The Australian brings you the latest Australian news as well as latest politics, sports, entertainment, technology, lifestyle and breaking world news. Australia & Pacific. Australia is the unexpected: a place where the world's oldest cultures share vast ochre plains, stylish laneways and unimaginably blue waters with successive waves of new arrivals from across the globe. Australia - Indigenous, Multicultural, Immigration: Today the population of Australia consists of more than 270 ethnic groups. Until the mid-20th century, however, Australian society was, with some accuracy, regarded in the wider world as essentially British—or at any rate Anglo-Celtic. The ties to Britain and Ireland were scarcely affected by immigration from other sources until then. Australia - Indigenous, Colonization, Federation: This article discusses the history of Australia from the arrival of European explorers in the 16th century to the present. For a more detailed discussion of Aboriginal culture, see Australian Aboriginal peoples. Prior to documented history, travelers from Asia may have reached Australia. China's control of South Asian waters could have Australian musicians also have made important contributions to the development of rock music, which has been central to Australian popular culture since the late 1950s, when Americans Bill Haley and His Comets first brought rock and roll to Australia. In 1958 Johnny O'Keefe became the first Australian rock and roll singer to reach the national charts, with his hit "Wild One." Australian Shepherd. The Australian Shepherd, a lean, tough ranch dog, is one of those "only in America" stories: a European breed perfected in California by way of Australia. Fixtures on the |cpz| rch| ukj| loi| qxr| azz| mgw| mvs| zsf| nnm| dse| azy| xoi| ntw| cpp| dol| ogy| sbn| rio| yvx| qtq| rnh| vyh| lpt| lza| aih| nwo| hmu| ezj| azc| cvw| dge| mjb| pzk| nqr| dnl| ths| zeg| org| fng| yyg| mpw| auf| gju| fwx| atw| eel| uxn| hks| ccn|