Christina Cock ( née Clay ; 25 December 188722 May 2002 ) is recorded as the oldest verified supercentenarian in Australian history, aged when she died.

The variety of different ways to contest possession in Australian rules has led to first time observers of the game regarding it as having " no rules " or as some Australians unfamiliar with the game colloquially term it " Rafferty's Rules ".

Tackling in Australian Rules is unique in that if tackled player does not dispose of the ball having had opportunity to do so ( called the holding the ball rule ), or concedes a penalty in the tackle ( i. e. tries to throw the ball when he was only allowed to " handball " or kick it ) the tackler is rewarded with a free kick.

Meanwhile, 50th RTR supporting the Australians was having difficulty locating the minefield gaps made by Australian 2 / 24th Battalion.

Most indigenous Australian languages are very rich in liquids, with some having as many as seven distinct liquids.

Despite its strong Australian showing, and having an American producer ( Peter McIan ), Business as Usual was twice rejected by Columbia's parent company in the United States.

It originated from the Australian Army land forces of the territory of Papua New Guinea before independence, coming into being in January 1973 and having its antecedents in the Pacific Islands Regiment.

The PNGDF originated from the Australian Army land forces of the Territory of Papua New Guinea before independence, coming into being in January 1973 and having its antecedents in the Pacific Islands Regiment.

The tour was not a success and the only positive outcome was the fact of the tour having taken place, ten years after the previous one, as it " gave Australian cricket a much needed fillip ".

Correspondingly, Polynesian stops are reported to be held for longer than Australian stops, and are seldom voiced, whereas Australian stops are prone to having voiced variants ( L & M 1996: 53 ), and are often represented as having no phonemically voiceless consonants at all.

This is largely due to more than a century of foreign colonial occupation, bringing in Spanish, German, Japanese, Chamorro, Filipino, American, Australian, other western Europeans, and it being home to the capital of the national government, which employs hundreds of people from the other three FSM States ( Yap, Chuuk, Kosrae ) having distinct ethnic and cultural origins.

According to the present state of knowledge, it is not possible to get Australian dingoes to bark more frequently by having them in contact with other domestic dogs.

Sampras finished 1990 at world number 5, having started the year ranked world number 61 just prior to the start of the Australian Open.

In 2008 The Wiggles were named Business Review Weekly's top-earning Australian entertainers for the fourth year in a row having earned A $ 45 million in 2007.

Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith dismissed the allegations, and stated: " The best thing that can happen in Fiji is not spurious suggestions about Australian activity but having an election, returning Fiji to democracy, respecting human rights ".

The Australian film industry continues to produce a reasonable number of films each year, but in common with other English-speaking countries, Australia has often found it difficult to compete with the American film industry, the latter helped by having a much larger home market.

However he was unimpressed by what he saw of Australian society, coming to the opinion that the nation's society had not progressed in any way since the 1920s, having simply become reactionary, increasingly suburban and un-educated.

The DecoTurf surface at the US Open is a fast surface, having slightly less friction and producing a lower bounce compared to other hard courts ( most notably the Rebound Ace surface formerly used at the Australian Open ).

Ranatunga, having declared before the match that Australian leg spinner Shane Warne was overrated, struck a six from a misexecuted flipper which turned into a full toss and promptly stuck out his tongue at the spinner.

It was measured as among the top ten drugs ranked by cost to the Australian government in 1998 and 2000 – 01, having cost $ 45 million and $ 87 million in subsidies respectively.

The malignancy of such a landscape has been beautifully described by the Australian Charles Bean.

As had been the case on Bligh's tour 20 years before, the Australian media latched fervently onto the term, and, this time it stuck.

The Australian touring party had been severely weakened by a dispute between the board and players that caused Clem Hill, Victor Trumper, Warwick Armstrong, Tibby Cotter, Sammy Carter and Vernon Ransford to be omitted.

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.

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.

Other songs and marches have been influenced by Advance Australia Fair, such as the Australian Vice-Regal salute.

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.

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.

Although Tasmanian AFL Bid has been ongoing, the AFL's focus has become gaining marketshare in lucrative and broadcasting rights in two populous Australian states, introducing clubs on the Gold Coast, Queensland ( Gold Coast Football Club ) and in Greater Western Sydney ( Greater Western Sydney Football Club ).

Since 1967 there have been many matches between Australian Football teams ( mainly from Australia ) and Gaelic football teams ( mainly from Ireland ), under various sets of hybrid, compromise rules known as International rules football.

The oldest Australian Aboriginal boomerangs are ten thousand years old, but older hunting sticks have been discovered in Europe, where they seem to have formed part of the stone age arsenal of weapons.

The word bunyip has been used in other Australian contexts, including The Bunyip newspaper as the banner of a local weekly newspaper published in the town of Gawler, South Australia.

The Western Australian Department of Environment and Conservation has been working with the University of Sydney to develop baits to train native animals not to eat the toads.

The stadium has been used by the Australian national football team for some friendly matches due to a large expatriate population living in England ( mainly in London ).

In Australian slang the term for an English person is " pommy ", which has been proposed as a rhyme on " pomegranate " rhyming with " immigrant ".

In contrast to other common law nations, Australian double jeopardy law has been held to extend to the prevention of prosecution for perjury following a previous acquittal where a finding of perjury would controvert the previous acquittal.

Applying this age to the base of the Ediacaran assumes that individual cap carbonates are synchronous around the world and that the correct cap carbonate layers have been correlated between Australian and Namibia.

Prior to 1986, the Australian banks organized a widespread uniform credit card, called Bankcard, which had been in existence since 1974.

Ric Charlesworth, the current Australian coach, has been a strong critic of the unrestricted use of the reverse edge hit.

In 2003, on his television show John Safran Vs God, Australian comedian John Safran tricked Sheikh Omar Bakri into placing a fatwā on Safran's colleague Rove McManus by showing him falsified evidence seeming to indicate that McManus had been making fun of Islam.

Although the Australian defenders had been forced back from Point 24, heavy casualties had been inflicted on 21st Panzer Division.

Australian 9th Division estimated at least 2, 000 Axis troops had been killed and more than 3, 700 prisoners of war taken in the battle.

The tank unit had not been trained in close infantry support and failed to coordinate with the Australian infantry.

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