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.

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* 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.

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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.

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* 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.

Though the New Zealand leg of the tour did not take long in comparison to the number of Australian games, the British and Irish experienced considerable difficulty across the Tasman after white-washing the Australians.

Essendon had tough, but talented players with the likes of " Rotten Ronnie " Ron Andrews and experienced players such as Barry Davis, Ken Fletcher, Geoff Blethyn, Neville Fields and West Australian import Graham Moss.

The Good Restaurant Guide is another Australian restaurant guide that has reviews on the restaurants as experienced by the public and provides information on locations and contact details.

ONA has experienced substantial growth since the release of the report into intelligence agencies by Phillip Flood which recommended a doubling of the agency's budget and staffing resources and formalisation of the agency's role as a coordinator and evaluator of the other Australian foreign intelligence agencies.

By the time ' La Stupenda ' appeared there in 1974, one year after the opening of the theatre, the company was a leading repertory company with a large chorus and a roster of experienced Australian principals supplemented by guest singers and conductors.

The Australian colonies had experienced a taste of multi-ethnic immigration during the Australian gold rushes, but following Federation in 1901, the Parliament instigated the White Australia Policy that gave preference to British migrants and ensured that Australia remained a predominantly Anglo-Celtic society until well into the 20th Century.

Unlike other cultures based on a nurturing landscape that they seek to protect from others, Australian settlers experienced great hardship and had to support each other to survive.

Though Skiing in Australia began in the northern Snowy Mountains in the 1860s, it was the construction of the vast Snowy Scheme from 1949, with its improvements to infrastructure and influx of experienced European skiers among the workers on the Scheme that really opened up the Mountains for the large scale development of a ski industry, and led to the establishment of Thredbo and Perisher as leading Australian resorts.

In recent times, the University has suffered cutbacks in government funding, a problem experienced across most of the Australian higher education sector.

In the early planning stages of the project, Australian fast ferry operator Holyman, then one of the biggest and most experienced fast ferry operators in the world, was in talks with BC Ferries and the NDP Government.

Losing out to the more experienced Charles Bean for the position of official Australian correspondent covering the 1914 war, in 1915 he was appointed managing editor of the London cable service run by the Sun and the Melbourne Herald.

Wallington was highly experienced in Australian colonial administration, having advised many governors previously and earning a reputation as an expert in managing communications and relations with the Colonial Office in London.

In addition to the experienced 4th Brigade ( previously in the original New Zealand and Australian Division ) were added the new 12th and 13th Brigades ( spawned from the battalions of the 4th and 3rd Brigades respectively ).

Generally units on their first tour were not allowed to undertake more audacious operations so those conducted in their first and only tour by 3rd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment between May and July 1965 on the Sungei Koemba river, at Kindau and again at Babang may not have been representative of those by more experienced Gurkha and British battalions, even if there were successful.

With the retirement of experienced opening batsman Matthew Hayden — who was replaced by the uncapped 20 year-old Phillip Hughes — the Australian team that toured South Africa in February, March and April 2009 was its most inexperienced since since the defections to World Series Cricket.

The experienced combat commanders, General Philip Chetwode, commander of the British Desert Column, and General Henry Chauvel, commander of the Australian and New Zealand Mounted Division ( Anzac Mounted Division ), were less optimistic about the chances of breaking the Ottoman line.

Wayne Bennett has been one of the most successful coaches in Australian Rugby League history and has experienced success with the last three teams he has coached.

It experienced many casualties in the Greek Campaign, where 3, 000 Australian soldiers were taken prisoner.

A planned invasion of the Japanese home island of Honshū in 1946, Operation Coronet, would almost certainly have included an " Australian 10th Division ", made up of experienced personnel from the three existing divisions.

On 1 July 2008, twenty five years after the High Court decision that saved the Franklin River an anniversary dinner was held at Hobart's Grand Chancellor Hotel where former Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke stated that the campaign to protect the Franklin River had important lessons for the struggle against global warming: " And as you look at the arguments and the positions of political parties today you see a complete replication of what we experienced back there in 1983.

In an Australian study of 309 active amphetamine users, 18 % had experienced a clinical level psychosis in the past year.

The American troops, keen to keep up with the experienced Australians, dashed into the shell-fire and at least one Australian was killed while turning round an American platoon that had entered the barrage.

British and Australian productions, rather than having a second second AD, will hire a " second " 2AD experienced in the same duties, and trained to the same level, to allow a division of the duties.