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78January 2009 Holiday Calendar Australia
Australia's public holidays in 2009 are a mixture of country-wide and local holidays. Australia's holiday calendar is confused with different states having differnet public holidays. Even some shires and...
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70The traditional Malay costumes
The traditional Malay costumes are something to marvel at. These traditional Malay costumes are usually worn during special occasions such as Hari Raya Puasa, Hari Raya Haji, weddings and sometimes visits...
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80Waitangi Day
Waitangi Day celebrates the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi. It has become an important for New Zealanders and Australians where ever they are in the world whether they ar attending a dawn service in Australia or New Zealand or participating in the Waitangi Day pub crawl on London's circle line!
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74Australia Day
Australia Day is Australia's National Day - it commemorates the arrival at Sydney Cove on 26th January, 1738 of the first white settlers, the fleet of convicts, dispatched from Portsmouth, England. The group...
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95Melbourne Cup Australia Stops for a Horse Race
Statutory, or paid holidays are generally reserved for really important religious events e.g. Christmas or other significant National events such as ANZAC Day or Australia Day. In Australia though there is...
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88Christmas in Australia: A Visitors Guide
For those of us who live in the southern hemisphere Christmas is all to do with long summer holidays, days at the beach, and for Autralian's particularly: trying to reconcile traditional heavy winter food...
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64Australia Day - 26th January, 2008 - Formalities fringed with family fun
Australia Day is a time to celebrate the birth of a nation - the largest island and the smallest continent. It is a time to celebrate beginnings, historically; a time to demonstrate unity. But how Australians go about doing that can be quite intriguing, even amusing! This hub gives examples of the usual and some rather odd activities in store for 2008's Australia Day!
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70ANZAC Day - 25 April
The letters ANZAC stand for "Australian and New Zealand Army Corps", Anzac Day remembers the Australian and New Zealand forces who have gone to war. ANZACs were originally the soldiers who had fought a famous battle at Gallipoli in Turkey during World War I.
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60Come on and Celebrate Hari Raya
Han Raya Aidilfitri, or Hari Raya Puasa, marks the end of Ramadan, the holy month of fasting. It is the Muslim festival of Eid-ul-Fitr. It signifies a victory of self-restraint and abstinence and thus...
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64Festivals of Singapore
Living amongst the multi-racial diverse background in Singapore, one will get a feel of the different cultures and the various types of upbringing that co-exist and gel firmly in the city state. People from...
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