Family Fun in Sydney: Sample Sydney on Australia Day 2014 with free/redu...

Family Fun in Sydney: Sample Sydney on Australia Day 2014 with free/redu...: Sydney has a past steeped in history and culture, spanning over more than 200 years. Fortunately, much of this history is not lost and has...

SYDNEY ACTIVITIES OZ DAY

FREE ENTRY - Art Gallery of NSW, Art Gallery Road, The Domain, Sydneywith special guided tours
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HALF PRICE ENTRY - Australian Museum, 6 College St, Sydney (oppositeHyde Park)
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FREE ENTRY (to permanent galleries) - Australian National MaritimeMuseum, 2 Murray St, Darling Harbour
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FREE ENTRY - Government House, Macquarie St, Sydney 
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$5 ENTRY - Hyde Park Barracks Museum, Queen's Square, Macquarie St,Sydney
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$5 ENTRY - Justice & Police Museum, Corner Albert & PhillipSts, Circular Quay 
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FREE ENTRY - Macquarie the Governor, 1810 - 1921 exhibition, 1 MartinPlace, Sydney
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FREE ENTRY - Museum of Contemporary Art, 140 George St, The Rocks 
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$5 ENTRY - Museum of Sydney, Corner Bridge & Phillip Streets,Sydney
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FREE ENTRY - Parliament of NSW, Macquarie St, Sydney
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$12|Adult, $8|Concession, $6|Child - Powerhouse Museum, 500 Harris St, Ultimo
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FREE ENTRY - Reserve Bank of Australia, 65 Martin Place, Sydney 
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FREE ENTRY - Royal Australian Historical Society, 133 Macquarie St,Sydney
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FREE ENTRY - St Stephen's Uniting Church, 197 Macquarie St, Sydneywith musical program & tours
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FREE ENTRY - St Mary's Cathedral, College St, Sydney with recitals,tours & mass
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Discount box office offering $25 same day performance tickets -Sydney Opera House MacquarieSt, Sydney
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$4 ENTRY - Susannah Place Museum, 58-64 Gloucester St, TheRocks 

FREE ENTRY - Sydney Hospital & Sydney Eye Hospital, Lucy OsburnNightingale Museum, 8 Macquarie St, Sydney.
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FREE ENTRY TO GROUNDS - Sydney Observatory, Watson Rd, ObservatoryHill, The Rocks
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FREE ENTRY - The Mint, 10 Macquarie St, Sydney

Happy Australia Day!

Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu in concert at Dawes Point

 under the Sydney Harbour Bridge on Australia Day 2013.

 Absolutely brilliant moment when as he sang a song

 a huge cruise liner paraded under the bridge.

A Dutch cruise Liner

Part of the massive crowd watching this brilliant singer

http://australiaday.com.au/live/

Live coverage of Australia Day 2012

including Darling Harbour fireworks.

Watching the live stream from Darling Harbour brought back memories of the year
 I took my 5' tall, 78 year old mother to the Australia Day fireworks.

A pack of 6' tall teenagers formed a circle around her
 to protect her from the jostling crowd.

  C'mon Grandma we'll look after you, they said.
Stand clear, Grandma coming through, they yelled.
Laughter all round. AusDay, 1996.

I know I'm a little late but here are some photos of

Australia Day at The Entrance on the 26 January, 2010.

A Little Music on a Summer's day

Family groups enjoying the sunshine.

This fellow in his Oz Day shorts actually
 had corks swinging from his hat. LOL.

How Bizarre.

Its Australia Day  Tomorrow

Go here
 http://www.australiaday.com.au/whatson/officialprogram.aspx

for the Official Sydney Program

I am/We are Australian.

Standing: Green Frog, Emu, Kangaroo.
Sitting: Koala, Wombat, Platypus, Possum

We Are Australian.
We are one but we are many
And from all the lands on earth we come
We share a dream and sing with one voice
I am
You are
We are Australian -Chorus

I came from the dream time
From the dusty red soil plains
I am the ancient heart
The keeper of the flame
I stood upon the rocky shore
I watched the tall ships come
For forty thousand years I'd been
The first Australian

I came upon the prison ship
Bowed down by iron chains
I cleared the land, endured the lash
And waited for the rains
I'm a settler, I'm a farmer's wife
In a dry and barren run
A convict then free man
I became Australian

I'm the daughter of a digger
Who sought the mother lode
The girl became a woman
On a long and dusty road
I'm a child of the depression
I saw the good times come
I'm a bushy
I'm a battler
I am Australian

I'm a teller of stories
I'm a singer of songs
I am Albert Namajera
And I paint the ghostly gums
I'm Clancy on his horse
I'm Ned Kelly on the run
I'm the one who waltzed Matilda
I am Australian

I'm the hot wind from the desert
I'm the black soil of the plains
I'm the mountains and the valleys
I'm the drought and flooding rains
I am the rock, I am the sky
The rivers when they run
The spirit of the great land

I am an Australian

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Are_Australian