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Wear it Purple Day [1] is an annual LGBTIQA+ awareness day especially for young people, based in Australia. Supporters wear purple to celebrate diversity and young people from the LGBTIQA+ community. Supporters wear purple to celebrate diversity and young people from the LGBTIQA+ community.
In March 2012, Purple Day received the Royal Assent and became a legal day for epilepsy awareness in Canada. [4] In December 2015, electronics retailer Dick Smith had arranged a major corporate partnership with Epilepsy Action Australia to support Purple Day in Australia with a $50,000 cash sponsorship, prizes and exclusive distribution of ...
The association started publishing EA Journal around 1983; it became the English Australia Journal: the Australian Journal of English Language Teaching with volume 24, number 2 in 2012. [5] English Australia also maintains a web-based list of the ELICOS English courses provided by its members. It hosts an annual conference for its member ...
The highest temperature ever recorded in Australia is 50.7 °C (123.3 °F), which was recorded on 2 January 1960 at Oodnadatta, South Australia, and 13 January 2022 at Onslow, Western Australia. The lowest temperature ever recorded in Australia is −23.0 °C (−9.4 °F), at Charlotte Pass, New South Wales
Voted Australia's favourite Australian book in Get Reading's Australia's Top 100 Favourite Homegrown Reads poll, 2013. [24] The Dead of the Night: 1994: Notable Book, CBCA Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers 1995 [21] Selected, COOL Awards (Canberra's Own Outstanding List) 1998 [36] The Third Day, the Frost (Also titled A Killing ...
Dymocks is the largest bookseller in Australia and currently holds close to 20% of the Australian book market. In October 2011, Dymocks launched D Publishing, a self-publishing platform which allowed authors to print, publish and distribute their own books and ebooks. [7] The venture was shut down in March 2013. [8] [9]
Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia is a 2018 biographical anthology compiled and edited by Anita Heiss and published by Black Inc. [1] It includes 52 short written pieces by Aboriginal Australians from many walks of life and discusses issues like Australian history of colonisation and assimilation, activism, significance of country, culture and language, identity and intersectionality, family ...
The Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) is a not for profit organisation which aims to engage the community with literature for young Australians. [1] The CBCA presents the annual Children's Book of the Year Awards to books of literary merit, recognising their contribution to Australian children's literature .