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Golden Guitar Winners 2012
Beccy Cole and Keith Urban led the winners this year collecting two Golden Guitars each at the 40th Country Music Awards Ceremony Saturday, 28th January.
Keith Urban won Male Artist of the Year for Long Hot Summer. Beccy picked up her award for her song Waitress remarking that she was shocked to get Female Artist of the Year. APRA Song of the Year went to Shane Nicholson for Bad Machines. Catherine Britt picked up Single of the Year for Sweet Emmylou.
The CMAA Awards is a highlight of the 10-day Tamworth Country Music Festival. About 50,000 music fans came to the Festival this year. The Awards is organized by the Country Music Association of Australia (CMAA). More than 400 Golden Guitars have been awarded since it was first held in 1973.
See our 40 years of CMAA Golden Guitar Winners
Birthday Cards
Birthdays should
be celebrated no matter your age. And what better way to do that than with one of our delightful Aussie
cards. Whether you want traditional Australian flowers, or happy Aussie friends in
For the Kids series, you're sure to find a Birthday card to brighten someone's day.
Any time is a good time to say hello with our free Greeting Cards.
Australian Blog
Australian Spirit
We receive questions all the time from our overseas visitors about being an Aussie. So in honour of the Australia Day holiday, we thought it you might enjoy this blog repeat . . .
I Am Australian is one of the most loved songs in Australia. It talks about all the different kinds of people we are, from many lands, from the past and today ...
all are Australian.
We'll try to explain the stanza at the end of the song that you asked us about. The words "this great land" means our country, Australia. That stanza is talking about all the things that make us
speaking about the beauty of our country. "I'm the black soil of the plains" describes the rich soil where we grow our crops. "I am the rock, I am the sky" means we are part of everything in our great land.>
We talk with pride about Aussie "battlers". They are people who struggle to pay their bills and feed their families. They work hard at their jobs, but still struggle.
They have the "spirit" the poem talks about ... to keep trying and never give up when you know there will always be problems to face. That's why Aussies make so many jokes. It's part of our
Australian.
For example "I'm the drought and flooding rains" is speaking about the hardships we face in the past and today. Overcoming hardships makes us strong.
"I'm the mountains and the valleys" is
spirit to find humour in our problems. It helps us face and overcome them.
Every country has a spirit. It's developed from the way people lived and struggled to build a country. It shapes the way you think today and the way you act with other people. It's what makes us Aussies.
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