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.

On their 1950 tour of New Zealand and Australia they also adopted the nickname British Lions, first used by British and South African journalists on the 1924 South African tour, after the lion emblem on their ties, the emblem on their jerseys having been dropped in favour of the four-quartered badge with the symbols of the four represented unions.

The Constitution stipulated that Australia was a constitutional monarchy, where the Head of State is the British ( or, since 1942, Australian ) monarch, who is represented at the federal level by a Governor-General, and at the state level by six Governors, one for each state.

However, the post still ultimately represented the government of the United Kingdom until, after continually decreasing involvement by the British government, the passage in 1942 of the Statute of Westminster Adoption Act 1942 ( see Statute of Westminster ) and the Australia Act 1986, whereafter the governor became the direct, personal representative of the uniquely Australian sovereign.

Australia is represented in Luxembourg through its embassy in Brussels ( Belgium ) and an honorary consulate in Luxembourg City.

Luxembourg is represented in Australia through the embassy of the Netherlands in Canberra and through an honorary consulate in East Lindfield.

This figure represented 21 % of all the gambling machines in the world, and on a per capita basis, Australia had roughly five times as many gaming machines as the United States.

Australia has indigenous placental mammals from two orders: the bats — order Chiroptera — represented by six families ; and the mice and rats — order Rodentia, family Muridae.

In Canada and Australia, by contrast, debates over monarchy represent or represented debates whose driving force concerned each nation's relationship with the United Kingdom and the cultural heritage that that represents.

In the Parliament of Australia, it is represented by the Division of Indi in the Australian House of Representatives.

This gave socialising a cosmopolitan flavour: ' Russia, Sweden, England, Austria, Germany, France, Australia and the United States were represented at our table, all as one large family, and striving towards the same goal ,' the painter Annie Goater penned in 1885 in an essay on her recent experiences at one French colony.

There has also been a number of foreigners who have represented the national teams of Sweden, Iceland, Senegal, Finland, Malta, Australia, South Africa, Slovenia, Tunisia, Canada, Somalia, and Nigeria.

In Australia, the industry is represented by the Australian Professional Technical Analysts ( APTA ) Inc and the Australian Technical Analysts Association ( ATAA ).

This new Japanese airfield represented a threat to Australia itself, and so the United States as a matter of urgency, despite not being adequately prepared, conducted the first amphibious landing of the war.

* Ken James ( basketball ), who represented Australia at the 1972 Summer Olympics

) Bean, who wrote in his diary of Monash " We do not want Australia represented by men mainly because of their ability, natural and inborn in Jews, to push themselves ", conspired with Keith Murdoch to undermine Monash, and have him removed from the command of the Australian Corps.

Mark Edward Waugh AM ( born 2 June 1965 ) is a former Australian cricketer, who represented Australia in Test matches from early 1991 to late 2002, and made his One-Day International debut in 1988.

On 11 April 1964, at the request of the Prime Minister Robert Menzies, Forde represented Australia at MacArthur ’ s funeral in Arlington, Virginia.

In 1992 he again represented Australia at the Barcelona Olympics.

His father, Richard, an architect, represented Australia at international level in basketball, including being a member of two Olympic squads.

* 1984 represented Australia as a Flyweight at Olympic Games in Los Angeles.

Acrux is represented in the flags of Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea as one of five stars which comprise the Southern Cross.

In Australia, flight attendants are represented by the Flight Attendants ' Association of Australia ( FAAA ).

The king and members of the royal family have represented Spain in Europe, Latin America, in the United States and in Canada, nations in the Middle East and North Africa, in China, Japan, the Philippines, Australia, New Zealand and many countries in sub-Sahara Africa.