The Asterales order probably originated in the Cretaceous ( 145 – 65 Mya ) on the supercontinent Gondwana which broke up from 184 – 80 Mya, forming the area that is now Australia, South America, Africa, India and Antarctica.

* ANZAC Day ( Australia and New Zealand ) – April 25

* 1988 – Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II officially opens World Expo ' 88 in Brisbane, Australia.

* 1770 – James Cook names and lands on Possession Island, Queensland and claims the east coast of Australia as New South Wales in the name of King George III.

* 1986 – A low-pressure system that redeveloped off the New South Wales coast dumps a record 328 millimeters ( 13 inches ) of rain in a day on Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

* 1891 – William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim, English general, 13th Governor-General of Australia ( d. 1970 )

The English media dubbed the next English tour to Australia ( 1882 – 83 ) as the quest to regain The Ashes.

Bligh promised that on the tour to Australia in 1882 – 83, which he was to captain, he would regain " the ashes ".

There was more chopping and changing in the teams, given that there was no official board of selectors for each country ( in 1887 – 88, two separate English teams were on tour in Australia ) and popularity with the fans varied.

The 1890s games were more closely fought, Australia taking their first series win since 1882 with a 2 – 1 victory in 1891 – 92.

At the close of the second last day's play, Australia were 113 – 2, needing only 64 more runs.

Australia resoundingly won the 1897 – 98 series by 4 – 1 under the captaincy of Harry Trott.

In the First Test ( the first played at Edgbaston ), after scoring 376 England bowled out Australia for 36 ( Wilfred Rhodes 7 / 17 ) and reduced them to 46 – 2 when they followed on.

After what the MCC saw as the problems of the earlier professional and amateur series they decided to take control of organising tours themselves, and this led to the first MCC tour of Australia in 1903 – 04.

Monty Noble led Australia to victory in both 1907 – 08 and 1909.

England managed to stay in contention until the deciding final Test at The Oval, but yet another double hundred by Bradman, and 7 / 92 by Percy Hornibrook in England's second innings, enabled Australia to win by an innings and take the series 2 – 1.

Although England decisively won the Ashes 4 – 1, Bodyline caused such a furore in Australia that diplomats had to intervene to prevent serious harm to Anglo-Australian relations, and the MCC eventually changed the Laws of cricket to curtail the number of leg side fielders.

England eventually faced a massive 707 run target for victory and failed, Australia winning the series 2 – 1.

The 1938 series was high-scoring affair with many high-scoring draws, resulting in a 1 – 1 result, Australia retaining the Ashes.

The Ashes resumed after the war when England toured in 1946 – 47, and as in 1920 – 21, found that Australia had made the best post-war recovery.

Still captained by Bradman and now featuring the potent new ball partnership of Ray Lindwall and Keith Miller, Australia were convincing 3 – 0 winners.

The study was an attempt at defining in broad overview ; the impact of projected advances in aviation technology and to forecast the global needs of the post war British Empire ( in South Asia, Africa, the Near and Far East ) and Commonwealth ( Australia, Canada, New Zealand ) in the area of air transport, for passengers, mail, and cargo.

It does not have what it considers an ambiguous Declaratory Statement, such as that of the Presbyterian Church of Australia ( the " PCA "), which includes allowance of “ liberty of opinion on matters not essential to the doctrine ” without defining what is essential.

The two key tracks on that album Sisters Underground In the Neighbourhood, and OMC's We R The OMC were both hugely important records in defining the next wave of local Hiphop, and In the Neighbourhood was a top ten hit in NZ, Top 20 in Australia and charted in various European countries.

It was Jones ' fifth world championship Formula One victory of the season and the sixth of the seven Grands Prix ( including Spain and Australia ) he would win in his career defining season.

Almost all members are in Western Europe, but the WEOG is unusual in that geography is not the sole defining factor ; Europe is divided between the WEOG and the Eastern European Group, and the WEOG also contains Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, which are culturally and politically descended from Western European states but are located far away from them.

In Australia and New Zealand, the Tasman Formula, defining cars eligible for the annual Tasman Series, was extended in 1970 to include Formula 5000 cars as well as the existing 2. 5 litre cars.

Darlington is located upon the escarpment of the Darling Fault which trends North-South across the south-west of Western Australia, defining what is known as the ' Perth Hills '.

The defining moment of the Lewis government was the decision taken by Lewis to break with convention when Whitlam appointed his Attorney-General, Senator Lionel Murphy from New South Wales, to the High Court of Australia.

The defining experience of his life was when in 1961, on the West Indies ' tour of Australia, he saw the film The Crowning Experience, about the life of the black American educator Mary McLeod Bethune.

* 1991 – Jesinta Campbell, Australian model, Miss Universe Australia 2010

Laboratory experiments carried out in Australia have proven that bubbles can, indeed, sink a scale model ship by decreasing the density of the water ; any wreckage consequently rising to the surface would be rapidly dispersed by the Gulf Stream.

Using the Dominions of Canada, Australia, and New Zealand as a model, he began the transformation of the Empire into the Commonwealth.

Strong sales continued in Australia, and Holden achieved a market share of more than 50 percent in 1958 with the revised FC model.

At this time, the company was producing all of its passenger cars in Australia, and every model was of Australian design ; however, by the end of the decade, Holden was producing cars based on overseas designs.

On 13 June 2011, Stott Despoja was named a Member of the Order of Australia for service to the Parliament of Australia, particularly as a Senator for South Australia, through leadership roles with the Australian Democrats, to education, and as a role model for women.

In linguistics, R. M. W. Dixon has proposed a punctuated equilibrium model for language histories, with reference particularly to the prehistory of the indigenous languages of Australia and his objections to the proposed Pama – Nyungan language family there.

A former model, Durie performed with the international cabaret group Manpower Australia in the early 1990s.

" The proposed model is similar to that of the Family Court of Western Australia, which the

Law Council of Australia, in its submission, had noted as providing a useful model of the structure and functioning of an integrated Family Court.

* Central negotiations ( as in Japan, Germany, Canada and in France ) or hybrid model ( such as in Australia, France's sector 2, and New Zealand ) where GPs can charge extra fees on top of standardized patient reimbursement rates.

From its foundation until the 1999 referendum, the Australian Republican Movement ( ARM ) supported the bi-partisan appointment model, which would result in a President elected by the Parliament of Australia, with the powers currently held by the Governor-General.

Convention delegates were asked whether or not Australia should become a republic and which model for a republic is preferred.

The first question asked whether Australia should become a republic with a President appointed by Parliament, a model that had previously been decided at a Constitutional Convention in February 1998.

* Process model ( Australia )

* Government-operated post office and telegraph networks-the largest parts of the bureaucracy-were combined into a single department in each colony on the model of the UK Post Office: South Australia in 1869, Victoria in 1870, Queensland in 1880 and New South Wales in 1893.

The following years of marketing and distribution aided the spread of gasoline-powered model boating throughout the USA, Europe, Australia, and many countries around the world.

Drug Free Australia contrast these ongoing maintenance costs with Sweden's investment in, and commitment to, a drug free society where a policy of compulsory rehabilitation of drug addicts is integral, which has yielded the one of the lowest reported illicit drug use levels in the developed world, a model in which successfully rehabilitated users present no further maintenance costs to their community, as well as reduced ongoing health care costs.

Since then, the Freeview model has been copied in Australia and New Zealand.

A chemical model based on massive nickel sulphide deposits at Kambalda, Western Australia.

Those Australian States with an Upper House elected by PR-STV ( NSW, Victoria and South Australia ) copy the federal Senate model, except for Western Australia, which holds a recount of ballots with sitting members being immune from defeat ).