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Animation in Australia - Australia's Culture PortalAustralian animation is internationally recognised, Leisure (1976), Harvie Krumpet (2003) and Happy Feet (2006) have all won Oscars. Leisure employs cell style animation, Harvie Krumpet is made using the method of stop-motion claymation and Happy Feet fe...
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, 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...
Ernest Revell, Three Sisters, Blue Mountains, New South Wales, c. In March 1812, the Colonial Surveyor George William Evans was sent to explore Jervis Bay, to determine a possible inland route back to Port Jackson. Other explorers, such as Hume and Hove...
Bark Painting, Evans Collection, Northern Territory Library. Image courtesy of the Northern Territory Library and the National Library of Australia. Australian Indigenous art is the oldest ongoing tradition of art in the world. ...
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...
Aboriginal dancers telling Dreamtime stories at the Sydney Olympics opening ceremony. The Dreaming for Australian Indigenous people (sometimes referred to as the Dreamtime or Dreamtimes) is when the Ancestral Beings moved across the land and created life...
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...
- Plate I. 'General chart of Terra Australis or Australia, showing the parts explored between 1798 and 1803. Image courtesy of The State Library of South Australia. Indigenous Australian concepts of the world were 'based on another view of creation and on...
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CMS presenter records Dreamtime stories (website CBOnline )Phil Brown, who is a presenter on Canberra Multicultural Service (CMS),has recorded two Dreamtime stories, one about a bunyip and the other about the rainbow serpent, for the National Museum presention Circa. For the full story, see below: History from da...
Community Radio at a Glance The census showed the Australian population to be 10,508,186, plus an estimated 40,081 full-blood Aborigines. Disclaimer | Accessibility Copyright 2009 © CBOnline. ...
The Dreamtime (or Dreaming) is a term used to describe the period before living memory when Spirits emerged from beneath the earth and from the sky to create the land forms and all living things. The Dreamtime stories set down the laws for social and mor...
In Central Australia, the Goanna is a totemic spirit and an Aboriginal Goanna Painting refers to the works of Aboriginal artists who paint their Goanna Dreaming to honour their ancestral spirit. > The Aboriginal Goanna Painting refers to both works on bar...
The Dreamtime stories set down the laws for social and moral order and establish the cultural patterns and customs. In Central Australia, the Goanna is a totemic spirit and an Aboriginal Goanna Painting refers to the works of Aboriginal artists who paint ...
The Mountain Devil Lizard Dreaming is one of the most significant Dreamtime Stories for the famous Petyarre sisters of Utopia. > In the Utopia region of Central Australia there is one unique Lizard called the Mountain Devil Lizard or Thorny Devil Lizard....
Witty moral fables with delightfully drawn animal characters that illustrate the lifestyle of the Jirrbalngan. Their hunting and gathering techniques in the rainforests of far north Queensland are unique and intriguing. Who's that Jumbun in the Log? ...
Witty moral fables with delightfully drawn animal characters that illustrate the lifestyle of the Jirrbalngan. Their hunting and gathering techniques in the rainforests of far north Queensland are unique and intriguing. Who's that Jumbun in the Log? ...
Story: When people came to the waterhole, the snake comes to see what people come. After that they become friendly with the water snake. The snake at japingka knows everything that goes on there. ...
Story: "Six brothers were living at this place. Two women came here and the six Pajarriwarnti brothers were turned into a snake. A big strong wind, a willi-willi sprung up and dragged them down into the waterhole. ...
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