Around 10, 000 Allied troops arrived in Darwin in the early 1940s at the outset of World War II, in order to defend Australia's northern coastline.

The early colonial governors held an almost autocratic power due to the distance from and poor communications with Great Britain, until 1824 when the New South Wales Legislative Council, Australia's first legislative body, was appointed to advise the governor.

Telstra has faced competition since the early 1990s from Optus ( Australia's 2nd largest communication company ) and a number of smaller providers.

The party governed Australia for much of the 1930s, through Australia's recovery from the Great Depression under Joseph Lyons and into the early stages of the World War II under Robert Menzies.

Western Australia did not receive significant flows of migrants from Britain, Ireland or elsewhere in the British Empire until the early 20th century when local projects — such as the Group Settlement Scheme of the 1920s which encouraged farmers to settle the southwest — increased awareness of Australia's western third as a destination for colonists.

James Squire is considered to have founded Australia's first commercial brewery in 1798 and the Cascade Brewery in Hobart, Tasmania, has been operating since the early 19th century.

The distinctive themes and origins of Australia's " bush music " or " bush band music " can be traced to the songs sung by the convicts who were sent to Australia during the early period of the British colonisation, beginning in 1788.

It became an early film of the Australian New Wave and is arguably Australia's first international hit film.

Throughout the 1930s and early 1940s, Hall was in charge of Australia's leading domestic studio, Cinesound Productions, and was particularly successful with a series of comedies based on the popular writings of author Steele Rudd, which featured the adventures of a fictional Australian farming family, the Rudds, and the perennial father-and-son duo, ' Dad and Dave '.

The legendary Thommo's Two-up School, which operated at various locations in Surry Hills, Sydney from the early years of the 20th century until at least 1979, was one of Australia's first major illegal gambling operations.

The leading proponents of the theory are Anna Wierzbicka at Warsaw University and later at the Australian National University who originated the theory in the early 1970s ( Wierzbicka 1972 ), and Cliff Goddard at Australia's Griffith University ( Goddard & Wierzbicka 1994, 2002 ).

The early 1997 tour to South Africa brought no upturn in Taylor's batting despite Australia's 2 – 1 victory in the series: he scored 80 runs at 16. 00.

* Markwell, Donald, " Griffith, Barton and the early governor-generals: aspects of Australia's constitutional development ", Public Law Review, 1999.

James Squires is considered to have founded Australia's first commercial brewery in 1798 and the Cascade Brewery in Hobart, Tasmania has been operating since the early 19th century.

The glorification of Australia's early soldiers in the Boer War and World War I reinforces these values.

UWA is driving Australia's bid to be the site of the Square Kilometer Array, a very large internationally funded radio astronomy installation capable of seeing the early stages of the formation of galaxies, stars and planets.

A race ground on the Hawkesbury River near Richmond was probably Australia's first racecourse being used as early as 1806.

* Public spaces-Outside the main galleries are various displays relating to Victoria's and Australia's history, including CSIRAC ( an early computer built in Australia ) and a Pygmy Blue Whale.

Maton established itself early on the Australian rock scene in the late Fifties, assisted by Australia's tariff regime, which made imported guitars far more expensive than the local equivalents.

Consequently the Communist Party of Australia opposed and sought to disrupt Australia's " imperialist " war effort against Nazism in the early stages of the War.

This museum includes in its collection a range of Aboriginal artefacts and large collections of documents relating to Bathurst's early history and collection of local items from Australia's early settlement.

From his early years he was determined to be a writer, and in 1905 and again in 1910 he went to London, then the centre of Australia's cultural universe, to learn his craft and advance his prospects.

The Tasmanian people were nearly eradicated early in Australia's colonial history, and their languages were lost before much was recorded.

" Griffith, Barton and the early governor-generals: aspects of Australia's constitutional development ", Public Law Review, 1999.

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

For much of its history, Australia's bush music belonged to an oral and folkloric tradition, and was only later published in print in volumes such as Banjo Paterson's Old Bush Songs, in the 1890s.

Lawson is widely regarded as one of Australia's greatest writers of short stories, while Paterson's poems The Man From Snowy River and Clancy of the Overflow remain amongst the most popular Australian bush poems.

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

* Australia's most delicious bush nut

Her first major film appearance was in the 1986 film Emma's War, in which she played a teenager who moves to Australia's bush country during World War II.

The Overland Track is one of Australia's most famous bush walks, situated in the Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park, Tasmania.

Lawson is widely regarded as one of Australia's greatest writers of short stories, while Paterson's poems remain amongst the most popular Australian bush poems.

Lawson is widely regarded as one of Australia's greatest writers of short stories, while Paterson's poems The Man From Snowy River and Clancy of the Overflow remain amongst the most popular Australian bush poems.

Aborigines traditionally used goanna oil as an important bush medicine, and it also became a common medicine among whites in Australia's early days.

The distinctive themes and origins of Australia's bush music can be traced to the songs sung by the convicts who were sent to Australia during the early period of the British colonisation, beginning in 1788.

For much of its history, Australia's bush music belonged to an oral and folkloric tradition, and was only later published in print in volumes such as Banjo Paterson's Old Bush Songs, in the 1890s.

The period leading up to and following Australia's Bicentenary, 1988, saw a marked resurgence in bush music and bush dances that lasted for many years.

Vision Radio Network reaches listeners in places ranging from Australia's larger cities to regional centres and tiny isolated towns in the bush.

Along with his contemporary Banjo Paterson, Lawson is among the best-known Australian poets and fiction writers of the colonial period and is often called Australia's " greatest writer ".

Under Archibald's sole control, and with A. G. Stephens as his literary editor, The Bulletin became Australia's leading outlet for poets, cartoonists, short-stories and comic writers.

* Henry Lawson-one of Australia's most recognised poets and short story writers.

One of Australia's best-known poets, A. B.

Murray and Dawe are among Australia's formemost contemporary poets, noted for their use of vernacular and everyday Australian themes.

* Kenneth Slessor, one of Australia's greatest poets, attended Kogarah Primary School, in the early 20th century.

Gwen Harwood is regarded as one of Australia's finest poets, publishing over 420 works, including 386 poems and 13 librettos.

He was one of Australia's leading poets, notable particularly for the absorption of modernist influences into Australian poetry.

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.

Gilmore's first volume of poetry was published in 1910, and for the ensuing half-century she was regarded as one of Australia's most popular and widely read poets.

The local café, which has sustained generations of truckies, has also been the source of inspiration for some of Australia's recent modern poets, Les Murray and Bruce Dawe.

Together with Banjo Paterson and Henry Lawson, both of whom he collaborated with, he is often considered among Australia's three most famous poets.