Some elements of Aboriginal languages have been adopted by Australian English — mainly as names for places, flora and fauna ( for example dingo ) and local culture.

The practice of the Australian states — for example, New South Wales and Victoria — has been, when legislating to repeal some imperial statutes so far as they still applied in Australia, to provide that imperial statutes concerning the royal succession remain in force.

* 1915 – World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli begins — The invasion of the Turkish Gallipoli Peninsula by Australian, British, French and New Zealand troops begins with landings at Anzac Cove and Cape Helles.

After a stalemate on the Gaza — Beersheba line between March and October 1917, Beersheba was captured by the Australian Mounted Division's 4th Light Horse Brigade.

Either way, the trend is toward the modern Australian environment of highly flammable open sclerophyllous forests, woodlands and grasslands, none of which are suitable for large, slow-moving browsing animals — and either way, the changed microclimate produces substantially less rainfall.

In the early hours of 17 July, the Australian 24th Brigade — supported by 44th Royal Tank Regiment (" RTR ") and strong fighter cover from the air — assaulted Miteirya ridge ( known as " Ruin ridge " to the Australians ).

By this time he had been an MP for almost 31 years — the longest wait of any non-caretaker Australian Prime Minister.

In 1967 the Holt government made the historic decision not to depreciate the Australian dollar in line with Britain's depreciation of the pound sterling, a custom that Australia had previously always followed, but this decision created considerable dissent within the Coalition ; Country Party leader John McEwen was particularly angered by the move — he saw it as a threat to Australia's balance of payments and feared that it would lead to increased production costs for primary industry.

Teachers and learners of English as a second language also find it an attractive idea — both often concerned that their English should be neutral, without American or British or Canadian or Australian coloring.

Australian broadcast stations officially have — but do not use — the VL prefix, and Canada uses Chile's CB for its own Canadian Broadcasting Corporation stations.

He was supported by his father and by the Redex fuel additive company, although his commercially aware approach — including the title RedeX Special painted on the side of his Cooper-Bristol — did not go down well with the Confederation of Australian Motor Sport ( CAMS ), which banned the advertisement.

In 1915 the three Murray states — New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia — signed the River Murray Agreement which proposed the construction of storage reservoirs in the river's headwaters as well as at Lake Victoria near the South Australian border.

After the war, CMF units continued to form the bulk of the peacetime army, although the creation of standing infantry units — such as the Royal Australian Regiment — from 1947, meant that the regular army grew in importance.

* — Australian news groups

Many city and suburban pubs gained renown for their support of live music, and many prominent Australian bands — including AC / DC, Cold Chisel, The Angels and The Dingoes — cut their teeth at these venues in the early days of their careers.

For example the Australian language Guugu Yimithirr only uses absolute directions when describing spatial relations — the position of everything is described by using the cardinal directions.

By 2004 Neighbours was regularly attracting just under a million viewers per episode — low for Australian prime time television.

Support acts for the first concert included The Church, Mental as Anything, The Party Boys, The Sunnyboys, and Midnight Oil — who acknowledged, " Hooks were the only Australian band they would let top the bill above them ".

The discouragement felt by Katayama as regards his prospects at Nissan, led to his going on the verge of resigning, when Datsun ’ s 1958 Australian Mobilgas victories vaunted him, as leader of the winning Datsun teams, to national prominence in a Japan bent on regaining international status.

* 1957 – Peter O ’ Mara, Australian jazz guitarist and composer

The festival's chief executive, Richard Moore, compared Loach's tactics to blackmail, stating that " we will not participate in a boycott against the State of Israel, just as we would not contemplate boycotting films from China or other nations involved in difficult long-standing historical disputes .” Australian lawmaker Michael Danby also criticised Loach ’ s tactics stating that “ Israelis and Australians have always had a lot in common, including contempt for the irritating British penchant for claiming cultural superiority.

Current records at the Australian Museum show that Beazley ’ s wig, described as “ a cap composed of human hair from the headwaters of the U – at River, Central Mountains, Mandated Territory of NG ”, was lodged on 31 January 1930, presumably on his quick visit to Sydney after the first expedition.

Benaud said: " I ’ ll be doing Australian cricket next year – 2010 – but I don ’ t do any television at all anywhere else now and when I finish next year, then I ’ ll be doing other things ... But that ’ ll be no more television commentary ".

* White Over Black: Discourses of Whiteness in Australian Culture in Borderlands eJournal Focuses on debates about representing Australia ’ s colonial history, specifically in regard to child removal.

It also received national and international critical acclaim and would be one of the best selling Australian albums of that year despite the lack of commercial airplay in the corporate FM dominated 80 ’ s.

On 1 February 1992 it was merged with Australia ’ s domestic telecommunications carrier, the Australian Telecommunications Corporation Limited (“ Telecom ”) to create the Australian and Overseas Telecommunications Corporation Limited ( AOTC ).

On 12 July 2011 the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner ( OAIC ) released the findings of its investigation into a mailing list error by Telstra Corporation Limited ( Telstra ) which resulted in approximately 60, 300 Telstra customers ’ personal information being sent to other customers.

Newcastle Brown ’ s growing worldwide popularity even spurred an Australian brewer to launch a hostile bid for the company in 1988.

The most devastating critique came from Durkheim ’ s contemporary, Arnold van Gennep, an expert on religion and ritual, and also on Australian belief systems.

" Queensland ’ s Colonial Secretary A. H. Palmer wrote in 1884 " the nature of the blacks was so treacherous that they were only guided by fear – in fact it was only possible to rule … the Australian Aboriginal … by brute force " The most recent massacre of Aborigines was at Coniston in the Northern Territory in 1928.

This is unlike marriage and ‘ matrimonial causes ’ which are recognised by sections 51 ( xxi ) and ( xxii ) of the Australian Constitution and internationally by Marriage law and conventions, Hague Convention on Marriages ( 1978 ).

He also hosted the Australian Conservation Foundation ’ s Spirituality and Sustainability Forum with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and is an ambassador and former board member of the Royal Botanic Gardens Foundation, Sydney.

He also had several series of his own on Australian television, Don ’ t Adjust Your Set-The Programme is at Fault and From Rushton with Love.

The Commonwealth power to legislate for marriage and ‘ matrimonial causes ’ is supported by sections 51 ( xxi ) and ( xxii ) of the Constitution, whereas the power to legislate for de facto financial matters largely relies on referrals by States to the Commonwealth in accordance with section 51 ( xxxvii ) of the Australian Constitution.

Professor Mark Glancy, teacher of film history at Queen Mary University of London has said: “ It ’ s horrendously inaccurate and attributes crimes committed by the Nazis in the 1940s to the British in the 1770s .” In contrast, Australian film critic David Edwards asserts that " this fictional story is set around actual events, but it is not a history of what America was, or even an image of what it has become-it's a dream of what it should be .... The Patriot is a grand epic full of action and emotion .... But it's also surprisingly insightful in its evaluation of the American ideal-if not the reality.

Her book, The Pavlova Story: A Slice of New Zealand ’ s Culinary History, states that the first Australian pavlova recipe was created in 1935 while an earlier version was penned in 1929 in the rural magazine.

In the 5th Volume of Australian Superbrands it was recorded that " Research reveals that the popular Salvation Army slogan ‘ Thank God for the Salvos ’ has almost total recognition amongst the Australian public, achieving 93 per cent aided awareness ".

** Dorothy Hewett, Australian writer ( d. 2002 )

Notable members of the Industrial Workers of the World have included Lucy Parsons ; Helen Keller ; Joe Hill ; Ralph Chaplin ; Ricardo Flores Magon ; James P. Cannon ; James Connolly ; Jim Larkin ; Paul Mattick ; Big Bill Haywood ; Eugene Debs ; David Dellinger ; Elizabeth Gurley Flynn ; Sam Dolgoff, Monty Miller ; Indian Nationalist Lala Hardayal ; Frank Little ; ACLU founder Roger Nash Baldwin ; Harry Bridges, briefly, later helped form ILWU ; Minnesota Governor Floyd B. Olson ; Buddhist beat poet Gary Snyder ; Fredy Perlman ; Australian poets Harry Hooton and Lesbia Harford ; graphic artist Carlos Cortez ; artist Kevin McCoy ; counterculture icon Kenneth Rexroth ; Surrealist Franklin Rosemont ; Rosie Kane and Carolyn Leckie, former Members of the Scottish Parliament ; labor and environmental organizer Judi Bari ; folk musicians Utah Phillips, Harry McClintock, Anne Feeney, and David Rovics ; crime writer Jim Thompson ; Finnish folk music legend Hiski Salomaa ; Catholic Workers Dorothy Day and Ammon Hennacy.

Fred Zinnemann decided to make the film at the suggestion of Dorothy Hammerstein, Australian wife of Oscar Hammerstein.

* Australian Women's Singles Championship – Dorothy Cheney ( USA ) defeats Dorothy Stevenson ( Australia ) 6 – 3, 6 – 2

* 25 Dorothy Hewett, Australian poet, playwright and novelist.

In 2011, Davis appeared in a TV-drama film, Page Eight and played Dorothy de Lascabanes in the adaptation of Patrick White's novel, The Eye of the Storm for which, in 2012, she won an Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role.

* Green, Dorothy " Richardson, Ethel Florence Lindesay ( Henry Handel ) ( 1870 – 1946 )" in Australian Dictionary of Biography, online edition Accessed: 2007-09-20

Significant contemporary Indigenous Australian artists include Angelina George, Polly Ngal, Lofty Bardayal Nadjamerrek, Bronwyn Bancroft, Barbara Weir, Naata Nungurrayi, Kathleen Ngale, Shorty Jangala Robertson, Jimmy Baker, Tommy Watson, Kathleen Petyarre, Gloria Petyarre, Paddy Bedford ( aka Goowoomji ) ( circa 1922-2007 ), John Mawurndjul, Minnie Pwerle ( c. 1915-2006 ), Makinti Napanangka, Ningura Napurrula, Nurapayai Nampitjinpa ( Mrs Bennett ), Dorothy Napangardi Robinson, Bill Whiskey Tjapaltjarri ( circa 1920-2008 ), Regina Wilson, Angelina Ngal, Abie Loy Kemarre, Sarrita King, Ian Abdulla, Helen McCarthy Tyalmuty, Wintjiya Napaltjarri, Josepha Petrick Kemarre, Tommy Mitchell, Willy Tjungurrayi, Richard Bell, Cowboy Lou Pwerle, Brook Andrew, Ken Thaiday.

A collection of his writings, Descent of Spirit, edited by the Australian literary scholar Dorothy Green ( Auchterlonie ), was published in 1990.

* Australian Women's Singles Championship – Dorothy Round Little ( Great Britain ) defeats Nancy Lyle Glover ( Australia ) 1 – 6, 6 – 1, 6 – 3

She also starred as Dorothy in an Australian stage performance of The Wizard of Oz which Ran between 2001-2002.

Dorothy Auchterlonie AO ( also known as Dorothy Green ) ( 28 May 1915 – 21 February 1991 ) was an English-born Australian academic, literary critic and poet.

Perennial favourites of Australian children's literature include Norman Lindsay's The Magic Pudding, Ethel Pedley's Dot and the Kangaroo, May Gibbs ' Snugglepot and Cuddlepie, Ruth Park's The Muddleheaded Wombat ; Dorothy Wall's Blinky Bill and Mem Fox's Possum Magic.

Carolyn Dorothy Hirsh ( born 1 August 1937 ) is a former Australian politician representing Silvan Province in the Victorian Legislative Council.

Dorothy Coade Hewett ( 21 May 1923 – 25 August 2002 ) was an Australian feminist poet, novelist, librettist and playwright.

* Moore N Dorothy Hewett in Birns N and McNeer R A companion to Australian literature since 1900, Boydell & Brewer, 2007, 477 pp ; ISBN 1-57113-349-6, ISBN 978-1-57113-349-6

Blinky Bill is an anthropomorphic koala and children's fictional character created by New Zealand-born Australian author Dorothy Wall.

* Blinky Bill, the quaint little Australian story and decorations by Dorothy Wall ( Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1933 )-digitised and held by the National Library of Australia.

She served longer in the Australian Parliament than any other woman, oustripping the record previously held by Dorothy Tangney.

* Dorothy Alison, Australian actress

The artwork was called environmental vandalism by the Environment minister, Dorothy Kotz, and graffiti by the South Australian chief of Aboriginal affairs, David Ruthman.

Dame Enid Lyons, in the Australian House of Representatives and Senator Dorothy Tangney became the fist women in the Federal Parliament in 1943.