Theo 107: RELIGION IN AUSTRALIAN CULTURE: Module 10 What specific cultural influences are detectable in the colonial and authenticallyAustralian cultural form of spirituality not revealed in imported culture? http://dlibrary.acu.edu.au/research/theology/theo107/Mod 10.htm
Extractions: Faculty of Arts and Sciences Sub-Faculty of Philosophy and Theology THEO 107 RELIGION IN AUSTRALIAN CULTURE Module TEN : Interpreting Art in Australian Culture Objectives By the end of this module you will be able to: Introduction The first reading is an interview with the surrealist painter James Gleeson. It will set the scene for an investigation of the spiritual in Australian art. As a surrealist, Gleeson paints dream-like images that might tap into his sub-consciousness, thus revealing strata of oneself ordinarily unavailable. Reading 1: Fire and Shadow. Spirituality in Contemporary Australian Art . Roseville East, NSW: Craftsman House, 1996, 15-27. Exercise 10.1 When does James Gleeson name his paintings? Re-name the paintings The Offshore Chrysalis and Deployed Energies with titles of your own invention.
Theo 107: RELIGION IN AUSTRALIAN CULTURE: Module 8 Whatever the outcome in specific cases, it is clear experience of australians in theirculture, the Aboriginal people themselves and for australian society as http://dlibrary.acu.edu.au/research/theology/theo107/Mod 8.htm
Extractions: Faculty of Arts and Sciences Sub-Faculty of Philosophy and Theology THEO 107 RELIGION IN AUSTRALIAN CULTURE Module EIGHT : Historical Perspectives: Identity and Difference Objectives By the end of this module you will be able to: Introduction: After the Great War The period following the First World War gave Australians the opportunity to develop as a nation in peacetime, and to turn national attention to issues other than conflict with an external foe. The impact of the war on the society and its values was perhaps most obviously felt in the development of the Anzac legend. The celebration of Anzac Day had religious overtones of a non-denominational kind, although this did not prevent Catholic authorities from boycotting ceremonies led by Protestant clergy. For some Australians, especially males, this was as close as they would come to formal religious expression. It could be viewed as a perversion of religion into nationalism or a cult of the dead, or the occasion for genuine religious feelings to be manifested in the only way deemed acceptable to the non-churched.
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Australia - Books On Australian Culture And Its People and visitors in the hope of bridging culture gaps and drives the reader everdeeperinto specific facts and I have ever read. Listed under australian History. http://www.dropbears.com/b/broughsbooks/culture/australia.htm
Extractions: ...this shift of the linguistic center involves more than statistics. It does look as if the principal energies of the English language, as if its genius for acquisition, for innovation, more metaphoric response, has also moved away from England. What is important here is where the center is shifting to. Steiner was not thinking of the shift to North America or to Australia only, but to East, West, and South Africa, India, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), and the US possessions in the Pacific. He is actually referring to the unprecedented global presence of English, its internationalisation, and its increasing pluralism. When we call English an international medium, what we mean is that those who use English across cultures in Asia, in Africa and in Europe have a shared code of communication. The medium provides, as it were, shifting "grids" through which we gain access to a variety of Asian, African, European, and North American ideologies, mythologies, philosophies, and other sociocultural contexts. We see this acculturation of the medium in, for example, West African varieties of English. In this region, as Okara says, English is used, "to express our own ideas, thinking and philosophy in our own way" (1963: 15-16).
Extractions: Centre for Multicultural Studies, University of Wollongong, Australia Increasing cultural diversity has become one of the major forces of change in the contemporary world. It is closely linked to current trends towards globalisation, which affects individuals, societies and governments at all levels. The process of globalisation goes back to European colonial expansion since the 15th century, but has accelerated dramatically since 1945. The bipolar world order which emerged from the Second World War created the conditions for decolonisation and for rapid increases in international flows of capital, commodities and population. More recently, the end of the Cold War held out the prospect of global integration in economic, cultural and political relations. This coincided with the micro-electronic revolution in information technology, creating the conditions for even greater international mobility of investments, goods, ideas and people. Today, there are few corners of the world which have escaped rapid transformations in work and ways of life. The changes are often initially felt on the economic and social levels, but it is important to realise that they are the result of underlying cultural shifts. The increasingly pervasive western values of rationality and progress have ambivalent consequences. Historically, they were the precondition for European expansion, but only at the cost of conquest and exploitation for many of the world's peoples. Recent economic and technological advances offer the promise of higher living standards, but the growing destructiveness of military power (based on the same technologies) threatens human survival. Industrialisation can bring social progress, but at the cost of environmental degradation and loss of bio-diversity.
2004 Australian Culture Now Indigenous Australians have specific and varied relationships to immigrant parents,for many, Australia is both a Americanised) brand of popular culture and a http://www.acmi.net.au/2004exhibition.jsp?page=2
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Alike/Unalike and Heinz Boeck is therefore quite void of specific culturaldifference themes Nodoubt there are differences between australian culture and, say, German or http://www.innersense.com.au/productions/writings/alike.html
Extractions: Australian Independent Film Any decidedly placed idea concerning cultural difference risks informing itself with the very act it is constantly railing against: closure. And so, in titling this piece Alike/Unalike I hope to outline the various forces at play in the domain of non-Anglo films and film-makers; the differences and the similarities. For difference is the fuel of separatist philosophies, whilst similarity points the way towards reconciliation and equality. Ten Years After, Ten Years Older (Anna Kannava) My focus will be on independent film (shorts, docos, experimental film, some features, made by independents, students and 'underground' filmmakers) because, despite Australia's consciousness of multiculturalism, there is surprisingly little non-Anglo mainstream film produced. Just as women feature-film directors are scarce (Gillian Armstrong and Jane Campion being two of the few), there is a nationality imbalance as well. The main exception, Paul Cox, is more independent/art-house than mainstream, along with Sophia Turkiewicz and Rivka Hartman. Others, like John Tatoulis or Philippe Mora, are fully immersed in the mainstream, but one wonders if they have retained any inherent, special difference. Nadia Tass, for example, shortened her name, and her real-life Greek friend/inspiration-for-a-film became
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Extractions: Find out about Net-based sources of Australian facts, research, background and contacts, as well as media news and training issues. ISSN 1448-2762. Anyone wanting to report on Australia's health system needs to have facts and figures to work with. The Parliamentary Library has produced a new eBrief, Healthy measures - key health statistics , to inform people about what health statistics exist and how often they appear . The eBrief describes the key statistics that allow the performance of the Australian health system to be measured. These include figures for government health expenditure, Medicare, the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, hospitals, medical workforce and private health insurance. International data is provided for comparative purposes. The full eBrief is at http://www.aph.gov.au/library/intguide/SP/HealthyMeasures.htm Posted by belinda at 09:59 AM Comments (0) In Australia, seven health conditions together account for $29 billion, or
Our Culture: Our Future Report individual works for some time, australian courts are communities to cultural integrityand cultural attribution under specific legislation, such as an Act to http://artslaw.com.au/reference/future994/
Extractions: Art + Law 99.4 October 1999 saw the launch of the Report "Our Culture: Our Future Report on Australian Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property Rights" The impetus for the Report was a 1994 issues paper, "Stopping the Ripoffs: Intellectual Property Protection for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples" The Report is perhaps the most thorough community-based consultation on indigenous cultural and intellectual property undertaken in any country to date. The gist of the Report is that indigenous cultural and intellectual property is inadequately protected by mainstream laws which tend to protect individual economic rights. Deceased Applicant and others v Indofurn Pty Ltd The Report recommends a wide range of practical and legal strategies. They include: specific legislation, such as an Act to protect indigenous cultural and intellectual property rights, with a central administration system and an Indigenous Cultural Tribunal to mediate disputes; developing protocols and codes of ethics to govern the appropriate handling of indigenous cultural material; and
Extractions: Bruce Johnson Currency Press, Sydney, 2000 244 pp. (illustrated; paperback), ISBN 0-868-19601-0, AUS$39.95 Johnson's second case study is the work of the Graeme Bell Jazz Band and their 1947-1948 tour to Prague and London. Johnson prefaces explanation of this tour by listing the work of other Australian jazz artists who have worked away from Australiain this way positioning the Graeme Bell Jazz Band tour as one component of Australians' influences on the international jazz scene. This aside, the 1947-1948 tour is still an odd event in Australian music history. The band was to represent the Eureka Youth League, a communist-affiliated association, at the World Youth Festival. Intended as a two-week tour, this extended to four months of recordings, teaching, and performances in 44 towns. After Czechoslovakia, the band moved to England, where they worked for eight months. The success of the band in Czechoslovakia is put down by Johnson not only to their musical ability, but also to a number of other contributing factors, some of which gave jazz sociopolitical meanings: the lack of a continuous jazz scene in Central Europe so soon after 1945; few American recordings in popular circulation; jazz as representative of anti-Nazi sentiment; the appeal of jazz to youth and subversive elements. In England, the band was the first international jazz group to perform for about two decades; as British citizens, the members of the band had no problems with work visas denied to their American counterparts. Their work in England is directly credited with stimulating an English jazz revival movement.
Australian Volunteers International : What We Do : Prepare Employers can now access australian Volunteers International s of living and workingin another culture. people, tailored to meet the specific requirements of http://www.osb.org.au/whatwedo/prepare.html
Extractions: PREPARE Professional pre-departure preparation brings definite benefits to both the employee and the company. Being informed about, and prepared for, new working and living environments enhances the performance of employees and minimises their personal stress - leaving them free to focus on achieving corporate business objectives. Employers can now access Australian Volunteers International's intercultural briefing expertise to help prepare their staff for the challenges of living and working in another culture. Our intercultural briefing consultants coordinate a team of resource people, tailored to meet the specific requirements of the organisation, the employee and the family. Experience Australian Volunteers International has recruited, prepared and supported Australian Volunteers to live, work and learn in partnership with people of other cultures for the past four decades. In that time, we've prepared more than 5000 people for a wide range of assignments in 50 countries throughout the world. We have direct and regular contact with all levels of government and the wider community in the countries where we work, providing us with a practical understanding of the environments in which businesses are operating successfully overseas.
Australian Aboriginal Art In Cultural Context often the preserve of a specific gender, moiety the invasion and overthrow of Australianindigenous society in adaptation of surviving Aboriginal culture to the http://tropicalpulse.com/aboriginal_art/abiorginal_art_in_context.html
Extractions: The Australian continent, prior to European invasion/settlement some two centuries ago, supported an extraordinary diversity of Aboriginal cultures and languages. Nevertheless, some cultural and mythic features - such as the 'Dreamtime' - were common to most if not all Aboriginal groups. The indigenous Aboriginal population of Australia commonly viewed the surface of the earth as a skin - comparable to human skin. Aborigines marked their own skin with scars and ochre, often evoking natural phenomena such as animals or weather events. Making similar markings on the earth's surface of soil or sand - or on specific parts of the earth's surface such as rock walls and tree bark - was a 'natural' extension of this tradition, and a complement to it. Aboriginal ceremonies and rituals helped unify all aspects of Aboriginal life. Man and woman, animals and plants, the earth and the sky, the changing weather and eternal spirit world - all were celebrated, invoked and unified in traditional rituals. What we understand today as 'Aboriginal Art' was really one aspect (the static, visual dimension) of Aboriginal culture as a whole. 'Art' complemented and enriched a life characterized by its integration with country. In a culture which emphasized wholeness, individual identity was fashioned through custodianship of specific totems, 'Dreamtime' myths, narratives or traditions. The distinctiveness of an individual's work stemmed from his or her unique identity within larger groupings, which anthropologists have described with various terms such moiety, clan, tribe and language group. Just as the ceremonial life of a group as a whole reflected its place on earth and relations with other adjacent groups, so to individual distinctiveness reflected the role, privileges and responsibilities of the individual within the broader human group. Artistic individuality in the modern, western and somewhat competitive sense was foreign to endogenous Aboriginal culture.
Extractions: Home Biography Department Speeches ... Contacts Monday, 3 March 2003 - MVT13/2003 Australia will pursue a wide-ranging and comprehensive set of objectives in Free Trade Agreement negotiations with the United States, Trade Minister Mark Vaile announced today. Mr Vaile announced that Australia's specific negotiating objectives would be made publicly available today following detailed consideration of Australia's interests by the Government, and an extensive consultation process with industry, the community and state and territory governments. The first round of negotiations begins 17-21 March. "An FTA with the US presents a unique opportunity to advance the interests of Australia's exporters, and offers significant benefits to the nation in terms of economic growth and employment," Mr Vaile said. "The consultative process, begun last November, has highlighted the breadth and depth of the interests and opportunities we can pursue in the FTA negotiations to enhance our economic relationship with the US. "The Government will give a high priority to reducing the most significant market access barriers facing Australian exports, particularly in the agricultural sector. We will pursue a range of Australian interests in the US market covering all areas of the Australian economy manufacturing, services, investment, government procurement, telecommunications and electronic commerce, intellectual property rights, and movement of people.
Extractions: Regional Arts ArtsWA identifies equity of access as a key issue, facilitating and promoting programs that encourage participation in arts and cultural activities by all regional West Australians ArtsWA Grants Programs ArtsWA offers funding programs for regional arts activity through its three peer assessment panels (all with regional representation), the Artflight funding program and core funding to arts organisations in regional WA, or delivering services regionally from Perth. ArtsWA Funding provided to support other Grants Programs In addition to ArtsWA's own grant programs, ArtsWA also distributes funding to a number of non-Government organisations for very specific grants programs that also address the development of the arts sector in WA. Some of these grant programs have a specific regional focus and all are open to regional applicants. Country Arts WA - touring programs for performing arts, contemporary music and literature on behalf of the State Government, as well as the Country CAPS funding program and funding for Regional Arts Organisations. Art On The Move - manages professional contemporary visual arts touring exhibition development and touring funds.
HUMS 3013 (013562) Australian Cultural Landscapes world and understandings of place within Australia; relations of embedded in materialrepresentations of culture and identity Resources specific to this course. http://www.unisanet.unisa.edu.au/SubjectInfo/subject.asp?subject=13562
Bond University - School Of Humanities And Social Sciences - This subject takes australian culture to be not only the australianway of life but the specific political, economic and intellectual cultures http://www.bond.edu.au/hss/subjects/subslist-dept.asp?SCHOOL=HSS&SUBLEVEL=UG&SUB
Australian Film & Culture a cultural form to empower viewers with both confirming and alternative visions ofAustralian culture. To return to a specific area of the site simply use the http://www.ahs.cqu.edu.au/humanities/litculture/cult11011/welcome/text.htm
Extractions: If you have any queries regarding the course, please contact Dr. Warwick Mules (w.mules@cqu.edu.au) or phone 41 507142 *Study Guide and Resource material will be available only as a download from this website. Dear student Welcome to . In this course you will learn about Australian culture through the viewing and analysis of Australian film. The course will explore how Australian films represent Australia in terms of its ideals, values and concerns. The course will also show how many Australian films challenge the taken for granted meanings and identities of Australia, and propose alternatives. The course looks at both contemporary films and films from earlier periods of Australian history. We examine the very first feature film made in Australia, The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906), which is also claimed to be the first feature film made anywhere in the world. We also look at other films from Australia's silent era, as templates for more contemporary films, including those made today. However, the majority of the course is spent on vewing and examining more recent films, from the 1970s until the present time, offering challenges to the earlier films and their representations of Australian society and culture. Broadly speaking, in this course you will be able to learn about the way film constructs and deconstructs Australian national identity, and how film operates as a cultural form to empower viewers with both confirming and alternative visions of Australian culture.
Women.gov.au - Culture, Community & Sport and information in the fields of culture and recreation To refine this list, selecta specific topic above by prominent figures from the australian film industry http://www.women.gov.au/channel/channel.asp?ctid=1&cid=835