In March 1967, the Seekers returned to Australia for a homecoming tour, which included a performance at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl in Melbourne, attended by an estimated audience of 200, 000.

The Team also appeared in concert at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl on Australia Day 1989-the day after the announcement of the show's demise.

In February 1989 Norman collapsed during the JAM ( Jesus and Music ) ' 89 Festival at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl in Melbourne, Australia.

* Sydney, Australia is often misspelt as Sidney.

With its tiny population of about 7 million, Australia ranked sixth in the world for scheduled air mileage, had 16 airlines, was growing at twice the world average, and had produced a number of prominent aviation pioneers, including Lawrence Hargrave, Harry Hawker, Lawrence Wackett, the Reverend John Flynn, Sidney Cotton, Keith Virtue and Charles Kingsford Smith.

In 1891, Leslie and Farren again toured Australia with the Gaiety company in Ruy Blas and Cinder Ellen up too Late ( with Sidney Jones as conductor ).

The Trial ( Sidney Nolan painting ) | The Trial ( 1947 ): enamel on composition board ; 90. 7 x 121. 2cm, National Gallery of Australia

* Sidney Nolan on Picture Australia

In November 2006 Jet flew back to Australia to perform at the Make Poverty History Concert in Melbourne at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl ; upon their return they also held a secret show on a barge floating on the Yarra River.

* The Sidney Myer Music Bowl in Melbourne, Australia is completed.

During his visit to Australia, de Basil commissioned work from Australians, especially from designers, who included Sidney Nolan and Kathleen and Florence Martin.

Having failed to qualify for the 2000 Olympics in Sidney, Australia with its 4th place at the 1999 Tournament of the Americas hosted in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in 2001 the team was able to recover its CentroBasket title, with a triumph in Mexico.

* Roger Savage who recorded the first Rolling Stones hit " Come On ", before moving to Australia, where he became a highly successful engineer, before moving into post production sound recording with his own three studios, Sound Firm, in Melbourne, Sidney, and Bejiing.

Sir Sidney Kidman ( 9 May 1857 – 2 September 1935 ) was a pastoralist in Australia and controlled huge tracts of land.

Sidney Kidman was born near Adelaide ( probably at Athelstone, South Australia ) third son of George Kidman ( died December 1857 ), farmer, and his wife Elizabeth Mary, née Nunn.

* Sidney Kidman, Australian pastoralist who owned more than 3 % of Australia

** Kidman Way, State Highway 87 in New South Wales, Australia, named for Sidney Kidman

Christine Wallace suggests that Drysdale " was the visual poet of that passive, all-encompassing despair that endless heat and drought induces ", but that it was Sidney Nolan who, with a similar view, " most powerfully projected this take on Australia to the outside world ".

The Sidney Myer Music Bowl is an outdoor performance venue in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

The Sidney Myer Music Bowl is registered on the Victorian Heritage list for its cultural importance to Victoria ; its architectural importance as the largest, purpose built, permanent outdoor performance venue in Australia ; and its engineering experimentation in new forms of construction involving use of membranes and a tensile structural system.

In 1991, Vizard purchased from Lord Alistair McAlpine the iconic Australian painting First Class Marksman by Sidney Nolan, the only painting of the original 1945 Ned Kelly Series not owned and on public display in the National Gallery of Australia.

The car sold well, particularly in Australia where Francis Birtles drove a Bean 14 from Sidney to Darwin and back.

Portions of his work have been translated into English ( The Sound of My Waves ( Selected Poems 1960-1990, Cornell EAS, 1991 ); " Morning Dew " ( Selected Poems, Sidney: Paper Bark Press, Australia, 1996 ); Beyond Self ( Parallax Press, 1996, now out of print, to be republished by Parallax in 2007 as Zen Poems ); Little Pilgrim ( Parallax Press, 2005, a novel ); Ten Thousand Lives with an introduction by Robert Hass ( Green Integer, 2005 ); The Three Way Tavern ( Selected Poems, UC Press, 2006 )); Flowers of a Moment, 185 brief poems ( BOA Editions, 2006 ); Abiding Places, Korea North & South ( Tupelo, 2006 ); Songs for Tomorrow: A Collection of Poems 1961-2001 ( Green Integer, 2009 ); Himalaya ( Green Integer, 2010 ), as well as into Spanish ( 4-5 volumes ) Italian, French, German, Japanese, Chinese, Vietnamese, Czech, Bulgarian, Swedish and Danish.

Participants included Forman Acton of Princeton University, Robert Archer of Case Institute, S. Barton of CDC, Australia, S. Beltran from the Centro de Calculo in Mexico City, John Makepeace Bennett of the University of Sidney, Launor Carter of SDC-author of the subsequent Carter Report on Computer Technology for Schools, David Evans of UC Berkeley, Bruce Gilchrist of IBM-SBC, Clay Perry of UC San Diego, Sigeiti Moriguti of the University of Tokyo, Adriaan van Wijngaarden of the Mathematisch Centrum in Amsterdam, Maurice Wilkes of Cambridge University, and Gio Wiederhold, also of UC Berkeley.

In terms of art history Nolan rediscovered the Australian landscape ( Australia has not been an easy country to paint ).

‘ Nolan like this Kelly figure has also been a hero, a victim, a man who armoured himself against Australia and who faced it, conquered it, lost it ….

Lifar, then on tour in Australia with Wassily de Basil's Original Ballet Russe, offered Nolan the job after a chance encounter with his abstract work.

Dubbed " the missing Nolan ", the painting was the only one in Nolan's first series of 27 Ned Kelly paintings not in the collection of the National Gallery of Australia.

* Biography of Nolan on Australia Dancing

In 1954, together with Nolan and Dobell, he was chosen to represent Australia at the Venice Biennale, and in 1960, at Bouddi near Gosford, New South Wales.

* 1829 – Charles Fremantle arrives in HMS Challenger off the coast of modern-day Western Australia prior to declaring the Swan River Colony for the United Kingdom.

Charles Todd, in 1893, suggested that droughts in India and Australia tended to occur at the same time ; Norman Lockyer noted the same in 1904.

Sir Charles FitzRoy ( Governor of New South Wales from 1846 – 1855 ) and Sir William Denison ( Governor of New South Wales from 1855 – 1861 ) also carried the additional title of Governor-General because their jurisdiction extended to other colonies in Australia.

* 1829 – After anchoring nearby, Captain Charles Fremantle of the HMS Challenger, declares the Swan River Colony in Australia.

* January 11 – Sir Charles Kingsford Smith makes the first commercial flight between Australia and New Zealand.

* July 20 – Charles Sturt enters the Simpson Desert in central Australia.

These included two companies touring with Patience, two touring with other Gilbert and Sullivan operas, one touring with the operetta Olivette ( co-produced with Charles Wyndham ), one with Claude Duval in America, a production of Youth running at a New York theatre, a lecture tour by Archibald Forbes ( a war correspondent ) and productions of Patience, Pirates, Claude Duval and Billee Taylor in association with J. C. Williamson in Australia, among other things.

On May 31, 1928, Charles Kingsford Smith and his crew departed Oakland in Southern Cross on their successful bid to cross the Pacific by air, finishing in Australia.

* Charles Murray ( bishop ) ( 1889 – 1950 ), Anglican Bishop of Riverina, Australia

: This is about a professor from Australia, for the physician from London see Charles Badham ( physician ).

Charles Badham ( 19 July 1813 – 27 February 1884 ) was an English university professor, active in Australia.

Several notable films based on stories from Australian literature ( generally with strong rural themes ) were made in Australia in the 1950s-but by British and American production companies, including A Town Like Alice ( 1956 ) which starred Virginia McKenna and Peter Finch ; The Shiralee ( 1957 ) also starring Peter Finch with Australian actors Charles Tingwell, Bill Kerr and Ed Devereaux in supporting roles ; Roberry Under Arms, again starring Finch in 1957 ; and Summer of the Seventeenth Doll ( 1959 ), starring Ernest Borgnine, John Mills and Angela Lansbury ; and in 1960, The Sundowners was shot in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales with foreign leads Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, and Peter Ustinov but a supporting cast including Australians Chips Rafferty, John Meillon and Leonard Teale.

While a number of major international stars gained early prominence in Australia over the period, an important stable of established and emerging local stars with prodigious film credits remained prominent, including screen veterans Charles Tingwell, Bill Hunter, Jack Thompson, Bryan Brown and Chris Haywood.

Some of the earliest to arrive in Australia held prominent positions in English society, notably Jane Franklin and Charles La Trobe.

Charles Darwin National Park is in the Northern Territory of Australia, 4 km southeast of Darwin.

Peak Charles National Park is a national park in Western Australia ( Australia ), east of Perth and north west of Esperance.

Sir Charles Hardy Group is a national park in Far North Queensland, Australia, 1, 997 km northwest of Brisbane.

Harriet was a resident at the Australia Zoo in Queensland from 1987 to her death in 2006, it was believed that she was brought to England by Charles Darwin aboard the Beagle and then on to Australia by John Clements Wickham.

The city is named after Captain Charles Howe Fremantle, the English naval officer who had pronounced possession of Western Australia and who established a camp at the site.

As a result of Stirling's report, Captain Charles Howe Fremantle of HMS Challenger, a 603 ton, 28-gun frigate, was instructed to sail to the west coast of Australia to establish a settlement there.

* Charles James Melrose ( 1913 – 1936 ), Australian aviator and holder of early flight records between Australia and other countries

A predatory insect Rodolia cardinalis ( the Vedalia Beetle ), and a parasitoid fly were introduced from Australia by Charles Valentine Riley.