Latest Australia Day 2012

• Ode to Australia Day in London

  

  While our friends back home are most likely celebrating Australia Day on the beach, soaking up the sun and celebrating everything good about the land Down Under, we’ll be in cold and bleak London. But it’s not all bad. In fact, Australia Day in London can be the best!

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• Surviving Invasion Day

  

  At this time of year millions of Australians living at home, and abroad, unleash a peculiar brand of patriotism. Yet year after year the question of what being Australian really means is raised, and year after year we make little progress on finding an answer.

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• Australia Day in London: where to celebrate

  

  Australia Day in London: A guide to the best events, from the formal to the outright debaucherous, for Australian expats and their mates get together for an explosion of green and gold in celebration of the land down under.

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• My first Australia Day abroad

  

  2012 will be my sixth consecutive year that I’ve been in the northern hemisphere in January, but the first year that I’ve not boarded the 24-hour flight to be home by the 26th.

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• Australians of the Year celebrated in London

  

  Hundreds gathered at Australia House to honour 2012’s Australians of the Year in the UK.

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• Get ready for a green and gold Australia Day

  

  Australia Day, that holiest of days for Aussies, is one huge celebration of everything Australian. And I can’t think of anything better to celebrate than the fact that I am, you are, we are – Australian.

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• To all Australians on Australia Day

  

  A message from Australian High Commissioner His Excellency Mr John Dauth AO LVO, to Australians living in the UK on Australia Day.

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• What’s an Aussie: Do the myths hold up?

  

  It’s a universal hazard of being an expat that we come to learn the myths of how the rest of the world views our nation.

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• Time to rename Australian capitals

  

  Australian human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell says Aboriginal names would help give Australia’s capital cities a unique, distinctive and proud national identity.

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• I still call Australia home

  

  I looked at Facebook over breakfast and it was alive with talk of sun, sea, sand, steak, salads, sheilas, beer, BBQs, blokes, cricket and a day off. I pulled on my green and gold and tried to think warm thoughts as I struggled into my London winter coat.

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• Immigrants can help Australia prosper: Teo

  

  In his NSW Australia Day address, Dr Charlie Teo thanked Australians for seeing a Chinaman as an Aussie, not as a foreigner. He urges us to put aside anger and share our country.

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• What’s gunna be hot in the Triple J Hottest 100?

  

  Looking ahead to Australia Day, we preview and predict a few of the songs and artists likely to feature on Triple J’s Hottest 100 list. Are we right?

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• Australian Of The Year – who will join the list in 2012?

  

  Australian Of The Year recipients from 1960 to 2011.

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• Australia Day ‘most important’ for nation

  

  An overwhelming majority of Australians have nominated Australia Day as the most significant day on the national calendar.

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• Australia Day will rock in Camden with Oi, Oi, Oi

  

  For Aussie residents in north London this year Bar Solo in Camden will be hosting a bunch of Australian artists to mark the day.

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• Lambassador Sam Kekovich has a special 2012 Australia Day treat

  

  “Serve lamb on Australia Day. You know it makes sense!” That’s right, he’s Sam Kekovich, the Lambassador of Australia and he’s here to tell the world why Aussies need lamb on Australia Day. And in a special 2012 edition, Kekovich meets a different type of ‘Barbie’. Don’t be unAustralian, watch him in action now.

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• London celebrates Australia Day and raises money for Flood Appeal

  Aussies and their friends filled venues all over London last night to celebrate Australia Day, but the victims of the Queensland floods were not far from revellers’ minds.

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• Prince Charles: “pommy bastard”

  

  Prince Charles made a special appearance at the Australia House function in London to deliver a brief but touching speech in front of a crowd of about 500 people.

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• Triple J Hottest 100 for 2010

  Triple J Hottest 100: Four Aussie acts have made the top 5 in this year’s Hottest 100 countdown. See the complete list here and listen to Triple J, live.

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• Australia Day in London: Where to celebrate

  A comprehensive list of Australia Day events happening all over London featuring everything from a Vegemite / Marmite taste-off to an Aussie movie marathon and a surf simulator. So where will you be celebrating?

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