On 13 April 2005, Fiji's Prime Minister, Laisenia Qarase, rejected criticism from Australia and some other countries over the prosecution and imprisonment of two foreigners charged with committing homosexual acts, which are illegal in Fiji, and said that other countries needed to respect Fiji's independence.

In the third Test, they scored 517 and although Mark Taylor carried his bat for 169, Australia needed to bat 109 overs to save the match.

In 2011 evidence was uncovered in neighbouring East Timor, showing that 42, 000 years ago these early settlers had high-level maritime skills, and by implication the technology needed to make ocean crossings to reach Australia and other islands, as they were catching and consuming large numbers of big deep sea fish such as tuna.

In a low scoring match ( no-one made a score over 48 ), Australia needed 151 to win.

Indeed, since the Coalition's formation in 1923, the major non-Labor party had only been able to govern alone once, during Joseph Lyons ' first ministry -- and even then, Lyons ' United Australia Party had come up four seats short of a majority and needed confidence and supply support from the Country Party to govern.

During the Second World War the track was upgraded at considerable expense in case it was needed for an evacuation of the north if Australia was invaded.

In response to the perception that stricter financial governance laws are needed, SOX-type laws have been subsequently enacted in Japan, Germany, France, Italy, Australia, India, South Africa, and Turkey.

Australia, scheduled to make a tour of South Africa at the end of the year, needed to replace the retired Bill Woodfull as captain.

In 2011 evidence was uncovered, at the Jerimalai cave site, showing that these early settlers had high-level maritime skills at this time, and by implication the technology needed to make ocean crossings to reach Australia and other islands, as they were catching and consuming large numbers of big deep sea fish such as tuna.

Berle argued the United States needed a “ unified banking system ” ( most likely through the Federal Reserve System ) that would perform more like the nationwide branch bank systems in Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom.

Though Australia was still a set of independent colonies under the final authority of Britain, and had not yet trod the path of nationhood, there was a distinct feeling that Australians needed to be united and become as one.

Most British colonies needed to use the blue ensign due to the fact that most had government vessels ; some colonies, such as South Australia, had warships.

As of June 2010 Telstra owned a majority of the copper wire infrastructure in Australia ( the rest owned by Optus ) and is pending sale to its former parent, the Australian Government for a non-binding amount of $ 11 billion AUD, as ducts in the copper wire tunnels are needed to install the fiber optic cable.

Additional food and ammunition reserves were needed for the extra troops arriving from Australia, and Cameron and Grey were determined not to move until they were ready. 30, 000 pounds was spent by the New Zealand government designing and having shallow draft gunboats built in Sydney.

His next column identified Peter Tatchell, British National Party leader Nick Griffin and Omar Bakri Mohammed of Al-Muhajiroun as the top three " hate filled bigots ", saying that Tatchell needed " a good slap in the face " and his " queer campaign army " should " pack their bent bags and head back to Australia ".

India now needed victories against Australia and Zimbabwe to advance to semi-finals.

For most mangroves along the eastern coast of Australia, in particular Moreton Bay, turbidity levels as high as 600 Nephelometric Turbidity Units ( NTU ) are needed for proper ecosystem functioning.

The tourists had had the best run of games of any MCC team since the war, beating Western Australia, South Australia and New South Wales, drawing with Queensland, when they needed two more wickets to win, and losing to Victoria by 32 runs after a run-chase.

Australia only needed a draw to qualify for the Round of 16.

It argued that Australia needed protective tariffs to allow Australian industry to grow and provide employment.

In December 2006, a controversy arose when a video was published showing Mesić during a speech in Australia in the early 1990s, where he said that the Croats " won a victory on April 10th " ( when the fascist aligned Independent State of Croatia was formed ) " as well as in 1945 " ( when the communist anti-fascists prevailed and the Socialist Republic of Croatia was formed ), as well as that Croatia needed to apologize to no one for the Jasenovac concentration camp ( i. e. the WWII Holocaust against Serbs and Jews ).

Although Bradman would later transfer to play for South Australia, his world-beating performances provided much needed joy to Sydney-siders through the emerging Great Depression.

In November 1866, Harriet Jacobs received news that her son, Joseph, was sick in Australia and needed money for the trip home.

Cricket Australia proposed that the 2010 – 11 series consist of six Tests, with the additional game to be played at Bellerive Oval in Hobart.

Unregulated fishing landed five to six times more than the regulated fishery, and allegedly illegal fishing in Antarctic waters in 1998 resulted in the seizure ( by France and Australia ) of at least eight fishing ships.

Over the period 1858 to 1861, John McDouall Stuart led six expeditions north from Adelaide into the outback, culminating in successfully reaching the north coast of Australia and returning, without the loss of any of the party's members ' lives.

They played 19 games of Australian rules football, against prominent clubs in Victoria and South Australia, winning six and drawing one of these ( see Australian rules football in England ).

The side also visited Australia, losing a test but winning five out of the six non-test games.

The 1959 tour to Australia and New Zealand marked once again a very successful tour for the Lions, who only lost six of their 35 fixtures.

:* Australia: six entities

The current world rankings show England in top place for association croquet, followed by Australia and New Zealand sharing second place, with the United States in fourth position ; the same four countries appear in the top six of the golf croquet league table, below Egypt in top position, and with South Africa at number five.

The term also served when six Australian colonies federated to form the Commonwealth of Australia in 1901.

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.

The album reached number one in New Zealand, number two in Australia, number six in the UK and made the top 20 in several European countries.

Eight teams participated in the first tournament: Australia, England, India, New Zealand, Pakistan, and the West Indies ( the six Test nations at the time ), together with Sri Lanka and a composite team from East Africa.

The Governor of New South Wales is the state viceregal representative of the Australian monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, who is equally shared with 15 other sovereign nations in a form of personal union, as well as with the six other jurisdictions of Australia, and resides predominantly in her oldest realm, the United Kingdom.

According to the Good Universities Guide to Australian universities, starting salaries for Macquarie graduates have been ranked as the highest in Australia for ten consecutive years ( 1998 – 2007 ) and in 2009, the university received 5 star ratings in six different performance categories including non-government earnings, staff qualifications and toughness of admissions.

:* The federal ( Commonwealth ) government of Australia has a bicameral parliament, and each of Australia's six states has a bicameral parliament except for Queensland, which has a unicameral parliament.

The first six Governors of South Australia oversaw governance from proclamation in 1836 until responsible government was introduced in 1856.

A six part television miniseries entitled " South Side Story " depicting the takeover aired in Australia in 2007.

The rock garden is divided into six geographic regions: Europe, Mediterranean and Africa, Australia and New Zealand, Asia, North America, and South America.

However the Colonial Laws Validity Act 1865 continued to have application in the six Australian States and the Australian Capital Territory until the Australia Act of 1986 came into effect.

Under the provisions of Section 9 of the Statute of Westminster, the British Parliament still had the power to pass legislation concerning the six States of Australia, although " in accordance with the constitutional practice ".

Oceania, island group of nine islands comprising three reef islands and six true atolls in the South Pacific Ocean, about one-half of the way from Hawaii to Australia.

On 7 May, the Nationalist opposition ( hitherto led by John Latham ), the six Labor dissidents ( who had formed the All for Australia League ), and former Prime Minister Billy Hughes ' Australian Party ( a group of former Nationalists who had been expelled for crossing the floor and bringing down Stanley Bruce's Nationalist government in 1929 ), merged to form the UAP.

* January 22 – The leaders of six Australian colonies meet in Melbourne to discuss the confederation of Australia as a whole.

Australia has six introduced species of deer that have established sustainable wild populations from acclimatisation society releases in the 19th century.