Wiktionary Australia , a name from Latin australis meaning southern , is used to refer to both a country, the Commonwealth of Australia a continent in the southern hemisphere, Australia continent and the Australian government, Government of Australia , officially called the Commonwealth of Australia For an outline of pages concerning Australian topics, see Outline of AustraliaAustralia may also refer to Film Australia 1989 film Australia 1989 film , directed by Jean Jacques Andrien, a story about Edouard Pierson Australia 2008 film Australia 2008 film , by Baz Luhrmann, starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman Music Australia album Australia album , an album by the German cross cultural new age group Cusco Australia Guttermouth song Australia Guttermouth song a song by Guttermouth from their 2000 split EP with Australian band Mach Pelican, The Chicken & Champagne EP Chicken & Champagne Australia Gyroscope song Australia Gyroscope song , a 2008 single by the band Gyroscope Australia Howie Day album Australia Howie Day album , an album by the singer songwriter Howie Day Australia Jonas Brothers song Australia Jonas Brothers song , a song by the Jonas Brothers from their self titled album Australia Manic Street Preachers song Australia Manic Street Preachers song , a 1996 single by the Manic Street Preachers Australia The Kinks song Australia The Kinks song , a song by The Kinks from their 1969 concept album Arthur Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire Australia The Shins song Australia The Shins song , a song by The Shins from their 2007 album Wincing the Night Away Australia , a song by Russian artist Zemfira . Ships Australia II , a 12 metre yacht, Australia s first successful America s Cup challenger HMS Australia 1888 , a ship in the Royal Navy HMAS Australia , three ships in the Royal Australian Navy Other Geographic Beanie Babies AustraliaAustralia Beanie Baby , a Beanie Baby bear produced in 2005 in honor of AustraliaAustralia board game Australia board ... more details
Incomplete disambiguation date September 2011 mergeto Perth Places date January 2012 Perth, Western Australia may also refer to City of Perth , the local government area Perth suburb , the locality and central business district Greater Perth , an urban planning region Perth Metropolitan Region , an urban planning region within Greater Perth and which is synonymous with Perth metropolitan area Electoral district of Perth , the state electoral district Division of Perth , the federal electoral division See also Perth disambiguation Disambig cleanup date December 2011 ... more details
Australia House is the Australian High Commission in London. The name is also given to at least one other building Australia House Ottawa disambig ... more details
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Team Australia may refer to Team Australia , a sponsored identity of Champ Car auto racing team Walker Racing Team Australia, an entry identity for a Superleague Formula auto racing team run by Alan Docking Racing A1 Team Australia , an auto racing team in that competes in A1 Grand Prix series The Australia international rules football team which competes annually against Ireland The Australian national ice hockey team , also called the Mighty Roos Team Australia roller derby disambig ... more details
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date March 2011 Infobox country native name conventional long name Commonwealth of Australia common name Australia image flag Flag of Australia.svg image coat Australian Coat of Arms.png image map Australia orthographic projection .svg map width 220px national anthem Advance Australia Fair tag ref Australia ... of a member of the House of Windsor Royal family when they are in Australia. In all other appropriate contexts, the national anthem of Australia, Advance Australia Fair , is played. ref ... book title Parliamentary Handbook of the Commonwealth of Australia edition 29th year 2002 updated 2005 ... Federal Parliamentary system parliamentary constitutional monarchy leader title1 Monarchy of Australia Monarch leader title2 Governor General of Australia Governor General leader title3 Prime Minister of Australia Prime Minister leader name1 Elizabeth II leader name2 Quentin Bryce leader name3 Julia Gillard legislature Parliament of Australia Parliament upper house Senate of Australia Senate lower house House of Representatives of Australia House of Representatives area rank 6th area magnitude ... 2011 11 19 round 0 AUTOUPDATES DAILY at 00 00 UTC, Australia pop clock adds 1 person every 91 seconds ... publisher Commonwealth of Australia accessdate 19 November 2011 The population estimate shown ... 50th population census 19,855,288 ref Census 2006 AUS id 0 name Australia accessdate 14 October ... of Australia Constitution established event2 Statute of Westminster 1931 Statute of Westminster ... event4 Australia Act 1986 Australia Act established date1 1 January 1901 established date2 ... 3 March 1986 currency Australian dollar currency code AUD time zone Time in Australia various ref name time group N There are minor variations from these three time zones, see Time in Australia . ref utc offset 8 to 10.5 time zone DST Time in Australia various ref name time group N utc offset DST ... 2CPPPGDP 2CPPPPC 2CLP&grp 0&a &pr1.x 84&pr1.y 12 title Australia work IMF website publisher International ... more details
Infobox Film name For Australia image caption director Monte Luke producer writer Martyn Keith based on starring Charles Villiers actor Charles Villers music cinematography Maurice Bertel editing distributor released 1915 runtime language Silent film br English intertitles country FilmAustralia budget For Australia is a 1915 Australian silent film directed by Monte Luke about a newspaper journalist who discovers a German spy ring in Sydney and destroys a German wireless station in Samoa . ref Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, Australian Film 1900 1977 A Guide to Feature Film Production , Melbourne Oxford University Press, 1998, p 55 ref References reflist External links imdb title 0336883 http colsearch.nfsa.gov.au nfsa search display display.w3p adv no group groupequals holdingType page 0 parentid query Id 3A343351 querytype rec 0 resCount 10 For Australia at National Film and Sound Archive CinemaofAustralia Category Australian films Category Black and white films Category 1915 films Category 1910s drama films Category Australian drama films Category Australian silent films Australia film stub ... more details
Birds Australia may refer to Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union , trading name Birds Australia Birds of Australia , an article about Australian Birds List of Australian birds , a list See also The Birds of Australiadisambiguation disambig ... more details
A Daughter of Australia may refer to A Daughter of Australia 1912 film A Daughter of Australia 1912 film , a 1912 Australian silent film directed by Gaston Mervale A Daughter of Australia 1922 film A Daughter of Australia 1922 film , a 1922 Australian silent film directed by Lawson Harris disambiguation ... more details
Australia Calls may refer to Australia Calls 1913 film Australia Calls 1913 film , a 1913 Australian silent film directed by Raymond Longford Australia Calls 1923 film Australia Calls 1923 film , a 1923 Australian silent film directed by Raymond Longford disambiguation ... more details
This article is about the places named Stirling in Australia. For other Stirlings see Stirling disambiguation . There are three places in Australia called Stirling Stirling, Western Australia Stirling A suburb of Perth, Western Australia Perth , Western Australia City of Stirling A Local Government Areas of Western Australia local government area of Perth, Western Australia Perth , Western Australia Stirling, South Australia Stirling a city and region in South Australia just east of Adelaide Stirling, Australian Capital Territory Stirling a suburb in Canberra Division of Stirling Stirling , a Divisions of the Australian House of Representatives federal electorate in Australia centred on the City of Stirling. Electoral district of Stirling Stirling , a State Electoral District state electoral district in Western Australia near the city of Albany, Western Australia Albany . disambig ... more details
There is more than one place in Australia called Brighton . Brighton, Queensland , a suburb of Brisbane Brighton, South Australia , a coastal suburb of Adelaide Brighton, Tasmania Brighton, Victoria , a suburb of Melbourne Brighton, Western Australia , a suburb of Perth Brighton Le Sands, New South Wales , a suburb of Sydney See also Brighton disambiguation geodis ... more details
209 Australian Coat of Arms.png 135 The Flag of Australia The Coat of arms of Australia File Australia orthographic projection .svg thumb 188px Location of Australia File Map of Australia.png thumb An enlargeable map of the Commonwealth of Australia File Australia New Guinea continent.jpg thumb thumb Continent of Australia showing the continental shelf light blue around the mainland extending to the islands of New Guinea and Tasmania see also Index of Australia related articles The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to AustraliaAustralia refers to both the Australia continent continent of Australia and to the Commonwealth of Australia , the List of sovereign states sovereign country . Australia, the world s smallest continent , is in the southern hemisphere and borders both the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean . The Commonwealth of Australia comprises ... the world factbook geos as.html title Australia work The World Factbook publisher United States ... in Northern Australia. Melbourne University Press ref the eastern half of Australia was later ... As map.png thumb An enlargeable basic map of Australia Pronunciation Australian English IPA endia str lj ... IPA endia stre li. , stre lj en us Australia.ogg Common English country name Australia Official English country name The Commonwealth of Australia Common endonym s List of countries and capitals ... disambiguation Australian This disambiguation page is the only page on Wikipedia that specifically ... s Etymology Name of Australia International rankings of Australia ISO country codes AU, AUS, 036 ... of australia.jpg thumb An enlargeable topographic map of Australia File Australia climate map MJC01.png thumb Climatic zones in Australia, based on K ppen classification . File AustraliaMap Extremities.PNG thumb 200px right Extreme Points of Mainland Australia Main articles Australia continent , Australia, and Geography of AustraliaAustralia is... a continent a country a nation state a Commonwealth ... more details
About the ecoregion Southwest, Western Australiadisambiguation Southwest, Western Australia Southwest Australia is a biodiversity hotspot that includes the Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub ecoregion s of Western Australia . The region has a wet winter, dry summer Mediterranean climate , one of five such regions in the world. The region covers 356,717 km , consisting of a broad coastal plain 20 120 kilometers wide, transitioning to gently undulating uplands made up of weathered granite , gneiss and laterite . Deserts and xeric shrublands Desert and xeric shrubland s lie to the north and east across the centre of Australia, separating Southwest Australia from the other Mediterranean and humid climate regions of the continent. Vegetation in the region is mainly woody, including forest s, woodland s, shrubland s, and heathland s, but no grassland s. Predominant vegetation types are Eucalyptus woodlands, eucalyptus dominated Mallee Woodlands and Shrublands Mallee shrublands, and kwongan shrublands and heathlands, which correspond to the chaparral , matorral , Maquis shrubland maquis ... of Southwest Australia . The World Wide Fund for Nature and Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia IBRA divide the region up into a number of ecoregions Coolgardie woodlands IBRA Coolgardie ... heathlands IBRA Swan Coastal Plain Southwest Australia savanna IBRA Geraldton Sandplains , Avon Wheatbelt , and Yalgoo biogeographic region Yalgoo Southwest Australia woodlands IBRA Jarrah Forest note ... and Conservation Western Australia Department of Environment and Conservation accessdate 2011 10 25 ref See also Flora of Western Australia References references Further reading Thackway, R and I D Cresswell 1995 An interim biogeographic regionalisation for Australia a framework for setting priorities ... xp Hotspots australia Southwest Australia Conservation International Category Biogeography of Western Australia Category Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub Category Biodiversity hotspots ... more details
disambiguation Football in Queensland disambiguation Football in South Australiadisambiguation Football in Western Australiadisambiguation Football in Tasmania disambiguation Football in the Northern ... Sports Centre Energy Australia Stadium in the A League . Football in Australia can refer to several ... word Football and also the derived colloquialism footy in Australia . There are four major football codes in Australia, Australian rules football , rugby league , association football and rugby union ... articles football Football in Australia ref Nationally, the most important football matches in Australia are the Grand Final matches, particularly the AFL Grand Final and the NRL Grand Final . Also important are major internationals featuring the Australia national association football team Socceroos and the Australia national rugby union team Wallabies particularly FIFA World Cup ... matches. Quotation Australia is unique among major sporting markets in having four football codes ... place Australia pages language publisher Fairfax Media date 4 October 2010 url http www.smh.com.au ... that soccer is the most played football code in Australia, with the highest number of total participants ... Bureau of Statistics, the most attended football code overall in Australia is Australian .... Australian rules football currently holds the record for a football code in Australia for the highest ... football codes in Australia class wikitable Football code Football word Common names Overview Most ... Australian rules football, footy, Aussie rules, AFL Australian rules football in Australia Australian rules football in Victoria, Australia VIC , Australian rules football in South Australia SA , Australian rules football in Western Australia WA , Australian rules football in Tasmania TAS ..., rugby league, rugby Rugby league in Australia Rugby league in New South Wales NSW , Rugby league in Queensland ... 15 1 in New Zealand Warriors NZ Association football Soccer soccer, football Association football in Australia ... more details
Birds Australia Western Australia BAWA is the Western Australian regional group of Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union Birds Australia . BAWA was formed in 1943 and incorporated in 2001. Members of Birds Australia resident in Western Australia are automatically members of BAWA. BAWA maintains an office, Peregrine House, at Floreat , Perth, Western Australia Perth . It also publishes a quarterly newsletter, WA Bird Notes . Activities provided for members include monthly meetings, a variety of excursions ranging from half day outings to extensive campouts, bird surveys and conservation projects. External links http birdswa.com.au Birds Australia Western Australia Category Ornithological organisations in Australia Category 1943 establishments in AustraliaAustralia org stub ... more details
Infobox company company name Greyhound Australia company logo Image Greyhound australia logo.png 240px image Image Greyhound australia bus.jpg company type Privately held corporation foundation 1905 location ... Darwin , Melbourne , Perth, Western Australia Perth , Sydney and various regional destinations industry ..., Australia and New Zealand Banking Group ANZ subsid homepage http www.greyhound.com.au www.greyhound.com.au footnotes intl yes For Greyhound buses in other countries Greyhound disambiguation Greyhound Australia is the largest long distance bus operator in Australia , operating in all mainland states and territories. It is owned by the Chapman Group and Australia and New Zealand Banking Group ANZ . Today s Greyhound Australia is the result of many buy outs and mergers of various bus coachline companies ... in 1905. small ref name multiple cite web url http www.travelweekly.com.au news greyhound australia unveiled title Greyhound Australia unveiled accessdate 2008 06 04 date 2004 11 01 publisher Travel ... of Greyhound Australia were McCaffertys founded 1940 , Travel Coach, Suncoast Pacific Coaches and Bus Australia brands. ref name multiple Routes File Greyhound Australia Mills Tui Majestic Valere bodied Scania K380IB SB73BQ at WWRS.jpg thumb Greyhound Australia Scania K series Scania K380IB coach in at the Wagga Wagga railway station Wagga Wagga Railway Station . Greyhound Australia s routes are as follows ... Routes and Destinations title Greyhound Australia accessdate 2008 06 04 date 2008 06 04 publisher Greyhound Australia ref Sydney to Canberra 4x Daily Sydney to Brisbane via Newcastle, New South ..., Victoria Horsham & Bordertown, South Australia Bordertown Daily Melbourne to Brisbane via Narrandera , Dubbo & Toowoomba 3x Weekly Adelaide to Alice Springs via Port Augusta, South Australia Port Augusta ..., Northern Territory Katherine Daily Darwin, Northern Territory Darwin to Broome, Western Australia ... Australia s direct competitors include Firefly Express Melbourne to Adelaide and Sydney Murrays Murrays ... more details
saved book title The People s Guide to Australia subtitle cover image Flag of Australia.svg cover color Contents History of Australia Demographics of Australia Geography of Australia List of cities in Australia Politics of Australia Human rights in Australia President of Australia Economy of Australia Culture of Australia ... more details
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Darwin is known as The Ghan in memory of the Afghans. The total number of Afgans to settle in Australia ... and Ghan Towns A History of Afghan Camel Drivers in Australia isbn 0 9581760 0 0 External links ... cameleers and the colonial era from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. australia stub Islam stub Category Ethnic groups in Australia Category Islam in Australia Category Pakistani diaspora in Australia Category Exploration of Australia Category History of Australia Category Transport in Australia ... it Afghani d Australia ps ru uk ... more details
A number of forms of horse racing are carried out in Australia Thoroughbred racing in Australia Harness racing in Australia Steeplechase racing in Australia disambig ... more details
This article is disambiguated into two based on the two types of wrestling in Australia Professional wrestling in Australia Amateur wrestling in Australia disambig ... more details
the show in 2007 in Australia 2007 both Sydney s and Melbourne s Tivoli Theatre disambiguation Tivoli ... Yearbox in? in Australia cp 19th Century c 20th century cf 21st century yp1 1963 yp2 1964 yp3 1965 ... dn3 1990s Incumbents Monarchy in Australia Monarch Elizabeth II Governor General of Australia Governor General Richard Casey, Baron Casey The Lord Casey Prime Minister of Australia Prime Minister Robert ... Nicklin Premier of South Australia Frank Walsh Premier of Tasmania Eric Reece Premier of Western Australia David Brand Premier of Victoria Henry Bolte State Governors Governor of New South Wales ... Smith until 18 March , then Alan Mansfield Sir Alan Mansfield from 21 March Governor of South Australia ... of Western Australia Douglas Kendrew Sir Douglas Kendrew Governor of Victoria Rohan Delacombe Sir Rohan Delacombe Events Robert Menzies , Australia s longest serving Prime Minister of Australia ... of Trade Unions the Liberal Party of Australia Liberal government of Harold Holt scores a massive ... Australia Glenelg beach in Adelaide and are never seen again the severe drought which has stricken large areas of Australia since 1957, particularly in rural NSW and Queensland, is finally eased by widespread ... attempt by 19 year old Peter Kocan Japan replaces Great Britain as Australia s largest ... Mining Corporation discover rich nickel ore deposits at Kambalda, Western Australia Kambalda in Western Australia s Goldfields Esperance Goldfields region . Prince Charles arrives in Australia to attend ... the formation of a military Task Force including conscripts , increasing Australia s commitment to the Vietnam War to 4,500. US Vice President Hubert Humphrey visits Australia to assure the Australian ... his home in Sydney and inducted into the army Australia negotiates an agreement for an American ... of this material anywhere in the world in consumer electronics Australia s first satellite communications earth station opens at Carnarvon, Western Australia Carnarvon in WA Arts and literature Jon Molvig ... more details
about the lottery game in Australia Powerball disambiguation Image Logo s powerball.png thumb 175px right Official Logo Australia Powerball is a lottery operated by New South Wales Lotteries in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory , Tattersalls in Victoria Australia Victoria and Tasmania , Golden Casket in Queensland , South Australia Lotteries Commission for South Australia and Lotterywest in Western Australia . Australian Powerball is similar to Powerball operated in the United States . Five regular numbers are picked from one pool of 45, with the Powerball drawn from a separate pool of 45 numbers. The Progressive jackpot jackpot typically maxes out at Australian dollar A 33 million, with usually only one first division winner. However, there are major differences between the US and Australian versions in the US, a ticket automatically wins by matching the Powerball the US game has only 39 ref http powerball.com powerball pb howtoplay.asp ref possible Powerballs while in Australia three numbers are needed three of the five regular numbers, or two plus the Powerball. The US jackpot is annuitized with a cash option while Australians always collect in lump sum. Finally, US lottery prizes are taxable, whilst there are no taxes collected on Australian Powerball winners. Still another difference is that all Australian Powerball prizes are parimutuel , versus fixed prizes on a US 1 wager in the states e.g. US 3 for matching Powerball only US 4 for 1 PB, etc. on non jackpot prizes. The host of Powerball is Troy Ellis, with the draw broadcast on television when the Division ... results.asp Powerball in South Australia http www.lottery.wa.gov.au asp index.asp?pgid 550 Powerball in Western Australia http www.lotterywest.wa.gov.au dividends.php?game powerball Powerball Results in Western Australia https www1.tattersalls.com.au default.aspx Powerball in Victoria & Tasmania References reflist 1 Category Lotteries in Australia ... more details
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