* 1999 – A severe hailstorm strikes Sydney, Australia causing A $ 2. 3 billion in insured damages, the most costly natural disaster in Australian history.

In 2010, 183 million transactions, worth A $ 12 billion, were made using Australian EFTPOS terminals per month.

This has reportedly added A $ 5. 2 billion to the Australian economy ; exports account for about A $ 450 million alone.

* Disposals of bulk chemicals businesses at that time included the sale of its Australian subsidiary, ICI Australia, for £ 1bn in 1997, and of its polyester chemicals business to DuPont for $ 3 billion also in 1997.

Valued at A $ 760 million, the program was to tackle crime and corruption in PNG by sending 200 Australian police to Port Moresby and installing 40 Australian officials within the national bureaucracy.

In T1, the government sold one third of its shares in Telstra for A $ 14 billion and publicly listed the company on the Australian Stock Exchange.

Additionally, Australia is Vanuatu's main source of foreign aid, with the Australian providing A $ 66 million ( US $ 70. 4 million ) in 2010-11.

* February 19 – Poseidon bubble: shares in Australian nickel mining company Poseidon NL, which stood at $ 0. 80 in September 1969, peak at around $ 280 before the speculative bubble bursts.

According to the most recently available figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, the average income of the Albury area is $ 36K per year, below the $ 42K average for the state of New South Wales.

Banks also appeared on the Australian currency paper $ 5 dollar note before it was replaced by the later polymer currency.

In January 2006, Skyway Concession Company, a joint venture between the Australian Macquarie Infrastructure Group and Spanish Cintra Concesiones de Infraestructuras de Transporte S. A., paid the City $ 1. 83 billion for rights to operate the Chicago Skyway and collect tolls for 99 years.

Australian $ 50 note in circulation 1973 – 95

Florey's portrait appeared on the Australian $ 50 note for 22 years ( 1973 – 95 ), and the suburb of Florey in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, is named after him.

The Australian Wine Industry is the fourth largest exporter of wine around the world, with 760 million litres a year to a large international export market and contributes $ 5. 5 billion per annum to the nation's economy.

Later that year, Warner Music Australia bought out the ailing Festival-Mushroom Records for only $ 12 million and closed the label down but retaining the use of the Mushroom label for a couple of acts like Eskimo Joe and Gabriella Cilmi ( who subsequently got signed to Island Records in the UK, one of the first Australian acts to do so ).

In 2008 The Wiggles were named Business Review Weekly's top-earning Australian entertainers for the fourth year in a row having earned A $ 45 million in 2007.

: Throughout this article, the unqualified term " dollar " and the $ symbol refer to the Australian dollar unless as noted.

In 1996 Telstra recorded the largest profit in Australian corporate history, some $ 3. 8 billion and was partly privatised in November 1997 through sale by the Commonwealth of around 33. 3 % of its shareholding.

That number had climbed to 99 by May 2002 ( with 11 licences surrendered ); the Australian Communications Authority estimated that the benefits to consumers of telecommunications services from competition in 2000 / 1 were between $ 5. 5 billion and $ 12 billion.

In 1908, a Jubilee Australasian Football Carnival was held to celebrate 50 years of Australian Football.

The first single " Better Be Home Soon " peaked at number two on both Australian and New Zealand singles charts and reached top 50 In the US, though the following four singles were less successful.

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.

At the time of the incident, the Australian Quarantine Inspection Services ( AQIS ) required imported dry pet food to be heated or irradiated to a minimum dose of 50 kGy.

About 50 % of the Australian prisoners were light horsemen including 48 missing believed captured on 1 May 1918 in the Jordan Valley.

Elsewhere, the album has made numerous Top 50 debuts, including # 24 on the Australian ARIA Chart and # 22 in Canada.

In 2007, he was featured in an advertising campaign for Australian telecommunications company Telstra's Next G network, appeared in the 50 Cent video " Follow My Lead " as a psychiatrist, and played the title character in the family film Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium.

In 2001 he was named as centre half-forward and captain of North Melbourne's Team of the Century and in 2008 was named as Australian football's greatest ever player as part of a list of the top 50 players of all time, published in the book The Australian Game of Football, which was released by the League to celebrate 150 years of Australian rules football.

In 2008, Carey was named as Australian Football's greatest ever player as part of a list of the top 50 players of all time, published in the book The Australian Game of Football, and placed third in a similar list put together by a panel of football legends in The Age newspaper the same year.

* Grace Bussell, a 16-year-old Australian girl who rescued 50 people from the SS Georgette when it foundered off the West Australian coast in 1876.

All regularly released singles and their chart peak position in U. S. Billboard Hot 100 ( US 100 ), U. S. Top 40 Mainstream ( US Main ), UK Singles Chart ( UK ), Canadian Singles Chart ( CAN ), Australian Singles Chart ( AUS ), New Zealand Top 40 ( NZ ), Irish Top 50 ( IRE ) and in the Belgian UltraTop 50 ( BEL ).

In 1995 AAPT launched a mobile phone service, using Vodafone as its network supplier, acquired a 50 % of Australian ISP connect. com. au Pty Ltd and bought NewsNet ITN.

In August 1987, a unit of Ansett Transport Industries Ltd., an Australian airline company and at the time 50 % owned by News Corporation, purchased a 21. 6 percent stake in America West.

Even after he became reclusive in his declining years his opinion was highly sought, and his status as a national icon was still recognised — more than 50 years after his retirement as a Test player, in 2001, the Australian Prime Minister John Howard called him the " greatest living Australian ".

The Ben Lomond National Park is located in the northeast of the Australian state of Tasmania, about 50 km east of Launceston.

Many of the largest and least athletic diprotodonts ( along with a wide range of other Australian megafauna ) became extinct when humans first arrived in Australia about 50, 000 years ago.

-the case for, Australian Prescriber 2005 ( note: pharmaceutical company conflict of interest statement at the end )

* Background note: " Sorry ": the unfinished business of the Bringing Them Home report, Australian Parliamentary Library, 4 February 2008

1967 Australian paper note obverse featuring Joseph Banks

* A stylised Superb Lyrebird appears in the transparent window of the Australian 100 dollar note.

This is similar to the Australian version, however note the addition of Churchill ( sometimes also " Monty ") due to the ambivalent nature of Afrikaner sentiments to the British.

He was featured on the first ( paper ) Australian ten dollar note issued in 1966 when decimal currency was first introduced into Australia.

The Australian currency, including all coins and the five dollar note, bear an image of the reigning monarch, Queen Elizabeth II.

Also of note are the Australian band The Seekers, who had relocated to England in 1964 and reached # 1 on the UK Singles Chart with " I'll Never Find Another You " in February 1965.

" Banjo " Paterson and " The Man From Snowy River " poem are commemorated on the Australian 10 dollar note

Of particular note are his recent parodies of political matters, especially those concerning former Australian former prime minister John Howard and former American president George W. Bush.

** An Australian five-dollar note

From 1966 to 1994 the Australian twenty dollar note | Australian 20 dollar note featured Hargrave on the reverse.

The territorial call of the Australian Raven is a slow, high ah-ah-aaaah with the last note drawn out.

The call is a deep " korr-korr-korr-korr " with a similarly drawn out last note to the Australian Raven.

He was pictured on the Australian $ 20 paper note ( in circulation from 1966 until 1994, when the $ 20 polymer note was introduced to replace it ) to honour his contribution to aviation and his accomplishments during his life.

* Lamb — 0 permanent incisors ; female or castrate entire male ovine 0 – 12 months ( note that the Australian definition requires 0 permanent incisors, whereas the New Zealand definition allows 0 incisors ' in wear '.

* Australian one-dollar note