AUSTRALIA

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AUSTRALIA
Cultural Background
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Geography
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Write a list of 5 famous Australian sports
performers from 5 different sports.
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Write a list of 5 things that you most associate
with Australian culture.
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Fill in the cities and geographical features on
your map
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From Sydney to Perth is 2500 miles (about the
same as from London to Toronto
This takes 6 hours by air and 2 ½ days by car
What effect could this have on sport in Australia?
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A large percentage of Australia is uninhabitable
and the bulk of the population in centred around
Darwin, Brisbane, Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne,
Hobart and Perth.
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The First Settlers
In 1788 around 1000 men and women landed by ship
at Port Jackson (now Sydney). The majority of
these people were convicted criminals.
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• Australia gained independence from the UK in
  1901.

• Unlike the USA, Australia has maintained its
  links with the former motherland and
  throughout the country there is evidence of
  colonial roots.

• For example, the education and judicial systems,
  sporting ethos and traditions are very similar to
  those found in the UK today.

This is reflected in the sports they play
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Although it is part of the commonwealth and has
elected to retain the monarch of England as the
chief of state, Australia has a federal
parliament based in the capital city Canberra.
The government in Australia is DECENTRALISED
Central government (Canberra)
Queensland, NSW, Victoria, Tasmania, South
Australia, Western Australia, Northern Teritorry
Local government in each state
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• From 1945 to the mid 1960s, the Australian
  government sponsored emigration from the UK

• This explains in part why 95 of the population
  is white and principally of British decent,
  making the Anglo-Celts the dominant societal
  group.

• Now 22 of the population has European origins
  and the principal groups include Italians,
  Croats, Greeks, Maltese, Germans and Dutch.
  European settlers brought soccer to Australia

Mark Viduka From Croatian decent.
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Indigenous Peoples

• Aborigines are the indigenous people of
  Australia and Tasmania.

• Before European settlement in the late 18th
  Century there were 350,000 divided into 500
  groups.

• In 1920 this was reduced to about 60,000 due to
  persecution and terra nullius

• Now the Aboriginal population is around 427,000

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• Over 150 nationalities can be found now. There
  are many ties with the Asian-Pacific region
  (Tonga, Fiji, Somoa)

• These people were originally transferred
  forcibly to work as cheap labour. These
  islanders were instrumental in the development of
  swimming and surfing in Australia

• Alick Wickham, a native of the Soloman Islands,
  revolutionised swimming and is credited with the
  invention of the crawl stroke.

• The representation of Melanesian and Polynesian
  players in Rugby remains up to the present day.

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Ideologies
The ideologies of Australia focus on a
capitalist, democratic, westernised model. A
strong egalitarian (equal) ethos is present and
pluralism is valued in society.
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Australia is renown for being obsessed with
sport. This is helped by the fact that climatic
conditions allow outdoor activities to take place
all year round.
All sports are played but some are focused in
particular states.
Victoria
NSW Queensland
South Australia