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" Neil Jillett of Australia's The Age reviewed the film positively, noting that despite some " directorial slackness ", the film was " a lively work that is sophisticated and innocent, witty and farcical, satirical and unmalicious, intelligent but not condescending, full of concern with big issues but not arrogantly didactic, thoroughly Australian but not nationalistic.

Likewise, in the New York Daily News, David Bianculli states that the episode is " a true tour de force, and another inventive triumph for this vastly underrated series " Brian Courtis in Australia's Sunday Age agrees, and writes that " Hush " is "( c ) lever, well-written and brightly directed ... Buffy at its best.

* Lost World of the Kimberley: Extraordinary New Glimpses of Australia's Ice Age Ancestors, 2006 ISBN 1-74114-391-8

Australia's The Age found SimTower a pleasing return to form for Maxis, after the release of the disappointing SimFarm.

Australia's The Age gave the film a slightly more favorable review, praising the stunts and special effects, though it noted the effects suffer from poor computer editing and referred to the film as " a little entertaining supertrash " that does require one to not think too much about the science to enjoy.

However, in a 2004 interview with Australia's Age and Sydney Morning Herald newspapers, Joel Spolsky pointed to limitations in the client-side CMS model.

The lack of progress made in surveying Australia's territorial waters, most of which was unsurveyed or relying on Age of Sail-era charts prompted the Royal Australian Navy to seek a method of effectively surveying large areas from the air in the 1970s.

In 2010 The Age reported that Scotch College " has educated more of Australia's most honoured and influential citizens than any other school in the nation ", based on research that revealed its alumni had received more top Order of Australia honours than any other school.

In July 2011 she was appointed as Australia's inaugural Age Discrimination Commissioner with the Australian Human Rights Commission.

In 2007, Gideon Haigh wrote an article in The Monthly arguing that On the Beach is Australia's most important novel: " Most novels of apocalypse posit at least a group of survivors and the semblance of hope.

He undertook colour tests, intending to make Australia's first colour The Chauvels then wrote a screenplay, originally entitled The Northern Territory Story.

However, David Gerrold — who wrote " The Trouble With Tribbles "— drew his inspiration from an actual event: Australia's environmentally destructive rabbit overpopulation.

Later that year he wrote to the Western Australian premier Sir John Forrest requesting employment in Western Australia's public service.

John Sulman, however, was Australia's " leading proponent " of the City Beautiful movement and, in 1921, wrote the book An Introduction to Australian City Planning.

In 2011, Tom O ' Lincoln wrote Australia's Pacific War: Challenging a National Myth published by Interventions, which aims to debunk Australia's moral high ground in the Pacific War.

Also in 2005, O ' Lincoln wrote a book on the origins of the Australian ruling class: United We Stand: Class Struggle in Colonial Australia published by Red Rag Publications, which University of Melbourne professor Verity Burgmann said " uncovers new aspects to Australia's history of struggle ".

It was here that he first caused controversy, when he wrote to United States Secretary of State George Shultz, urging the US Government to dump subsidised wheat in Australia's international wheat markets in Russia and China.

Largely untrained and only basically educated, Neilson became known as one of Australia's finest lyric poets, who wrote a great deal about the natural world, and the beauty in it.

He wrote several books, including Australia and the British Empire in which he argued for Australia's place in the British Empire.

In a 2003 interview with The Religion Report on Australia's ABC Radio National, Warraq said he wrote Leaving Islam to support his claim that there were a large number of ex-Muslims and to encourage other Muslims to openly leave Islam.

Following Australia's World Cup victory, Tallis and teammate Shane Webcke wrote an open letter to players appealing for an end to scandalous behaviour amongst footballers which had been tarnishing the sport.

The show followed the same structure of Australia's Funniest Home Video Show, in which the videos were shown in short blocks, interspersed with humorous monologues by Mulray, who wrote all of them himself.

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.

Australia's Spies and Their Secrets.

Their trial began on 3 October 2006 and was the first time that Australia's Defence ( Special Undertakings ) Act 1952 was used.

Their act is an affectionate but irreverent parody of Australia's obsession with sport.

Their next single " Baby Baby ", and a follow-up album Insideout sold well, but not to the extent of their previous successes, which had been bolstered by their tour with another of Australia's most famous musical groups, INXS.

Their case resulted in one of the largest police investigations in Australian criminal history and remains Australia's most infamous cold case.

The couple had two sons, Eddie and Peter Jr. Their marriage lasted for 80 years, ending in 2004 when Monica died ; is believed to be Australia's longest nuptial union.

Their surfing website, Swellnet is Australia's most popular source of online surf reports and forecasts.

Their warm-up schedule continued with a match against the Australian Barbarians on August 26, featuring several of Australia's World Cup squad including Berrick Barnes, Drew Mitchell and Rob Horne.

AFP Uniformed Protection officers are referred to as " Protective Service Officers " ( PSOs ) Their primary functions are Counter Terrorist First Response ( CTFR ) at Australia's major airports and uniformed protection at selected sensitive sites across Australia including Parliament House, Diplomatic Protection and Defence sites to name a few.

In New Zealand's tour to Australia, an outstanding all-round performance helped destroy the home team in the first test at Brisbane, beginning with a personal test best 9 for 52 in Australia's first innings.

After shouldering most of the blame for losing Australia's Davis Cup tie with Sweden with an unexpected below-par performance, Philippoussis struggled through to the Wimbledon fourth round in June 2004.

With the release of the single " Walkaway ", and an accompanying tour of Australia's east coast ( including a showcase performance at the Australian Music Week ), the band furthered their claim for national attention.

On 3 April 1977, AC / DC filmed a live performance of " Dog Eat Dog " for Australia's Countdown.

It is regarded as one of Australia's leading performance training institutions.

The Pacer's days as the VH performance model were numbered, because that same year saw the announcement and introduction of what was to become Chrysler Australia's most recognised new car — the Valiant Charger.

He was unable to maintain his performance when Australia visited Bangladesh for a two Test series, taking two wickets at 93, coming bottom of Australia's bowling averages.

decisive performance in Australia's victory.

After an early Olympic career in which he was generally considered not to have lived up to his promise, Fairweather shot back into Australia's national consciousness, " stopping the nation " with his gold medal performance in men's individual archery at the 2000 Summer Olympics.

On the back of his IPL performance, Watson was subsequently selected to replace Matthew Hayden in the one day series as part of Australia's tour to the West Indies, after Hayden had injured himself during the IPL season.

However, due to the poor performance of almost all of Australia's batting in that match, he was retained for the second Test.

Overall, the international benchmarking revealed significant scope for improvement in Australia's performance.

* Rove's Audience's Got Talent: Parody of Australia's Got Talent, where Rove plucked a member of the audience and put them into a performance utilising a particular talent.

MOTOR is Australia's premiere performance car publication, with two major crowns for automotive manufacturers: ' Performance Car of The Year ' and ' Bang For Your Bucks '.

However, Australia's performance was hampered by the revelation that most of the team had signed to play World Series Cricket ( WSC ) in opposition to official cricket.

Australia's performance at the 1976 Montreal Olympic Games was its worst in almost four decades.

Since the launch of the Lair the space has seldom been used for a public performance, as its primary function was to house MTV Australia's The Lair live music programme.

White was ever-present in Australia's triumph in the 2009 Champions Trophy, saving his best performance for the final where, having been promoted to number four, he scored a patient 62 against New Zealand to help Australia recover from 6 / 2 to ease to a six wicket victory.

The inspiration for this musical performance came from the Opening Ceremony of the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, when the performance opened with 121 stockmen and women riding Australian Stock Horses in a tribute to the Australian pastoral heritage and the importance of the stock horse in Australia's heritage.

Her best performance at a Grand Slam came at Wimbledon in 2005, when she partnered with Australia's Paul Hanley in mixed doubles.

Under the direction of Charlie Walsh at the Australian Institute of Sport and national cycling coach from 1980 to 2001, Australia's international cycling performance ranking moved from between 20 and 30 in track cycling in the world, to the number one ranked nation in 1993 and 1994, and placed third at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.

In 2001, Noffke was rewarded with a place in Australia's squad for the 2001 Ashes series after a man of the match performance in Queensland's victory in the final of the 2000 – 01 Pura Cup.

* 4 June – Australia's first theatrical performance The Recruiting Officer by George Farquhar staged with convicts acting in the roles.