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.

In 1978, the term Barassi Line was used to describe the dichotomy that existed in Australia's football culture, where Australian Football was most popular in all states bar New South Wales and Queensland.

S. A. Hamed Hosseini ( an Australian sociologist and expert in global social movement studies ), argues that the term anti-globalization can be ideal-typically used only to refer to only one ideological vision he detects alongside three other visions ( the anti-globalist, the alter-globalist and the alter-globalization ).

" The Never-Never " is a term referring to remoter parts of the Australian outback.

As with Japanese suburban railways or Germany's and Switzerland's S-Bahns, these Australian networks have far more frequent services and far higher ridership per capita than US ' commuter rail ' in the usual sense of the term.

In some historical cases the term machine carbine was the official title for sub-machine guns, such as the British Sten and Australian Owen guns.

The term also served when six Australian colonies federated to form the Commonwealth of Australia in 1901.

In an Australian context, the term " Commonwealth " ( capitalised ) thus refers to the federal government and " Commonwealth of Australia " is the official name of the country.

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

A more recent Australian invention is the term " reginalds " to describe underpants ( referred to as " undies " in Australian slang ), from " Reg Grundies " after Reg Grundy, the Australian media tycoon.

In his 1995 book Darwinian Fairytales, Australian philosopher David Stove used the term " Darwinism " in a different sense than the above examples.

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 ".

Although the term " tackle " is used in Australian Rules to exclusively describe wrapping, holding or wrestling a player in possession, there are also several other ways of contesting possession in Australian rules that other sports would describe as a " tackle " and that also involve a degree of contact.

* A term in Australian rules football

Sir William McKell ( 1947 – 53 ) was knighted during his term of office, but all the other governors-general until 1989 were already either peers or knights ; the only Australian peer was Lord Casey ( 1965 – 69 ).

In 1930, King George V and the Australian Prime Minister James Scullin discussed the appointment of a new governor-general to replace Lord Stonehaven, whose term was coming to an end.

Their children, the first Irish Australians in the sense we understand the term, played a definitive role in shaping Australian history, society and culture.

Historian Patrick O ' Farrell noted in The Irish in Australia ( 1987 ) that the term " Australia first " became " what amounted to the Australian Irish Catholic slogan ".

* Australian term for Electric Kettle.

However, few linguists who now study Khoisan languages accept their unity, and the name " Khoisan " is used by them as a term of convenience without any implication of linguistic validity, much as " Papuan " and " Australian " are.

The inflammatory term " bodyline " was coined and perpetuated by the Australian press ( see below ).

The term opossums is properly used to refer to the American species ( though possum is a common diminutive ), while similar Australian species are properly called possums.

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 String Academy, for string players

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 ).

While they were in Australia Banks, the Swedish botanist Daniel Solander and the Finnish botanist Dr. Herman Spöring Jr. made the first major collection of Australian flora, describing many species new to science.

The NGV's Australian art collection encompasses Indigenous ( Australian Aboriginal ) art, Australian colonial painting, Australian Impressionist painting, 20th century, modern and contemporary Australian art.

In the late 19th and early 20th century, domestic art began to thrive ( particularly with the " Heidelberg School " in what was then an outer suburb of Melbourne ) and the NGV was well-placed to add an excellent collection of key Australian works, which trace the metamorphosis of imported European styles into distinctively Australian art.

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.

In addition to the Australian collections, international collection areas include European painting ( historical and modern ), fashion and textiles, photography, prints and drawings, Asian art, decorative arts, Mesoamerican art, Pacific art, sculpture, antiquities, and contemporary art.

During its early western history, Australia was a collection of British colonies, and Australian folk music and bush ballads such as Waltzing Matilda were heavily influenced by Anglo-Celtic traditions, while classical forms were derived from those of Europe.

The Art Gallery of New South Wales ( AGNSW ), alongside major collections of Australian colonial and 20th century art and some works by European masters, has the largest and most important collection of Aboriginal art anywhere in the world.

For example, household surveys conducted by the Australian Bureau of Statistics begin by dividing metropolitan regions into ' collection districts ', and selecting some of these collection districts ( first stage ).

A complete orchestral music collection has been recorded by German and Australian orchestras, all released on the CPO label, recordings all conducted by Werner Andreas Albert.

The Pro Hart Gallery and Sculpture Park contains a large collection of the noted Australian artist Kevin ' Pro ' Hart's paintings and sculptures, as well as many artistic works of others that Hart collected during his lifetime.

Additionally the city is the main location of the United States ' largest independent film festival, the Sundance Film Festival, home of the United States Ski Team, training center for members of the Australian Freestyle Ski Team, the largest collection of factory outlet stores in northern Utah, the 2002 Olympic bobsled / skeleton / luge track at the Utah Olympic Park, and golf courses.

Australia has three architectural listings on UNESCO's World Heritage list: Australian Convict Sites ( comprising a collection of separate sites around Australia, including Hyde Park Barracks in Sydney, Port Arthur in Tasmania, and Fremantle Prison in Western Australia ); the Sydney Opera House ; and the Royal Exhibition Building in Melbourne.

The National Film and Sound Archive in Australia holds the Cinesound Movietone Australian Newsreel Collection, a comprehensive collection of 4, 000 newsreel films and documentaries representing news stories covering all major events

Tom Shapcott, reviewing With Love and Fury, her posthumous collection of selected letters published in 2007, comments that her letter on this topic to the Australian Prime Minister John Howard was " almost brutal in its scorn ".

In March 2008, the Australian Computer Museum Society was seeking alternate storage, or risk its collection including important components of SILLIAC being scrapped.

* The QUT Art Museum houses the university's art collection, which focuses on contemporary Australian art, particularly paintings, prints, and ceramics.

A notable collection is that of the Royal Australian Armoured Corps Memorial and Tank Museum, at Puckapunyal, Australia, which has five Matilda IIs on display.

* The West Australian poet and author Hal Gibson Pateshall Colebatch ( whose father, Sir Hal Colebatch was the first Chairman of the Rottnest Island Board ), has written many poems about Rottnest, especially in his collection The Light River ( Connor Court publishers, 2007 ).

Disc 1 also appears in a collection of Australian movies, Ozploitation: Volume 4.