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Tourism sign post in Yalgoo, Western Australia. 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 the ...
Australian comedy has a strong tradition of self-mockery, [50] from the outlandish Barry McKenzie expat-in-Europe ocker comedies of the 1970s, to the quirky outback characters of the "Crocodile" Dundee films of the 1980s, the suburban parody of Working Dog Productions' 1997 film The Castle and the dysfunctional suburban mother–daughter sitcom ...
Yowie is one of several names for an Australian folklore entity that is reputed to live in the Outback.The creature has its roots in Aboriginal oral history. In parts of Queensland, they are known as quinkin (or as a type of quinkin), and as joogabinna, [1] in parts of New South Wales, they are called Ghindaring, jurrawarra, myngawin, puttikan, doolaga, gulaga and thoolagal. [1]
The Australian outback is one of the wildest places on Earth. A vast void of deserts and semi-arid wilderness, it stretches across about 80% of the country’s interior — an area roughly ...
Some Indigenous Australians hold that the number of sightings has increased in conjunction with the ingression of Europeans into the outback. [1] While it has been claimed that the first recorded sighting dates to 1838, in the book Six Months in South Australia, [3] it is possible that the event described is a different phenomenon. [4]
Kiwirrkurra, gazetted as Kiwirrkurra Community, is a small community in Western Australia in the Gibson Desert, 1,200 kilometres (750 mi) east of Port Hedland and 700 kilometres (430 mi) west of Alice Springs. [4] It had a population of 165 in 2016, mostly Aboriginal Australians. [5] It has been described as the most remote community in ...
The Voice had its genesis in the Uluru Statement From the Heart, a 2017 document setting out a roadmap for Indigenous relations with wider Australia. Its last paragraph says First Nations people ...
The Australian Stockman's Hall of Fame is a museum located in Longreach, Queensland, Australia, which pays tribute to pioneers of the Australian outback.The centre is also dedicated to Australian stockmen who have shown bravery and courage.