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.

* 1922 – Geoffrey Dutton, Australian author and historian ( d. 1998 )

* 1908 – Rica Erickson, Australian artist, historian, and author ( d. 2009 )

Although the Australian Official History of 24th Brigade's 2 / 32 battalion describes the counterattack force as " German ", the Australian historian Mark Johnston reports that German records indicate that it was the Trento Division that overran the Australian battalion.

Geelong had always been particularly subject to what Geoffrey Blainey, a notable Australian historian, author of A Game of Our Own, and Geelong supporter, termed the " tyranny of distance ".

Cricket historian David Frith believed it is possible that the abrasive Australian captain Warwick Armstrong could have addressed sarcastic comments to Jardine but Wisden believed his slow approach cost him his century.

The Australian historian Professor David Day has suggested that Menzies might have replaced Churchill as British Prime Minister, and that he had some support in Britain for this.

Australian historian Robert Manne suggests " approximately 20, 000 to 25, 000 " were removed between 1910 and 1970, based on the Australian Bureau of Statistics report of 1994.

* September 20 – Flora Eldershaw, Australian novelist, critic, and historian ( b. 1897 )

* March 16 – Flora Eldershaw, Australian novelist, critic, and historian ( d. 1956 )

Australian historian David McKnight wrote that the IWW was controlled by the Comintern.

In 2008, Australian historian Peter Forrest claimed that the widespread belief that Paterson had penned the ballad as a socialist anthem, inspired by the Great Shearers ' Strike, was false and a " misappropriation " by political groups.

Paul John Kelly ( born 11 October 1947 ) is an Australian political journalist and historian from Sydney.

The significance of Fischer's discovery, as the Australian historian John Moses has noted, is that the goal of winning Lebensraum was already in German thinking long before 1933 and thus cannot be seen, as some German historians have argued, as solely Adolf Hitler's personal brain-child.

* Henry Reynolds, Australian historian

Australian architectural historian John James, who made a detailed study of the cathedral, has estimated that there were about 300 men working on the site at any one time, although it has to be acknowledged that our knowledge of working practices at this time is somewhat limited.

Some confusion has been caused by a letter that Popkin wrote, in 1935, to an Australian official historian.

* John Cyril Cato ( born 1889, died 1971 ), Australian photographer, portraitist and author, renowned historian of Australian photography, known also as Jack Cato

* Allan Bromley ( historian ) ( 1947 – 2002 ), an Australian historian of computing