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The Boer War - Australia's Culture PortalAround 16,000 Australians volunteered to fight for Britain against the Dutch-Afrikaner, or Boer, settlers in South Africa from 1899 to 1902. Image courtesy of the Australian War Memorial: P01065.001. Matthews, Australian Light Horse in Boer War uniform. ...
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 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 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science was established in 1927 and the Academy Awards or Oscars ceremonies commenced in 1929. Image courtesy of Latent Image Productions Pty Ltd and National Film & Sound Archive. Over the past 60 years Australians...
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Urban Cinefile BREAKER MORANT (1979) - CLASSIC CLIP (website Urban Cinefile )Director: Bruce Beresford, Producer: Matt Carroll, South Australian Film Corporation (SAFC). Courtesy of South Australian Film Corporation and the Kodak/Atlab Cinema Collection at ScreenSound Australia, the National Screen and Sound Archive. (Since 1993,...
National Film and Sound Archive National Collection> Title Number 4461. One of the most famous and popular of all Australian films, Beresford's Breaker Morant is based on the Boer War court martial of three Carbineers: an adventurer, Harry 'Breaker' Moran...
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In a lonely, windswept hill camp, far out in the veldt, Captain Hunt (Terence Donovan) instructs Captain Taylor (John Waters) to execute Boer prisoners brought in by Morant (Edward Woodward). Morant joins Captain Hunt (Terence Donovan) and intelligence o...
Lambert made this quick sketch at Richmond, New South Wales, when he visited the area with Breaker Morant. The Breaker s accompanying poem, Dreaming, is dated 31 December 1897, and Lambert made the drawing at about the same time. The sketch is inscribed...
In the Boer War in South Africa in 1901, three Australian 'irregular soldiers are tried by a British military court for the murder of 12 prisoners and a German missionary. The accused are Lieutenants Harry Morant (Edward Woodward), Peter Handcock (Bryan ...
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> 'The gentleman's war is over' 1:17 > 'This is what comes of Empire building' 2:58 Much of the film is about youth versus experience, honesty versus cynicism and political expediency ,Äì an interesting ethical domain given that it,Äôs a film about war ...
Never before was daughter of Eve endow'd with a face so fair, There be none of God's holy angels with a beauty half so rare As thine, nor dreamer has ever dreamed the loveliness you wear. There's a gleam in your golden tress, Lieb! Return to The Poetry o...
What are you doing now, Paddy Magee? Grafting, or spelling now, Paddy Magee? Taking a pick-me-up, Paddy Magee?...
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