Posts Tagged ‘ australia ’

Published on the Huffington Post – - As an Australian who has been living in London for 10 years, I feel I have gained what I consider to be an important outsider’s perspective.
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It is acknowledged that Australian Aboriginal culture is heavily spiritual and symbolic, but a growing body of evidence suggests that the indigenous belief system represents a deep knowledge of the sky and the motion of the bodies within it. This knowledge was used not just as components in ceremonial events and stories, but for...
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The giant beasts drop themselves awkwardly to the red dust a stone’s throw from my front row position. There’s a sun-drenched bloke to my left with a can of XXXX in his hand telling his five-year-old son to get out of his way. On my right, an elderly couple lecture endless facts about the...
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Do you climb the grand, glowing heart of Australia or respect the wishes of the indigenous tribe which has called it home for tens of thousands of years? That is the question tourists from every part of the globe are forced to answer when they arrive at the foot of the nation’s greatest geological...
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Black Saturday – February 2009, by Daniel Clarke: The Australian state of Victoria has fallen victim to what can only be described as hell’s fury – a series of raging firestorms that serve as the gravest warning of the frightening threat climate change presents our world. The authorities knew it was coming and the...
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Australia breathes life. It’s massive red rock like a heart, beating from the centre. The oldest of lands inhabited by the oldest of people, that soon became the newest of Western civilisations. A convict dumping ground for political reformers, men who stole handkerchiefs, and even suspicious looking Irish Catholics. Australia – where the farmers...
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A short story by Rebecca Freeborn: The wheels of the plane made contact with the runway and the graceful silver bird became a heavy, ungainly beast, jolting and roaring its protest. I stared out at the wide expanse of Adelaide Airport, squinting at the sun glaring off the wing of the plane. The grass...
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If you were to ask a native for an example of a local hip hop act in Australia, nine times out of 10 (or probably 10) the answer you got back would be the Hilltop Hoods. Formed in the picturesque Adelaide hills in the early 90s, the Hilltop Hoods released their first EP in...
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On this particular Wednesday, London is an overcast shadow of the oh-so-Australian summer weather spell which we were privy to just days before. Today I’m spending the day with Australian art punk rockers, The Grates. It’s the band’s London press day ahead of their first London headlining date, which has sold out. In five...
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It’s the warmest day England has seen this ‘summer’ and Daniel Johns is enjoying the weather in the garden of the Windsor home he shares with wife, Natalie Imbruglia. The former-teen star and front-man of Australian rock group Silverchair, Johns is currently awaiting the arrival of the musicians – and friends – he plays...
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