Team members Tina Arena and Dannii Minogue both continue to have resoundingly successful careers both in Australia and in Europe where they have become household names.

In 1987, Animalia won the title of Honour Book in the Children's Book Council of Australia Children's Book of the Year Award: Picture Book.

With Martina Hingis as her partner, she won Grand Slam titles in Australia in 1999 and 2002.

Australia won the First Test by nine wickets, but in the next two England were victorious.

Australia won the Third and Fourth Tests at Bramall Lane and Old Trafford respectively.

At Old Trafford, Australia won by just 3 runs after Victor Trumper had scored 104 on a " bad wicket ", reaching his hundred before lunch on the first day.

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.

Australia promptly seized the initiative, won the First Test convincingly and inaugurated a dominant post-war era.

Australia won 4 – 0 in 1958 – 59, having found a high-quality spinner of their own in new skipper Richie Benaud, who took 31 wickets in the five-Test series, and paceman Alan Davidson, who took 24 wickets at 19. 00.

Of the 20 Tests played during the four series, Australia won four and England three.

Australia won the 1977 Centenary Test which was not an Ashes contest, but then a storm broke as Kerry Packer announced his intention to form World Series Cricket.

Australia went 2 – 0 up after three Tests, but England won the Fourth Test by 3 runs ( after a 70-run last wicket stand ) to set up the final decider, which was drawn.

The First Test at Lord's was convincingly won by Australia, but in the remaining four matches the teams were evenly matched and England fought back to win the Second Test by 2 runs, the smallest victory by a runs margin in Ashes history, and the second-closest such victory in all Tests.

The rain-affected Third Test ended with the last two Australian batsmen holding out for a draw and England won the Fourth Test by three wickets after forcing Australia to follow-on for the first time in 191 Tests.

With several England players having retired or been injured after the 2005 series, Australia regained The Ashes in the 2006 – 07 series with a convincing 5 – 0 victory, the second time an Ashes series has been won by that margin.

After a rain-affected draw at Edgbaston, the fourth match at Headingley was convincingly won by Australia by an innings and 80 runs to level the series.

England bowled Australia out again for 281 and so won a series on Australian soil for the first time in 24 years.

The Lions won all their games in Australia except for their final fixture against a New South Wales XV in Newcastle.

They won both tests against Australia, in Brisbane and in Sydney.

The Lions easily won both tests against Australia and lost the first three tests against the All Blacks, but did find victory ( 9 – 6 ) in the final test.

The tour was very successful for the Lions, who won all eight non-tests and won the test series against Australia, two to one.

In Australia, the group has won eleven ARIA Awards from 26 nominations, including the inaugural Best New Talent award in 1987.

Australia has been the most successful of the five teams to have won the tournament, taking four titles.

The tournament was won by the West Indies, who defeated Australia by 17 runs in the final at Lord's.

The club participated in the first football competition in Australia, winning the second season in 1863, was a foundation Victorian Football Association ( VFA ) and the Victorian Football League ( VFL ) in 1897.

Hoover went to Australia in 1897 as an employee of Bewick, Moreing & Co., a London-based mining company.

* 1821 – William Jervois, English engineer and caption, 10th Governor of South Australia ( d. 1897 )

* September 2 – Enid Lyons, Australia politician ( b. 1897 )

William Ernest Powell Giles ( 20 July 1835 – 13 November 1897 ), best known as Ernest Giles, was an Australian explorer who led three major expeditions in central Australia.

By March 1897 he was considered " the acknowledged leader of the federal movement in all Australia ".

Some planned capitals include Abuja, Nigeria ( 1991 ); Aracaju, Sergipe, Brazil ( 1855 ); Ankara, Turkey ( 1923 ); Austin, Texas ( 1839 ); Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil ( 1897 ); Dhaka, Bangladesh ( 1971 ); Brasília, Brazil ( 1960 ); Canberra, Australia ( 1927 ); Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil ( 1933 ); Islamabad, Pakistan ( 1960 ); Frankfort, Kentucky ( 1792 ); Jefferson City, Missouri ( 1821 ); Jhongsing New Village, Taiwan, Republic of China ( 1955 ); New Delhi, India ( 1911 ); Oklahoma City, Oklahoma ( 1889 ); Ottawa, Ontario, Canada ( 1857 ); Palmas, Tocantins, Brazil ( 1989 ); Quezon City, Philippines ( 1948 – 1976 ); Raleigh, North Carolina, USA ( 1792 ); Washington D. C., USA ( 1800 ); and Wellington, New Zealand ( 1865 ).

One of the primary catalysts of pictorialism in Australia was John Kauffmann ( 1864-1942 ), who studied photographic chemistry and printing in London, Zurich and Vienna between 1889 and 1897.

It has been introduced to East Africa around Zanzibar ( around 1897 ) and Port Sudan, and arrived in Australia via ship but has up to now been exterminated.

Charles Edward Kingsford Smith was born on 9 February 1897 in Hamilton ( a suburb of Brisbane ), Queensland, Australia, and was the youngest of seven children of William Charles Smith ( 1852 – 1930 ), a bank manager, and Catherine Mary Kingsford ( 1857 – 1938 ), daughter of Richard Ash Kingsford, a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland.

Although a technically sound gun design, the market for lever-action shotguns waned considerably after the introduction of the Winchester 1897 and other contemporary pump-action shotguns ; modern reproductions of the gun have been manufactured by Norinco in China, ADI Ltd. in Australia and Chiappa Firearms in Italy.

* Black Australians: A Survey of Native Policy in Western Australia, 1829 – 1897, Melbourne University Press ( Melbourne ), 1942, 2nd edition, 1970.

The so-called ' Golden Age ' of Australian test cricket occurred around the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, with the team under the captaincy of Joe Darling, Monty Noble and Clem Hill winning eight of ten tours it participated in between the 1897 – 98 English tour of Australia and the 1910 – 11 South African tour of Australia.

Charles Cameron Kingston, ( 22 October 1850-11 May 1908 ) Australian politician, was an early liberal Premier of South Australia serving from 1893 to 1899 with the support of Labor led by John McPherson from 1893 and Lee Batchelor from 1897 in the House of Assembly, winning the 1893, 1896, and 1899 state elections against the conservatives.

He wrote a List of the Insectivorous Birds of New South Wales ( 1897 ) and a Descriptive Catalogue of the Nests and Eggs of Birds Found Breeding in Australia and Tasmania ( 1889 ).

He became an advocate for women's suffrage and he stood for election to the Australasian Federal Convention in 1897, but in 1901 he refused to attend the inauguration of the Commonwealth of Australia because precedence was given to the Church of England.

Ranjitsinhji was chosen to tour Australia with Andrew Stoddart's team during the winter of 1897 – 98.

* Australian Football League, the elite level of Australian rules football in Australia that changed its name from the Victorian Football League, which it was known as between 1897 and 1989.

Brand was born in Dongara, Western Australia, the eldest of four children of Albert John Brand, a farmer, and his wife Hilda, née Mitchell, whose father Samuel Mitchell was a prominent geologist and politician who was a member of the Legislative Council from 1884 to 1885 and later represented Murchison in the Legislative Assembly, from 1897 to 1901.

In 1897 he went from Victoria to Western Australia he and joined the civil service there, quickly rising through the ranks.

In 1897, Garran published The Coming Commonwealth, an influential book on the history of the Federation movement and the debate over the 1891 draft of the Constitution of Australia.

Lasseter's Reef refers to the purported discovery, in 1897, of a fabulously rich gold deposit in a remote and desolate corner of central Australia.

In 1929 and 1930 Harold Bell Lasseter claimed that in 1897, as a young man, he rode on horse from Queensland to the West Australian goldfields, during which he stumbled across a huge gold reef somewhere near the border between the Northern Territory and Western Australia.