In 2010, the Australian a cappella Quartet The Idea of North was nominated for an ARIA for their seventh studio album, " Feels Like Spring ", bringing a cappella music back into pop culture.

The Australian composer Peter Sculthorpe quoted parts of it in his opera or music theatre work Rites of Passage ( 1972-73 ), which was commissioned for the opening of the Sydney Opera House but was not ready in time.

Category: Australian rock music groups

* Indigenous Australian music

* Kennedy, K. ( 1933 ): " Instruments of music used by the Australian Aborigines ".

Category: Australian Aboriginal music

Probably the most ambitious and perhaps significant work to date is Ingwe ( 2003 – 2009 ) by Georges Lentz ( written for Australian guitarist Zane Banks ), a 60-minute work for solo electric guitar, exploring that composer's existential struggles and taking the instrument into realms previously unknown in a concert music setting.

* Australian folk music traditions

* 1952 – Glenn A. Baker, Australian music journalist and commentator

* The track " Power " from It's Tomorrow Already was used as bumper music during the 2009 Australian Open tennis tournament.

Category: Australian rock music groups

Indigenous issues feature prominently in politically inspired Australian music and include the topics of land rights, and aboriginal deaths in custody.

Other notable themes in politically inspired Australian music include racism ( for example, The Herd ) and the environment ( for example, Midnight Oil ).

Pub rock is a style of Australian rock and roll popular throughout the 1970s and 1980s, and still influencing contemporary Australian music today.

Many city and suburban pubs gained renown for their support of live music, and many prominent Australian bands — including AC / DC, Cold Chisel, The Angels and The Dingoes — cut their teeth at these venues in the early days of their careers.

Category: Australian styles of music

* 19-Slim Dusty, 76, Australian country music singer.

In March 2010, Russell Crowe & The Ordinary Fear of God's version of the John Williamson song " Winter Green " was included on a new compilation album The Absolute Best of John Williamson: 40 Years True Blue, commemorating the singer-songwriter's milestone of 40 years in the Australian music industry.

According to music historian, Ian McFarlane " made an enormous impact on Australian social life ".

Category: Australian rock music groups

The Seekers are an Australian folk-influenced pop music group which was originally formed in 1962.

They were the first Australian popular music group to achieve major chart and sales success in the UK and the US.

Australian music historian Ian McFarlane described their style as " concentrated on a bright, uptempo sound, although they were too pop to be considered strictly folk and too folk to be rock.

Australian music historian, Ian McFarlane described their style as " concentrated on a bright, uptempo sound, although they were too pop to be considered strictly folk and too folk to be rock.

Beginning in 1967 with the appointment of a Coordinator of Transport heading a policy unit, in 1968-69 the Department of Transport was fully established responsible for policy and investment in all transport modes, ( Civil aviation regulation remained with the Australian Department of Civil Aviation ).

Beginning in the 1990s, the Australian Broadcasting Authority began a process to move these stations to UHF bands to free up valuable VHF spectrum for its original purpose of FM radio.

Beginning with the Australian Open, she began playing for Yugoslavia.

Beginning in 2011, they are one of five Australian sides in the expanded and renamed Super Rugby, and are the current tournament champions.

Beginning as an outpost established with the Australian Overland Telegraph Line on the North-South transport route between Darwin and Adelaide, Katherine has grown with the development of transport and local industries including mining-particularly gold mining ; a strategic military function with RAAF Base Tindal ; also as a tourism gateway to the attractions of nearby Nitmiluk National Park, particularly Katherine Gorge and its many ancient rock paintings.

Beginning in the late 1980s he developed an Australian accent.

Beginning in 1961 all other Australian states and territories have passed strata titles legislation, although it is known by different names in some jurisdictions ( e. g. building units titles, community titles and unit titles ).

Beginning in 1900, the Australian politician Alfred Deakin wrote anonymous commentaries on Australian politics for the paper, continuing even when he had become Prime Minister.

Beginning on 8 August 1918 the offensive included four Australian divisions striking at Amiens.

Beginning in 1967, Cahill was placed under surveillance by the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation ( ASIO ).

Beginning in 2012, the Women's Australian Open will also be co-sanctioned by the U. S. LPGA Tour, and its prize fund will increase to US $ 1. 1 million.

1973 was a watershed year for Burrows in which he received the first gold record won by an Australian jazz musician for his record Just the Beginning ; instigated the first jazz studies program in the southern hemisphere at the New South Wales Conservatorium of Music ( under the direction of Rex Hobcroft ); and was awarded the Member of the Order of the British Empire ( MBE ).

Beginning with only two raccoons, the collection soon grew in size and variety and by 1903 included an Australian owl, mink, bears, alligators and monkeys and many others.

Then in the early 1980s there were major changes in the Australian brewing industry, including the merger of Castlemaine ( Brisbane ), Swan ( Perth ) and Toohey's ( Sydney ) into a national brewing group, as a result of acquisitions by Perth entrepreneur Alan Bond.

The 1980s were challenging for Holden and the Australian automotive industry.

In the 1970s and 1980s it was thought that leg spin would disappear from the game due to the success of West Indian and later Australian teams exclusively using fast bowlers.

He raced in Australian Superbikes in the late 1980s, and also won both races as Superbike World Championship visited Oran Park in.

Men at Work are an Australian rock band who achieved international success in the 1980s.

The final Men at Work performances in the 1980s found Australian jazz saxophonist Paul Williamson replacing Ham and Russell Hitchcock as additional vocalist.

Through the 1980s both the global and Australian economy grew quickly and by the late 1980s was overheating, with inflation around 8 to 10 percent.

During the economic boom of the 1980s, the Western Australian government became closely involved with a number of large businesses.

In the 1980s some Australian pizza shops and restaurants began selling " gourmet pizzas ", that is, pizzas with more expensive ingredients such as salmon, dill, bocconcini, tiger prawns, or unconventional toppings such as kangaroo, emu and crocodile.

In the 1980s, Crowe and friend Billy Dean Cochran formed a band, " Roman Antix ", which later evolved into the Australian rock band 30 Odd Foot of Grunts ( abbreviated to TOFOG ).

In the late 1980s Central TV acquired the Australian soap opera Prisoner, which was produced between 1979 and 1986.

During the 1980s the Australian attempts to emulate big-budget US soap operas such as Dallas and Dynasty had resulted in Taurus Rising and Return to Eden, two slick soap opera dramas with big budgets and shot entirely on film.

The export driven Australian wine industry was well situated for the Chardonnay boom of the 1980s and 1990s and Australia responded with a unique style of wine that was characterized by big fruit flavors and easy approachability.

These were followed by 403, 404 and 504 models with Australian assembly ending with the 505 in the early 1980s.

Because the series ran for such a long time and featured young performers, Young Talent Time made an indelible mark on the psyche of several generations of Australian children, leading them to believe that if they tried hard enough, they too could be a ' star ' like the kids they saw on television ( Johnny Young launched talent schools in his own name in early 1980s ).

Category: 1980s Australian television series

During the 1980s, after many years of recording performances by the Australian Opera for television, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation ( ABC ) and The Australian Opera presented their first live simulcast, Johann Strauss's Die Fledermaus, and it was seen by more than two million people.

Australian hip hop began in the early 1980s, primarily influenced by overseas works, but by the 1990s a distinctive local style had emerged, with groups such as the Hilltop Hoods achieving international acclaim for their work.

* Mark Lee ( Australian rules footballer ), Richmond ruckman of the 1980s

These measures led to the resurgence of Australian film called the Australian New Wave which lasted until the mid-late 1980s.