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 The Age wrote, " Their performance was magnificent: majestic in style, technically without flaw, and utterly persuasive.

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.

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.

Australia's ageing post-war team broke up after 1926, with Collins, Charlie Macartney and Warren Bardsley all departing, and Gregory breaking down at the start of the 1928 – 29 series.

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.

* ECHIDNA, high-resolution neutron powder diffractometer at Australia's research reactor OPAL

About the coup, Australia's Foreign Minister at the time, Alexander Downer, said that the military were " slowly trying to take control " and pressure the PM to resign.

Following the grant announcement, Kevin Rudd, Australia's then Prime Minister, stated that production would support 600 new jobs at the Elizabeth facility.

The head of one of Australia's leading private schools supported use of the DVD in the classroom at the discretion of teachers and principals.

* 1977 – Australia's worst rail disaster occurs at Granville, Sydney killing 83.

Researchers at Oxford University have found DNA evidence connected to Australia's Emu and the Ostrich of Africa.

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.

At in length, the Murray rises in the Australian Alps, draining the western side of Australia's highest mountains and, for most of its length, meanders across Australia's inland plains, forming the border between the states of New South Wales and Victoria as it flows to the northwest, before turning south for its final or so into South Australia, reaching the ocean at Lake Alexandrina.

Margaret River is located inland from the Indian Ocean at a point about halfway between Cape Naturaliste and Cape Leeuwin in Western Australia's South West region.

* 1978 – Australia's Ken Warby sets the current world water speed record of 317. 60mph at Blowering Dam, Australia.

Although, at the time it was seen as confirming Menzies ' status as a world statesman, it was of vital importance to Australia's shipping trade with Britain.

It was thought that the surface at The Oval would favour pacemen, but Australia's selection proved to be a blunder as England's spinners took them to the only win of the series, allowing them to regain the Ashes.

Australia's chances of winning looked remote when they reached tea at 6 / 109 with 124 runs still required with only the tailenders to follow.

According to Australian maps, South Australia's south coast is flanked by the Southern Ocean, but official international consensus defines the Southern Ocean as extending north from the pole only to 60 ° S or 55 ° S, at least 17 degrees of latitude further south than the most southern point of South Australia.

With the advantage of being located near the Arabian Peninsula, Somali traders have increasingly begun to challenge Australia's traditional dominance over the Persian Gulf Arab livestock and meat market, offering quality animals at very low prices.

This was based on gaming machines in casinos only, and at December 2010 there were 751, 520 gaming machines ( very similar to Australia's poker machines ) operating in the United States compared to 200, 057 operating in Australia.

He at times clashed with Churchill in the War Cabinet, and was unable to achieve significant assurances for increased commitment to Singapore's defences, but undertook morale boosting excursions to war affected cities and factories and was well received by the British press and generally raised awareness in Britain of Australia's contribution to its war effort.

Led by migrants from the British Isles, Western Australia's population developed at a faster rate during the twentieth century than it had previously.

** Australia's worst railway disaster at Granville, near Sydney, leaves 83 people dead.

** The 1977 Rugby League World Cup culminates in Australia's 13 – 12 victory over Great Britain at the Sydney Cricket Ground before about 24, 450 spectators.

* October 9 – The 1985-88 Rugby League World Cup culminates in Australia's 25 – 12 victory over New Zealand at Auckland's Eden Park before 47, 363 spectators.

* October 8 – Australia's Ken Warby sets the current world water speed record of 317. 6 mph ( 511. 13 km / h at Blowering Dam, Australia.