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Australiana is a term denoting items, people, places, flora, fauna and events of Australian origins. Anything pertaining to Australian culture, society, geography and ecology can fall under the term Australiana, especially if it is endemic to Australia. Australiana often borrows from Australian Aboriginal culture, or the stereotypical Australian culture of the early 1900s.
Objects can be Australiana in their own right, such as boomerangs, Akubra hats, didgeridoos, or can be common objects with Australian cultural images displayed on them. Such items could include two-man saws, snow globes or tea towels with Australian scenery or icons imprinted on them in the national colours of Australia.
Australiana can also refer to art with an Australian style or subject. Paintings, ceramics, crafts and coins that depict Australian imagery would fall under this category.
These images are often well-known Australian animals and birds, such as kangaroos, koalas, the platypus, echidnas and budgerigars.
People are sometimes depicted in the artwork, such as Australian explorers, drovers, bushmen, swagmen, Australian Aborigines, diggers and the like.
Being on the beach in summer is also generally made out to be part of Australian, as well as Surf Life Savers, as Australia is a coastal culture, because of the nature of inland Australia (dry, harsh desert).
Some commercial brands have become part of Australiana due to their perceived "Australianness". Advertisements and posters depicting these brands often become part of Australiana as well. These include:
- Chiko Roll
- Kangaroo ( Qantas)
- Koala
- Kookaburra
- Hills Hoist
- Holden
- Australian rules football
- Victa lawn mower
- Vegemite
- Mambo Graphics
- Arnott's Biscuits
- Ugg boots
- Cricket
- XXXX beer
- Mortein
- Fairy bread
- R. M. Williams boots
- Four'N Twenty Pies
- Pavlova (dessert)
- Peters Ice Cream
- Rosella soup
- Rugby League
- Boomerang
- Driza-Bone coats
- Akubra hats
- Billabong
- Damper
- Milo (drink)
- Tim Tam
Australiana has also been called a style of kitsch art.
"Australiana" is a spoken-word comedy single by Austen Tayshus, written by Billy Birmingham and recorded live at The Comedy Store, Sydney, in 1983. It was only available on 12″. It is Australia's best-selling single ever and was the No. 1 single in Australia in 1983 for eight weeks, seven of them consecutive.
The single was banned in Victoria for a week, due to the B-side "The Comedy Commando". This led to a gap between the record's first number one placing (15 August) and its seven-week run at the number one spot (5 September – 17 October).
The single was rereleased on CD in 2003 (EMI 7243 5 52755 0 9), containing the A-side and the video for the A-side, but not the original B-side.
Usage examples of "australiana".
When that happened, such people were quickly removed from society and if the psychological mind-altering drugs did not solve the problem, they were deported to the moon Australiana, where they, and others like them, were doomed to spend the rest of their lives in exile.
Or, in the case of children, banished to the moon Australiana, which eventually became a penal colony for those individuals who could not adapt to the strict rules of Sarnian law.
But they were quickly taken away from society, and if the psychological mind-altering drugs did not solve the problem, they were deported to the moon Australiana, where they, and others like them, were doomed to spend the rest of their lives in exile.
Starbuck remembered when Julianna visited Australiana to study the life-style of its residents.