In 1985, parts of the Australian telemovie My Brother Tom ( based on the book by James Aldridge ) was filmed in Echuca.

* King Solomon's Mines ( 1986 telemovie ), an Australian animated film from the Burbank studios

She also appeared in the 1994 telemovie of Police Rescue as a teacher taken hostage by armed bandits, and in the 50-minute drama Parklands ( 1996 ), which received a limited release in Australian cinemas.

* BlackJack ( telemovie ), a series of Australian telemovies starring Colin Friels

Vince Colosimo was also in this telemovie, which was supported by the Australian Film Finance Corporation.

In July 2010, Roxburgh played former Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke in a telemovie based on Hawke's life.

The film was also noted for its similarities to the Australian telemovie The Plumber ( 1979 ), which was written and directed by Peter Weir, who would later direct Carrey in The Truman Show ( 1998 ).

** Mabo ( film ), an Australian telemovie about Eddie Mabo's battle for Aboriginal land title rights

Panic at Rock Island, an Australian telemovie, was filmed on the island in 2010.

* " Crying " is featured near the start of the first of the Australian telemovie trilogy Small Claims starring Rebecca Gibney and Claudia Karvan.

In 2008, he appeared in Australian telemovie Valentine's Day for the ABC and had a guest appearance in " Rush " for the Ten Network.

*: Martin Place and the bar Hotel Chambers ( located on the Elizabeth Street corner ) were prominently featured in the Australian telemovie Go Big.

* Lynch appeared in Emerald Falls, an Australian Channel Ten telemovie, shot partly in the Blue Mountains ( New South Wales ).

In 2009, Lara was made an honorary Member of the Order of Australia ( AM ) for services to West Indian and Australian cricket.

This connection was first formally made by Dr George Bennett of the Australian Museum in 1871, but in the early 1990s, palaeontologist Pat Vickers-Rich and geologist Neil Archbold also cautiously suggested that Aboriginal legends " perhaps had stemmed from an acquaintance with prehistoric bones or even living prehistoric animals themselves ...

NetAlert, the software made available free of charge by the Australian government, was allegedly cracked by a 16 year old student, Tom Wood, less than a week after its release in August 2007.

Australian Standards: AS1288 and AS2208 require glass doors to be made from laminated or toughened glass.

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

Meanwhile, 50th RTR supporting the Australians was having difficulty locating the minefield gaps made by Australian 2 / 24th Battalion.

In 2005, Lineker was sued for defamation by Australian footballer Harry Kewell over comments Lineker had made writing in his column in the Sunday Telegraph about Kewell's transfer from Leeds United to Liverpool.

As a result of decisions made at the 1926 Imperial Conference, the Governor-General ceased to be the diplomatic representative of the British Government, and the British right of supervision over Australian affairs was abolished.

Hoover was made a partner in Bewick, Moreing & Co. on December 18, 1901 and assumed responsibility for various Australian operations and investments.

In 1967 the Holt government made the historic decision not to depreciate the Australian dollar in line with Britain's depreciation of the pound sterling, a custom that Australia had previously always followed, but this decision created considerable dissent within the Coalition ; Country Party leader John McEwen was particularly angered by the move — he saw it as a threat to Australia's balance of payments and feared that it would lead to increased production costs for primary industry.

In April 2007, citing the reduced sentence for the Australian prisoner David Matthew Hicks, Lindh's attorneys made a public plea for a Presidential commutation to lower his 20-year sentence.

In February 2006, the Mauritanian government denounced amendments to an oil contract made by former leader Maaouiya Ould Taya with Woodside Petroleum, an Australian company.

This surrender was accepted by the brigadier J. R. Stevenson, who represented Lieutenant General Sturdee, the commander of the First Australian Army, on board the warship HMAS Diamantina Arrangements were made to repatriate from Chuuk the 737 Nauruans who survived Japanese captivity there.

NeoGeo games were made available on the Australian and European Virtual Console on October 5, and North American Virtual Console on October 8.

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.

In 1939, Australian scientist Howard Florey ( later Baron Florey ) and a team of researchers ( Ernst Boris Chain, Arthur Duncan Gardner, Norman Heatley, M. Jennings, J. Orr-Ewing and G. Sanders ) at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford made significant progress in showing the in vivo bactericidal action of penicillin.

During the Pacific War, Papua was governed by an Australian military administration from Port Moresby, where General Douglas MacArthur occasionally made his headquarters.

Recently, the Australian company Absolute Organic has also released chips made from beetroot.

One third of all Australian prisoners were captured on Gallipoli including the crew of the submarine AE2 which made a passage through the Dardanelles in 1915.

FRACP ), elected him to Honorary Fellowships, and the Australian Academy of Science, for which he supported its establishment in 1954, made him a fellow ( FAAS ) in 1958.

After his death the Australian Taxation Office audited his estate, and although it made no finding of criminality, it determined that a substantial part of it came from undisclosed income derived from sources other than shares or gambling.

He made 140, in a seventh-wicket partnership of 255 in just 176 minutes, an Australian record that still stands.

A significant proportion of Australian produced Science Fiction programmes are made for the teens / young Adults market, including The Girl from Tomorrow, the long-running Mr. Squiggle, Halfway Across the Galaxy and Turn Left, Ocean Girl, Crash Zone, Watch This space, and Spellbinder.

During a visit to Australia in 1958, a similar special was made for the Australian Broadcasting Commission, " The Gladys Half-Hour ", which also featured local actors Ray Barrett, and John Bluthal, who would appear in several later Milligan projects.

* 1922 – Geoffrey Dutton, Australian author and historian ( d. 1998 )

A. Santamaria, Australian journalist and activist ( d. 1998 )

* 1998 – The Australian Cricket Board's cover-up of Shane Warne and Mark Waugh's involvement with bookmakers is revealed.

* 1998 – Bindi Irwin, Australian television host, actress, and singer

* 1937 – John Lions, Australian computer scientist ( d. 1998 )

* Elizabeth Kata ( 1912 – 1998 ), Australian writer

A video retrospective from the ABC on one of Australia's largest disputes in recent years, the 1998 Australian waterfront dispute.

* Bastard Boys, a 2007 dramatisation of the 1998 Australian waterfront dispute.

Page and Plant released another album called Walking into Clarksdale in 1998, featuring all new material, but after disappointing sales the partnership dissolved before a planned Australian tour.

According to the Good Universities Guide to Australian universities, starting salaries for Macquarie graduates have been ranked as the highest in Australia for ten consecutive years ( 1998 – 2007 ) and in 2009, the university received 5 star ratings in six different performance categories including non-government earnings, staff qualifications and toughness of admissions.

* 1998 – Ivan Dougherty, Australian World War II Army Major General ( b. 1907 )

Category: Delegates to the 1998 Australian Constitutional Convention

* Tommy J. Smith, Australian trainer ( d. 1998 )

Similarities between Gaelic football and Australian rules football have allowed the development of international rules football, a hybrid sport, and a series of Test matches has been held annually since 1998, with the exception of the cancelled 2007 edition.

* Arthur Clues ( 1924 – 1998 ), Australian rugby league footballer

He won three further club best and fairests, was a five time club leading goal kicker, All Australian Centre Half Forward seven times, including four times as captain and once as vice-captain, and he was named MVP by the Players ' Association twice, in 1995 and 1998.

* Herman J, Reporting on suicide Australian Press Council news, February 1998

Davenport started 1998 by reaching the singles semifinals of the Australian Open, which was her second consecutive Grand Slam singles semifinal.

In doubles, Davenport reached the final of the 1998 Australian Open with Natasha Zvereva, where they lost to the wildcard team of Hingis and Mirjana Lučić.

The Australian Geographic book of the Canning Stock Route, Terry Hills, NSW: Australian Geographic Pty Ltd, 1998.

In the Australian state of Queensland, Ombudsman Fred Albietz ruled in 1998 that public schools may not require uniforms.

The concept of a parallel body to expedite Parliamentary business, based on the Australian Federation Chamber, was mentioned in a 1998 British House of Commons report, which led to the creation of that body's parallel chamber Westminster Hall.

Australia – defining a model for the new millennium, London: University of London, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, Sir Robert Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, 1998.