Why is Uluru (Ayers rock)Significant to aborigines?
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The Aborigines believe that there it is hollow below ground, and that there is an energy source that they call 'Tjukurpa' the dream time. The term Tjukurpa is also used to refer to the record of all activities of a particular ancestral being from the very beginning of his or her travels to their end. Anangu know that the area around \n\nAyers Rock (Mount Uluru) is inhabited by dozens of ancestral 'beings' whose activities are recorded at many other sites. At each site, the events that took place can be recounted, whether those events were of significance or whether the ancestral being just rested at a certain place before going on. \n\nUsually, there is a physical feature of some form at each ancestral site which represents both the activities of the ancestral being at the time of its formation and the living presence of Tjukurpa within that physical feature today. For the Australian Aboriginal people, that physical feature, whatever its form or appearance, animate or inanimate, is the Tjukurpa. It may be a rock, a sand hill, a grove of trees, a cave. For all of these, the creative essence remains forever within the physical form or appearance. \n\nAround Mount Uluru there are many examples of ancestral sites. The Anangu explanations of these sites and of the formation of Mount Uluru itself derive from the Tjukurpa. Most of these explanations are in the realm of secret information and are not disclosed to Piranypa, the non-Aborigines. \n\n'The Dreaming' is not a creation myth, per se, but a myth of formation. The world existed, but was featureless. Giant semi-human beings, resembling plants or animals, rose up from the plains where they had been slumbering for countless ages. \n\nThese ancient heroes roamed the land aimlessly. As they wandered around, they carried out the tasks that the present Aborigines do today including camping, making fires, digging for water, fighting each other, and performing ceremonies. When the heroes became tired of doing these things, Dreamtime came to an end. \n\nWherever the creators had been active, some form of natural feature now marks the place. The creators made everything with which the aborigines are in daily contact and from which they gain their living. The heroes also established laws that govern all aspects, both secular and sacred, of the tribes. \n\nDreamtime was in the past, but it is the Aborigines present religion and culture. The saying, 'As it was done in the Dreamtime, so it must be done today,' dominates all aspects of aboriginal behavior. Because of their beliefs in 'the dreaming,' ceremonies and rituals are held, stories are told, pictures are drawn, and daily life is defined. \n\nIn order to understand the religion of the Aborigines, one must have a basic understanding of the organization of the tribes. All men and women belong to small groups, called clans. Each clan posses a distinct body of spiritual properties, or sacred sites. \n\nA clan may have several sacred sites that they claim, and the area surrounded by the connection of these sites forms the clan's estate. Clans are linked by common religious traditions, intermarriage, shared dialects, and overlapping foraging rights. \n\n\n \nStone monument made by the heroic ancestors\n\n\n \nClans people of the crow believe they are descended from \nthe Dreamtime's crow spirit who became a man.\n\nEach clan has a totem. 'Totemism is a view of nature and life, of the universe and man, which colors and influences the Aborigines' social groupings and mythologies, inspires their rituals and links them to the past. It unites them with nature's activities and species in a bond of mutual life-giving, and imparts confidence amidst the vicissitudes of life'. The totem provides a tangible expression of a man's relationship to his deities. Everything in the Aboriginal world contains an essence or spirit that had its beginnings in the Dreamtime. Each person descended fr
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1.) the species existed for a short span of geologic time - this is important because it makes it easier to identify certain strata. If they existed for longer periods of time then it would be harder to correlate rocks found in different places. It's like when you find it you say I KNOW this is definitely from ___ period.\n\n2.) they existed worldwide or over a very large area - in order to correlate the geologic age of rocks from continent to continent or across continents it is important that these specie exist all over the world.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin%2C_Australia
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Try these websites for information on Queensland, Australia:\n\nhttp://www.qld.gov.au/about_queensland/history/index.html\n\nhttp://www.epa.qld.gov.au/parks_and_forests/world_heritage_areas/
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I so agree with you. I don't know if it's because they are geographically placed away from the world (and so close to Asia) that's made them that way or that they need more black migrants and another generation to open their minds up. What's funny is how you'll *never* hear an Australian calling the Aboriginals Native Australians when that should be the actual term. Before any Australian gets defensive again I'd say go travel first.
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It is up to the people of Australia.
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The Rainbow Serpent is an Aboriginal spirit from the Dreamtime myths. Some stories about him/her/it are good and some are bad. In some myths it is a personification of fertility - maybe to do with pregnancy or good fortune in the future?\n\nHere are a few you might like to read:\n\nhttp://www.nimbinweb.com.au/bundjalung/index.htm\n\nhttp://www.aboriginalartonline.com/culture/rainbow.php\n\nhttp://www.dreamtime.auz.net/default.asp?PageID=71\n\nhttp://www.innovationslearning.co.uk/subjects/re/information/creation/australian_aborigines.htm\n\nOf course, it may be nothing to do with this spirit, but it can't hurt to learn a bit more about another culture. \n\nTW x
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95% come from australia\n\ni think they are found in other kinds of rock\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opal
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It preserves the stability of the existing ethnic mix, at least for the time being.\n\nMore could be said, but to what purpose?  If you think about it, this is really an advantage for all existing people there.\n\nIt has been merciless to refugees en route from Afghanistan and other places, but the reality is accepting these would invite an endless stream.\n\nAustralia actually has limited habitable space, water and many other limited resources.  It is already strained in many ways.\n\nI hope you can think of what I have left out.  Problems are not solved by exporting them to new places, thus far relatively untarnished.\n\nEspecially when the list of difficulties is already long enough.
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Australian men are HOT!  :) Seriously, my family hosted a few Australian exchange students and they are the nicest people.  :) Funny, cute and super charming.  I've seen lots of photos and tv shows on Australia~ it looks like the most beautiful country.  But I really think the people are what makes it so neat.  :)And hey, that accent is just kickin.  ;)
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(m)\n\nAustralia (also called Australia-New Guinea, Sahul, Meganesia, Greater Australia or Australinea) is a continent comprising (in order of size) the Australian mainland, New Guinea, Tasmania, and intervening islands, all of which sit on the same continental shelf. These landmasses are separated by seas overlying the continental shelf — the Arafura Sea and Torres Strait between Australia and New Guinea, and Bass Strait between mainland Australia and Tasmania.\n\nWhen sea levels were lower during the Pleistocene ice age, including the last glacial maximum about 18,000 years ago, the lands formed a single, continuous landmass. During the past ten thousand years rising sea levels overflowed the lowlands and separated the continent into today's low-lying semi-arid mainland and the two mountainous islands of New Guinea and Tasmania.\n\nGeologically the continent extends to the edge of the continental shelf, so the now-separate lands can still be considered a continent.[1] Due to the spread of flora and fauna across the single Pleistocene landmass, the separate lands have a related biota.\n\nNew Zealand is not on the same continental shelf and so is not part of the continent of Australia but is part of the wider region known as Australasia.
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Uniter.  Sure there are differences in language, but there are difference in people as well.  The reason humans are able to acheive the incredible things that we do is because of our ability to communicate on a very specific level.  No other animal comes close to us in this regard.
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Yes\nAustralia \nBelgium \nNetherlands \nSwitzerland
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I have the perfect site for you to look up the information you  are looking for. It has myths listed from Aboriginal tribes up to the latest urban mythology. I am sure you will find this link most useful for your studies.
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Australia The Land Downunder!!!!
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Link #1 has the pdf brouchure on the protected mountains .. \n__________________________________________________\n\nGlass House Mountains \nA series of spectacular volcanic plugs rising dramatically from the coastal plain. \nThe remarkable Glass House Mountains are a series of steep-sided volcanic plugs which dominate the landscape of the Sunshine Coast hinterland. They are formed of rhyolite and trachtyte, lavas which hardened inside the vents of tertiary volcanoes that have been greatly reduced by about 25 million years of erosion. \n\nThe first European to see the mountains was Captain James Cook. In his Journal on 17 May 1770 he wrote: '..however, if any future navigator should be disposed to determine the question whether there is or is not a river in this place, which the wind would not permit us to do, the situation may be always found by three hills, which lie to the northward of it, in the latitude of twenty six degrees fifty three minutes. These hills lie but a little way inland, and not far from each other: they are remarkable for the singular form of their elevation, which very much resembles a glass house, and for this reason I called them the Glass Houses: the northern most of the three is the highest and largest; there are several other peaked hills inland to the northward of these, but these are not nearly so remarkable...' \n\nThe next European to visit the area was Matthew Flinders who spent 16 days sailing around Moreton Bay in July-August, 1799. During his explorations he came ashore and climbed Mount Beerburrum from which he surveyed the whole of Moreton Bay. The excellent booklet Matthew Flinders in Moreton Bay 1799, published by the Redcliffe Historical Society, records Flinders visit to the Glasshouse Mountains: \n\n'On the following morning Flinders took the boat up a small creek that pointed towards the peaks. About half past nine he left the boat accompanied by two seamen and a native. The country they passed through was swampy, covered with mangroves, they waded through rocky swamps. In observing the flat-topped peak (Tibrogargan) it was considerably nearer than the highest Glass-house (Beerwah) that he had first meant to visit, but seeing one of the round mount (Beerburrum) with sloping sides was nearer, he altered course for it and after walking about nine miles from the boat he reached the top. \n\n'The view of the bay and neighbouring country was very extensive, to the south there were several distinct columns of smoke visible. The mount was a pile of loose stones of many sizes, which had made the ascent quite difficult.' \n\nToday the Glass House Mountains have become one of the premier tourist attractions on the Sugar Coast. Located inland from Caboolture and 61 km from Brisbane they are not only important to the European history of southern Queensland but play a major part in the Aboriginal culture of the area. \n\nAccording to Aboriginal legend Tibrogargan (which is 364 m high) the father and Beerwah (at 555 m the highest of all the peaks) the mother, had a number of children of whom Coonowrin (377 m - the narrow and most dramatic of all the volcanic plugs) was the eldest, Tunbubudla were the twins (293 m and 312 m), Coochin (235 m), Ngungun (253 m), Tibberoowuccum (220 m), Miketeebumulgrai (199 m) and Elimbah (129 m). \n\nThe legend tells of Tibrogargan noticing that the sea was rising and calling out to Coonowrin to help his pregnant mother gather the young children together so that the family could flee from the rising sea. Coonowrin ran away in fear and Tibrogargan, incensed by his son's cowardice, followed and hit him so hard with a club that his neck was dislocated. When the seas retreated the family returned to the plains. Conowrin, teased about his crooked neck and ashamed of his behaviour, went to Tibrogargan and asked for forgiveness but the father just wept with shame. Conowrin then approached his brothers and sisters to ask forgiveness but they too could o
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the great barrier reef is one of them