cultural mixture at the cuisine

Australian cuisine refers to the cuisine of the Commonwealth of Australia and its preceding indigenous and colonial societies. Indigenous Australians have occupied the lands of Australia for years, during which time they developed a unique hunter gatherer diet, known as "bush tucker", drawn from regional Australian flora and fauna, such as the kangaroo. Australia was, from 1788 to 1900, a collection of British colonies in which culinary tastes were strongly influenced by British and Irish traditions, and agricultural products such as beef cattle, sheep and wheat became staples in the national diet. Postwar Australia's multicultural immigration program lead to a diversification of the cuisine of Australia, particularly under the influence of  Mediterranean and East Asian immigrants.

Australian cuisine of the first decade of the 21st century shows the influence of globalization. Organic and biodynamic, kosher and halal foods have become widely available and there has been a revival of interest in bush-foods. British traditions persist to varying degrees in domestic cooking and the takeaway food sector, with roast dinners, the Australian meat pie and fish and chips remaining popular, but there are also new elements featured in these foods. To barbecue meats in the open air is considered a treasured national tradition. While fast food chains are abundant, Australia's metropolitan centers possess many famed haute cuisine and nouvelle cuisine establishments. 

Restaurants whose product includes contemporary adaptations, interpretations or fusions of exotic influences are frequently termed "Modern Australian".

Australian Sports

Sport is an important part of the culture in Australia, with a long history in the country dating back to the pre-colonial period. Early sports that were played included cricket, horse racing, Australian rules football and rugby.

There are a number of professional sport leagues in Australia, including the Australian Football League (Australian rules football), National Rugby League (rugby league), Super Rugby (rugby union), the A league and W-League (soccer), ANZ Championship (Netball), the National Basketball League, the Women's National Basketball League and the Australian Baseball League.

The rugby is one of the most popular sports in Australia, it has three division; a Rugby Union, Australian Rules and a Rugby League.

The media plays an important part in Australia's sporting landscape.

Australian Language Evolution, Expressions.

“Storyteller words”

At the present time, Australian English is famous for its air of novelty, is something of a living museum, preserving several eighteenth- and nineteenth-century regional words from Cornwall, Wessex, the Midlands, East Anglia, Northumbria, Scotland and Ireland.

To take just a few examples, words like corker, dust-up, purler and tootsy all came to Australia from Ireland via the cotton mills of Lancashire.  Billy comes from the Scottish bally, meaning 'a milk pail.'

Australians get larrikin from Worcestershire and Warwickshire, where the word originally meant 'a mischievous youth'.

' A typical Australianism like fossick, meaning 'to search unsystematically', is a Cornish word, showing the influence of the Cornish miners who settled in Southern Australia.

 Cobber almost certainly came from the Suffolk verb to cob, 'to take a liking to someone.' and Tucker, widely used for 'food,' had various English origins.

(Robert McCrum;  The Story of English. Viking, 1986)

The beginning of a new dialect: Australian english (AusE)

The founding of the British penal colony of New South Wales at Sydney in 1788 is the starting point of a process of evolution from British English, spoken by the children of early settlers exposed to a wide range of different dialects, particularly from Ireland and South East England. Then arose Australian English,a new variety of English and the standard language of Australia.

'Many of the words now thought of as Australian in fact started out in Britain, and some can still be heard in British local dialects - such as dinkum, cobber, tucker (cf. tuck shop) and joker (person). 

On the other hand, in recent years the influence of American English has been apparent, so that the country now displays a curious lexical mixture.Thus we find American truck, elevator, and freeway alongside British petrol, boot (of a car) and tap.

People usually think of Australian English as characterized by such Aboriginal borrowings as boomerang, billabong, dingo, kangaroo, koala, kookaburra, wallaby, and wombat; but in fact the English settlers took very few words from the native languages spoken in the country'.It was due to the Aborigines of Australia were very few, nomadic and because over 200 languages were in use at the time.

On the other hand,about a third of Australian place names are unmistakably Aboriginal: Woolloomooloo, Bugarribbee, Warragumby'. 

I invite you to listen to a really interesting podcast to know more about where did the Australian accent come from: Download audio  Show transcript

Sources:

Crystal, David. The English Language. A guided tour of the language. London. Penguin. 2002.

ABC.RadioNational.Speaking our language:THE STORY OF AUSTRALIAN ENGLISH

Australian Aboriginal Languages.

"We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love... and then we return home.”

 ABORIGINAL PROVERB

Australian Aboriginal culture is one of the oldest and longest surviving cultures, that has dated back to at least 40,000 years. Some say it may date back as far as 65,000 years ago.

The aborigines lives are distinctly related to the land and being one with the environment. The land is not just the physical rocks, trees, and rivers but rather the land is part of the people spiritually and must be used in harmony and sustainably. The land has its own stories of creation. They were semi-nomadic people living in large groups within their own territories, often referred to as ‘traditional lands’. These lands were defined by the surrounding environmental boundaries, such as rivers or mountains.

There has existed over 250 Aboriginal languages in Australia with many dialects spoken, for example Anjumarla, Warrungu, koko-Bera... It is a very diverse language. Recently a map showing the geographical region of each different language of Australia. It was created by David Horton.

Here I leave the link, where you can see specifically in which part developed each dialect.

http://www.abc.net.au/indigenous/map/

THE BEGINNINGS...

"This is our land. It goes back, a long way back, into the Dreamtime, into the land of our Dreaming. We made our camp here, and now all that is left of our presence are the ashes and the bones of the dead animals the young men had killed. Soon even our footprints will be carried away by the wind.”

ABORIGINAL PROVERB

The continent of Australia was once part of the greater land mass called Gondwanaland, where it has housed one of the oldest and longest surviving culture.

Aboriginals were the real founders of Australia because they came to this land thousands of years before white people discovered it. In 1988 white Australians celebrated 200 years of white settlement in this country. But Aboriginals have been here for at least 40,000 years. When white people came to Australia, they came to a land that already belonged to the Aboriginals. No one knows exactly where the Aboriginals lived before they came to Australia. It is known that Aboriginals came from somewhere in South-East Asia and that they left their homes and travelled to Australia in canoes or on rafts. Australian aboriginal culture is the oldest living culture in the world, at least 40,000 years old.

Here is a example of the traditional music the native people of Australia, the so-called aboriginals.