There is some evidence that naturally occurring goitrogens may play a role in the development of goitre, particularly in Tasmania and Australia ( Clements and Wishart, 1956 ).

People depend less on seeds for foods in Australia, New Zealand, and Argentina, where extensive grazing lands support sheep or cattle, and the consumption of meat is high.

Frankie was fairly glutted with ideas, as he had hinted upon his arrival: `` It's really tremendous when you think Ella Fitzgerald is coming from Australia.

In England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Australia, arraignment is the first of eleven stages in a criminal trial, and involves the clerk of the court reading out the indictment.

The first is between western Australia and eastern Africa.

The second is between eastern Australia and western South America.

* Robert Owen Evans is a minister of the Uniting Church in Australia and an amateur astronomer who holds the all-time record for visual discoveries of supernovae.

Blandfordia is the only genus in the family Blandfordiaceae, with four species distributed in eastern Australia.

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.

In Australia, the right to make a plea in mitigation is absolute.

The Ashes is a Test cricket series played between England and Australia since 1882.

It is one of the most celebrated rivalries in international cricket and is currently played biennially, alternately in England and Australia.

The series is named after a satirical obituary published in a British newspaper, The Sporting Times, in 1882 after a match at The Oval in which Australia beat England on an English ground for the first time.

England is the current holder after winning the Ashes in 2009 and again in the 2010 / 11 series in Australia.

It is in fact a private memento, and for this reason it is never awarded to either England or Australia, but is kept permanently in the MCC Cricket Museum where it can be seen together with the specially made red and gold velvet bag and the scorecard of the 1882 match.

Because the urn itself is so delicate, it has been allowed to travel to Australia only twice.

The series alternates between the United Kingdom and Australia, and within each country each of the usually five matches is held at a different cricket ground.

The best-known and longest-running of these events is the rugby league rivalry between Great Britain and Australia ( see rugby league " Ashes ").

Another example is in the television show Gladiators, in which two series were based on contests between teams representing Australia and England.

Adelaide () is the capital city of South Australia and the fifth-largest city in Australia.

South Australia was officially proclaimed as a new British colony on 28 December 1836, near The Old Gum Tree in what is now the suburb of Glenelg North.

Australia recorded overwhelming victories both in England and on home soil.

Australia then scraped home by five wickets inside three days in a low-scoring match at Headingley to retain the urn.

The first official home video releases of Beavis and Butt-Head were two VHS tapes titled There Goes the Neighborhood and Work Sucks !, distributed by Sony Music Video and MTV Home Video in 1996 in the United States, United Kingdom and Australia.

His 153 not out in Bridgetown, Barbados, during West Indies ' 2 – 2 home series draw against Australia in * 1998 – 1999 was deemed the second greatest Test innings ever played, behind Bradman's 270 against England in the Third Test of the 1936 – 1937 series at Melbourne.

Borneo is home to one of the oldest rainforests in the world, along with the Daintree Rainforest in Australia and the Amazon rainforest.

Ramsay died on his way home to Australia, leaving a shocked Norris to discover that his mother had actually rejected Ramsay as a child and sent him away.

In Australia, England home games and selected away games are broadcast by Setanta Sports Australia.

Formed in 1871 as a junior club and as a senior club in 1873, it is headquartered at the Essendon Recreation Reserve ( Windy Hill ) in the Melbourne suburb of Essendon, Australia but match day home games are played at Etihad Stadium or the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

Hobart is a busy seaport, notably serving as the home port for the Antarctic activities of Australia and France.

In Australia, Italian is the second most spoken foreign language after the Chinese languages, with 1. 4 % of the population speaking it as their home language.

Of the four fast bowlers in the tour party, Gubby Allen was a voice of dissent in the English camp, refusing to bowl short on the leg side, and writing several letters home to England critical of Jardine, although he did not express this in public in Australia.

South of Adelaide, South Australia is home to a colony of 2000 fairy penguins.

The MCG was the home of Australia ’ s first full colour video scoreboard, which replaced the old scoreboard in 1982, located on Level 4 of the Ponsford Stand, with a second video screen added in 1994 almost directly opposite, located on Level 4 of the Olympic stand ..

On another occasion, Crowe donated a large sum of money ($ 200, 000 ) to a struggling primary school near his home in rural Australia.

Labor led by John Curtin refused Menzies ' offer to form a war coalition, and also opposed using the Australian army for a European war, preferring to keep it at home to defend Australia.

Western Australia is home to around 540 species of birds ( depending on the taxonomy used ).

He played for England in 22 Tests through the 1880s and 1890s, all of them against Australia, and was an automatic selection for England at home, but his only Test-playing tour of Australia was that of 1891 – 92.

A typical earthing electrode ( left ), consisting of a conductive rod driven into the ground, at a home in Australia.

Australia is home to the world's two largest freshwater crayfish – the Tasmanian giant freshwater crayfish Astacopsis gouldi, which can achieve a mass of up to and is found in the rivers of northern Tasmania, and the Murray crayfish Euastacus armatus, which can reach and is found in much of the southern Murray-Darling basin.

From August until October Psyche performed in 5 different cities in Australia, followed by Auckland, New Zealand, their original home country of Canada, a one off concert at The Knitting Factory in New York, and finally two festivals in South Africa.

Australia is home to two of the 5 known extant species of monotremes and has numerous venomous species, which include the Platypus, spiders, scorpions, octopus, jellyfish, molluscs, stonefish, and stingrays.

Australia and its territories are home to around 800 species of bird ; about 350 of these are endemic to the zoogeographic region that covers Australia, New Guinea and New Zealand.