* The Atlantics, an Australian surf rock band formed in the early 1960s

Bassist Nick Seymour ( ex-Plays with Marionettes, Bang, The Horla ) is the younger brother of singer-songwriter and guitarist Mark Seymour of the now defunct Australian rock group Hunters & Collectors.

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Category: Australian alternative rock groups

Scott Owen, double bass player for Australian rock band The Living End

Australian player Brian Cain otherwise known as Indiana Phoenix mixes a range of playing techniques with modern equipment developed by playing with traditional acoustic guitar players to heavy rock and metal bands.

* 1952 – Graeme Strachan, Australian rock singer ( Skyhooks ) ( d. 2001 )

* 1949 – Daryl Braithwaite, Australian rock singer ( Sherbet )

The MCG, often referred to by locals as " The G ", has also hosted other major events, including International Rules between the Australian Football League ( AFL ) and Gaelic Athletic Association, international Rugby union, State of Origin series ( rugby league ), FIFA World Cup qualifiers and International Friendly matches, serves as the finish line for the Melbourne Marathon and also major rock concerts.

Men at Work are an Australian rock band who achieved international success in the 1980s.

In 1978, he formed a duo with Ron Strykert, which expanded with the addition of drummer Jerry Speiser and Australian progressive rock keyboard player Greg Sneddon.

Category: Australian rock music groups

* Midnight Oil ( band ), also known as " The Oils ", Australian rock band

The Australian alternative rock band, The Go-Betweens dedicated a track off their 1994 album The Friends of Rachel Worth, When She Sang About Angels in reference to Smith's long time influence on themselves.

A new generation of Australian garage rock bands, inspired mainly by The Stooges and MC5, was coming even closer to the sound that would soon be called " punk ": In Brisbane, The Saints also recalled the raw live sound of the British Pretty Things, who had made a notorious tour of Australia and New Zealand in 1965.

The fledgling Australian and New Zealand rock scenes that formed in wake of Beatlemania were most influenced by British psychedelia, often with bands of first generation immigrants, who returned to further their musical careers.

* Phalanx ( album ), a 1983 live album by Australian surf rock band, Australian Crawl

* Persia ( EP ), 1984 extended-play record by Australian rock band The Church

Pub rock is a style of Australian rock and roll popular throughout the 1970s and 1980s, and still influencing contemporary Australian music today.

In the 1980s, Crowe and friend Billy Dean Cochran formed a band, " Roman Antix ", which later evolved into the Australian rock band 30 Odd Foot of Grunts ( abbreviated to TOFOG ).

* Stella One Eleven, an Australian pop / rock band formed in 1997

* The Aliens ( Australian band ), a 1970s new wave group

* Australian Digital Alliance, copyright advocacy group

Peter Jones and Nick Seymour joined Australian group Deadstar for their second album, Milk, in 1997.

Along with many other members of a group of unusual species collectively called the " Australian megafauna ", it existed from approximately 1. 6 million years ago until extinction some 46, 000 years ago ( through most of the Pleistocene epoch ).

Athol Guy of the Australian folk / pop group The Seekers plays an upright bass.

Shannon Burchell, of the Australian folk-rock group The John Butler Trio, makes extensive use of upright basses, performing extended live solos in songs such as Betterman.

In Britain, the Courage brewing group was acquired in 1986 by Australian businessman John Elliott.

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.

Australian singers Kate Ceberano and Renee Geyer also worked and performed live with the group during this period as guests.

* 1975 – The Balibo Five, a group of Australian television journalists based in the town of Balibo in the then Portuguese Timor ( now East Timor ), are killed by Indonesian troops.

A group of Australian researchers have proposed ( based on a 1997 study in rats ) that oxycodone, unlike morphine ( the effect of which is mediated by μ-opioid receptors ), acts on κ-opioid receptors.

The core view of this group was their disagreement with the former Western Australian Minister for Education ( Ljiljanna Ravlich ) in respect to her commitment to implement OBE.

Elections for the Australian Senate use what is referred to as above-the-line voting where candidates for each party are grouped on the ballot, allowing the voter to vote for the group or for a candidate.

This group includes aboriginal Americans as well as Australian aborigines, Viking Age Norse paganism and New Age spirituality.

Also in 1992, Crowe starred in Romper Stomper, an Australian film which followed the exploits and downfall of a racist skinhead group in blue-collar suburban Melbourne, directed by Geoffrey Wright.

The Seekers are an Australian folk-influenced pop music group which was originally formed in 1962.

They were the first Australian popular music group to achieve major chart and sales success in the UK and the US.

The Seekers were the first Australian pop group to have a top 5 hit in all three countries – Australia, UK and US.

In April 1989, the group re-recorded some of their earlier work for The Seekers Live On, which peaked in the top 30 on the Australian Recording Industry Association ( ARIA ) Albums Chart.

On 7 May, the Nationalist opposition ( hitherto led by John Latham ), the six Labor dissidents ( who had formed the All for Australia League ), and former Prime Minister Billy Hughes ' Australian Party ( a group of former Nationalists who had been expelled for crossing the floor and bringing down Stanley Bruce's Nationalist government in 1929 ), merged to form the UAP.

In terms of ethnicity, the 2001 census data reveals that 77. 5 % of Western Australia's population is of European descent: the largest single group was those reporting English ethnicity, accounting for 733, 783 responses ( 32. 7 %), followed by Australian with 624, 259 ( 27. 8 %), Irish with 171, 667 ( 7. 6 %), Italian with 96, 721 ( 4. 3 %), Scottish with 62, 781 ( 2. 8 %), German with 51, 672 ( 2. 3 %) and Chinese with 48, 894 responses ( 2. 2 %).

The group also picked up a cult following in Australia thanks to the support of the Sydney rock radio station 2JJ ( now Triple-J ) and the nationally broadcast weekly music TV show Countdown, which screened all of the band's early videos ( beginning with their first Australian single release-" This Is Pop "); thanks to this interest, the group made two well-received tours there in 1979 and 1980.

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.