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Australia has all the traditional Christmas carols sung in countries such as the UK and USA. These include:

  • Silent Night
  • Oh Come All Ye Faithful
  • Hark the Herald Angels Sing
  • Angels We Have Heard on High
  • The First Noel
  • We Three Kings
  • Away in a Manger
  • Joy to the World
  • Oh Little Town of Bethlehem
  • Good King Wenceslas

Christmas songs extolling Santa Claus are also sung, despite the lack of snow, such as:

In addition, Australia has many local songwriters who have written uniquely Australian carols. These include (among others):
  • Australian Jingle Bells by Colin Buchanan
  • Six White Boomers by Rolf Harris
  • The Three Drovers
  • The Carol of the Birds
  • Christmas Day ("the North Wind is tossing the leaves") by John Wheeler and William G James
  • Christmas in the Scrub by Leigh Newton
  • Australian Twelve Days of Christmas
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