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Australian artists and performers

Visual arts
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists
Emily Kngwarreye
Ken Thaiday
Rover Thomas
Non-indigenous artists
Arthur Boyd
Sir William Dobell
Ken Done
Pro Hart
Robert Hughes
Sidney Nolan
Leslie Petty
Brett Whitely
Immigrant artists
Olegas Truchanas
Sali Herman
Imants Tillers
Art Critic
Robert Hughes
Performing arts
Australian dance
Major companies Australian Ballet, Sydney Dance Company
Choreographers, dancers Stephen Page, Lucy Guerin, Gideon Obarzanek
Orchestras
8 professional orchestras Australia's symphony orchestras
Australian Chamber Orchestra
Australian Art Orchestra
Opera
Opera Australia, the national company
Dame Nellie Melba
Dame Joan Sutherland
Deborah Riedel
Lisa Gasteen
Yvonne Kenny
Musicians
Virtuoso guitarist Slava Grigoryan
Violinist Richard Tognetti
Pianists Roger Woodward, Geoffrey Tozer
Conductor Simone Young
Composers Percy Grainger, Larry Sitsky, Peter Sculthorpe, Richard Meale, Ross Edwards
Contemporary Australian rock music
Christine Anu
Kylie Minogue
Natalie Imbruglia
Regurgitator
Savage Garden
Silverchair
The Whitlams
Yothu Yindi
Literature
International prizes
Nobel Prize for Literature, 1973 Patrick White
Booker Prize Thomas Keneally
Peter Carey
Petrarch Prize for poetry Les Murray
International bestsellers
Bryce Courtenay
Germaine Greer
Colleen McCullough
Morris West
Prose
Helen Garner
David Malouf
Elizabeth Jolley
Archie Weller
Tim Winton
Kate Grenville
Janette Turner Hospital
Poetry
B. ('Banjo') Paterson
A. D. Hope
Judith Wright
Bruce Dawe
Geoff Page
Indigenous and immigrant authors
Oodgeroo Noonuccal
Sally Morgan
Brian Castro
Fotini Epanomitis
Beth Yahp
Cinema
Recent Academy Awards
Shine (1996)
Babe (1995)
Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994)
The Piano (1993) Plus numerous Academy Awards nominations for Australian films and actors
Film-makers
Bruce Beresford
Baz Luhrmann
Peter Weir
Actors
Cate Blanchett
Russel Crowe
Judy Davis
Mel Gibson
Nicole Kidman
Deborah Mailman
Geoffrey Rush
Cinematography
Dean Semmler American studio films, such as The Matrix and Mission: Impossible 2, and the larger Australian productions now use state-of-the-art local studio complexes in Australia. The Crocodile Dundee movie series featuring Paul Hogan was popular with worldwide audiences for its portrayal of perceptions about Australia's national identity.

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