Double-click on any word and see its definition from Cambridge Dictionaries Online.
The first human habitation of Australia is estimated to have occurred between 42,000 and 48,000 years ago. The first Australians were the ancestors of the current Indigenous Australians; they arrived via land bridges and short sea-crossings from present-day Southeast Asia. Most of these people were hunter-gatherers, with a complex oral culture and spiritual values based on reverence for the land and a belief in the Dreamtime.
Source: Wikipedia
John Barry Humphries (b. 17 February 1934) is an Australian comedian, satirist and character actor best known for his on-stage and television alter egos Dame Edna Everage, a Melbourne housewife, and Sir Les Patterson, Australia's foul-mouthed cultural attaché to Britain. Humphries is also a film producer and script writer, a star of London's West End musical theatre, an "award-winning" author and an accomplished landscape painter.
Source: Wikipedia
Gallipoli (1981): directed by Peter Weir and starring Mark Lee, Bill Kerr and Mel Gibson. Plot Outline: Two Australian sprinters face the brutal realities of war when they are sent to fight in the Gallipoli campaign in Turkey during World War I.
Source: IMDb
Average deaths per year in Australia caused by:
Horses: 21
Bees: 10
Snakes: 1.6
Sharks: 1.25
Dogs: 0.65
The Dreamtime, also called The Dreaming, is the central, unifying theme in Australian Aboriginal culture. Australian Aborigines are thought to have the oldest continuously maintained cultural history on Earth (50,000 years or more). The Dreamtime explains the origins and culture of the land and of its people. It presents in a number of inter-related narratives (or myths) explaining Aboriginal Australian origins and culture, it thus has a complex relationship to the prehistory of Australia.
Source: Wikipedia
A Pub with no Beer by Slim Dusty
See lyrics
Down Under by Men at Work
See lyrics
Bogong Moth Damper
See recipe
Venomous Creatures of Australia: A Field Guide with Notes on First Aid by Struan K. Sutherland is an of I gather it's full of enormous snakes and various awful, dreaded critters that bite you in anus.
Source: Anagram Genius
Patrick White (May 28, 1912 – September 30, 1990) was an Australian author. His writings make great use of the stream of consciousness technique. His first book, "The Ploughman and Other Poems", was published in 1935, and he went on to write 27 novels and eight plays. He received the 1973 Nobel Prize for Literature - the only Australian to be so honoured.
Source: Wikipedia
AUSTRALIA, n. A country lying in the South Sea, whose industrial and commercial development has been unspeakably retarded by an unfortunate dispute among geographers as to whether it is a continent or an island. (Ambrose Bierce in The Devil's Dictionary)
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia. (Charles Schulz)
Source: Creative Quotations
| 
