In March, 1961, representatives of the national laboratories of Australia, Canada, The Netherlands, United Kingdom, U.S.S.R., United States, and West Germany, met at the NBS to devise means for reaching international agreement on a temperature scale between 10 and 90 Af.

" Advance Australia Fair " is the official national anthem of Australia.

Before its adoption as Australia's national anthem, Advance Australia Fair saw considerable use elsewhere.

* Australian Broadcasting Corporation, national publicly funded broadcaster of Australia

* 1984 – Advance Australia Fair is proclaimed as Australia's national anthem, and green and gold as the national colours.

The ANFC ran the Championship of Australia, the first national club competition, which commenced in 1888 and saw clubs from different states compete on an even playing field.

The AFL is the List of sports attendance figures # Top 10 in average attendance | most attended national competition in Australia and the only fully professional league for Australian football in the world.

The islands situated between 60 ° S latitude parallel to the south and the Antarctic Convergence to the north, and their respective Exclusive Economic Zones fall under the national jurisdiction of the countries that possess them: South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands ( United Kingdom ; also an EU Overseas territory ), Bouvet Island ( Norway ), and Heard and McDonald Islands ( Australia ).

The most famous bush ballad is " Waltzing Matilda ", which has been called " the unofficial national anthem of Australia ".

One way was greater cooperation between groups, such as the Edinburgh Missionary Conference of Protestants in 1910, the Justice, Peace and Creation Commission of the World Council of Churches founded in 1948 by Protestant and Orthodox churches, and similar national councils like the National Council of Churches in Australia which includes Roman Catholics.

The ' Little Switzerland ' section of the Putney End seen in the background during an Australia national association football team | Australia vs New Zealand national football team | New Zealand friendly in 2005

The Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act created a federal system, in which power is divided between the federal, or national, government and the States — the evolved status of the colonies.

Distributism does not attach itself to one national political party or another in any part of the world, but it has influenced Christian Democratic parties in Continental Europe and the Democratic Labor Party in Australia.

* English in the British Isles until its consolidation as a national language in the Renaissance and the rise of Modern English ; subsequently internationally under the various states in or formerly in the British Empire ; globally since the victories of the predominantly English speaking countries ( United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and others ) and their allies in the two world wars ending in 1918 ( World War I ) and 1945 ( WW II ) and the subsequent rise of the United States as a superpower and major cultural influence.

The Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia is the representative in Australia at federal / national level of the Australian monarch ( currently Queen Elizabeth II ).

In Commentaries on the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Australia, Garran noted that, since the Australian executive is national in nature ( being dependent on the nationally elected House of Representatives, rather than the Senate ), " the Governor-General, as the official head of the Executive, does not in the smallest degree represent any federal element ; if he represents anything he is the image and embodiment of national unity and the outward and visible representation of the Imperial relationship of the Commonwealth.

The Governor performs the same constitutional and ceremonial functions at the state level as does the Governor-General of Australia at the national level.

* Bulleen Boomers, a basketball club based in Bulleen, a north-eastern suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Philips owns the naming rights to the Philips Arena in Atlanta, Georgia and to the Philips Championship, the premier basketball league in Australia, traditionally known as the National Basketball League.

* Ken James ( basketball ), who represented Australia at the 1972 Summer Olympics

His father, Richard, an architect, represented Australia at international level in basketball, including being a member of two Olympic squads.

Category: Olympic basketball players of Australia

It is played in a similar regard to outdoor half-court basketball in the United States and backyard rugby in South Africa, Australia and New Zealand.

Timms began her professional basketball career in 1984 in Australia.

In 2009, Timms was appointed as an assistant coach of the Jayco Australian Opals, the Australia women's national basketball team.

Category: Olympic basketball players of Australia

After finishing a two-year mission to Australia, he decided not to return to college basketball.

Category: Olympic basketball players of Australia

The men's team has gone into an extended recess after being one of the most successful country-based basketball teams in Australia, winning the CVIBL title in 1994 and the 2000, 2001 and 2003 Big V Championship ABA titles under the tutelage of Russell Parker. In 2011 the men's team returned to the court in the Country basketball league.

This has also given the college a big following in Australia, with most basketball games shown on ESPN Australia / NEW Zealand.

* Nick Morris, men's wheelchair basketball player for Australia

While playing for the Grizzlies, together with several NBA stars such as Kevin Garnett and Tim Hardaway, Abdur-Rahim was selected to be part of the USA Men's basketball team which won the gold medal at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia.

* Continental Basketball Association, the former name of Australian Basketball Association, the second-tiered semi-professional men's and women's basketball minor leagues in Australia

Larry Sengstock ( born 4 March 1960 in Maryborough, Queensland ) is a retired Australian basketball player and was the CEO of Basketball Australia and the NBL until April 2012.

Category: Olympic basketball players of Australia

* Knox Basketball Inc, a basketball association in Melbourne, Australia which is arguably Australia's largest with more than 1, 000 teams

* Australian Basketball Association, the second-tiered semi-professional men's and women's basketball minor leagues in Australia

Category: American expatriate basketball people in Australia

Major competition in wheelchair basketball comes from Canada, Australia, the United States, Great Britain, the Netherlands, and Japan.

The true and global revitalisation of interest in the concept dates from 1903, when Pelham Warner took a team to Australia with the promise that he would regain " the ashes ".

Her husband, then Ivo Bligh, took a team to Australia in the following year.

Later in 1882, following the famous Australian victory at The Oval, Bligh led an England team to Australia, as he said, to " recover those ashes ".

Australia consolidated their status as the leading team in world cricket with a hard-fought 2 – 1 away series.

Australia had lost 2 – 1 during a tour of the West Indies in 1964 – 65, the first time they had lost a series to any team other than England.

WSC affected all Test playing nations but it weakened Australia especially as the bulk of its players had signed up with Packer ; the Australian Cricket Board ( ACB ) would not select WSC-contracted players and an almost completely new Test team had to be formed.

In 1982 – 83 Australia had Greg Chappell back from WSC as captain, while the England team was weakened by the enforced omission of their South African tour rebels, particularly Graham Gooch and John Emburey.

In 2007 the international rules series was abandoned because of the aggression and the severity of the Australian team in the previous year, but in 2008, under new rules to protect the player with the ball, it resumed in Australia.

Shaw & Shrewsbury Team, 1888, The first British or Irish touring rugby team, a private-enterprise trip to Australia and New Zealand

No more than twelve months passed before the British and Irish team ventured to Australia and New Zealand in 1904.

Later in the same year, he captained the West Indies team in Australia for the Bicentennial Youth World Cup where the West Indies reached the semi-finals.

Lara's team played Australia in the finals of the DLF Cup and the ICC Champions Trophy where they finished runners up in both finals.

* Darwin Buffaloes, an Australian Rules Football team in Northern Territories, Australia

The Brabham team was founded by Jack Brabham and Ron Tauranac, who met in 1951 while both were successfully building and racing cars in their native Australia.

Eight teams participated in the first tournament: Australia, England, India, New Zealand, Pakistan, and the West Indies ( the six Test nations at the time ), together with Sri Lanka and a composite team from East Africa.

The 18 senior players of Port Adelaide Football Club's 1914 Champions of Australia team

* Bentleigh Greens soccer team in a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

He was a member of the Melbourne Inter-University Debating team and the United Australia Organization ' A ' Grade debating team, and was president of both the Sports and Social Club and the Law Students ' Society.

Under Cronje's captaincy, South Africa won 27 Tests and lost 11, completing series victories against every team except Australia.