austrailian national identity
By aaron wilkinson-king
What is national identity?
austrailian national flag
aboriginal flag
torres straight islander flag
ABORIGINAL MYTHS
rainbow serpent
Far off in Dreamtime, there were only people, no animals or birds, no trees or bushes, no hills or mountains.
The country was flat. Goorialla, the great Rainbow Serpent, stirred and set off to look for his own tribe. He travelled across Australia from South to North. He reached Cape York where he stopped and made a big red mountain called Naralullgan. He listened to the wind and heard only voices speaking strange languages.
This is not my country, the people here speak a different tongue. I must look for my own people. Goorialla left Naralullgan and his huge body made a deep gorge where he came down. He travelled North for many days and his tracks made the creeks and rivers as he journeyed North. Goorialla made two more mountains, one of the Naradunga was long made of granite, the other had sharp peaks and five caves and was called, Minalinha. One day Goorialla heard singing and said, "Those are my people, they are holding a big Bora." At the meeting place of the two rivers, Goorialla found his own people singing and dancing. He watched for a long time, then he came out and was welcomed by his people. He showed the men how to dress properly and taught them to dance. A big storm was gathering, so all the people built humpies for shelter.
Two young men, the bil-bil or Rainbow Lorikeet brothers came looking for shelter but no one had any room. They asked their grandmother, the Star Woman but she had too many dogs and couldn't help them. the Bil-bil brothers went to Goorialla who was snoring in his humpy but he had no room. The rain got heavier and the boys went back to Goorialla and called out that the rain was heavy. Goorialla said, "All right come in now." The Bil-bil bothers ran into Goorialla's mouth and he swallowed them. Then he began to worry about what the people would say when they found the boys missing. He decided to travel North to Bora-bunaru, the only great natural mountain in the land. Next morning the people found that the boys were gone and saw the tracks of Goorialla and knew that he had swallowed them.
You may never see these lakes or mountains, but after the rain you will see his spirit in the sky , which is the rainbow. This is the reason why he is called Goorialla the Rainbow Serpent.
rainbow serpent
THE ANZAC LEGEND
BOGAN CULTURE
THE BEACH
austrailias beaches are not only one of the great attractions for visitors that sunburnt country they are an integrel part of the austrailian psyche and national identity
17 and a half milion austrailians live within an hours drive from the beach and most sunny weekends see them getting a good work out . even during the week at the more popular city beaches the number of beach goers is significant .
most native austrailians have a healthy respect for the surf and beach safety instilled in in them from an early age with parents,syblings,uncles,aunts,and extended family and friends educating the young ones in safe beach use. visitors and new arrivals to austrailia regretably dont often have this knowledge and training to call on and many get into difficulty in the surf each year which results in many uneccesay deaths 2005 resulted in 87 deaths by international visitors by drowning
THE BUSH
Folklore, 1790s–1890s
Many Australian myths and legends have emanated from the bush. Early bushranging – ranging or living off the land – was sometimes seen as a preferred option to the harsh conditions experienced by convicts in chains. Later bushrangers such as Jack Donohue, Ben Hall and Ned Kelly were seen as rebellious figures associated with bush life. Their bushmanship was legendary as well as necessary.
The bush has evoked themes of struggle and survival epitomised in tales of bushrangers, drovers, outback women and lost children. The bush has also been seen as a source of nourishment and survival. These two opposing elements were often brought together by the activities of the Australian 'black trackers'.
The skills of Indigenous people in 'the bush', especially their tracking abilities, was seen as miraculous and became legendary in the minds of European Australians. Indigenous people's knowledge of the land, at the core of their spiritual beliefs, is expressed in stories, arts and performance - music, songs, dance and ceremony.
THE OUTBACK
There are places in Australia that are awe-inspiring, spectacular, mysterious; they touch our spirit and help define our nation.
Kakadu is one, Uluru another, the magnificent red sandy deserts, the Kimberley. These are part of our country’s essence, and they provide a rare lens into the wonder of nature and the timelessness and value of our land.
But these places are embedded in a wider landscape and are dependent upon that landscape for their future.
We haven’t really had a name for it, but the Australian outback fits. It’s both the wonderful sense of space in remote Australia, or the humdrum monotony of the Australian bush.
This place faces numerous challenges one of the worst extinction records in the world, ongoing biodiversity declines, and neglect. But there are also opportunities — global recognition, and the rapid expansion of land managed and protected by Indigenous Australians.
This place, and its coherence is important to us, but it is also internationally significant, as one of the world’s last remaining large natural areas.
INFLUENCE ON OTHER COUNTRIES ON OUR CULTURE
chinese food
there languages
culture
and we also have alot of there shops where they fix things like phones and things like that