Great Australian players in the early years included batsmen Border, Boon, Taylor and Steve Waugh.

Wool production provided an early basis for the South Australian economy.

* The Atlantics, an Australian surf rock band formed in the early 1960s

Originating from the early intercolonial matches, these tests continued well after Federation of Australia in 1901 and the Australian Football Council co-ordinated regular interstate carnivals.

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the game spread with the Australian Diaspora to areas such as New Zealand and South Africa ; however this growth went into rapid decline following World War I.

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 ...

In the early 1870s Darwin felt the effects of a gold rush at Pine Creek after employees of the Australian Overland Telegraph Line found gold while digging holes for telegraph poles.

Particularly well known species include the frog Oxyglossus pusillus ( Owen ) of the Eocene of India and the toothed frog Indobatrachus, an early lineage of modern frogs, which is now placed in the Australian family Myobatrachidae.

Then in the early 1980s there were major changes in the Australian brewing industry, including the merger of Castlemaine ( Brisbane ), Swan ( Perth ) and Toohey's ( Sydney ) into a national brewing group, as a result of acquisitions by Perth entrepreneur Alan Bond.

In the early hours of 17 July, the Australian 24th Brigade — supported by 44th Royal Tank Regiment (" RTR ") and strong fighter cover from the air — assaulted Miteirya ridge ( known as " Ruin ridge " to the Australians ).

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

In the early 19th century some pioneering European settlers began occupying the land, for timber-cutting ( mainly ironbark and Australian red cedar ), lime production and grazing.

Supporters of Unions, such as the ACTU or Australian Labor Party, often credit trade unions with leading the labour movement in the early 20th century, which generally sought to end child labour practices, improve worker safety, increase wages for both union workers and non-union workers, raise the entire society's standard of living, reduce the hours in a work week, provide public education for children, and bring other benefits to working-class families.

Fraser developed an early reputation as an Australian liberal, and he had a long wait for ministerial preferment.

Later that year, in the context of a series of ministerial scandals that were rocking the Whitlam government, Fraser opted to use the Coalition opposition Senate numbers to delay the government's budget bills with the objective of achieving an early election ( see 1975 Australian constitutional crisis ).

In Australia, terrestrial placental mammals disappeared early in the Cenozoic ( their most recent known fossils being 55 million year old teeth resembling those of condylarths ) for reasons that are not clear, allowing marsupials to dominate the Australian ecosystem.

The hunger strike was concluded in early January 2004 when an Australian medical team agreed to visit the island.

* 1975 – Australian constitutional crisis of 1975: Australian Governor-General Sir John Kerr dismisses the government of Gough Whitlam, appoints Malcolm Fraser as caretaker Prime Minister and announces a general election to be held in early December.

In early September 1942 Japanese marines attacked a strategic Royal Australian Air Force base at Milne Bay, near the eastern tip of Papua.

Many city and suburban pubs gained renown for their support of live music, and many prominent Australian bands — including AC / DC, Cold Chisel, The Angels and The Dingoes — cut their teeth at these venues in the early days of their careers.

Stylistically, UK and Australian soap operas, which are usually produced for early evening timeslots, fall somewhere in-between US daytime and evening soap operas.

The majority of Australian television soap operas are produced for early evening or evening timeslots.

In these Australian states and territories, half-caste institutions ( both government and missionary ) were established in the early decades of the 20th century for the reception of these separated children.

The group also picked up a cult following in Australia thanks to the support of the Sydney rock radio station 2JJ ( now Triple-J ) and the nationally broadcast weekly music TV show Countdown, which screened all of the band's early videos ( beginning with their first Australian single release-" This Is Pop "); thanks to this interest, the group made two well-received tours there in 1979 and 1980.

As I have indicated above, I base this feeling on a belief that current weakness in the market for consumer durable goods may continue through the early months of the year, but will give way to a sufficiently strong recovery later on to bring the full-year figures close to those of 1960 ; ;

It is not uncommon for long queues to form early in the morning of 26 December, hours before the opening of shops holding the big sales, especially at big-box consumer electronics retailers.

Commodore soon had a profitable calculator line and was one of the more popular brands in the early 1970s, producing both consumer as well as scientific / programmable calculators.

Since the early 2000s most consumer hard drive capacities are grouped in certain size classes measured in gigabytes.

Since the principal consumer application is for Internet access, ISDN was mostly superseded by DSL in the early 21st century.

The Macintosh project started in early 1979 with Jef Raskin, who envisioned an easy-to-use, low-cost computer for the average consumer.

The term did not become widely known and used, however, until the early 1980s, essentially synonymous with the introduction of the IBM PC and numerous related hardware and software products to the consumer market.

One of the early recipients of this processor was-ill fated Psion netBook and it's more consumer oriented sibling Psion Series 7.

In the early 1990s, the consumer market was divided into two main categories, the ultra-high-end with a budget at US $ 100, 000 and the mass market with budgets at US $ 2, 000 to US $ 35, 000.

The field represents many disciplines including consumer science, nutrition, food preparation, parenting, early childhood education, family economics and resource management, human development, interior design, textiles, apparel design, as well as other related subjects.

While the supply shortages of consumer goods characteristic of the 1980s went away ( see Consumer goods in the Soviet Union ), this was not only related to the opening of Russia's market to imports in the early 1990s but also to the impoverishment of the Russian people in the 1990s.

Rhubarb grown in hothouses ( heated greenhouses ) is called hothouse rhubarb, and is typically made available at consumer markets in early spring, before outdoor cultivated rhubarb is available.

Sir Clive Marles Sinclair ( born 30 July 1940 ) is an English entrepreneur and inventor, most commonly known for his work in consumer electronics in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

He and his staff were responsible for many early technical innovations, including the first consumer all-electronic television set in 1938.

Going back to the early 1980s, Brookfield has been radically transformed from a colonial New England town to a major shopping and consumer goods destination.

Since the early 1990s, cognac consumption has seen a significant transformation in its American consumer base from a predominantly older, affluent white demographic to younger, urban, and black consumers.

By the early 2000s, the number of consumer electronic devices in most homes greatly increased, along with the number of remotes to control those devices.

“ By the early 1960s, domestic industry supplied 95 per cent of Mexico ’ s and 98 per cent of Brazil ’ s consumer goods.

Afocal photography was common with early 20th century consumer level cameras, since many models had non-removable lenses.

In early 1990, Aldus bought Silicon Beach Software, acquiring a number of consumer titles for the Macintosh, including SuperPaint, Digital Darkroom, SuperCard, Super3D, and Personal Press ( later renamed Adobe Home Publisher ).

The standard deals with all aspects of the supply chain of cosmetic products, from the early delivery of raw materials and components until the shipment of the final product to the consumer.

By 1979, even the last of these had converted to color and by the early 1980s B & W sets had been pushed into niche markets, notably low-power uses, small portable sets, or use as video monitor screens in lower-cost consumer equipment, in the television production and post-production industry.

He started in its consumer platforms division in 1992, managing the production of Windows CE for hand-held and automotive systems and early console games.

Early station wagons evolved from trucks and were viewed as commercial vehicles ( along with vans and pickup trucks ), not consumer automobiles — with the framing of the early station wagons left unsheathed because of the commercial nature of the vehicles.

Engle continued, “ As part of that goal, we ’ ve made a strategic decision to target initially the many millions of fleet vehicles in operation in the U. S. market … These fleets can jumpstart vehicle electrification in America ’ s cities and help push the industry past early adopters into mainstream consumer markets .”