It's the phrase on everyone's lips: Australian identity. What is it? To find out what Australian identity is, you first must look for certain evidence based on customs and traditions as well as rites and rituals. But the problem with this is that if you ask almost any Australian on the street the first response that you would get would be the same: the barbecue. Just about anyone can describe the rituals of an Australian barbecue: the man cooking, "usually with a tinny in one hand and tongs in the other;" the women preparing salads in the kitchen. It is difficult to figure out why the barbecue is Australia's "single most identifiable domestic ritual."(Carey, The Sum of Us, pp, 30) It might be that it connects Australian's to their more ritualistic past but it is

All these do is add to the myth that is Anzac Day thus not making it a good thing to base "Australian" identity around.

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