Christmas in Australia: Summer, Barbecues and Familiar Traditions
An Australian Christmas keeps many northern-hemisphere traditions while doing them in heat, long daylight and the middle of summer.
Australian Christmas is a cheerful contradiction: fake snow on shop windows while the real forecast might be thirty degrees; roast dinners beside seafood and salads; backyard cricket after presents; and carols that still describe a winter landscape half a planet away.
Make the contradiction part of it
There is no need to choose between 'traditional' Christmas and an Australian one. Put lights on the house, serve whatever survives the weather, take dessert outside and keep the rituals your family actually enjoys.