australia day
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Triple J’s Hottest 100 Changes The Date
“The Hottest 100 wasn’t created as an Australia Day celebration. It was created to celebrate your favourite songs of the past year. It should be an event that everyone can enjoy together – for both the musicians whose songs make it in and for everyone listening in Australia and around the world.” That’s right my…
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Crazy Aussies Built A Slip N Slide As Long As A Football Field
Every year Paul Borrud builds a massive homebrew Slip N Slide to help celebrate Australia Day. This year’s effort measured almost 100.58m long and ended in a billabong that wasn’t quite large enough to contain most riders as they came rocketing down the slope. But risking your life is half the fun of a Slip…
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Sydney’s Australia Day Ferry Race Looks Amazing As A Tilt-Shift Time-Lapse
Video: Created from hundreds of photos captured by a digital SLR with a tilt-shift wide-angle lens, this video of annual Australia Day ferry race makes the vessels look like part of a children’s toy set — except for that massive 30,000-ton Navy carrier.
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Australian Music On iTunes Is Still Lacking
It’s Australia Day. There’s a good chance many of you are sitting back, beer in hand listening to Triple J’s Hottest 100. Others may be listening to Whispering Jack on repeat (It’s okay, we’ve all been there). The point is that music on Australia day is as Australian as Anzac biscuits. Which makes Lifehacker’s monstrous…