Albert Namatjira (the aborigine painter)

Opera

Joan Sutherland (an opera diva)

Acting

Mel Gibson

Nicole Kidman.

Popular Music

Nick Cave

" Midnight Oil"

" Silverchair"

Over the past decades, the Australian culture has been strongly influenced by the

American popular culture (particularly television and cinema), the large-scale immigration from non-English-speaking countries, and also by Australia's Asian neighbours. However, Australians prefer to keep to what has already been tried and tasted, avoiding anything original and unfamiliar.

Nevertheless, their culture possesses distinctive Australian features, which have

arisen from the country‟ s unique environment and beautiful landscape.