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The Thirroul Seaside & Arts Festival. Some are as small as the community-based Apollo Bay Music Festival and Thirroul Seaside & Arts Festival, while others afford the opportunity to bring international performers to Australian audiences and showcase Austr...

The Christian churches in Australia observe the Easter Christian Calendar which begins with Shrove Tuesday, some forty days before Easter, and ends with Whitsun (or Pentecost) which is 50 days after Easter Sunday. Chocolate Easter eggs, along with other f...

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...

Art forms such as dance, theatre, writing, music and the visual arts draw on the creativity and interests of Australians of many abilities. According to The Australia Council, 'nineteen per cent of the Australian population lives with a disability and cl...

Like other art forms, Australian theatre has built on previous traditions and developed over time, shaped by local and international artistic movements, events and trends. Australian theatre history incorporates the stories of many actors, entrepreneurs,...

Comedy is central to Australian cultural identity. Comedy forms the basis of many forms of popular entertainment from live cabaret with stand up comedians to television sketch shows. Australia is a country of climatic and geographic extremes and Austral...

Protestant and Roman Catholic churches hold Christmas Day services on 25 December. The Eastern churches - the Ethiopian Orthodox church, Russian Orthodox church and the Armenian church - celebrate Christmas on 6 or 7 January. Christmas is the celebratio...

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

Tex Morton pioneered a genuine, original Australian style of country music, following his first recording in 1936, which had an enormous influence on aspiring young artists like Slim Dusty and Buddy Williams. The best selling 78 record of all time, and A...

Tex Morton pioneered a genuine, original Australian style of country music, following his first recording in 1936, which had an enormous influence on aspiring young artists like Slim Dusty and Buddy Williams. The best selling 78 record of all time, and A...

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. Nicole Brackertz, teacher of circus history at...

At the top of the 'must-attend' list of events for international fashion buyers and fashion media are the annual fashion weeks. More than 150 Australian designers participate in the Mercedes Australian Fashion Weeks each year - held in Sydney at Circular...

A number of organisations promote Australian music and assist Australian musicians and composers. This Fellowship acts on behalf of Australian composers in matters of copyright, composers' fees and the amount of Australian music broadcast on radio and te...

Chinese New Year is the longest and most important celebration in the Chinese calendar. Memorabilia is displayed in museums like the Chinese Museum, Melbourne, and the Golden Dragon Museum, Bendigo. Between wakings, the Millennium Dai Loong Dragon can be...

As Australia had no native grape varieties suitable for wine-making, grapes were imported from Europe and much of the wine produced was shipped back to the United Kingdom. Early wine production at Lindemans, established in the Hunter Valley (New South Wa...

As elsewhere in Australia, European settlement disrupted Aboriginal patterns of land use and movement across the country, and many Aborigines died from European-brought diseases like influenza, smallpox and tuberculosis. The Griffins, Walter Burley and Ma...

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...

Fireworks over the Sydney Opera House, Japan Week, 1988. William Lyster set up his own opera company in 1861, giving audiences their first full scale productions of European opera. She went on to win wide acclaim at London's Royal Opera House Covent Gar...

The Australian Institute of Music has been preparing young Australians for music careers since 1968. This is a portal to other Australian music websites of various genres, including jazz, blues, pop, rock and classical. Australian country and folk music...

Many Australian scientists have achieved international recognition for their work, including a number of Nobel Prize laureates. Sir William Bragg - Nobel Prize for physics, 1915. Bragg shared the prize with his son (also Sir William Bragg). ...