The Importance Of Culture In Australia

Every state has a unique culture which defines the people and the national identity of that society. Department of the Army Field Manual 3-24, Counterinsurgency (2006), defines culture as a “web of meaning shared by members of a particular society or group within society” (p. 3-6). This manual adds that “culture conditions the individual’s range of action and ideas, including what to do and not to do, how to do it or not do it, and whom to do it with or not to do it with. Culture also includes under what circumstances the “rules shift and change” (Department of the Army, 2006, p. 3-7). In short, culture is everything that influences a nation as a whole and what makes it unique from other nations. The Federation of Australia has one of the most interesting cultures of any country in the world, highlighted in particular by its physical geography and weather, its history of military conflict, and the politics and economy of the Australian people. The physical geography and weather of Australia are unique in the world and among its sister continents. Terrain throughout the country is extremely flat with a good deal of the central depression and western plateau in the desert (The World Factbook, 2018). However, from the coast runs a chain of highlands, known as the Great Dividing Range, from Cape York in northern Queensland to the southern seaboard of Tasmania (Australia, 2018). Due to the vast plains, 53% of the land is agricultural, but that does not mean farmers make