to wonder what, culturally speaking, australia has ever given the world?

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really.
apart from neighbours, peter carey and patrick white?
anything?

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Paul Kelly
Deborah Conway
Cat Empire
My Brilliant Career
Deborah Ker Conway
Bill Grainger
INXS
The Saints / Ed Kuepper
lamingtons
Baz Luhrmann
Max Bannah

did the OP have a point?

Uluru

I thought about Uluru, but wondered how freely it had been 'given' to the world...

ROFL at these responses!! Made my evening.
(had forgotten about germaine and joan sutherland and clive james. cannot count actors as great cultural icons. flim directors maybe...)

No particular point to the OP. have been posting on the AIBU thread about FLY which was very silly and got to thinking about other MN threads which i found annoying and the only ones that really make me scream are ones which take Steve Biddulph (childcare writer - if you don't know him do yourself a favour and never find out..) seriously. which led me on to - he's australian, and what, culturally speaking, etc etc..

Q. What's the difference between Australia and a yogurt pot?

A. If you left a yogurt pot out in the desert for two hundred years, it would have developed a culture by now.

no no no!!! please! i will wee myself!

The world's best biscuits

Some fantastic architecture (of which the Sydney Opera House is just one example)

Brilliant pop, rock and cinema as recorded in all these other posts

Great writers (ditto)

Does any of this count as culture?

Personally I think the Hills Hoist is one of Australia's finest contributions ...

(On an more serious note, the OP feels a little offensive in its generalisation to this particular Australian, but I don't want to have a sense of humour failure about it, since I think our contribution to comedy is highly significant.)

Les Patterson "the cultural attache"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Les_Patterson

Just wait till the other side of the world wakes up and gets going...

Come on Eidsvold, Arfy and Ghosty and the fragrant Miss Wong...and all the others.. it's morning now girls!

Tim Winton
Donald Friend
William McInnes
Seachange
Hill of Grace
Jervis Bay
Iva Davies
Tom Gleisner
Tom Long
Icehouse
Dragon and Marc Hunter
Swy
Bundy
Adelaide Markets
North Sydney noodle market (is that still going?)
OPera in the Park
Mango daquiris during the interval

I love Barry Humphries (Les Patterson) - he's my DS's hero, Bruce the shark, in Finding Nemo!

But in recent years hasn't Australian culture broken away from 'Mother England' and formed more ties with countries in Japan (and other SE Asian countries) and the USA.

The ties between the UK and Australia are few these days - at least for younger people.

If I say Vika and Linda will I be seen as sad?

I just like them.

ACDC
INXS
Mad Max
Crocodile Dundee
Ugg boots

sass and bide clothes

used to know a north queenslander who played cricked with cane toads...

Powderfinger

A whole host of sporting teams that whips butt

Sports in Australia IS culture.

Harry Kewell (phoar)

pmsl.

Just remembered a good one.............

Peter Andre!!!

i fear to ask, but what is 'powderfinger'?

and Uluru...