On September 14, 2007, renowned Australian scientist Alan Trounson was appointed president of California's stem cell agency.

* Einoder, Luke D. and Alastair M. M. Richardson ( 2007 ): Aspects of the Hindlimb Morphology of Some Australian Birds of Prey: A Comparative and Quantitative Study.

It starred the American actor Richard Chamberlain, who was well-known to Australian and world audiences as the eponymous physician in the popular Doctor Kildare TV series, and would later star in the Australian-set major series " The Thorn Birds ".

Birds with a Gondwanan history include the flightless ratites ( the Emu and Southern Cassowary ), megapodes ( the Malleefowl and Australian Brush-turkey ), and a huge group of endemic parrots, order Psittaciformes.

Rod Taylor began his acting career in Australia, appearing in such Australian films as Long John Silver ( 1954 ) before transferring to the United States to become a Hollywood leading man of the 1960s and 70s, with starring roles in The Time Machine ( 1960 ) and The Birds ( 1963 ).

* Birds including the eponymous Black Swan, Silver Gull, Cormorants ( locally referred to as ' shags '), Twenty-eight parrots, Rainbow Lorikeet, Kingfisher, Red-tailed Black Cockatoo, Australian Pelican, Australian Magpie, Heron, Ducks

The bird has also been given the name " Australian Crane ", a term coined in 1865 by well-known ornithological artist John Gould in his Birds of Australia.

* MacDonald JD ( 1987 ) The Illustrated Dictionary of Australian Birds by Common Name, Reed, p40, ISBN 0-7301-0184-3

* Slater P, Slater P and Slater R ( 1995 ) The Slater Field Guide to Australian Birds, Landowne Publishing Pty Ltd, Sydney, NSW, Australia, p50, ISBN 0-947116-99-0

Birds that may be spotted in the park include: Australian Magpies ( Cracticus tibicen ), Golden Whistlers ( Pachycephala pectoralis ), green winged pigeons, grey fantails ( Rhipidura ), kookaburras ( genus Dacelo ), large-billed Scrubwrens ( Sericornis magnirostris ), Spotted Pardalotes ( Pardalotus punctatus ), pied currawongs ( Strepera graculina ), Striated Thornbills ( Acanthiza lineata ) and White-browed Scrubwrens ( Sericornis frontalis ).

* Australian Birds, covering Australia and its territories

* Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic Birds, the HANZAB list for Australia, New Zealand, Antarctica and the surrounding ocean and subantarctic islands.

* Birds Australia, also known as the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union, the leading Australian NGO for birds, birding, ornithology and conservation

* The Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic Birds ( HANZAB ), the pre-eminent scientific reference, in seven volumes.

* The New Atlas of Australian Birds, an extensive detailed survey of Australian bird distributions.

* The Action Plan for Australian Birds 2000, Garnett, Stephen T .; & Crowley, Gabriel M., Environment Australia, Canberra, 2000 ISBN 0-642-54683-5, a comprehensive survey of the conservation status of Australian species, with costed conservation and recovery strategies.

* Reader's Digest Complete Book of Australian Birds was once the standard general reference, but is now somewhat dated.

* Slater: The Slater Field Guide to Australian Birds, Slater P, Slater P and Slater R, 2009 revised edition

* Morcombe: Field Guide to Australian Birds, Morcombe, M, 2nd edition 2003, and complete compact edition 2004

* Action Plan for Australian Birds 2000-PDF download

* The Australian / Vogel Literary Award: Brian Castro, Birds of Passage ; Nigel Krauth, Matilda, My Darling

* Murray, P. F. & Vickers-Rich, P. ( 2004 ) Magnificent Mihirungs: The Colossal Flightless Birds of the Australian Dreamtime.

* Emeritus, Australian Concise Oxford Dictionary ( 3rd edition ), 1997.

* Trounsen and Trounsen, " Australian Birds: A Concise Photographic Field Guide, Cameron House.

* Butterworths Concise Australian Legal Dictionary, 2nd edition ( 2002 ).

* The Australian Concise Oxford Dictionary 2004, 4th edn, Oxford University Press, South Melbourne.

* Trounsen and Trounsen, " Australian Birds: A Concise Photographic Field Guide, Cameron House.

* Trounsen and Trounsen, " Australian Birds: A Concise Photographic Field Guide, Cameron House.

* Trounsen and Trounsen, " Australian Birds: A Concise Photographic Field Guide, Cameron House.

" Over the next decade a core of photographer artists, including Harold Cazneaux, Frank Hurley, Cecil Bostock, Henri Mallard, Rose Simmonds and Olive Cotton, exhibited pictorial works at salons and exhibitions across the country and published their photos in the Australian Photographic Journal and the Australasian Photo-Review.

National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife, Australian Museum / Angus and Robertson, Sydney.

The following month Wilkins was promoted to Captain and became officer commanding No. 3 ( Photographic ) Sub-section of the Australian war records unit.

Angus and Robertson, and the National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife, Sydney.

Australian Photographic Portrait Prize was a photographic art prize held at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in conjunction with the Archibald Prize, Wynne Prize and Sulman Prize.

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, is currently the only living holder of the rank of Field Marshal in the Australian Army.

* William Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood, General, British Army ( Field Marshal, Australian Army )

In the early 1970s, the Australian archaeologist Karl Kromer excavated a mound in the South Field of the plateau.

* 1950 – Sir Thomas Blamey becomes the only Australian-born Field Marshal in Australian history.

Cade was appointed captain, Australian Army Medical Corps, A. I. F., on 1 July 1940 and posted to the 2nd / 9th Field Ambulance.

* 1963 – Anthony Field, Australian musician, songwriter, producer, and actor ( The Cockroaches and The Wiggles )

On 26 November 2009, Williams proposed to Ayda Field live on the Australian radio channel 2dayfm in an interview on the Kyle and Jackie O Show.

In Desert Rats ( 1953 ), Burton plays a young English captain in the North African campaign during World War II who takes charge of a hopelessly out-numbered Australian unit against the indomitable Field Marshal Erwin Rommel ( James Mason ).

Fraser and the Liberal-CP senators ... lacked the numbers to defer the Budget until the arrival in the Senate of Albert Patrick Field, whose arrival was not due to any decision by the Australian voters but to a decision by one of the rulers, the Whitlam-hating Bjelke-Petersen ... Whitlam for his part had decided even before the Budget was deferred to embark upon the bold, Cromwellian project of changing the Australian Constitution, not through the vote of the mass electorate ... but through prodigious personal exertions backed by the support of his parliamentary followers.

* Emu Field, South Australia ( alternatively known as Emu or Emu Junction ), site of the first atomic weapons test on the Australian mainland

" Snowy " Evans, a Lewis machine gunner with the 53rd Battery, 14th Field Artillery Brigade, Royal Australian Artillery is likely to have killed von Richthofen.

* Detachment 2 / 1 Australian Field Butchery Company

* Detachment 8 Australian Field Baker

* Detachment 19 Australian Field Bakery

* Detachment 21 Australian Field Bakery ( AIF )

In late 2008, former Australian Deputy Prime Minister Tim Fischer began campaigning for the Australian Parliament to posthumously promote Monash to Field Marshal, as the US Congress did to General of the Armies George Washington.

* Christopher Field, Western Australian Ombudsman

In 1917, while visiting the Western Front as an unofficial war correspondent, Murdoch attempted to conduct negotiations with Field Marshal Douglas Haig in support of the Australian government's policy of the A. I. F.

* Allen, Midgley & Allen, Field Guide to the Freshwater Fishes of Australia, Western Australian Museum, 2002.