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Girl Guides Australia (GGA) is the national Guiding organisation in Australia. Its mission is to empower girls and young women to grow into confident, self-respecting members of the community. Membership is open to all girls and young women from all cultures, faiths and traditions. Guiding groups formed in Australia as early as 1909, and by ...
The name became popular during the late 1960s to the early 1970s and was listed in 1970 in Australia as the fifth most popular girl's name. [3] The Australian author Kylie Tennant (1912–1988) may have been the modern originator of this name. [citation needed] She was born Kathleen Tennant, but was called Kylie (her nickname) since her ...
In modern Australia, debutante balls (or colloquially "deb balls") are usually organised by high schools, church groups or service clubs, such as Lions or Rotary. The girls who take part are in either Year 10, 11 or 12 at high school (i.e. aged between 15 and 18). The event is often used as a fund-raiser for local charities. [citation needed]
Puberty Blues was a 1981 movie based on the autobiographical novel by Kathy Lette and Gabrielle Carey about their experiences of being 13-year-old girls on Sydney's southern beaches. In the novel, movie and television series, girls were referred to as molls, bush pigs, top chicks, glam mags, sceggs , or grommets . [ 3 ]
Hinenuiterangi Tairua, known by her stage name A.Girl, is an Australian musician, singer, songwriter and rapper from Sydney. [3] She won Next Big Thing at the 2019 FBi Awards in Sydney. [4] She performed on triple j's Like a Version and Bars of Steel. [5] [6] She won the Triple J Unearthed competition to play at Listen Out in 2019. [7]
Jessica Watson OAM (born 18 May 1993) is an Australian sailor who was awarded the Order of Australia Medal after attempting a solo circumnavigation [1] at the age of 16. . Although she circled the planet, she did it in a narrow range of latitudes that resulted in her voyage falling short of the distance criterion of 21,600 nautical miles (40,000 km) for a circumnavigation – the equivalent of ...
Daniels, Kay, ed. Australia's women, a documentary history: from a selection of personal letters, diary entries, pamphlets, official records, government and police reports, speeches, and radio talks (2nd ed. U of Queensland Press, 1989) 335pp. The first edition was entitled Uphill all the way : a documentary history of women in Australia (1980).
Eshay (/ ˈ ɛ ʃ eɪ /) is a slang expression associated with an Australian urban youth subculture that originated from Western Sydney in the late 1980s, but has brought into the mainstream since the late 2010s and the 2020s. [1] [2] In New Zealand, "hoodrats" are a similar subculture. [3]