Situated on the Timor Sea, Darwin has a population of 127, 500, making it by far the largest and most populated city in the sparsely populated Northern Territory, but the least populous of all Australia's capital cities.

* 1983 – The Melbourne dust storm hits Australia's second largest city.

A video retrospective from the ABC on one of Australia's largest disputes in recent years, the 1998 Australian waterfront dispute.

Currently Stott Despoja is a board member of non-profit organisations Burnet Institute ( Australia's largest virology and communicable disease research institute ) and beyondblue ( Australia's national depression initiative ).

It covers some of the most arid parts of the continent ; with a total land area of, it is the fourth largest of Australia's six states and two mainland territories.

Telstra has faced competition since the early 1990s from Optus ( Australia's 2nd largest communication company ) and a number of smaller providers.

Western Australia is Australia's largest state and the second-largest subnational entity in the world.

Western Australia's capital and largest city, Perth, from Kings Park, Western Australia | Kings Park.

In terms of ethnicity, the 2001 census data reveals that 77. 5 % of Western Australia's population is of European descent: the largest single group was those reporting English ethnicity, accounting for 733, 783 responses ( 32. 7 %), followed by Australian with 624, 259 ( 27. 8 %), Irish with 171, 667 ( 7. 6 %), Italian with 96, 721 ( 4. 3 %), Scottish with 62, 781 ( 2. 8 %), German with 51, 672 ( 2. 3 %) and Chinese with 48, 894 responses ( 2. 2 %).

It is Australia's largest Chinatown.

Some notable examples are Times Beach, Missouri, whose residents were exposed to a high level of dioxins, and Wittenoom, Western Australia, which was once Australia's largest source of blue asbestos, but was shut down in 1966 due to health concerns.

The Red Kangaroo is the largest Macropodidae | macropod and is one of Australia's heraldic animals, appearing with the Emu on the Coat of Arms of Australia.

The Spotted Quoll is mainland Australia's largest carnivorous marsupial and an endangered species.

The Myobatrachidae, or southern frogs, are Australia's largest group of frogs, with 112 species classified into anywhere from 17 to 22 genera.

With a population of 358, 000, it is Australia's largest inland city and the eighth-largest city overall.

The site of Canberra was selected for the location of the nation's capital in 1908 as a compromise between rivals Sydney and Melbourne, Australia's two largest cities.

In fifty years, Gold Coast City has grown from a small beachside holiday destination to Australia's sixth largest city.

This decade also saw the establishment of one of Australia's most iconic coffee brands, Vittoria which remains the country's largest coffee maker and distributor.

Australia's 11 million square kilometre fishing zone is the third largest in the world and allows for bountiful access to seafood which significantly influences Australian cuisine.

* Sidney Myer, philanthropist and founder of the Myer chain of department stores, Australia's largest retailer

Dingoes play an important role in Australia's ecosystems ; they are apex predators and the continent's largest terrestrial predator.

In 1957, Australia's first chairlift was installed at Falls Creek, and the area is today the largest ski resort in Victoria.

By the 1870s Echuca had risen to prominence as Australia's largest inland port.

Overall Australia's largest trading partners are the United States, Japan, China, and the United Kingdom.

* 1920 – Qantas, Australia's national airline, is founded as Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services Limited.

* 2001 – Ansett Australia, Australia's first commercial interstate airline, collapses due to increased strain on the international airline industry, leaving 10, 000 people unemployed.

** All of Australia's 1, 645 domestic airline pilots resign over an airline's move to sack and sue them over a dispute.

Applying for a commercial pilot's licence on 2 June 1921 ( in which he gave his name as ' Charles Edward Kingsford-Smith '), he became one of Australia's first airline pilots when he was chosen by Norman Brearley to fly for the newly formed West Australian Airways.

During the 1970s Australia's two domestic airlines Trans Australia Airlines and Ansett provided regular scheduled services to most Australian capital cities and also Papua New Guinea, while in 1975 Air Niugini became the first international airline to commence flights out of Cairns, to Port Moresby in Papua New Guinea.

WAA commenced operations including Australia's first scheduled airline service eleven ( 11 ) months before Qantas got off the ground.

British Commonwealth Pacific Airlines, Australia's first trans-Pacific airline, used the island as a stopover on the way to Hawaii, flying luxurious DC-6Bs on the Sydney to Vancouver BC, Canada route.

The airline even had ambitious plans flying to Australia's East Coast and Northeast Asia using wide-body aircraft.

On 9 February 2007, Tiger Airways formally announced that it hoped to become Australia's third full-scale domestic airline, competing directly with Virgin Australia and Qantas / Jetstar.

Peter Cosgrove is on the board of Australia's main airline Qantas and is on numerous other boards as Chairman or member.

In June 2000 the airline acquired Boeing 717 jet aircraft and commenced operations as a low-cost airline on Australia's trunk eastern seaboard routes in direct competition with Qantas and Ansett.

This is Australia's first airline franchise operation.

It was established as a joint venture between Australia's largest airline Qantas ( 50 %), and government-owned postal provider Australia Post ( 50 %) as a main competitor to the then Ansett Australia.

A number of aircraft crashes, notably the loss of Airlines of Australia's Stinson in southern Queensland in 1937, had dampened public enthusiasm for airline investments.

By 1969, Ansett had become Australia's leading domestic airline and its market share would rise as high as 55 %. Reg Ansett Route Map ( Bob Wills Collection ).

At that point, he was managing director of Australia's biggest airline and the biggest transport company in the southern hemisphere.

Compass I was Australia's first low cost airline.

It operated to major regional city-centres and connected these centres to various provincial capitals, and by the 1980s it was Australia's third largest domestic airline.

It is Australia's largest regional airline outside the Qantas group of companies and serves New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria, North Queensland and Tasmania.

* 23 August – All of Australia's 1, 645 domestic airline pilots resign over an airline's move to sack and sue them over a dispute, following a strike.