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Mateship, diggers and wartime - Australia's Culture PortalImage courtesy of the Australian War Memorial. The myth of the digger and the larrikin hero is an important part of the Australian experience of pastoralism, the goldfields, bushranging, shearing and droving. The slang term 'digger' re-surfaced during th...
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...
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 was set in the Australian bush, or was about bus...
The gold rushes of the nineteenth century and the lives of those who worked the goldfields - the 'diggers' - are etched into our national folklore. There is no doubt that the gold rushes had a huge effect on the Australian economy and our development as a...
Originally called Armistice Day, this day commemorated the end of the hostilities for the Great War (World War I), the signing of the armistice, which occurred on 11 November 1918 - the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month. After the end of World ...
On 25 April every year, Australians commemorate ANZAC Day. During the Second World War, ANZAC Day became a day on which the lives of all Australians lost in war time were remembered. Commemorative services are held at dawn on 25 April, the time of the o...
Digital games have come a long way since the days of Pong - and Australian games companies are helping them go even further. This has led to the Australian games industry earning a reputation for quality in a vast worldwide market hungry for new content....
Almost all of Australia's native mammals are marsupials. There are only two types of monotreme in the world - the platypus and the echidna - and both of them are found in Australia. Platypuses are found all along the eastern coast of Australia, from Tas...
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 ...
Australia experiences a range of 'natural disasters' including bushfires, floods, severe storms, earthquakes and landslides. Fire can often follow drought, and drought can be followed by flood. I love a sunburnt country, a land of sweeping plains, Of ra...
Unknown, Portrait of the bushranger Ned Kelly, 1880, glass plate negative. More books, songs and websites have been written about Ned Kelly and the Kelly Gang than any other group of Australian historical figures. Unknown, Kate Kelly, sister of Ned Kelly...
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"For Nichole"...Mates, I may be absent a while... (website Australian Bush Poetry, Verse & Music )This is what builds a community of bush poets and bush poetry lovers across the world. Australian Bush Poetry, Verse & Music > Bush Poetry & Verse > Members Poetry > "For Nichole"... Mates, I may be absent a while......
This is what builds a community of bush poets and bush poetry lovers across the world. Australian Bush Poetry, Verse & Music > Bush Poetry & Verse > Members Poetry > SHE'S DRY MATE.. > Author Topic: SHE'S DRY MATE.....
May 06, 2008, 10:43:54 PM > Welcome, Guest. Australian Bush Poetry, Verse & Music > Bush Poetry & Verse > Members Poetry > "For Nichole"... Mates, I may be absent a while......
This is what builds a community of bush poets and bush poetry lovers across the world. Australian Bush Poetry, Verse & Music > Bush Poetry & Verse > Members Poetry > SHE'S DRY MATE.. > Author Topic: SHE'S DRY MATE.....
Jim doesn’t put up much of a fight – well, Tamsen doesn’t let him get a word in – but at least his dog, Mate (skilfully played by Ivano Del Pio), is there to commiserate. Yes, Mate can talk - understood only by his owner, the &ldq...
News: Thanks for supporting the Forum. This is what builds a community of bush poets and bush poetry lovers across the world. > "My Old Mate">>Tom Chapman May 2007>>The glistening shafts of filtered light from early morning sun>Reflected spots of brightn...
This is what builds a community of bush poets and bush poetry lovers across the world. >>Please Call Me Mate>(c) Manfred Vijars - November 2007>>Here in this country a bloke is a bloke>and a girl is a Sheila, fair dinkum, no joke>and here is one more thin...
Australian Bush Poetry, Verse & Music > Bush Poetry & Verse > Members Poetry > "THE BLUE DOGS MATE". > Author Topic: "THE BLUE DOGS MATE". > "The Blue Dog's Mate.">>...
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