* 2009 – Bushfires in Victoria left 173 dead in the worst natural disaster in Australia's history.

More than two years of intensive research was undertaken to chronicle the historical events that resulted in what was then Australia's worst peace time disaster.

* 1977 – Australia's worst rail disaster occurs at Granville, Sydney killing 83.

** Australia's worst railway disaster at Granville, near Sydney, leaves 83 people dead.

* January 13 – Black Friday: 71 people die across Victoria in one of Australia's worst ever bushfires.

* February 16 – The Ash Wednesday fires in Victoria and South Australia claim the lives of 76 people, in one of Australia's worst bushfires ever.

* February 2 – One of Australia's worst crimes, the Anita Cobby murder, occurs.

** Montevideo Maru, a Japanese ship sunk in World War II, resulting in the loss of large numbers of Austalian prisoners of war and civilians and Australia's worst maritime disaster

It was Australia's worst military disaster since Gallipolli.

Australia's worst coal mining disaster occurred in 1902, at the Mount Kembla mine when an explosion killed 94 men and boys, the youngest aged 14, the oldest 69.

This was almost certainly Australia's worst weather-related maritime disaster of the 20th century with the loss of the coastal steamer Koombana.

* 1961: In arguably Western Australia's worst bushfire, many small communities were destroyed including 132 houses in Dwellingup.

* 1968: On 14 October, the town of Meckering was almost destroyed in Australia's second worst earthquake with a magnitude of 6. 9 on the Richter Scale.

The sinking is the worst maritime disaster in Australia's history.

The Mount Kembla Mine disaster was the worst peace-time disaster of Australia's history, until the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires in Victoria.

He was later wounded in the Second Battle of Krithia and invalided to Australia, but returned to command the 5th Division, which he led in the Battle of Fromelles in 1916, dubbed " the worst 24 hours in Australia's entire history.

This is still considered Australia's worst mining disaster.

At the time it was Australia's worst civil aviation accident.

He ended the series with the worst average and economy rate of Australia's front line bowlers.

The greatest flood, in 1916, killed 65 people out of a town population of 1, 500 and remains one of Australia's worst natural disasters in terms of life lost.

* January 18 – The Granville railway disaster was Australia's worst ever railway disaster at Granville, a suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, when a commuter train derails and hits a bridge, causing the bridge to collapse on top of the train.

The Australian War Memorial describes the battle as " the worst 24 hours in Australia's entire history.

Australia's performance at the 1976 Montreal Olympic Games was its worst in almost four decades.

In 1996 the ran aground on Hebe Reef, off Low Head, causing the worst oil disaster in Australia's history.

This was Australia's second deadliest cyclone in the 20th century.

However, he also said that in 1977 United States Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher made a special trip to Sydney to meet with him and told him, on behalf of US President Jimmy Carter, of his willingness to work with whatever government Australians elected, and that the US would never again interfere with Australia's democratic processes.

Modern arguments focus on appointing an Australian resident as Australia's Head of State, in place of the British monarch.

A central argument made by Australian republicans is that, as Australia is an independent country, it is inappropriate for Britain's monarch to be Australia's Head of State.

The Australian Democrats ( formerly Australia's third party ) strongly support a move towards a republic through a system of an elected Head of State through popular voting.

They play their home games at Rockland Lake State Park, and are a team partner of the Canberra Raiders of Australia's National Rugby League ( NRL ).

The New South Wales Blues and Queensland Maroons play a representative series against each other every year, called the State of Origin series, which is one of Australia's major sporting events.

Australia's State Route System is a system of urban and inter-regional routes that are not covered by the National Route System, or the National Highway System.

The Institute's well-funded programs ( and more generally the generous funding for elite sporting programs by Australian and State Governments ) have been regarded as a major reason for Australia's recent success in international sporting competition.

The annual State of Origin series is now one of Australia's most popular sporting events.

The popularity of State of Origin matches since then has not waned and they remain one of Australia's ( and indeed the region's ) biggest sporting events.

After 1994, when the interstate Simpson Medal was strictly awarded for WAFL representative matches and not for State of Origin matches, a separate medal-the Graham Moss Medal-was awarded to Western Australia's best player in State of Origin matches.

Following Australia's federation in 1901, the New South Wales parliament became a State legislature.

Bad lending decisions made by the State Bank of South Australia's board and managing director Tim Marcus Clark were exposed.

It was here that he first caused controversy, when he wrote to United States Secretary of State George Shultz, urging the US Government to dump subsidised wheat in Australia's international wheat markets in Russia and China.

In 2005 the Bickley site was Heritage listed, being Australia's oldest continuing operating observatory and Australia's only remaining State Government operated astronomical observatory.

The Indiana Toll Road was leased to State Mobility Partners, a joint venture company owned by Spanish firm Cintra and Australia's Macquarie Infrastructure Group for 75 years in exchange for a one time payment of $ 3. 85 billion.

1989 saw him rise to selection for New South Wales in the 1989 State of Origin series before being selected as the first choice halfback for Australia's mid-season tour of New Zealand.

BNUE maintains sisterhood relationships with six universities in four countries: Australia's Central Queensland University, China's Hangzhou Teachers College, Japan's Shimane University and Fukuoka University of Education, and the USA's Oklahoma State University and Shenandoah University.

Since then, additional relationships have been forged with China's Minzu University and Yanbian University of Science and Technology, America's Illinois State University and Biola University, the Philippine University of the Philippines, Yugoslavia's Megatrend University, Russia's Amur State University, Switzerland's Winterthur University, and Australia's University of Newcastle.

The State Library of Western Australia's Public Library Services section supplies books, audio books, DVDs, CD-ROMs, etc., to the 67 country libraries, all of which are managed by local-government authorities, sometimes in conjunction with other library service providers.

The highway is approximately in length, is designated State Route 30 and separates Western Australia's Great Southern region from its South West region.