The Museum of Contemporary Art ( MCA ) at West Circular Quay is Australia's foremost contemporary art museum, featuring a mixture of exhibitions from the museum's permanent collection and visiting shows by major international artists.

The World Wars profoundly altered Australia's sense of identity-with World War I introducing the ANZAC legend, and World War II seeing a reorientation from Britain to the United States as the nation's foremost major ally.

The Sydney Theatre Company was founded 1978 becoming one of Australia's foremost theatre companies.

The English selectors were searching for possible captains for the 1932 – 33 tour of Australia, with Bradman and Australia's strong batting line up foremost in their minds.

Mortification was described by Australian rock music historian, Ian McFarlane in his Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop in 1999: " During the early 1990s, Mortification became internationally known as Australia's foremost Christian-inspired death metal band.

Light's decision on Adelaide's location was initially unpopular among the settlers, foremost with South Australia's first governor, John Hindmarsh, but Light and the resident commissioner James Hurtle Fisher were empowered to decide the location of the colonies first city.

Sharp has made contributions to Australian and international culture since the early 1960s, and is hailed as Australia's foremost pop artist.

James Timothy Gleeson ( 22 November 1915 – 20 October 2008 ) was one of Australia's foremost artists.

The description ' bridgehead economy ' was used by one of Australia's foremost economic historians, N. G. Butlin to refer to the earliest decades of British occupation when the colony was essentially a penal institution.

" Combined with a reputation as one of Australia's most solid and diversely experienced drummers ( The Church, The Divinyls, Rose Tattoo, Dragon, The Venetians, to name a few ), this massive depth of experience makes Tim a ' big picture ' producer in the true ' A & R ' sense of the word.

Holden was critical, saying that Australia's population was not large enough, and that the changes could tarnish the local industry.

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.

* 2001 – Ansett Australia, Australia's first commercial interstate airline, collapses due to increased strain on the international airline industry, leaving 10, 000 people unemployed.

Australia's racing industry is about 9-10 times larger than the New Zealand industry.

Fishing and aquaculture constitute Australia's fifth most valuable agricultural industry after wool, beef, wheat and dairy.

Adopting strong protectionist policies, One Nation advocated the restoration of import tariffs, a revival of Australia's manufacturing industry, and an increase in support for small business and the rural sector.

Fishing and aquaculture constitute Australia's fifth most valuable agricultural industry after wool, beef, wheat and dairy.

In the financial year 2010 / 11, the tourism industry represented 2. 5 % of Australia's GDP at a value of approximately A $ 35 billion to the national economy.

The practice continued during the 19th and 20th centuries and made a considerable contribution to Australia's pastoral industry.

In 1993, Toyoda was appointed an honorary Companion of the Order of Australia ( AC ), Australia's highest civilian honour, " for eminent service to Australian / Japanese relations, particularly the Australian automotive industry ".

Tamworth is now best known as the centre of Australia's country music industry and the home of the Australian Equine and Livestock Events Centre ( AELEC ) and Tamworth Regional Entertainment Centre ( TREC ).

On 24 August 2011, the Gillard Government appointed Beattie as Australia's first Resources Sector Supplier Envoy charged with promoting a Buy Australian at Home and Abroad program for supplying products to the Australian resources industry.

His work resulted in significant improvements in both the quality and crop yields of Australia's national wheat harvest, a contribution for which he earned the title ' father of the Australian wheat industry '.

Beresford returned to Australia in 1970 to make his first feature film, The Adventures of Barry McKenzie, and spent the next 10 years working in Australia's developing film industry.

* A Fine Yarn: Innovations in Australia's Wool Industry: examined the fine wool industry in Australia today, while recognising the importance of wool in Australia's social and economic history ( July-November 2009 )

A controversial paper to Australia's peak newspaper industry body PANPA ( Pacific Area Newspaper Publishers Association ) by Professor John Henningham (" Journalism sold short in media courses ") blamed industry lack of interest and university cost-cutting for falling standards in journalism education.

Speaking just after Burstall's death, Williamson said that Burstall " couldn't stomach " Australia's lack of a film industry.

Until the mid 20th century, Grenache was Australia's most widely planted red wine grape variety with significant plantings in the vast Riverland region where it was vital component in the fortified " port-style " wines of the early Australian industry.

It was well known that his shaved head was a statement to artists like Midnight Oil, who during their career and being one of Australia's favourite bands, never appeared on the show because they often regarded Countdown as too industry / hit driven and appealed only to a young teenage audience.

( 1994 ) Australia's Age of Iron, South Melbourne: Oxford University Press in association with Sydney University Press, ISBN 0-424-00158-6

Thus, long before their numbers swelled and their own association was formed, Emery became one of Australia's outstanding Independent Scholars.

To address handling concerns with the EF, improvements were made to the rear suspension and steering which would largely be attributed to Ford Australia's association with Tickford.

* Knox Basketball Inc, a basketball association in Melbourne, Australia which is arguably Australia's largest with more than 1, 000 teams

* Australia's alternative technology association

On 8 August 1907 at Bateman's Crystal Hotel on George Street, a meeting resolved to form the New South Wales Rugby Football League, Australia's first professional rugby football association and predecessor to the modern-day National Rugby League.

Perth Glory Football Club is a professional association football club in Perth, Western Australia, Australia, competing in Australia's top soccer competition the A-League.

This makes it Australia's oldest national birding association.

In 2005, Australia's association football governing body changed its name from soccer to football to align with the general international usage of the term.

Given Mill's known pacifist sympathies and his association with ( although he was not a member of ) the Australia First Movement, it was unsurprising that he was detained without trial for suspicion of placing Australia's interests before those of the Empire, and for offering his legal services to Australia First members on 10 March 1942.

In Parliament in March 1944 Robert Menzies, then leader of the opposition, later Australia's longest-serving Prime Minister, said " I happen to know him quite well ..... he was hauled out of his home, imprisoned and put in an internment camp ..... his association, so I am informed, with the Australia First Movement amounted to this: some man who had secured appointment with the movement wrote to him and asked him to subscribe, and he forward 10s 6d.

It is responsible for producing Australia's premier film and television awards, the annual AFI Awards.

Vizard studied Law and Philosophy at the University of Melbourne ; he practiced as a lawyer and was a partner in a City Law firm ; he has written for and produced various Logie and AFI award winning television show-from Fast Forward to Kangaroo Palace ; he has hosted his own 5 night a week national Tonight Show, Tonight Live With Steve Vizard for which he was three times nominated for and won a Gold Logie in 1991 ; he has interviewed over two thousand major names, from Audrey Hepburn, Oliver Stone, Mel Gibson, Robin Williams, Sir Bob Geldof, Peter Allen, Patrick Swayze, Bob Hope, Sir Peter Ustinov, Shirley MacLaine, Michael Parkinson, Spike Milligan, Edward de Bono, Robert Ludlum, Sir Harry Secombe, and Prime Ministers and politicians ; he founded one of Australia ’ s largest independent Production houses, Artist Services, which was subsequently sold to Granada ; he has been the President of the National Gallery of Victoria and the Chairman of the Victorian Major Events Company, securing events such as the World Cycling Champioships and the World Gymnastics Championships ; he has appeared on the cover of Time and Rolling Stone ; he was an elected representative to the 1999 Constitutional Convention ; he was Father of the Year in 2001 ; he was embroiled in three highly publicised legal proceedings, involving the theft of moneys by his former accountant from the Vizard Companies, and Vizard's civil penalty in 2005 for breaching directors duties ; he has broadcast on the Austereo, Fairfax and Macquarie Radio Networks and in 2011 was nominated for best Talkback Presenter in Australia ; he was Chairman of the World Swimming Championships ; and he has written several books ranging on topics ranging from humour to Australia's population policy.