culture.gov.au
Connecting you with Australian culture online
Website collection policy - survey
Please take the time to fill out this surveyFeatured Stories
Art of the land in Western Australia Heidelberg School Crossing the Great Dividing RangeTop 10 Stories
Henry Lawson: Australian writer Convicts and the British colonies in Australia Australian food and drink The Great Depression Australian weather and the seasons Sydney Opera House Christmas season celebrations in Australia Remembrance Day European discovery and the colonisation of Australia The Australian Gold RushSearch results
Australian Stories matching your query...
Australian female filmmakers - Australia's Culture PortalAustralian films and filmmakers receive acclaim on the world stage, and the achievements of Australian women onscreen are celebrated. The play's success encouraged Kate to turn the play into a film (1920), which she co-directed with Charles Villiers, mak...
Every year since 1901 the Nobel Prize has been awarded for achievements in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature and for peace. The Nobel Prize is an international award administered by the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm, Sweden. Austral...
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...
UNESCO states that Indigenous populations number some 350 million individuals in more than 70 countries in the world, and that this represents more than 5000 languages and cultures. Today, many Indigenous peoples live on the fringes of society and are de...
This article may contain the names and images of Aboriginal and Islander people now deceased. While tools varied by group and location, Aboriginal people all had implements such as knives, scrapers, axe-heads, spears, various vessels for eating and drink...
There are a number of professions in Australia that contribute to a diverse design industry, including architects, interior designers, landscape architects, graphic designers, jewellers, industrial designers, fashion designers, furniture makers and textil...
Peter Dodds McCormick's Advance Australia Fair was officially declared Australia's national anthem by the Governor-General on 19 April 1984, close to 160 years after the first alternative anthems were put forward. South Australian Carl Linger wrote Song ...
Section of a glossary of Australian terms, 1936, Allan & Co. Image courtesy of National Library of Australia. Linguists and other cultural theorists value the study of Australian colloquialisms as a way of observing how the Australian character has develo...
Documents matching your query...
National Museum of Australia - Indigenous Languages (website National Museum of Australia (NMA) )BatmaniaChildren's spacesGamesLearn & playMaking TracksMuseum Mascot drawi ... Australian English borrowed more than 400 words from some 80 Aboriginal languages. The word found its way into nineteenth-century Australian pidgin, where the phrase to go bu...
When Europeans arrived on the southern continent there were around 250 indigenous languages spoken. As Indigenous Australia is largely an oral culture, the threat to languages is a threat to cultural identity and history. The meeting of different languag...
promoSmall {border: 1px solid #F85216;} . promoLarge th {background-color:#F85216;color: #FAFFE6;} . promoSmall th {background-color:#F85216;color:#FAFFE6;} ....
At the 2006 census, 55 695 people, or about one in eight Indigenous Australians, said that an Indigenous language was their primary household language. The Australian Government supports Indigenous languages through the Maintenance of Indigenous Language...
Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:49:00 +1100 http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2008/12/05/2439053.htm sydney-2000 ABC Sydney <media:thumbnail url="http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/200803/r232705_931389.jpg" width="70" height="70" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrs...
Our specialist language services bring local audiences English lessons and information about Australia as well as objective, independent news and current affairs. Radio Australia's Chinese service provides audiences with bi-lingual English lessons, inform...
Australian English borrowed more than 400 words from some 80 Aboriginal languages. An Aboriginal person, usually from south eastern Australia. First recorded in 1834, Koori comes from the term for 'Aboriginal man or person' in the language of the Awabak...
BatmaniaChildren's spacesGamesLearn & playMaking TracksMuseum Mascot drawi ... Australian English borrowed more than 400 words from some 80 Aboriginal languages. The word found its way into nineteenth-century Australian pidgin, where the phrase to go bu...
promoSmall {border: 1px solid #F85216;} . promoLarge th {background-color:#F85216;color: #FAFFE6;} . promoSmall th {background-color:#F85216;color:#FAFFE6;} ....
Some of the researchers and National Library staff involved with the Asian Accounts of Australia Project in March 2001. The Asian Collections contain some 3000 Australiana monographs in Japanese, 1000 in Chinese and around 200 in other Asian languages. ...
} #programdetails { PADDING-RIGHT: 0.8em; PADDING-LEFT: 0.8em; FLOAT: left; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0.8em; WIDTH: 350px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 20px; PADDING-TOP: 0.8em; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #e3efe6 } #programdetails P { FONT-SIZE: 85%; PADDING-BOTTOM: 2...
} #programdetails { PADDING-RIGHT: 0.8em; PADDING-LEFT: 0.8em; FLOAT: left; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0.8em; WIDTH: 350px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 20px; PADDING-TOP: 0.8em; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #e3efe6 } #programdetails P { FONT-SIZE: 85%; PADDING-BOTTOM: 2...
If you can see this message, you are probably not seeing this site in the way it was designed. This site uses cascading style sheets (CSS2) to control the way in which elements are displayed on the page.
You will still be able to access everything in this site, but we do recommend you upgrade your browser to a more recent, standards compliant, browser.