Australasian Signed English is also in use in New Zealand.

Although he had shown ability in mathematics at his English school he failed the matriculation examination and in 1867 took on an engineering apprenticeship with the Australasian Steam Navigation Company in Sydney.

* Australasian Schools English Competition, literary competition

* Two High Distinctions, 25 Distinctions – Australasian English Competition

* Scab, Australasian and British English for a person who obtains things for free, especially from road verge collections or giveaways from friends ( a practice known as scabbing )

In 1979, " Total Communication " ( a " use anything that works " philosophy ) was adopted at the Sumner School, but the signing it used was " Australasian Sign Language " an artificial signed form of English.

The first dictionary based on historical principles that covered Australian English was E. E. Morris's Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases and Usages ( 1898 ).

Its students have achieved High Distinctions, Distinctions and Credits in Australasian Schools Competitions run by the University of New South Wales in English, Computer Science & Literacy, Science and Writing, and various other competitions.

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

The Challicum bunyip, an outline image of a bunyip carved by Aborigines into the bank of Fiery Creek, near Ararat, Victoria, was first recorded by The Australasian newspaper in 1851.

In May 2001, " Don't Dream it's Over " was voted 7th in a poll of the Best Australian Songs of Alltime by the Australasian Performing Rights Association.

A 2003 compilation album, Classic Masters, was released only in the US, while 2005 saw the release of the album She Will Have Her Way, a collection of cover versions of Crowded House, Split Enz, Tim Finn and Finn Brothers songs by Australasian female artists.

In 1939 he was elected a Corresponding Member of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union.

He was a board member of Australasian Performing Right Association ( APRA ) ( 1997 – 2000 ) and Phonographic Performance Company of Australia ( PPCA ) ( 2001 – 2006 ), and is an intellectual property lawyer.

A Practical Reference to Religious Diversity for Operational Police and Emergency Services was a publication of the Australasian Police Multicultural Advisory Bureau designed to offer guidance to police and emergency services personnel on how religious affiliation can affect their contact with the public.

Mawson chose to lead his own expedition, the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, to King George V Land and Adelie Land, the sector of the Antarctic continent immediately south of Australia, which at the time was almost entirely unexplored.

Carlton was one of first clubs to have a player worthy of the superstar tag: champion player George Coulthard, who played for Carlton between 1876 and 1882, and was noted by The Australasian as ' The grandest player of the day '.

He also wrote The Peripatetic Philosopher ( 1869 ), a series of amusing papers reprinted from The Australasian ; Long Odds ( London, 1870 ), a novel ; and numerous comedies and pantomimes, the best of, which was Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star ( Theatre Royal, Melbourne ; Christmas, 1873 ).

From 2003-05, ICAS-Mathematics was called Australasian Schools Mathematics Assessment.

Edmund Barton was an early supporter of federation, which became a serious political agenda after Henry Parkes ' Tenterfield Oration, and was a delegate to the March 1891 National Australasian Convention.

* 1973 – The first Australasian Country Music Australia was hosted in Tamworth by radio station 2TM, which has led to the extraordinary success of the Tamworth Country Music Festival that is held every year in Summer, at the end of January, a celebration that runs continuously for 11 days.

The 1980 – 81 season saw Gavaskar returned as captain for the Australasian tour, but it was to be the start of an unhappy reign for Gavaskar and India.

The Australasian team was victorious in the men's relay, with the United States finishing in the silver medal position and Great Britain placing third.

It was also a critical breakthrough and along with a handful of other 1970s ' Australian classics, like The Dingoes ' debut LP and Madder Lake's Stillpoint, it remains one of the most original and accomplished Australasian debut albums of the period.

This family was sometimes much enlarged to include a number of largely Australasian groups, such as the Australasian fantails, monarchs and paradise flycatchers.

* The phrase, as noted by Robert Giffen in 1892, was a variation on a phrase about three types of unreliable witnesses, a liar, a damned liar, and an expert ( Economic Journal 2 ( 6 ) ( 1892 ), 209-238, first paragraph ; the paper was previously read at a meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science at Hobart in January 1892 ).

In 1880, another inter-colonial conference was convened, which proposed the establishment of an Australasian Court of Appeal.

It was formerly lumped together with the Australasian, African, Mountain and Paddyfield Pipits in a single species: Richard's Pipit, Anthus novaeseelandiae.

One of its major sponsors was the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union, also known as Birds Australia.

* The Knowledge Web created by AFAC ( Australasian Fire and Emergency Service Authorities Council previously Australasian Fire Authorities Council ) for collaboration on Fire and Emergency Services for Australasia

The song is in the Australasian Performing Right Association ( APRA ) list of Top 30 of All Time Best Australian Songs created in 2001.

They have also created a refereed journal, Australasian Pentecostal Studies.

Early molecular research in the late 1980s and early 1990s revealed that the fantails belong to a large group of mainly Australasian birds known as the Corvida parvorder comprising many tropical and Australian passerines.

They are an exclusively Australasian group, but close relatives apparently occurred all over Eurasia in the late Paleogene.

Having gained enough financial support from their music again, the group returned to Australia in late 1978 to see family and friends and also performed in various Australasian locations.

EMI had dominated the Australasian record market since the end of WWII, and they made British music a powerful force in the late Fifties and Sixties with signings like Cliff Richard & The Shadows, The Beatles, The Hollies and Cilla Black.

* Australasian popular music of the 1960s and 1970s

This ambiguity, probably caused by long branch attraction, seems to confirm that the first pigeons evolved in the Australasian region, and that the " Treronidae " and allied forms ( crowned and pheasant pigeons, for example ) represent the earliest radiation of the group.

The Australasian Pipit s of New Zealand may represent a separate species from those found elsewhere

APRA was established in 1926 by a number of companies including J. Albert & Son to represent the interests of Australasian music copyright holders.

Wanting to compete in the Australasian Tasman Series, Bruce approached his employers, but when team owner Charles Cooper insisted on using 1. 5 litre Formula One-specification engines instead of the 2. 5 litre motors permitted by the Tasman rules, Bruce decided to set up his own team to run him and his prospective Formula One team-mate Timmy Mayer with custom-built Cooper cars.

The SES is one of many public safety organisations using AIIMS ( Australasian Inter-Service Incident Management System ).