A quality or character distinctive of Australia or of Australians.
bands were toning down their Australianness to appeal to a wider market
Example sentencesExamples
What will they make of a country that is so lacking in national consciousness that it is unable to produce a flag that proclaims its Australianness?
The film's grounding in a believable urban situation and its identifiable Australianness obviously contributed to its local success.
You refer to that particular quality of Australianness that you and your fellow writers of new wave were trying to explore.
This column has been trying to define Australianness since it first appeared in 2006.
Celebrate our Australianness by showing our usual mistrustful, self-deprecating, egalitarian, good-natured detestation of all such symbols of overt self-glorification.
The memorial's organization of form and materials suggest a kind of natural, earthy, broad-sweeping and open Australianness in contrast to the ceremonious conventionality of old world edifices.
These writers locate Australianness in iconic natural features - weather, animals, bad roads.
What this all means is that the concept of Australia, and more so Australianness, is one with Anglo-Celtic culture.
He couldn't work out where his Britishness ended and where his Australianness began.
Individual producers, distributors, and exhibitors inflect key tropes of Australianness, like the bush myth, in different ways.