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This is a list of highest-certified singles in Australia according to the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). Since 1983, ARIA certifies a single Platinum for shipment of 70,000 copies across Australia. [1]
After LinkOscuro successfully performed "barrier skip", a long-hypothesized glitch in The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker which would allow the player to clip through a large barrier surrounding Hyrule Castle, a location visited multiple times during normal play, but only allowing the player to break the barrier and access the final dungeon as intended during the third and final visit ...
The Yara-ma-yha-who is a legendary vampiric monster found in Southeastern Australian Aboriginal mythology. [1] [2] The legend is recounted by David Unaipon. [3]According to legend, the creature resembles a little red frog-like man with a very big head, a large mouth with no teeth and suckers on the ends of its hands and feet.
Nargun, fierce half-human, half-stone creature of Gunai legend; Thinan-malkia, evil spirit who captures victims with nets that entangle their feet; Tiddalik, frog of southeast Australian legend who drank all the water in the land, and had to be made to laugh to regurgitate it; Waang, Kulin trickster, culture hero and ancestral being ...
The Australian Legends is an annual series of commemorative postage stamps issued by Australia Post since 1997. [1] The stamps commemorate living Australians who have made lifetime contributions to the development of the Commonwealth's national identity and character. [ 2 ]
Hall is a prominent figure in Australian folklore, inspiring many bush ballads, books and screen works, including the 1975 television series Ben Hall and the 2016 feature film The Legend of Ben Hall. Harold Holt – a prime minister who disappeared while swimming in 1967.
Lasseter's Reef became a famous Australian folk tale. It inspired a sub-plot in the film, Strike Me Lucky (1934), and Lasseter's fate was recreated in the movie Phantom Gold (1936). In 1974, Bill Gill Productions and Australian Film School worked on a film version of Lasseter's Last Ride. [14]
Since European settlement, Australian mythology shifted away from Dreamtime and focused more on the ideals of the average Australian worker. [5] A strong central theme was rebellion, with stories of common heroes who "laugh in the face of adversity, face up to great difficulties and deliberately go against authority and the establishment". [1]