culture.gov.au
Connecting you with Australian culture online
What's new
Latest news & events (RSS format) New Australian Stories (RSS format)
Monthly newsletter
February - Fabulous festivals in the Year of the Tiger
Featured Stories
Contemporary artists Community radio New circus in Australia
Top 10 Stories
Australian weather and the seasons European discovery and the colonisation of Australia Convicts and the British colonies in Australia Great Barrier Reef Australian Indigenous cultural heritage Sydney Opera House Australian food and drink The Japanese bombing of Darwin and northern Australia Christmas season celebrations in Australia Modern Australian fashion
Contribute
Search results
Australian Stories matching your query...
Australian fauna - Australia's Culture PortalAlmost 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...
Observations of Australia's unique fauna and flora, combined with considerations of the continent's geographical isolation, contributed toward Charles Darwin (1809–1882) developing his theory of evolution by natural selection. Darwin's theory of ev...
One of Australia's greatest treasures is her flora - a staggering 24,000 species of native plants have been identified compared to England's 1700 native plants. Australia's native plants vary across the many different natural environments of the country....
Kakadu National Park covers an area of 19,804 square kilometres within the Alligator Rivers region of the Northern Territory. Around 50 per cent of the land in Kakadu National Park is Aboriginal land under the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) ...
Eventually, streams catch more water or join other streams to form a river. The Murray River and its main tributary, the Darling River, are the two main rivers in the Murray-Darling River Basin. The Snowy River is probably Australia's most famous river,...
However, the first zoo in Australia, Melbourne Zoo, wasn't established until 1862. Taronga Zoo and Western Plains Zoo are jointly administered New South Wales public zoos. The zoo features both Australian native species and exotic species of mammals, bi...
There was also a significant English influence on Australian arts and crafts, especially in architecture and furniture, from the late 1800s. Established in the 1940s, the Sturt School in Mittagong, New South Wales, helped revive individual studio craft p...
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...
A wide variety of Australian fashion textiles - hand-coloured, printed and painted silks, woven wool, dyed discharge and devore prints, ground velvets, and ochred designs based on traditional Aboriginal body paintings have all contributed to the definitio...
Nicola Finetti, Dress of silk georgette, silk chiffon and metallic embroidery on silk organza. Fashion can be defined by colour, cut, cloth, garment type, garment styles and interpretation of looks. Chinese silk embroidered shawls and Chinese surcoats b...
John Glover (1767-1849), Australian landscape with cattle: the artist's property Patterdale , c. Image courtesy of the National Library of Australia: an2253188. The Heidelberg School was the first significant art movement in Australia. ...
Australian designers, by their very nature, look for simple and elegant solutions for challenges in often ordinary situations, balancing creativity with cost-effectiveness and innovative construction. Inspiration comes not only from historical and interna...
Employing dream imagery, poetry and precarious juxtapositions, Australian artists in the 1930s and early 1940s responded to European surrealists and were part of an international surrealist movement - 'in all its clarity'. Many of Australia's best known a...
Websites matching your query...
Information on Australia's birds, mammals, and insects. Includes photos, an Australian fauna quiz, and amazing animal facts.
Homepage of artist Glenn Woodley, featuring acrylic paintings, cyber drawings and digital photos of Australian landscapes, fauna, and cave art.
Limited edition handpainted linocuts by Lynette Weir with a focus on Australian flora and fauna.
Documents matching your query...
The Australian cicada fauna - Australian Museum (website Australian Museum )Sign up to add comments and find out more about the other benefits you can enjoy. Australian Museum Business Services - Ecological, archaeological and heritage consulting. Fashion Less Waste Design Competition 2010: Biodiverse> The competition is open to ...
Almost all of Australia's native mammals are marsupials. Tasmanian devils are only found in Tasmania, though fossil evidence shows that there were devils on the Australian mainland 600 years ago. Birds of Australia National Wildlife Collection, audio. ...
The Sunday Art Auction>18 Apr 2010>333 Malvern Road, SOUTH YARRA, Melbourne, VIC Decorative Arts and Fine Furniture>24 May 2010>333 Malvern Road, SOUTH YARRA, Melbourne, VIC The Sunday Art Auction>27 Jun 2010>333 Malvern Road, SOUTH YARRA, Melbourne, VIC...
Comprehensive Western Australian guide to building environmentally friendly gardens to attract frogs and other native creatures. > First of two volumes covering all species of birds recorded from Western Australia and its offshore islands including Ashmo...
If you can see this message, you are probably not seeing this site in the way it was designed. This site uses cascading style sheets (CSS2) to control the way in which elements are displayed on the page.
You will still be able to access everything in this site, but we do recommend you upgrade your browser to a more recent, standards compliant, browser.