I Laugh and Think That This Is Australia

think I hear the sounds of then,
And people talking,
The scenes recalled, by minute movement,
And songs they fall, from the backing tape.
That certain texture,that certain smell,

To lie in sweat, on familiar sheets,
In...

AUSTRALIA'S NATIONAL ANTHEM
ADVANCE AUSTRALIA FAIR
Australians all let us rejoice,
For we are young and free,
We've golden soil and wealth for toil;
Our home is girt by sea;
Our land abounds in nature's gifts
Of beauty...

WALTZING MATILDA
from a ballad by "Banjo" Patterson
Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong
Under the shade of a coolabah tree
And he sang as he watched and waited till his billy boiled
Who'll come...

Australia COUNTRY QUICK FACTS
Size:
4025 km east-west. 3220 km north-south.
Area:
7,682,300 km2
Coastline:
36,735 km.
Population:
21 million.
Language:
English.
European Settlement:
26th January 1788 Federal Capital...

MY COUNTRY
A poem by Dorothea Mackellar
The love of field and coppice,
Of green and shaded lanes,
Of ordered woods and gardens
Is running in your veins,
Strong love of grey-blue distance,
Brown streams and...

THE MAN FROM SNOWY RIVER
from a ballad by "Banjo" Patterson
There was movement at the station, for the word had passed around
That the colt from old Regret had got away
And had joined the wild bush...

Tucker in Australian means food and bush tucker is a huge variety of spices, fruits, vegetables, animals, etc. that are native to Australia. For as long as 50,000 years, Aborigines have been eating bush tucker. Although about 80% of...