As the European Post Impressionists had sought inspiration from Primitivism, Preston turned to Australian Indigenous art as a source for creating a new, national art.

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 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 word is also used in numerous other Australian contexts, including the House of the Gentle Bunyip in Clifton Hill, Victoria.

While other predictions show there could be as many as 28, 000 species in North America, including those currently undescribed, a realistic estimate of the little-studied Australian beetle fauna's true diversity could vary from 80, 000 to 100, 000.

During the combat operations from the atoll against Afghanistan ( 2001 – 2006 ) and Iraq ( 2003 – 2006 ), a number of allied militaries were based on the island including Australian, Japanese and the Republic of Korea.

Most modern researchers including Richard Roberts and Tim Flannery argue that diprotodonts, along with a wide range of other Australian megafauna, became extinct shortly after humans arrived in Australia about 50, 000 years ago.

* 1875 – The hits the Great Barrier Reef and sinks off the Australian east coast, killing approximately 100, including a number of high profile civil servants and dignitaries.

** Australian XI versus first-class opponents, including State teams

After Frontline they moved into feature films, making several popular Australian movies including The Castle and The Dish, and hosted The Panel for several years, before moving on to Thank God You're Here.

Frontline frequently featured celebrity cameos, unusually including major Australian politicians appearing as themselves, often but not always as interviewees.

Then in the early 1980s there were major changes in the Australian brewing industry, including the merger of Castlemaine ( Brisbane ), Swan ( Perth ) and Toohey's ( Sydney ) into a national brewing group, as a result of acquisitions by Perth entrepreneur Alan Bond.

The Eighth Army had suffered over 13, 000 casualties in July including 4, 000 in the New Zealand Division, 3, 000 in the Indian 5th Infantry Division and 2, 552 battle casualties in the 9th Australian Division ) but had taken 7, 000 prisoners and inflicted heavy damage on Axis men and machines.

Many sources, including the Australian Bureau of Statistics, use a 1965-1981 birth range to define Generation X.

Some of the first examples were created ca 1981 by graffiti artist Blek le Rat in Paris ; by 1985 stencils had appeared in other cities including New York City, Sydney and Melbourne, where they were documented by American photographer Charles Gatewood and Australian photographer Rennie Ellis.

Oxford University Press's art history text Australian Painting 1788 – 2000 concludes with a long discussion of graffiti's key place within contemporary visual culture, including the work of several Australian practitioners.

Between 1939 and 1945, Holden's produced more than 30, 000 bodies for the Australian and US forces and manufactured a wide range of equipment, including field guns, aircraft, boats, including truck, aeroplane and marine engines and components.

Factors contributing to the loss included the development of an all-new model, the strong Australian dollar and the cost of reducing the workforce at the Elizabeth plant, including the loss of 1, 400 jobs after the closure of the third-shift assembly line in 2005, after two years in operation.

* Ian Stewart – Australian Rules Footballer who played 127 games for St. Kilda including the clubs first ( and thus far only ) Premiership in 1966, he is also a member of the AFL Hall of Fame with legend status

* Alastair Lynch – Australian Rules Footballer who played 306 game for Fitzroy, Brisbane Bears and the Brisbane Lions, including the 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004 Grand Finals

It is also the official march of several Commonwealth navies including the Royal Canadian Navy, the Royal Australian Navy and the Royal New Zealand Navy.

As Prime Minister, he oversaw landmark changes including the historic decision not to devalue the Australian dollar in line with the British pound, and the 1967 constitutional referendum in which an overwhelming majority of Australians voted in favour of giving the Commonwealth power to legislate specifically for indigenous Australians.

On taking office, Holt declared that Australia had no intention of increasing its commitment to the war, but just one month later, in December 1966, he announced that Australia would treble its troop commitment to 4, 500, including 1, 500 National Service conscripts, creating a single independent Australian task force based at Nui Dat.

Australian hypnotism / hypnotherapy organizations ( including the Australian Hypnotherapists Association ) are seeking government regulation similar to other mental health professions.

* 1880 – Frederick Lane, Australian swimmer ( d. 1969 )

* 1888 – Frederick Lane, Australian swimmer ( d. 1969 )

Dr John Frederick Joseph Cade AO ( 18 January 1912 – 16 November 1980 ) was an Australian psychiatrist credited with discovering ( in 1948 ) the effects of lithium carbonate as a mood stabilizer in the treatment of bipolar disorder ( then known as manic depression ).

** Frederick Lane, Australian swimmer ( b. 1888 )

* February 2 – Frederick Lane, Australian swimmer ( d. 1969 )

* January 4 – Australian seal hunter Frederick Hasselborough discovers Campbell Island in the subantarctic.

The NGV houses many of the most recognisable Australian paintings, including Frederick McCubbin's " The Pioneer " and Tom Roberts ' " Shearing the Rams ".

The Australian collection includes works by Charles Blackman, John Brack, Arthur Boyd, Louis Buvelot, Rupert Bunny, Nicholas Chevalier, Charles Conder, David Davies, William Dobell, Russell Drysdale, E. Phillips Fox, John Glover, Eugene von Guerard, Hans Heysen, George W. Lambert, Sydney Long, John Longstaff, Frederick McCubbin, Sidney Nolan, John Perceval, Margaret Preston, Hugh Ramsay, Tom Roberts, John Russell, Grace Cossington Smith, Arthur Streeton, Fred Williams and others.

* Frederick Augustus Forbes ( 1818-1878 ), Australian politician

* Frederick Hollows ( 1929-1993 ), Australian ophthalmologist and philanthropist

* Frederick William Whitehouse ( 1900 – 1973 ), Australian geologist

Artists such as Arthur Streeton, Frederick McCubbin and Tom Roberts applied themselves to recreating in their art a truer sense of light and colour as seen in Australian landscape.

Frederick George Peter Ingle Finch ( 28 September 191614 January 1977 ) was a British-born Australian actor.

On Christmas Day 1970, Sergeants Allan Brian Moss and John Wallace Galvin were shot dead and Sergeant Frederick Edwin Bowtell injured when Private Paul Ramon Ferriday opened fire into the Sergeant's Mess of the Royal Australian Army Service Corps at Nui Dat, South Vietnam with his rifle after an all-day drinking session.

By the 1880s, swagmen featured in many exhibitions, including the works of Tom Roberts, Walter Withers, Arthur Streeton, Frederick McCubbin, and other artists associated with the Melbourne-based Heidelberg School, which is customarily held to be the first distinctly Australian movement in Western art and the " golden age of national idealism " in Australian painting.

Frederick Edmund Emery, nick Fred, ( 27 August 1925 – 10 April 1997 ) was an Australian psychologist.

( Colonel Gibbes ' grandson, Frederick Jamison Gibbes, entered the NSW Parliament in the 1880s ; and although he often disagreed with Parkes on matters of economic policy, he did by and large support Parkes ' push for the federation of the rival Australian colonies into an homogenous nation.

Frederick Claude Vivian Lane ( 2 February 1880 – 14 May 1969 ) was an Australian swimmer.

Frederick John " Fred " Nile ( born 15 September 1934 ) is an Australian politician and clergyman.

Artists such as Arthur Streeton, Frederick McCubbin and Tom Roberts applied themselves to recreating in their art a truer sense of light and colour as seen in Australian landscape.

Australian Sydney Cavill ( 1881 – 1945 ), son of the " swimming professor " Frederick Cavill, was 220 yards amateur champion of Australia at the age of 16 and is credited as the originator of the butterfly stroke.

He is the great, great grandson of Frederick George Waterhouse, first curator of the South Australian Institute Museum, and naturalist of the John McDouall Stuart Expedition 1861-1862.

On 28 March, Adeang ordered Keke and another minister, Frederick Pitcher, to vacate their seats in Parliament, since they both hold dual Nauruan and Australian citizenship.