Tag: cultural identity

AUSTRALIA DAY | Ahead of the Australia Day Weekender event tonight at The Clapham Grand, we speak with the equally outrageous and insightful comedian Felicity Ward, who is performing as part of the comedy line up.

AUSTRALIA DAY | Ahead of the screening of The Castle as part of the Australia Day Weekender at The Clapham Grand, here are the top 10 quotes from arguably the best Aussie film of all time.

Aussie expat figures may not be what they used to, but the Australian influence over London life is increasing through new and different ways. What does this mean for the identity of Australians in the UK? It’s time to talk.

This week we bring you a special Monarchy vs Republic feature, with opinion pieces offered from both sides of the debate. Brant Rippon of the Australian Monarchist League examines the nature of the modern monarchy in Australia.

This week we bring you a special Monarchy vs Republic feature, with opinion pieces offered from both sides of the debate. Simon Rowell, Marielle Smith and Cal Viney, Co-Chairs of the London Steering Committee on Being Australia(n), discuss the need to re-examine questions of Australian identity and redefine ‘brand’ Australia.

SUBCULTURE SLEUTH | This week our sleuth practices the London art of patience when faced with a swarming mass of tourists.

SUBCULTURE SLEUTH | In an attempt to understand the almost religious fevour with which football is followed in our adopted homeland, our sleuth dons the red and white and tries to go incognito at the ‘North London derby’.

SUBCULTURE SLEUTH | A rivalry as old as time, the London cross-city divide, takes on a whole new dimension when you add Australians to the mix.

SUBCULTURE SLEUTH | Whether you are chav or posh boy, hipster or hooligan, Australian or Brit, there is one thing that men across the world have in common — image is everything, especially in a cultural melting pot like London.

SUBCULTURE SLEUTH | This week our Sleuth jumps to the defence of a newly discovered UK crush — Tulisa.

SUBCULTURE SLEUTH | Aussie men may think they have perfected the art of male bonding with their footy match getaways, but it has nothing on the British lad’s weekend for shared shame and debaucherous glory.

It is hard for an Aussie to live in the UK and not notice the pervasive influence of class, woven into the cultural fabric of English society. Whilst the idea of an Australian classless society may be an 'egalitarian myth' , it is, as CATHERINE BURRELL argues, an important part ...

SUBCULTURE SLEUTH | This week's sleuthing leads to an encounter with London's most bizarre and confusing subculture of them all - the Shoreditch hipster.

AUSTRALIA DAY IN UK | What could be more Aussie than quoting along to The Castle, eating a Cherry Ripe and having a beer. Well, it's all possible at the special Australia Day 'The Castle Quote Along' screening, hosted by the boys from Bogan Bingo.

It’s at #ImaCelebrity and all over my nightly ITV2, but for this Australian viewer, the UK reality TV phenomenon I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here should be trending at #ImaBoredViewerGetMeAwayFromThisMonotony. And I’m pretty sure I’ve seen bigger spiders in my bathroom.

She’s a beautiful South African lioness. I’m a mangy Australian mutt. Her speech is refined, dignified, and elegant — the sweet rhythms of … . Mine is slurred, poorly announced, whiney and peppered with blasphemy and swearing.