Our Story - Keep Australia Beautiful (2024)

FAQs

What is the Keep Australia Beautiful campaign? ›

Keep Australia Beautiful runs community education and awareness campaigns to reduce littering in WA. Since 2009, Western Australia has achieved some great success in reducing litter, with a 27% reduction in the number of items littered and a 21% reduction in the volume of litter recorded via the National Litter Index.

KAB WEEK 2024 (5-11 AUG)

The 2024 theme is: “When you're out and about… leave only your footprints!” This links in with our : Do The Right Thing & Keep Australia Clean campaign, focused on litter prevention and biodiversity preservation.

1971 Keep Australia Beautiful National Association commenced, formed by Dame Phyllis Frost &Colin Hill.

What Australia is well known for? Australia is globally famous for its natural wonders, wide-open spaces, beaches, deserts, "The Bush", and "The Outback". Australia is one of the world's most highly urbanised countries; it's well known for its attractive mega cities such as Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, and Perth.

Keep America Beautiful's, now retired, 1971 ad campaign, featuring Italian-American actor Iron Eyes Cody as the "Crying Indian", has often been described as greenwashing.

Beechworth, Victoria (Town Winner)

With four Victorian Tidy Town awards in 2009, 2014, 2017, 2019 and two national Tidy Towns titles, it showcases a commitment to community pride and beauty.

Australia: No official motto. Formerly Advance Australia. Sporting chant, "Aussie, Aussie, Aussie, oi, oi, oi!" Austria: The future is in our hands, Austria is in our hearts (Die Zukunft liegt in unseren Händen, Österreich liegt in unseren Herzen).

Themes in A.D Hope's Australia

First, there is theme of Australia been portrayed as barren country. This is noted in stanza two; “a woman beyond her change of life …. womb is dry.” There is theme of lack of culture, history, architecture and song. There is also a theme of alienation.

The Australian of the Year Award is given to noteworthy Australian citizens who have excelled in their chosen field, have made a “significant contribution to the Australian community and nation,” and serve as role models for all Australians.

Ryli Johnson was dubbed 'Australia's most beautiful woman' after her photo went viral. Here's how her life has changed | 7NEWS.

What do you do on Clean Up Australia Day? ›

Each year Clean Up Australia Day calls on Aussies to come together to improve and conserve our environment, eliminate litter and end waste. In 2023, more than 1 million volunteers across 17,000 sites took part.

Over 100,000 animals are killed or injured by litter each year. Litter is a major threat to Australian wildlife, and it doesn't stop at our shores. It also pollutes waterways and oceans, harming our already fragile marine life and ecosystems.

Australia beats Greece and the USA in new ranking of the world's most beautiful countries.

Australia is colloquially known as "the Land Down Under" (or just "Down Under"), which derives from the country's position in the Southern Hemisphere, near the antipodes of the United Kingdom.

About the White Australia policy

The Immigration Restriction Act was one of the first Commonwealth laws passed after Federation. It was based on the existing laws of the colonies. The aim of the law was to limit non-white (particularly Asian) immigration to Australia, to help keep Australia 'British'.

Ethical Clothing Australia is an accreditation body. We work collaboratively with local textile, clothing and footwear (TCF) businesses to protect and uphold the rights of Australian garment workers.

Australia lags behind France in legislating against the impacts of fast fashion. However, some progress is being made. In 2023, the Australian Government launched Seamless - a National Clothing Stewardship Scheme aimed at creating clothing circularity by 2030.

If you grew up in Australia in the last four decades, chances are you will remember the iconic Slip, Slop, Slap campaign that told Australians all about protecting your skin.