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Sydney Olympic Games, 2000: related links - Australia's Culture Portal

The Olympic Games: past present and future Olympic- and sports-related sites Sydney: home of the 2000 Olympic Games Australia: culture, heritage, history Sydney Olympic website (now archived) The Official site of the Games of the XXVII Olympiad Sydney, N...

Sydney Olympic Games, 2000 - Australia's Culture Portal

1956: Australia held its first Olympics in Melbourne. 1993: Sydney, Australia was awarded the right to host the 2000 Olympic Games. Lighting of the Olympic torch The lighting of the Olympic torch will take place at noon, 12 May, 2000 at Olympia, the site ...

New Circus in Australia - Australia's Culture Portal

Hoopdive, The Flying Fruit Fly Circus. Troupes like the Flying Fruit Fly Circus and Circus Oz have spearheaded a new style of circus performance that features highly physical activities and no animal tricks. Judith Lanigan trained with a small modern cir...

Commonwealth Games Melbourne 2006 - Australia's Culture Portal

Cathy Freeman, with the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games identity logo. Photograph courtesy of Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games Corporation. The XVIII Commonwealth Games were held in Melbourne from 15 to 26 March 2006. ...

Disability and the arts - Australia's Culture Portal

Art forms such as dance, theatre, writing, music and the visual arts draw on the creativity and interests of Australians of many abilities. The Australia Council, Arts Access Australia, [formerly Disability in the Arts, Disadvantage in the Arts (DADAA)] ...

Australian national dress - Australia's Culture Portal

While Australia has no single uniform national costume, an Australian national dress style, based on specific local dress styles, has emerged in response to climate, lifestyle and identity. An Australian style can be seen clearly in the main types of loc...

Football in Australia - Australia's Culture Portal

For those living in the Northern Territory, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia, football usually refers to Australian Rules Football. In the Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, and Queensland, it could mean rugby league ...

Australian Indigenous ceremony - Australia's Culture Portal

For example, for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders these ceremonies bring together all aspects of their culture - song, dance, body decoration, sculpture and painting. Anny Nungarrayi (centre) with other Warlpiri women perform a traditional dance dur...

Papunya Tula art movement of the Western Desert - Australia's Culture Portal

The emergence of 'dot' paintings by Indigenous men from the western deserts of Central Australia in the early 1970s has been called the greatest art movement of the twentieth century. Papunya was described as a 'centralised government settlement establis...

Australian folk music - Australia's Culture Portal

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...

Australian pop music - Australia's Culture Portal

Australian singer Little Pattie and the band, Col Joye and the Joye Boys, perform for soldiers of Headquarters Australian Force Vietnam, in the Free World Military building, Saigon, Vietnam. Like rock music, popular, or pop music had its origins in the 1...

Australian sculpture - Australia's Culture Portal

Sculpture is part of many everyday Australian places including streets, public squares, buildings, parks and gardens. The influence of sculpture is obvious in the overall design of some notable Australian buildings such as Federation Square and The Austr...

Sporting greats - Stories from Australia's Culture Portal

Australia reveres and treasures its sporting heroes. Sporting greats have inspired and united Australians, who have shared, celebrated and rewarded their successes. Since the advent of television in the 1950s, Australians have embraced the opportunity to...

Reconciliation - Australia's Culture Portal

Reconciliation is about unity and respect between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders and non-Indigenous Australians. It is about respect for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander heritage and valuing justice and equity for all Australians. National R...

Sorry Day and the Stolen Generation - Australia's Culture Portal

The first National Sorry Day was held on 26 May 1998 - one year after the tabling of the report Bringing them Home, May 1997. Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission into the removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their fami...

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Studio Theatre Opera House www.sydneyoperahouse.com/ Bennelong Point Sydney 2000 ARTnews - Australia's best guide to gallery links and maps. You can surf the Australian Art Scene, without any prior knowledge of it, reviews, artist's sites, art venues and   (website ARTnews Australia )

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Museum of Sydney www.hht.nsw.gov.au Cnr. Bridge & Phillip Street Sydney 2000 ARTnews - Australia's best guide to gallery links and maps. You can surf the Australian Art Scene, without any prior knowledge of it, reviews, artist's sites, art venues and arts   (website ARTnews Australia )

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AGNSW: art after hours www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/events/aah Art Gallery Road The Domain, Sydney 2000 The Domain, Sydney 2000 ARTnews - Australia's best guide to gallery links and maps. You can surf the Australian Art Scene, without any prior knowledge of   (website ARTnews Australia )

Artist: Kelsang Dornying, Simon Borg-Olivier, Robbin and Nanako Reza, Joanne Kang, Lindy Lee, Barbara Flynn, Maharshi Raval, Harry Sutherland Jazz Band and Carl Plate. Artist: Emma Tom, André Frankovits, Patricia Lovell, Senator Bob Brown and Dr Gerard Va...

AGNSW www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au Art Gallery Road The Domain, Sydney 2000 The Domain, Sydney 2000 ARTnews - Australia's best guide to gallery links and maps. You can surf the Australian Art Scene, without any prior knowledge of it, reviews, artist's sites,   (website ARTnews Australia )

The Art Gallery of New South Wales is NSW's largest gallery. Artist: Gordon Andrews, Max Dupain, Kerry Dundas, Hal Missingham, Axel Poignant and David Potts. Artist: Phil Collins (UK), Cao Fei (People's Republic of China), Gabriella Mangano and Silvana M...

New Guinea Arts www.newguineaarts.com Level 8, Dymocks Building, 428 George Street Sydney 2000 ARTnews - Australia's best guide to gallery links and maps. You can surf the Australian Art Scene, without any prior knowledge of it, reviews, artist's sites, a   (website ARTnews Australia )

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