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Animation in Australia - Australia's Culture PortalAustralian animation is internationally recognised, Leisure (1976), Harvey Krumpet (2003) and Happy Feet (2006) have all won Oscars. Leisure employs cell style animation, Harvey 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...
In March 1812 Bundle accompanied the Surveyor George William Evans on board the Lady Nelson in the party sent to explore Jervis Bay, to determine a possible inland route back to Port Jackson. In 1818, Bundle, with another Aboriginal named 'Broughton', ac...
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...
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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...
About CBOnline & Community Broadcasting The census showed the Australian population to be 10,508,186, plus an estimated 40,081 full-blood Aborigines. Disclaimer | Accessibility Copyright 2008 © CBOnline. ...
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> <meta name="description" content="Readings â~" independent Australian retailers and online merchants of fine books, music and film." From Ravenshoe, these simply and wittily told stories are truly moral fables from the rainforest people of northern Quee...
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....
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...
Aboriginal Artist Malcolm Maloney Jagamara talks about inheriting the Water Dreaming in 1998 and the special ceremonies that followed. Aboriginal Artist Malcolm Maloney Jagamara talks about inheriting the Water Dreaming in 1998. > Malcolm's painting Ngap...
Aboriginal Artist Malcolm Maloney Jagamara talks about the significance of Inapaku or Lake Suprise, the fresh water lake in the middle of the Australian Tanami desert. Aboriginal Artist Malcolm Maloney Jagamara talks about the significance of Inapaku or ...
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...
Aboriginal artist Malcolm Jagamarra talks to Sabine about his painting Budgerigar Dreaming and his relationship with this dreaming as a descendent of the budgerigar ancesotors. An original piece by Malcolm, he describes the special sites represented and t...
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 ...
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Works reproduced with permission of the estates of Rover Thomas (Joolama) and Queenie McKenzie (Nakarra), courtesy Red Rock Art, Kununurra. ...
"1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> Dreamtime story of the willy willy 1989 earth pigments and natural binder on canvas 160.1 x 200.1 cm Felton Bequest, 1990 O.1-1990 Works reproduced with permission of the estates of Rover Thomas (Joolama) and Queenie McKenz...
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