Art competitions are used as a framework for the visual arts, while musical programs, addressing a festival theme, are provided by Australian performers including the Goldner String Quartet, gospel choir Cafe of the Gate of Salvation, and the Band of Brothers.

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* Australian String Quartet

The Australian String Quartet is a prominent Australian string quartet, which presents an annual program of chamber music throughout Australia and internationally.

The Australian String Quartet was established in 1985 and since 1991 has been quartet-in-residence at the Elder Conservatorium.

The Australian Defence Force Academy ( ADFA ) and the Royal Military College, Duntroon ( RMC ) are in the suburb of Campbell in Canberra's inner northeast.

* Australian Defence Force Academy

FRACP ), elected him to Honorary Fellowships, and the Australian Academy of Science, for which he supported its establishment in 1954, made him a fellow ( FAAS ) in 1958.

After playing a leading role in the Australian New Wave cinema with his films such as Picnic at Hanging Rock, The Last Wave and Gallipoli, Weir directed a diverse group of American and international films — many of them major box office hits — including the Academy Award nominees Witness, Dead Poets Society, Green Card, The Truman Show and Master and Commander.

Forensic science has been fostered by a number of national forensic science learned bodies including the American Academy of Forensic Sciences ( founded 1948 ; publishers of the Journal of Forensic Sciences ), the Canadian Society of Forensic Science ( founded 1953 ; publishers of the Journal of the Canadian Society of Forensic Science ), The British Academy of Forensic Sciences ( founded 1960 ; publishers of Medicine, science and the law ( journal )), and the Australian Academy of Forensic Sciences ( founded 1967 ; publishers of the Australian Journal of Forensic Sciences ).

The Australian Army's officer corps are trained at the Royal Military College, Duntroon and the Australian Defence Force Academy is also located in the capital.

* A New Understanding of the Groundwater Resources of the Great Artesian Basin, L. A. Endersbee, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering

For example, the executive head of the Australian Defence Force Academy in Canberra, which is a campus of the University of New South Wales in Sydney is a Rector, as is the head of the Cairns campus of James Cook University, based at Townsville.

He went on to star in classics such as The Rats of Tobruk and became the first Australian to win an Academy Award for Best Actor, posthumously in 1976.

In 1976, Peter Finch was awarded a posthumous Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in the American satire Network, becoming the first Australian to win an Oscar for best actor.

Cate Blanchett, winner of Australian Film Institute | AFIs, Academy Award | Oscars, BAFTA s and Golden Globe s.

In 1888 the Australian Artist's Association amalgamated with the Victorian Academy of Arts to form the Victorian Artists Society.

The Sundowners ( 1960 ), starring Robert Mitchum and Deborah Kerr as an Australian outback husband and wife, led to more Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actress ( Kerr ) and Best Supporting Actress ( Glynis Johns ), but won none.

* Royal Charter of the Australian Academy of the Humanities

Finch died before the 1977 Academy Awards ceremony and was the only performer to win a posthumous Academy Award until Heath Ledger won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar in 2009 ; coincidentally, both Finch and Ledger were Australian citizens.

The park was gazetted in September 1974, using the boundaries recommended by the Australian Academy of Science committee on National Parks in 1955.

In addition, the UNSW Canberra campus at the Australian Defence Force Academy is situated in Canberra.

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.

I persuaded an Australian friend who had lived `` outback '' for years to take me to see some aborigines living in the bush.

The two children, both boys, wandered around the Australian and me for a few moments and then returned to their work.

And Secretary Rusk, en route to Bangkok, doubtless is trying to make emergency arrangements for the possible entry of Australian or Thai SEATO forces.

The first occasion was in 1988 for a museum tour as part of the Australian Bicentenary celebrations ; the second was for the 2006 / 7 Ashes series.

One is playing cricket ; the other is making no attempt to do so " after the latter had come into the Australian rooms to express sympathy for a Larwood bouncer had struck the Australian skipper in the heart and felled him.

The rain-affected Third Test ended with the last two Australian batsmen holding out for a draw and England won the Fourth Test by three wickets after forcing Australia to follow-on for the first time in 191 Tests.

England bowled Australia out again for 281 and so won a series on Australian soil for the first time in 24 years.

Wakefield had read accounts of Australian settlement while in prison in London for attempting to abduct an heiress, and realised that the eastern colonies suffered from a lack of available labour, due to the practice of giving land grants to all arrivals.

However, by mid-1837 the South Australian Register was warning of escaped convicts from New South Wales, and tenders for a temporary gaol were sought.

Wool production provided an early basis for the South Australian economy.

* Australian Society of Authors, the peak professional association for Australian literary creators

Australian English ( AusE, AuE, AusEng, en-AU < ref > is the language code for Australian English, as defined by ISO standards ( see ISO 639-1 and ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 ) and Internet standards ( see IETF language tag ).</ ref >) is a major variety of the English language and is used throughout Australia.

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.

Where British and American vocabulary differs, Australians sometimes favour an Australian usage, as with footpath ( for US sidewalk, UK pavement ) or capsicum ( for US bell pepper, UK sweet pepper ).

In 1988, when the ACT gained self-government, Jervis Bay became a separate territory administered by the Australian Government Minister responsible for Territories, presently the Minister for Home Affairs ( Australia ).

* August 8 – WWI – Battle of Amiens: Canadian and Australian troops begin a string of almost continuous victories with a push through the German front lines.

* Bond ( band ), an Australian / British string quartet

* In 2011, the Australian / British string quartet BOND released the album Play featuring the recording " Road to Samarkand ".

Since the mid 1990s a string of successful alternative Australian acts have emerged ; artists to achieve both underground ( critical ) and mainstream ( commercial ) success include You Am I, Grinspoon, Powderfinger and Jet.

Along the way he subsequently ends up inventing several things that are considered Australian Icons in the real world, for example beer soup ( vegemite ), putting corks on a string round his hat to keep flies off ( a common Australian outback hat stereotype ), as well as becoming the subject of a ballad that is hinted at being a parody of the song " Waltzing Matilda " when he is caught apparently stealing a sheep by a billabong. A gigantic circular storm surrounding Fourecks prevents any ships from leaving, however.

Elliott and his team built the company up through a string of acquisitions throughout the late 1970s and 1980s, including Australian corporate icons Elders Limited, an agricultural services concern, Carlton and United Breweries now part of the Foster's Brewing Group and Australia's largest beer manufacturer, and Henry Jones IXL food manufacturer.

The British / Australian string quartet bond play classical crossover ( first and second violin, viola, and cello ) and sing the occasional vocals that accompany some of their tracks.

A string of hits followed on the Australian Kent Music Report Singles Chart ( replaced Go-Set charts after August ), with Sherbet releasing original Top 10 hits such as " Silvery Moon " ( 1974 ) and their first number-one hit " Summer Love " ( 1975 ).

Superheist was an Australian nu metal band that attained a significant degree of success with a string of EPs and singles and two full-length albums that charted in the Top 40 before suddenly disbanding in 2004.

Little appeared in a string of Australian films and TV series during the 1980s.

The Australian / British string quartet Bond also recorded a version of " Fly, Robin, Fly " for their 2004 album, Classified.

In January 2012, in the second Test of Australia's home series against India and after a string of Test centuries since becoming captain, Clarke became the first Australian batsman since Matthew Hayden in 2003 to score a triple hundred.

His works include a string quartet in C major, the manuscript of which is dated March 1861, shortly after his arrival in Australia ; this is probably the first work for this combination to have been written on Australian soil.

August saw Daysend play a string of shows with Perth band Dyscord, and be the direct support for Trivium's one off Australian show at the Enmore Theatre in Sydney.

During his Australian concerts with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra in 1986, John lauded Buckmaster's work on songs such as " Have Mercy on the Criminal ", calling the string arrangements " revolutionary ".

Following a string of small jobs within the Australian film industry, she achieved her first real directorial recognition through her short film The Singer and the Dancer which won an award at the Sydney Film Festival.

After a string of poor years the Tigers managed a strong turn-around to become a dominant force in the Australian Rugby League with the club's first, second and third Premierships coming in successive years dominating the 1915, 1916 and 1917 seasons.

Since 2004, Thirsty Merc have released a string of hits in the Australian Music Charts including " Wasting Time ," " My Completeness ", " Someday, Someday ", " In The Summertime ", " When The Weather Is Fine ", " 20 Good Reasons ", " The Hard Way ", " Those Eyes ", " Homesick ", " Mousetrap Heart ", " Tommy And Krista " and " All My Life ".

Fingleton was selected for a second string Australian team to tour New Zealand for two months at the end of the season while the Test team departred for England.

In 1983 Australian drummer Oleh Witer, frustrated over playing in a string of unsuccessful groups, travelled from Australia to London.

Mostly known for forming the highly successful Australian record company Mushroom Records in 1972 through whom Gudinski signed several generations of Australian musicians and performers ranging from MacKenzie Theory, the Skyhooks, New Zealand's Split Enz, The Choirboys, Kylie Minogue to newer artists such as Eskimo Joe, Evermore and others forging a string of successful releases by local talent.

* Other bands have covered or reinterpreted the Doctor Who theme, such as DJ duo Coldcut, the electronica band Orbital, a reggae version by Dr. Pablo and Dub Syndicate, New Zealand band Blam Blam Blam, the Australian string ensemble Fourplay, disco act Mankind and UK art rock band Traffic Experiment.