Australia's country music

The Australia has a long culture of country music that has been formed from a style that is quite excellent from it United States counterpart. The early Australian country music rooted in the folk traditions of Ireland, England, Scotland and many several nations. Botany Bay in late 19^th century is one of such. Australian country music with lyric focusing on the base of Australia subjects are generally known as the bush music or the bush band music.

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The Australian children’s music developed slowly over the latter half of the 20^th century. The most known performers in that time were those that associated with the long running Australian Broadcasting Corporation series Playschool which include the veteran actor musician Don Spencer; and actor and singer Noni Hazlehurst.

The children music has a relatively small part of the Australian music industry until the advent of ground break children’s group of the Wiggles in the late 1990’s. In 2008, the Wiggles were named as the Business Review Weekly’s top earning Australian entertainers for the fourth year in a row with AUS$45 million in 2007.