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John Barry Humphries, (born 17 February 1934) is an Australian comedian, actor, satirist, artist, and author. He is best known for writing and playing his on-stage and television alter egos Dame Edna Everage and Sir Les Patterson. He is also a film producer and script writer, a star of London's West End musical theatre, an award-winning writer, and an accomplished landscape painter.

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ON the eve of Australia Day, Jon Anderson has put together his top 100 Australian sporting moments - in no particular order - that will make you proud to be an Aussie.

GIVEN we pride ourselves on sportsmanship, what better example than John Landy stopping to help Ron Clarke in the 1956 Australian 1500m championship? Landy still won, somehow.

JOHN Bertrand and his crew gave it to fat Dennis Conner and those toffs from the New York Yacht Club in the 1983 America's Cup.

CATHY Freeman won more races worldwide than any Australian before her but in the end it came down to the Sydney 400m and, as was her way, she won to send a nation into delirium.

OF all Don Bradman's remarkable batting, nothing surpasses the 309 runs he scored in a day in a Test against England at Leeds in 1930.

SADLY, Dawn Fraser's extraordinary achievements in the pool were at a time when exposure wasn't so great. Imagine the hoopla today if one of our swimmers won the 100m freestyle at three consecutive Olympics.

THE same could be said for Betty Cuthbert, who became the country's most loved woman with triple athletics gold in the Melbourne (100m, 200m, 4x100m relay) before returning eight years later at Rome to win the 400m.

GIVEN not out caught behind in the cricket World Cup semi-final against Sri Lanka at Port Elizabeth, South Africa, Australia's wicketkeeper and run-plundering opening batsman Adam Gilchrist walked anyway.

ASHTON Agar blasted 98 from 101 balls on debut in the 2013 Ashes, and doing it all with a smile.

ROB de Castella came from another postcode to run down a couple of Kenyans in the 1982 Commonwealth Games marathon.

RICK McCosker, to the tune of Waltzing Matilda, walking to the MCG wicket with his broken jaw bandaged in the 1977 Centenary Test

BALI bombing survivor Jason McCartney coming back and play an AFL game in 2003 before retiring.

KERRYN McCann, the 38-year mother of two from Bulli, winning the 2006 Commonwealth Games marathon, two years before dying from cancer.

LIONEL Rose, the Aboriginal kid from Jacksons Track, beating the great Fighting Harada of Japan for the world bantamweight title in 1968.

PAT Rafter for showing that winning isn't everything by losing with rare grace to Goran Ivanisevic at Wimbledon.

RON Barassi for tackling that deadbeat in Fitzroy St after witnessing a woman being assaulted.

CADEL Evans overcoming the Alps and juiced-up opposition to become the first Australian winner of the Tour de France.

ADOPTED Australian Phar Lap taking on and beating the world's best in 1932 at Aqua Caliente in Tijuana, Mexico.

AS only he could do, Doug Walters hitting a six off the last ball to bring up his century in a session against England in 1974/75.

SHY Aboriginal teenager Evonne Goolagong beating the great Margaret Court to win Wimbledon in 1971.

PAT Cash coming from two sets to love down to beat Mikael Pernfors and clinch the Davis Cup in 1986.

CLIFF Young shuffling from Sydney to Melbourne in five days at age 61 to win the inaugural Ultra Marathon.

TIM Cahill blasting two goals in the last 10 minutes in 2006 to give Australia our first win in a World Cup.

ADAM Scott sinking a putt in a sudden death playoff in 2013 to become the first Australian winner of the US Masters.

JON Sieben, largely unknown in Australia, powering past the guns to win gold in the 200m butterfly at the 1984 Olympics.

DEAN Jones scoring a memorable 210 in Madras in the tied Test of 1986, before being hospitalised for dehydration.

OF all local highlights of the Sydney Olympics, few if any could match the stunning victory over the US by our female water polo team.

MAYBE it was the victory climb into the stands, or the fact that Pat Cash dropped just one set on his way to winning Wimbledon in 1987.

IT was hard enough to believe he could even ride let alone win the Melbourne Cup as Damien Oliver did in 2002 after the death of his brother Jason in a track fall.

ROY Higgins refusing to blame anyone but himself (unlike so many today) after stuffing up the ride on Hyperno in the 1978 Moonee Valley Cup.

KIM Hughes, limping badly, blasting a century on the opening day of the 1981 Boxing Day Test against the West Indies to help set up an unlikely victory.

ON the same day, Dennis Lillee taking three late wickets, including the prize scalp of Viv Richards, to have the Windies 4-10 at stumps.

AT the MCG four years earlier, Lillee bowling himself into the ground to claim 11 English wickets and set up victory in the Centenary Test.

IN the same match debutant David Hookes, 21, cracking five consecutive fours to truly set the game alight.

THE next season Hookes had his jaw broken while trying to hook Andy Roberts. Five weeks later Hookes returned and hooked his first ball from Roberts for six.

KIEREN Perkins was a hot favourite leading into the 1996 Olympic 1500m. But he just qualified and looked a dead duck. Somehow he turned it around to win.

CATHY Freeman will forever be remembered for her Sydney heroics, but it all began seven years earlier when she won an unlikely 200-400m double at the Commonwealth Games in Canada.

CONCUSSED and hospitalised after falling in the equestrian event at the 1960 Rome Olympics, Bill Roycroft checked himself out of hospital to help his teammates win gold.

BRUISED and bloody, and behind on all three scorecards, Jeff Harding dug very deep to knock Dennis Andries out on the final round to win the world light heavyweight title in 1989.

MARK Taylor reached 334 at stumps on the second day against Pakistan at Pershawar in 1998 and declared overnight out of respect for Sir Donald Bradman, who had long held the Australian Test record on the same score. Wonder if The Don would have done the same?

A YEAR earlier Taylor had captained Australia in England, having not reached 50 in his previous 21 Test innings. In the first Test, at Bermingham, he made 129 in the second innings to silence rumblings about his axing.

GEELONG'S Mark Yeates, with payback on his mind from an incident earlier in the season, legally takes out Hawthorn's Dermott Brereton in the greatest game of all, the 1989 AFL Grand Final.

BRERETON, winded and with a broken rib, refuses to leave the ground and becomes a pivotal figure with three goals.

IN the same match Robert DiPierdomenico suffers a punctured lung but continues to play despite putting his life at risk.

JOHN Newcombe, 31, takes on Jimmy Connors, the brash young brat of world tennis, in the 1975 Australian Open and restores order with a four-set win.

WITH Australia in a penalty shootout with Uruguay for a spot in the 2006 World Cup, up stepped John Aloisi to slot home the shot that took us to Germany.

GEORGE Bugden did his profession proud when he captured the triple dead heat in the 1956 Hotham Handicap, a picture I still regard as the best in Australian sporting history.

WOULD Shane Warne succeed where some other leggies couldn't and take wickets in England? It took one magical ball to answer that.

JOHN O'Gready is hardly a household name but his 1963 picture of rival rugby league captains Norm Provan and Arthur Summons in a mud-caked embrace is etched in history.

A FINE sportscaster but even quicker on his feet, Sandy Roberts didn't miss a beat when becoming confused with the surname of 1981 Miss Australia Leanne Dick at the Mt Gambier races.

ALSO in the commentary world, how beautifully Australian was Ray "Slug" Jordon's work when Collingwood's John Bourke tripped an umpire in a 1985 reserves match.

ANDREW Lloyd was a total outsider before catching Kenyan superstar John Ngugi in the final stride of the 5000m at the 1990 Auckland Commonwealth Games.

THE Australian spectator who, on noticing despised English captain Douglas Jardine swatting at the air during the 1932 Bodyline series, told him to "leave our flies alone".

WHEN all else was lost, blond and wild-eyed paceman Rodney Hogg struck fear in the English batting hearts with 41 wickets in 1978/79.

BY then a mother and supposedly past her best, Evonne Goolagong Cawley became the first and only mum to win Wimbledon when she beat Chris Evert in 1980.

WITH Derek Randall on the way to taking England to a historic win in the 1977 Centenary Test, Australian 'keeper Rod Marsh was not satisfied he had taken a clean catch and called Randall back.

STEPHEN Bradbury became part of folklore by winning gold in the 1000m speed skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics when his main rivals fell ahead of him.

ON debut at Lord's in 1972, swing bowler Bob Massie took 16 wickets as he appeared to have the ball on a string.

CAMPBELL Brown for taking his sacking from the Gold Coast on the chin and not making excuses like so many others do.

HIS world surfing championship dream seemed over at age 31 in 2012, but Joel Parkinson managed to win Pipeline and pip Kelly Slater for the title.

ANNA Meares came back from a broken neck in 2008 to win gold at the London Olympics, beating arch rival Victoria Pendleton of England in the sprint final.

RETIRED Carlton player Fraser Brown telling Andrew Demetriou to "get stuffed" when questioned about under the table payments had a very Australian feel about it before we became a country of political correctness.

COLLINGWOOD'S John Greening in 1974, best on ground after returning from two years out of the game after being king-hit, sends the football world into raptures

GILLIAN Rolton bravely overcoming a broken collarbone and rib to help Australia to equestrian gold at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.

WHEN any Australian tennis player acknowledges his opponent before falling to the ground in wild celebration.

ROD Laver's unique achievement of two grand slams might be the finest of all, but our national pride has grown as the years have passed.

STEVE Hooker did it all in the pole vault but, for me, his win in the 2009 World Championships in Berlin, when injured, was the moment. He missed 5.85m at his first attempt before sailing over 5.90m to clinch it.

WALLY Lewis may have been competing for his state (Queensland) rather than a nation but every time he stepped out in State of Origin you couldn't help be stirred.

WHEN Mark Ella crossed for his fourth try in four Tests in 1984 against the British nations, he created a record unlikely to be broken in arguably our finest Rugby union team.

FOR all of his individual greatness, Ian Thorpe's finest nationalistic moment came in the 4x100m freestyle relay in Sydney when he mowed down Gary Hall Jr of the US.

PRIOR to Sydney 2000, Simon Fairweather had been viewed as a disappointment at Olympic level but all that changed as he took individual archery gold in front of an enraptured home crowd.

THERE were similar scenes at Bondi in the women's volleyball where Natalie Cook and Kerri Pottharst dominated, prompting some observers to rate it one of the best sporting events seen in this country.

WAYNE Gardner had enormous pressure on him prior to the inaugural 500cc motorcycle Grand Prix at Phillip Island in 1989. In a classic race before adoring petrol head fans he edged out Wayne Rainey.

MARK Philippoussis was instrumental in two Davis Cup victories for Australia, the second in 2003 against Spain in Melbourne when he beat Juan Carlos Ferrero in five sets.

ALLAN Border was our rock when we became whipping boys of world cricket, never better illustrated than when he scored 98 not out and 100 not out at Queen's Park in the West Indies in 1984.

WHILE we may have gone scoreless throughout the tournament, the performance of our amateur soccer team to reach the 1974 World Cup, courtesy of a 1-0 victory over Iraq.

IN 1975 one-day cricket was a foreign object to the Australians at the World Cup but it was a game tailor-made for the all-round skills of Gary Gilmour, as evidenced in a scintillating display against England in a semi-final.

YES, plenty had gone to England before and beaten their sprinters but none were unbeaten, as was the case with Black Caviar in 2012 when she did what she always did.

MICHAEL Clarke took a battering in the 2013 series in South Africa but responded with 161 not out to set up a series victory against the No. 1 ranked team.

PAT Rafter had been described by John McEnroe as a "one slam kind of guy" so when he won his second straight US Open in 1998 it held special significance.

OF all Rafter's great wins, beating world No. 1 Gustavo Kuerten in three sets in Brazil in a 2001 Davis Cup quarter-final ranks highest for me.

IT was a defining moment in Australian cricket - in 1995, for the first time in 22 years, we won a series in the West Indies. It came courtesy of a Steve Waugh double century in Kingston, Jamaica.

ON the subject of Waugh, remember the national fervour when he brought up his century off the last ball of the day against England at the SCG in 2003?

THERE were many proud moments in the career of Jeff Fenech, although for some his finest came in a draw when he was robbed of victory against Azumah Nelson in Las Vegas in 1991.

BEING a handicap event, the Melbourne Cup isn't designed for one horse to win it three times. But that didn't stop Makybe Diva in 2003-04-05.

AND talking equine three-peats, what about Kingston Town winning the Cox Plate in 1980-81-822?

JOHN Sattler will forever be etched in rugby league history when helped his beloved South Sydney to grand final victory over Manly in 1970, despite playing most of the game with a broken jaw.

THE late Jimmy Carruthers became our first world boxing champion in 1952 when he blitzed Vic Toweel in just over two minutes.

FIFTEEN years later, when world boxing championships still meant you were the best in your division, Johnny Famechon beat Jose Legra in London to win the world featherweight title.

IN terms of national pride, Australian Rules struggles given its tribal nature, but all but West Coast supporters rose when Leo Barry took that mark with seconds remaining in the 2005 AFL grand final.

SHANE Gould went to the 1972 Munich Olympics as our most decorated freestyle swimmer and came back with three gold medals, then promptly retired a year later.

CALL it a combination of pride and joy, because both were in large helpings when Jeff Thomson unleashed his thunderbolts against England in the first Test of 1974-75.

FOR a sheer moment the sideline penalty goal kicked by captain John Eales to win the 1999 Bledisloe Cup is hard to toss.

NATIONAL pride was rarely topped when compared with the Davis Cup heroics of teenagers Lew Hoad and Ken Rosewall in beating the US at Kooyong in 1953.

IT is always mentioned when the finest cricket games are discussed - the tied Test between Australia and the West Indies in Brisbane in 1960.

CARLTON'S comeback from 44 points down at half-time in the 1970 Grand Final against Collingwood proved what can happen when a team truly believes.

SADLY it did not happen in Australia, but the 1500m victory by Herb Elliott at the 1960 Rome Olympics was something else.

STEPHEN Larkham was in extra time when he booted the drop goal against South Africa in the 1999 World Rugby Cup semi-final to help Australia go on to victory.

FEW cricket games can match the dramatic ending of the 1999 World Cup semi-final between Australia and South Africa, a tie sending the Aussies into the final because they had previously beaten the Proteas in the tournament.

IN netball terms it doesn't get any better than Australia beating New Zealand 53-52 in the World Championships in Sydney in 1991.

THE 1997 NRL grand final between Newcastle and Manly was locked at 16-16 until the genius of Andrew Johns set up the matchwinning try for the Novocastrians.

WHO can forget the moral courage of Australian sprinter Peter Norman when he supported his "brothers", Americans Tommy Smith and John Carlos, in their black power salute at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics?

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The Australian BBQ is a huge tradition in our culture, we love them. We look forward to our weekend breaks and the great Aussie barbie is such a part of our leisure time.

We invite friends and family to our homes or we go to theirs and we share some chops, steaks or sausages over a beer, wine or a champagne every chance we get.

This way of eating for us dates back to early white settlement as our weather definitely lends itself to outside eating.

Our indigenous people have always cooked their food outside and that method has evolved to what it is today.

We certainly don't proclaim to be the only nation on earth to BBQ their meat or to be the first but we have made it a national past time and, of course, one of the biggest Australian advertising campaigns that became very successful and famous throughout the world was when Paul Hogan invited people to come on down and he would throw another shrimp on the Barbie.

It was a great campaign and I found it really good but funny because in Australia shrimps are called prawns, which really made the whole campaign a bit of a raw prawn deal!!! (if you understand that comment you are either Aussie or, at least, understand our slang a bit, if not you can come on down and get to know it)

Most Australian households have a BBQ of some sort, from the simple wood operated or gas type to the huge, top of the range outside oven styles like my husband and I have, and most new houses built these days include an outdoor area where the Australia BBQ has pride of place.

In our house we cook all of our meat, including our Christmas Turkey, on the Weber and never use our oven for any meat cooking.

We have portable BBQ's which we pack in the boot of our cars along with our picnic goodies and head out for a day or a weekend adventure.

Most of our public parks have BBQ facilities and a large majority of family picnics and outings include an Australian BBQ. Of course during our summer periods we are conscious of our bush fire warnings so most parks have the gas style barbies.

Australian BBQ habits can be pretty simple; we're happy to slap a bit of meat between two pieces of bread add a big dob of tomato sauce and eat it while we're throwing down a beer or a wine or if the barbie we're having on a partcular day involves preparing lots of salads, potato bake, fried onions and other dishes as well we're equally happy about that.

We can go the whole way with an Australian BBQ and throw on a gourmet meal with all the trimmings or just have a few chops and snags (sausages) with bread, whatever's happening on the day we'll go along and the same with the meat, it can be a bit charred, or a bit under-cooked depending on your preference. Throw in some beers and wines and enjoy the day with your mates.

A sausage sizzle is another great Aussie thing to do and is also a great fundraiser for local kids clubs and charities, quite often when you head out on Saturday or Sunday mornings to shop or pick something up from the hardware store there will be a group of dedicated people cooking and delivering delicious morsels to the shoppers and raising money for good causes.

We are always happy to put our hand in our pocket for worthy causes and the sausage sizzle is a great way for these worthy organisations to put some well needed funds into their coffers.

We are indeed lucky people and have a whole range of lovely cuts of meat to throw on the Australian BBQ.

Our range of meat eaten is quite large and varied but the main types are Lamb, Beef, Pork, Chicken, Emu and Kangaroo. Yes we eat our Coat of Arms!!

Australia is one of the largest exporter of red meat; over 100 countries worldwide are eating some of our finest cuts. Meat export means huge revenue for our country and we are proud to produce such fine quality food for the world to enjoy.

Having grown up in outback Australia I am a big eater of meat and remembering back to my childhood there were times when steak and eggs along with our favourite breakfast cereals were the main stay in our family diet. Fresh vegetables were never plentiful and tinned ones were the normal, along with Sunshine powdered milk to pour over the brekky cereals!

Some of my favourite cuts of meat to throw on our Aussie barbie or just cook in the Weber are:
Lamb Cuts Beef Cuts

steaks - over seven different styles

rolled-roast

silverside

rib roast

brisket

Pork Cuts

rolled-roast - leg and shoulder

spare ribs

pork belly

pork chops

pork steaks

Now our sausages are in a league of their own and, let's face it there is nothing like a snag on an Australian BBQ, in fact we have many awards going, both state and nation wide, for the best snag around.

So when you're talking sausages we have some excellent ones that are filled with all sorts of goodies; some gourmet and quite healthy ones and some not so healthy, I guess you get what you pay for.

As mentioned, we eat kangaroo and emu; roo meat is extremely lean and healthy and very good for you as it has little or no fat content. Emu meat is also a very healthy meat and low in fat content so both our native animals are healthy alternatives to other higher fat content meats. I personally don't really enjoy such dark red meat so I don't eat it now.

The really fantastic thing about our Australian BBQ habits is the meeting, greeting and partying with our mates and family over the good old Aussie barbie and whatever comes along with it.

It's the mateship and the sharing of good food and good times that is the priceless part of our Aussie lifestyle and what we all enjoy.

So throw something on the barbie and join us!

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There are numerous Australian Aboriginal languages and dialects, many of which are endangered. An endangered language is one that it is at risk of falling out of use, generally because it has few surviving speakers. If it loses all of its native speakers, it becomes an extinct language.

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