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The Archibald Prize - Australia's Culture PortalWinner of the 2008 Archibald Prize. Image courtesy of the Art Gallery of New South Wales. An exhibition of the paintings shortlisted for judging, in conjunction with those shortlisted for the Wynne Prize and the Sulman Prize, is held at the Art Gallery o...
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...
Australian children's literature rests on the enthusiasm and talents of many individuals, including a great many more Australian writers, illustrators and books than can be listed in this article. The earliest books published for children were mostly ins...
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...
Portrait of Henry Lawson by Sir John Longstaff. Colin Roderick , who published a biography of Lawson called Henry Lawson: a life, suggests that Lawson suffered from manic depression and sought refuge from his mood swings in alcohol. Much of Lawson's work...
Australian novels are an impressive collection of written works, and represent a dynamic body of excellent writers, some with significant international awards to their credit. The Australian poet Alec Hope said that, 'The Bunyip of Australian literature ...
Australian language, letters and literature in Australia has been influenced by Aboriginal storytelling, convict tales and the desire by colonists to relate their experiences in a new country. Similarly, the bush ballads of Henry Lawson and Andrew 'Banjo...
The songs and music that has come from people's experiences of living and surviving in the Australian bush has become known in Australia as 'bush music'. The convict songs of the early days of the Australian colonies became the foundation of Australia's ...
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...
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 ...
Eventually, streams catch more water or join other streams to form a river. The Murray River and its main tributary, the Darling River, are the two main rivers in the Murray-Darling River Basin. The Snowy River is probably Australia's most famous river,...
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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The Works of Banjo Paterson (more info)
A website providing information about one of Australia's best known poets and writers, Banjo Paterson, author of The Man from Snowy River and Waltzing Matilda. Includes his life, works, and links to other Paterson sites.
Wallis and Matilda (more info)
Australia's best-loved bush poet, A.B. (Banjo) Paterson, brought to musical life by the band 'Wallis and Matilda'. The Man From Snowy River, Clancy of The Overflow, and all the Banjo favourites.
Art Gallery Gauvin (more info)
Life-story portraits in oils on linen. Free articles monthly with tips for beginners, professionals and collectors. Link to gift shop with limited edition art prints and illustrated books of poems by Banjo Paterson and paintings by Dorothy Gauvin.
Dave's Australian Poetry Page (more info)
Homepage of David Campbell, a member of the Ulysses bike group, but who is dedicated to Australian poetry, especially bush ballads. Site includes information on many classic Australian poets. Some of the featured poets include Banjo Paterson, Henry Lawson
This website has biographical information about some of Australia's best known and influential writers - like David Malouf, Ruth Park, Dal Stivens, Christopher Koch and Tim Winton. There's also a number of influential texts by Banjo Paterson, C.J. Dennis
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Few Australians cannot recite part of Banjo Paterson,Äôs immortal ballad, The Man from Snowy River, even if it,Äôs only the first six words of the opening stanza: ,ÄòThere was movement at the station,Äô. Arguably Australia,Äôs most famous poem, The Man fr...
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