The song Waltzing Matilda, which is about a swagman and squatters, is probably Australia's best internationally known and most well-loved song.

Besides manufacturing Australia's best selling car, which was exported in significant numbers, Holden continued to export many locally produced engines to power cars made elsewhere.

Walter Burley Griffin ( born November 24, 1876 and died February 11, 1937 ) was an American architect and landscape architect, who is best known for his role in designing Canberra, Australia's capital city.

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.

Australia's Official Nintendo Magazine called Yoshi a " cute, trustworthy, a plumber's best friend " and compared him to a loyal dog.

Australia's opportunity came at Headingley, a Test described by Bradman as the best he ever played in.

One of the biggest attractions is the Big Banana, one of the first of Australia's Big Things ( it celebrated its 40th birthday in 2005 ), with the World's Largest Banana celebrating the region's best known export.

The lyrics of Australia's best known folk song, " Waltzing Matilda ", were written by the bush poet Banjo Paterson in 1895.

After the war, Finch continued to work heavily in radio and established himself as Australia's leading actor in that medium, winning Macquarie Awards for best actor in 1946 and 1947.

Accordingly, Australia's National Water Commission considers that the measurement of virtual water has little practical value in decision making regarding the best allocation of scarce water resources.

Albert Namatjira is perhaps Australia's best known Aboriginal painter, with his work forming one of the foundations of contemporary Indigenous Australian art.

One of Australia's best and most prestigious universities, UWA is highly ranked internationally in various publications ; the 2011 QS World University Rankings placed UWA at 73rd internationally.

* The Immortals ( rugby league ), Australia's best Rugby League players as decided by Rugby League Week magazine

Australia's best known guitarist, Tommy Emmanuel, owns many Matons and almost exclusively uses the BG808 acoustic model on his latest albums.

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 ).

The Northern Tablelands produce some of Australia's best fine wool and beef cattle.

In his will, he made the two bequests by which he is best remembered by the general public: funds for the Archibald Fountain in Sydney's Hyde Park, which he specified must be designed by a French sculptor, and the Archibald Prize for portraiture, now Australia's most prestigious art prize.

He is best known for his on-stage and television alter egos Dame Edna Everage, a Melbourne housewife and " gigastar ", and Sir Les Patterson, Australia's foul-mouthed cultural attaché to the Court of St. James's.

The Wisden Cricketers ' Almanack, in its obituary for him, called him Australia's greatest batsman: " Of all the great Australian batsmen Victor Trumper was by general consent the best and most brilliant.

Its principals are some of Australia's best known performers and writers:

Hartnett has left a legacy of playing a crucial role in the introduction of two of Australia's best selling brands of cars-Holden and Nissan.

The peninsula is claimed to have some of Australia's best surf spots at Cape Raoul, Roaring Beach & Shipstern Bluff.

Fischer is noted as a tireless advocate for rail transport and is probably Australia's best known railfan.

* Victor Trumper, Australia's legendary batsman, one of the best " wet wicket " cricketers Australia ever produced, 1915

He is known as host of the Minnesota Public Radio show A Prairie Home Companion ( also known as Garrison Keillor's Radio Show on United Kingdom's BBC Radio 4 Extra, as well as on RTÉ in Ireland, Australia's ABC, and Radio New Zealand National in New Zealand ).

Bodyline, also known as fast leg theory bowling, was a cricketing tactic devised by the English cricket team for their 1932 – 33 Ashes tour of Australia, specifically to combat the extraordinary batting skill of Australia's Don Bradman.

It is perhaps Australia's most important irrigated region and is widely known as the food bowl of the nation.

To an extent this oligopoly is enshrined in law in what is known as the " Four pillars policy ", in order to ensure the stability of Australia's banking system.

Among the other bands constituting Australia's second wave were Johnny Dole & The Scabs, the Hellcats, and Psychosurgeons ( later known as the Lipstick Killers ) in Sydney ; The Leftovers, The Survivors, and Razar in Brisbane ; and La Femme, The Negatives, and The Babeez ( later known as The News ) in Melbourne.

The University is also colloquially known as one of Australia's sandstone universities.

" Waltzing Matilda " is Australia's most widely known bush ballad.

It is mainland Australia's southernmost national park, known for its beautiful rainforests, unspoiled beaches, and abundant wildlife.

95 % of Australia's production is of the orange variety named Beauregard, originally from America, known simply as sweet potato.

On 9 May 1988, a larger and permanent Parliament House was opened on Capital Hill as part of Australia's bicentenary celebrations, and the Federal Parliament moved there from the Provisional Parliament House, now known as Old Parliament House .< ref name = pho >

In 2001, Australia's deputy Prime Minister Peter Costello was widely known to be expecting to take over from John Howard as PM.

The traditional belief system of Australia's aborigines is known as The Dreamtime.

On 17 June 1865 the first known rugby match to be played in Australia took place in Hyde Park between members of Australia's first rugby club, the Sydney Football Club, which had been established that month.

Babinda's Boulders, Babinda township, near Cairns, Queensland on Australia's mid-north coast, is a place known for the Devil's Pool, a group of waterholes known to be dangerous to young male travellers, but never claiming the lives of locals or females.

CSIRAC (; Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Automatic Computer ), originally known as CSIR Mk 1, was Australia's first digital computer, and the fourth stored program computer in the world.

This exchange was one of many which were collectively known as Australia's Pacific Solution.

Under John Gorton he became Minister for Education and Science, and in 1969 he was made Minister for Defence: a challenging post at the height of Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War and the protests against it.

* Interview with Jon Lomberg on Australia's Radio National The Science Show, November 19, 2005

This prize for portraiture of a man or woman " distinguished in the Arts, Letters, Science or Politics " has grown to be Australia's most popular and prestigious art award.

The Neville Bonner Memorial Scholarship was established by the federal government in 2000 and is now considered Australia's most prestigious scholarship for Indigenous Australians to study Honours in Political Science or related subjects at any recognised Australian university.

Originally funded jointly by the United Kingdom and Australian governments, it is now managed wholly by Australia's Department of Industry, Innovation, Science, Research and Tertiary Education.

The Defence Science and Technology Organisation ( DSTO ) is a branch of the Australian Department of Defence dedicated to providing science and technology support for Australia's defence and national security needs.

These include Taiwan's Taipei Institute of Technology, America's Clark College, Canada's Southern Alberta Institute of Technology, Australia's Central Queensland University and Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Japan's Osaka Industrial College and Nagasaki Science College, the Philippine University of Santo Tomas, and China's Shenyang University of Technology.

Since then, additional relationships have been forged with China's Minzu University and Yanbian University of Science and Technology, America's Illinois State University and Biola University, the Philippine University of the Philippines, Yugoslavia's Megatrend University, Russia's Amur State University, Switzerland's Winterthur University, and Australia's University of Newcastle.

The winner of 31 awards, including Editor of the Year ( twice-in 2006 and 2005, Australia's Bell Awards for Publishing Excellence ), the 1997 Human Rights Award for Print Journalism and the 1996 Michael Daley Award for Science Journalism.

The Academy's Board of Governors consists of Vice Chancellors from South Australia's three universities, the Chief Executive of the South Australian Government Department of Further Education, Employment, Science and Technology ( DFEEST ), or their delegates, and leading representatives of the arts and business sectors.

The Australian Nuclear Science & Technology Organisation ( ANSTO ) is Australia's national nuclear organisation and the centre of Australian nuclear expertise.

The Australian Computer Science Network ( ACSnet ) was a store-and-forward network used to connect Australia's Universities to each other and to ARPANET.

The Australia Prize was Australia's pre-eminent prize for scientific research from 1990 until 2000, when it was replaced by the Prime Minister's Prizes for Science.