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Australia's and first
Although English has no official status in the Constitution, Australian English is Australia's de facto official language and is the first language of the majority of the population.
The one-off test in 1999 between England and Australia that was played to commemorate Australia's first test against Reverend Matthew Mullineux's British side saw England wear an updated version of this jersey.
Banknotes are mostly paper, but Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation developed the world's first polymer currency in the 1980s that went into circulation on the nation's bicentenary in 1988.
The Dutch visited Australia's northern coastline in the 1600s, and created the first European maps of the area.
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.
Australia's first legal casino was the 17-storey Wrest Point Hotel Casino in Sandy Bay, opened in 1973.
Accordingly McEwen personally supervised the signing of the first post-war trade treaty with Japan, new trade agreements with New Zealand and Britain, and Australia's first trade agreement with the USSR ( 1965 ).
On 4 June 1829, newly arriving British colonists had their first view of the mainland, and Western Australia's Foundation Day has since been recognised by a public holiday on the first Monday in June each year.
In September 2009 Western Australia's dams reached 50 % overall capacity for the first time since 2000.
Labor formed South Australia's first majority government after winning the 1910 state election, two weeks after federal Labor formed Australia's first majority government after winning the 1910 federal election.
The 1965 campaign against the Labor Government ( lead since April 1964 by Jack Renshaw ), a government widely perceived to be tired and devoid of ideas, was notable for being one of Australia's first " presidential-style " campaigns, with Askin being the major focus of campaigning and a main theme of " With Askin You'll Get Action ".
He also put on 167 in a partnership with Alan Davidson, the first collaboration between the pair, who would later go on to lead Australia's bowling in the last five years of their career.
He scored 97 in Australia's only innings and then took 7 / 46 in the hosts ' first innings as the tourists took an innings win.
Benaud took 4 / 69 and 4 / 42 in the First Test in Dhaka ( now in Bangladesh ), sealing Australia's first win in Pakistan.
The first Test of the season, against the touring South Africans, saw high drama as Australia's left arm paceman Ian Meckiff was called for throwing by Colin Egar and removed from the attack by Benaud after one over.
Motel ( 1968 ) was Australia's first half-hour soap opera.
Meanwhile in 1974 the Reg Grundy Organisation created its first soap opera, and significantly Australia's first teen soap opera, Class of ' 74.
* 2001 – Ansett Australia, Australia's first commercial interstate airline, collapses due to increased strain on the international airline industry, leaving 10, 000 people unemployed.
* The agony of Australia's Stolen Generation – The first of Australia's Stolen Generations to win compensation.

Australia's and steam
Australia's first steam locomotive was built in ten weeks and cost £ 2, 700.
In the late 1860s the Walrus, a large paddle steamer built at Cleveland, was converted to Australia's first floating distillery with the addition of a steam driven sugar mill on board.

Australia's and operated
Medicare is Australia's publicly funded universal health care system, operated by the government authority Medicare Australia.
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 similarly named Woolworths supermarkets in Australia and New Zealand are operated by Australia's largest retail company Woolworths Limited, a separate company with no historical links to the F. W. Woolworth Company or Foot Locker, Inc.
* Avondale Agricultural Research Station, one of thirteen research farms / stations operated by Western Australia's Department of Agriculture
Beginning in the late 1970s, the town began hosting U. S. Air Force personnel assigned to Learmonth Solar Observatory, a defence science facility jointly operated with Australia's Ionospheric Prediction Service.
Australia's Jetstar Airways has operated international flights since 2005, when it began services to Christchurch, New Zealand.
* 1867: George Peacock launches one of Australia's first jam factories in Hobart ( later operated by Henry Jones and Co under the name IXL )
Western Australia's Department of Planning and Infrastructure operated three Daimler Chrysler Citaro fuel cell buses as part of its Sustainable Transport Energy for Perth Fuel Cells Bus Trial in Perth.
As with many of Australia's early railways, it was owned and operated by a private company-the Melbourne and Hobson's Bay Railway Company, which was formed in 1853.
On 8 April 1984, a team of doctors led by Chang operated on 14-year old Fiona Coote who became Australia's youngest heart transplant patient.
In 2005 the Bickley site was Heritage listed, being Australia's oldest continuing operating observatory and Australia's only remaining State Government operated astronomical observatory.
Brooklyn was the base for Hawkesbury River Ferries, who operated both their ferry service to Dangar Island, and their " Australia's last Riverboat Postman " service, from a wharf adjacent to the railway station.
In 1984, the MTT operated Australia's first CNG-fuelled bus-O305 No. 008.
It operated to major regional city-centres and connected these centres to various provincial capitals, and by the 1980s it was Australia's third largest domestic airline.
Adelaide Zoo is Australia's second oldest zoo, and the only major metropolitan zoo in Australia to be owned and operated on a non-profit basis.
Vision has several sister ministry arms ( all operated by UCB Australia ), including Australia's most popular daily devotionals " The Word for Today " and " word4U2day " as well as a prayer ministry " PrayForMe ", and the teaching resources ministry of " UCB Direct ".
Radio Australia is the international broadcasting and online service operated by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation ( ABC ), Australia's public broadcaster.

Australia's and railway
** Australia's worst railway disaster at Granville, near Sydney, leaves 83 people dead.
Fremantle is the end of the Fremantle railway line which runs from Perth to Fremantle, run by the Western Australia's Public Transport Authority.
Australia's biggest project: the Adelaide-Darwin railway ".
* 1857 – Australia's first country railway from Geelong to Melbourne is built
* Great Railway Journeys of Australia: explored the development of Australia's rail network and featured some of the most famous railway journeys in the country such as the old and new Ghan, the Queenslander and the Indian Pacific ( April-August 2007 )
He retired from CSIRO to lead ( from 1986 – 1991 ) the Very Fast Train Joint Venture, a private sector project that sought to build a high-speed railway between Australia's two most populous cities.
Western Australia's first railway line was built just north of Busselton at Lockville in 1871, the original engine known as the Ballarat engine is on display near the tourist bureau.
In 2001, despite controversy, Australia's first Medically Supervised Injecting Centre was established ( where users of illegal drugs can inject themselves at a safe injection site in clean conditions ) at a shopfront site near Kings Cross railway station.
New South Wales ' railways date from the 10 December 1831 when the Australian Agricultural Company officially opened Australia's first railway, located at the intersection of Brown & Church Streets, Newcastle, New South Wales.
The rail for this project was sourced from the dismantled Cambrai to Apamurra railway line in South Australia's mallee region.
* January 18 – The Granville railway disaster was Australia's worst ever railway disaster at Granville, a suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, when a commuter train derails and hits a bridge, causing the bridge to collapse on top of the train.
Railways in Australia date from the 10 December 1831 when the Australian Agricultural Company officially opened Australia's first railway, located at the intersection of Brown & Church Streets, Newcastle, New South Wales.
Railways in Australia date from the 10 December 1831 when the Australian Agricultural Company officially opened Australia's first railway, located at the intersection of Brown & Church Streets, Newcastle, New South Wales.
As a result Australia's first steam-powered railway was a suburban line opened by the Melbourne and Hobson's Bay Railway Company from Melbourne to Sandridge ( now Port Melbourne ) in 1854.
New South Wales ' railways date from the 10 December 1831 when the Australian Agricultural Company officially opened Australia's first railway, located at the intersection of Brown & Church Streets, Newcastle, New South Wales.
This, together with the central Queensland mining railway, constitutes Australia's only significant rural rail electrification.
The New South Wales Rail Transport Museum is Australia's largest and oldest railway museum with over 125 railway exhibits.
Both these railways eliminated sections of narrow-gauge () railway between Australia's capital cities.
The Cockle Train operates year-round between Goolwa and Victor Harbor along the route of Australia's first railway.
Gymea is a CityRail railway station on the Cronulla branch of Sydney, Australia's, Illawarra line.
Hurstville railway station is a major station on Australia's CityRail suburban Illawarra and interurban South Coast Line.

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