Percival Serle wrote of Phillip in his Dictionary of Australian Biography:

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Reflecting different national usages, cunt is described as " an unpleasant or stupid person " in the Compact Oxford English Dictionary, whereas Merriam-Webster has a usage of the term as " usually disparaging and obscene: woman ", noting that it is used in the U. S. as " an offensive way to refer to a woman "; the Macquarie Dictionary of Australian English states that it is " a despicable man ", however when used with a positive qualifier ( good, funny, clever, etc.

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Others are confined to vast reservations, and not only does the Australian government justifiably not wish them to be viewed as exhibits in a zoo, but on their reservations they are extremely fugitive, shunning camps, coming together only for corroborees at which their strange culture comes to its highest pitch -- which is very low indeed.

A fourth match was played, against a " United Australian XI ", which was arguably stronger than the Australian sides that had competed in the previous three matches ; this game, however, is not generally considered part of the 1882 – 83 series.

WSC came after an era during which the duopoly of Australian and English dominance dissipated ; the Ashes had long been seen as a cricket world championship but the rise of the West Indies in the late 1970s challenged that view.

The primary way in which Australian English is distinctive from other varieties of English is through its unique pronunciation.

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Chief among other English dialects are Canadian English ( based on the English of United Empire Loyalists who left the 13 Colonies ), and Australian English, which rank third and fourth in number of native speakers.

Or, third, it incorporates the United Kingdom rules of succession into the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act, which itself can now be altered only by Australia, according to the Australia Act 1986 ; in that way, the British rules of succession have been patriated to Australia and, with regard to Australia, are subject to amendment or repeal solely by Australian law.

Between 1977 and 1987, the Australian Football Council ( AFC ) in conjunction with the VFL ran a night series, which invited clubs and representative sides from around the country to participate in the " National Football League " for the Wills Cup, however Victorian sides still dominated.

In 1991, it gained its first South Australian team, Adelaide, which paid five million dollars to enter the AFL.

This foundation includes the Clinton Foundation HIV and AIDS Initiative ( CHAI ), which strives to combat that disease, and has worked with the Australian government toward that end.

Although he still wore a standard British officer's cap on arrival in the desert, he briefly wore an Australian broad-brimmed hat before switching to wearing the black beret ( with the badge of the Royal Tank Regiment next to the British General Officer's badge ) for which he became notable.

Currently scoring blows in amateur boxing are subjectively counted by ringside judges, but the Australian Institute for Sport has demonstrated a prototype of an Automated Boxing Scoring System, which introduces scoring objectivity, improves safety, and arguably makes the sport more interesting to spectators.

The word bunyip can still be found in a number of Australian contexts, including place names such as the Bunyip River ( which flows into Westernport Bay in southern Victoria ) and the town of Bunyip, Victoria.

The groundwork for the modern bikini began to be laid in 1907, when Australian swimmer and performer Annette Kellerman was arrested on a Boston beach for wearing a form-fitting one-piece swimsuit, which became an accepted beach attire for women by 1910.

The Australian band VulgarGrad, fronted by actor Jacek Koman, which plays songs of the Russian criminal underground, uses a contrabass balalaika.

In 1978 An Australian Prayer Book was produced which sought to adhere to this principle, so that where the Liturgical Committee could not agree on a formulation, the words or expressions of the BCP were to be used.

Brabham used engines from Australian engineering firm Repco, which had never produced a Formula One engine before, based on aluminium V8 engine blocks from the defunct American Oldsmobile F85 road car project, and other off the shelf parts.

The Brisbane Lions is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League ( AFL ).

The Australian composer Peter Sculthorpe quoted parts of it in his opera or music theatre work Rites of Passage ( 1972-73 ), which was commissioned for the opening of the Sydney Opera House but was not ready in time.

Staunch Australian right-wingers, on the other hand, level it at those who support such things as government funding for the arts, free tertiary education, and the ABC – all causes which are described by critics as " middle-class welfare ".

" Jupp points out that, " decline in English influences on Australian reformism and radicalism, and appropriation of the symbols of Empire by conservatives continued under the Liberal Party leadership of Sir Robert Menzies, which lasted until 1966.

The Australian Mounted Division was armed with swords and in September, after the successful breaching of the Ottoman line on the Mediterranean coast by the British Empire infantry XXI Corps was followed by cavalry attacks by the 4th Cavalry Division, 5th Cavalry Division and Australian Mounted Divisions which almost encircled two Ottoman armies in the Judean Hills forcing their retreat.