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  2. Culture of Australia - Wikipedia

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    Traditionally worn by jackaroos and swagmen in the blow-fly infested Australian outback, the cork hat is a type of headgear strongly associated with Australia, and comprises cork strung from the brim, to ward off insects. [176] World-famous Australian surfwear labels include Billabong, Rip Curl, Mambo and Quiksilver.

  3. Afghan cameleers in Australia - Wikipedia

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    Afghan cameleers in Australia, also known as "Afghans" (Pashto: افغانان) or "Ghans" (Pashto: غانز), were camel drivers who worked in Outback Australia from the 1860s to the 1930s. Small groups of cameleers were shipped in and out of Australia at three-year intervals, to service the Australian inland pastoral industry by carting goods ...

  4. Yandruwandha people - Wikipedia

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    The Yandruwandha Yawarrawarrka filed a petition to have their land rights recognised in 1988. In 2015, their native title was determined by a Federal Court over some 40,000 square kilometres (15,000 sq mi) of the outback, covering pastoral leases, and including Coongie Lakes National Park, the Innamincka Regional Reserve and the Strzelecki Regional Reserve.

  5. Australian folklore - Wikipedia

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    Rod Ansell – Outback Australian who became the inspiration for the famous film Crocodile Dundee. Streets of Forbes – Folk song about iconic Bushranger Ben Hall. Waltzing Matilda – Extensive folklore surrounds the song and the process of its creation, to the extent that the song has its own museum in Winton, Queensland [30]

  6. Outback - Wikipedia

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    The Outback is a remote, vast, sparsely populated area of Australia. The Outback is more remote than the bush . While often envisaged as being arid , the Outback regions extend from the northern to southern Australian coastlines and encompass a number of climatic zones, including tropical and monsoonal climates in northern areas, arid areas in ...

  7. Burketown - Wikipedia

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    Burketown is an isolated outback town and coastal locality in the Shire of Burke, ... originally the Burketown customs house is believed to date from the 1860s ...

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  9. Galahs in the Gidgee - Wikipedia

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    All of the songs on the album relate to the Australian Outback, the people who live there and local customs. Inspiration came to Buchanan while he lived in Bourke in country New South Wales [2] as quoted in the liner notes of the album. I came across so many strong images living at Pera Bore, near Bourke.