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ANZAC Day - Australia's Culture PortalOn 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...
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...
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 ...
Music and song have helped document Australia's participation in conflict and war from the Australian colonies' first representation in the Sudan War in 1885, through the First and Second World Wars, to the Gulf and Iraq wars. Until the First World War, ...
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...
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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Who'll Come A Waltzing Matilda With Me (more info)
This site aims to reveal some of the important primary and secondary sources that have informed the stories, myths and interpretations behind the song 'Waltzing Matilda', AustraliaÆs best known and much loved national song.
The Home Page of Australian Folk Singer, Eric Bogle, includes info about his music and discography, songbooks and videos, tour dates and concerts, awards and other info about Eric and his band. One of his best known songs is 'And the Band played Waltzing
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.
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Who'll come a Waltzing Matilda with me? (website(s) National Library of Australia (NLA) Who'll Come A Waltzing Matilda With Me )'Waltzing Matilda' arranged and harmonised by Harry A.Nathan Courtesy of the National Archives of Australia, A1716 item 261 Next...
In 1954 Gertrud Bodenwieser created a three act dance work called Waltzing Matilda for her company, which at that stage was known as the Bodenwieser Modern Expressive Ballet. The Bodenwieser Waltzing Matilda had an original score by Werner Baer based the...
In 1954 Gertrud Bodenwieser created a three act dance work called Waltzing Matilda for her company, which at that stage was known as the Bodenwieser Modern Expressive Ballet. The Bodenwieser Waltzing Matilda had an original score by Werner Baer based the...
In 1954 Gertrud Bodenwieser created a three act dance work called Waltzing Matilda for her company, which at that stage was known as the Bodenwieser Modern Expressive Ballet. The Bodenwieser Waltzing Matilda had an original score by Werner Baer based the...
In 1954 Gertrud Bodenwieser created a three act dance work called Waltzing Matilda for her company, which at that stage was known as the Bodenwieser Modern Expressive Ballet. The Bodenwieser Waltzing Matilda had an original score by Werner Baer based the...
In 1954 Gertrud Bodenwieser created a three act dance work called Waltzing Matilda for her company, which at that stage was known as the Bodenwieser Modern Expressive Ballet. The Bodenwieser Waltzing Matilda had an original score by Werner Baer based the...
Marie Cowan´s 1903 arrangement of `Waltzing Matilda´, believed to have been issued as promotional material for James Inglis & Co. Ltd, Sydney, whose advertisement for Billy tea appears on the back cover. NLA an7412026 Next...
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