From 1971 to 1981 he was a lecturer at Otago University, with a term as a Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University from 1975 to 1976.

These first summit holders, decimated by withering fire, were relieved at 10. 30pm on 8 August by the Otago Battalion ( NZ ), and the Wellington Mounted Rifle Regiment New Zealand and Australian Division ; who were in turn relieved by 8pm on 9 August by the 6th Battalion, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment and 5th Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment who were massacred and driven off the summit in the early morning of 10 August by Mustafa Kemal ( Atatürk )' s massed attack.

Revues are often common today as student entertainment ( such as The University of Canterbury Law Revue, University of Otago Capping Show, Cambridge Footlights, Durham Revue, The Leeds Tealights, The Oxford Revue, St George's Medics Revue, Sheffield Medics Revue, The Edinburgh Revue, Bristol Revunions, The Wrekin Revue, Medleys, University of Sydney Revues, The Australian National University Law and Arts Revues, University of New South Wales Revues, The Ashbourne College Revue, Rave Revue and the University of Queensland Law and Med Revues ).

Significant European occupation in this region started with the Central Otago Gold Rush in the 1860s, but a French immigrant gold miner, Jean Desire Feraud, soon started planting vines and embarking upon small-scale commercial wine production — even winning medals in Australian wine competitions.

Wakefield had read accounts of Australian settlement while in prison in London for attempting to abduct an heiress, and realised that the eastern colonies suffered from a lack of available labour, due to the practice of giving land grants to all arrivals.

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By 01: 00 on 27 July, 24th Australian Infantry Brigade was to have captured the eastern end of the Miteirya ridge and would exploit toward the north-west.

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

The city's population increased substantially as a result of the Western Australian gold rushes in the late 19th century, largely as a result of emigration from the eastern colonies of Australia.

It was the last of the Australian colonies to agree to join the Federation, and did so only after the other colonies had offered several concessions, including the construction of a transcontinental railway line to Perth ( via Kalgoorlie ) from the eastern states.

Towns providing access to the South Australian edge of the Simpson Desert include Innaminka to the south and Oodnadatta to the southwest ; and from the eastern ( Queensland ) side include Birdsville, Bedourie, Thargomindah and Windorah.

* April 19 – British explorer Captain James Cook and his crew aboard become the first recorded Europeans to encounter the eastern coastline of the Australian continent.

Most of the eastern Australian species survive in uplands, but only a few of the Western Australian species native to the Stirling Ranges-B. solandri, B. oreophila, B. brownii and B. montana-survive at high altitudes.

All Western Australian species are vulnerable, although most eastern species are fairly resistant.

But with a mixed command he was reorganizing and training up on the fly ( Many Australian units were drilling with wooden mockups of rifles in August 1942 ) before MacArthur's people could set up his planned defensive bases on the north coast of eastern Papua, the Japanese Army had moved in and taken both north-coast villages he'd targeted for bases as reinforcements and war materials finally began to trickle in from the States in July — Buna and Gona — several weeks before the forces and transports his staff was organizing could have reached them in strength — at a time when Japan's Navy and Air forces were dominant every where they chose to go.

The good news was some of those allocated forces were already forward at Milne Bay, where he was setting a trap with the veteran mid-East blooded 7th Australian Division, for he fully expected the Japanese would continue trans-coastal landings in an attempt to out flank Port Moresby, bringing ground forces in and around the point, in an end-around past the eastern tip of New Guinea and land on undefended beaches there.

* Alpine Valleys, Victoria, an Australian wine region located in the north eastern section of Victoria

Due to the lack of strong resistance, two Australian Army divisions succeeded in occupying eastern Indonesia.

Australian Catholic University ( ACU ) was opened on 1 January 1991 following the amalgamation of four Catholic tertiary institutions in eastern Australia-the Catholic College of Education Sydney in New South Wales, the Institute of Catholic Education in Victoria, McAuley College of Queensland, and Signadou College of Education in the Australian Capital Territory.

The traditional owners of the area are the indigenous people of Australia, known as Australian Aborigines, and include the Gringai clan ( southern valleys ), the Wonnarua people ( western country ), and the Worimi people and Birpai ( the eastern side ).

* 1999-Trans World Radio goes on the air from Grigoriopol ( Moldova ) using a 1-million-watt AM transmitter ; Veteran Australian missionary Graham Stuart Staines and his two sons are burned alive by Hindu extremists as they are sleeping in a car in eastern India.

* Australian Brushturkey, also called Scrub Turkey or Bush Turkey, a species of mound-building bird from the family Megapodiidae found in eastern Australia

** Sambucus gaudichaudiana ( Australian Elder or White Elder ; shady areas of south eastern Australia )

Australia is likewise connected via the shallow ocean over the Sahul Shelf to New Guinea ; and the related biogeographic boundary known as Lydekker's Line, which separates the eastern edge of Wallacea and the Australian region, has a similar origin.

Austrelaps is a genus of venomous elapid snakes native to the relatively fertile, temperate, southern and eastern part of the Australian continent.

Red-necked wallabies are found in coastal scrub and sclerophyll forest throughout coastal and highland eastern Australia, from Rockhampton, Queensland to the South Australian border ; in Tasmania and on many of the Bass Strait islands ( although it is unclear which of the islands have native populations as opposed to introduced ones ); as well as an introduced population in the Canterbury region of New Zealand's South Island.

As a result of this policy, Adelaide does not share the convict settlement history of other Australian cities like Sydney, New South Wales ; Brisbane, Queensland and Hobart, Tasmania.

However, by mid-1837 the South Australian Register was warning of escaped convicts from New South Wales, and tenders for a temporary gaol were sought.

Following a burglary, a murder, and two attempted murders in Adelaide during March 1838, Governor Hindmarsh created the South Australian Police Force ( now named South Australia Police ) in April 1838 under 21-year-old Henry Inman.

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

In 1867 gas street lighting was implemented, the University of Adelaide was founded in 1874, the South Australian Art Gallery opened in 1881 and the Happy Valley Reservoir opened in 1896.

* South Australian wine

In the state and territory parliaments, Labor governs in South Australia, Tasmania and the Australian Capital Territory.

Australian English started diverging from British English after the founding of the colony of New South Wales in 1788 and was recognised as being different from British English by 1820.

The earliest form of Australian English was first spoken by the children of the colonists born into the colony of New South Wales.

The first of the Australian gold rushes, in the 1850s, began a large wave of immigration, with approximately two per cent of the population of the United Kingdom emigrating to the colonies of New South Wales and Victoria.

ADFA teaches military undergraduates and postgraduates and is officially a campus of the University of New South Wales while Duntroon provides Australian Army Officer training.

In the United Kingdom, His Majesty's Declaration of Abdication Act was, with the consent of the Australian, Canadian, New Zealand, and South African governments, passed through parliament and the Crown thus passed to the next-in-line descendant of Sophia: Edward's brother, Prince Albert, Duke of York.

The practice of the Australian states — for example, New South Wales and Victoria — has been, when legislating to repeal some imperial statutes so far as they still applied in Australia, to provide that imperial statutes concerning the royal succession remain in force.

Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, also called football, footy or Aussie rules However, late in the century the code began to decline in New South Wales and Queensland largely due to competition with other more popular football codes, as well as interstate rivalries and the lack of strong local governing bodies.

In 1978, the term Barassi Line was used to describe the dichotomy that existed in Australia's football culture, where Australian Football was most popular in all states bar New South Wales and Queensland.

In 1991, it gained its first South Australian team, Adelaide, which paid five million dollars to enter the AFL.

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.

* 1975 – As North Vietnamese forces close in on the South Vietnamese capital Saigon, the Australian Embassy is closed and evacuated, almost ten years to the day since the first Australian troop commitment to South Vietnam.

They played 19 games of Australian rules football, against prominent clubs in Victoria and South Australia, winning six and drawing one of these ( see Australian rules football in England ).