal art is a thriving industry in Alice Springs,...

Tracking in Kakadu - Bush Tucker Tour - Northern Territory Official Travel Site   (website Northern Territory Visitors Centre NT )

>>No, this isn,Äôt an episode of Survivor but an Animal Tracks tour in World Heritage-listed Kakadu National Park. Patsy is one of the local Bininj (Kakadu,Äôs Aboriginal people) who knows this land like the back of her hand. >>Animal Tracks operates on...

Aboriginal Bush Tucker Tours, Guides and Information : Top End Australia: Northern Territory Official Travel Site   (website Northern Territory Visitors Centre NT )

Aboriginal Art in Arnhem Land>Arnhem Land is a region rich with Aboriginal culture and art. Aboriginal Artist>Learn about aboriginal culture and see the Outback through the eyes of aboriginal artist Tommy Crow. Aboriginal Art in Alice Springs>Aboriginal ...