* 1976 – Adam Pine, Australian swimmer

* 1972 – Adam Elliot, Australian animator

* 1970 – Adam Hills, Australian comedian and actor

* 1973 – Adam Garcia, Australian actor

* 1988 – Adam Biddle, Australian footballer

* 1980 – Adam Scott, Australian golfer

* 1979 – Adam Voges, Australian cricketer

* 1981 – Adam Quick, Australian basketball player

* 1985 – Adam Cooney, Australian footballer

* November 14 – Adam Gilchrist, Australian cricketer

* June 24 – Adam Lindsay Gordon, Australian poet ( b. 1833 )

The Greens took the seat of Melbourne from the Australian Labor Party in 2010 with candidate Adam Bandt.

* Adam Ballinger, basketball player and team captain of the Adelaide 36ers in the Australian NBL.

Other popular performers of Australian country music include: John Williamson ( who wrote the iconic song " True Blue "), Lee Kernaghan, Adam Brand, Kasey Chambers and Sara Storer.

Confidential, Adam Whitely aka Felicia Jollygoodfellow ( a drag queen ) in the The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, Mike Young in the Australian television series Neighbours and King Edward VIII (" David ") in The King's Speech.

He was well received by his fellow writers, George Gordon McCrae, Marcus Clarke, Adam Lindsay Gordon and others, but Kendall had none of the qualities of a successful journalist, though some of his work was accepted by the press and George Robertson published his second volume, Leaves from Australian Forests, soon after his arrival.

* Adam Bandt – Australian Politician

* Adam Carr's Australian Election Archive

Adam Goodes ( born 8 January 1980 in Wallaroo, South Australia ) is a professional Australian rules football player with the Sydney Swans in the Australian Football League ( AFL ).

Adam is well known for his Indigenous Australian heritage, and is prominently involved and associated with several Indigenous sport and community programs.

While at Merbein, Adam attended primary school at Merbein West Primary School in 1986, and it was there that he began to play Australian Rules football.

A further link with the Solomon Islands exists via Protective Service Officer Adam Dunning of the Australian Federal Police, who was shot and killed in Honiara in December 2004.

* Adam Lindsay Gordon ( 1833 – 1870 ), Australian poet, jockey and politician.

He proceeded to score 119 from 123 balls ( nine fours and three sixes ) in Australia's second match of the series — again against England, this time at the MCG — sharing an all wicket record Australian ODI partnership of 225 with Adam Gilchrist in the process.

* 1891 – Harold Horder, Australian rugby league player ( d. 1978 )

The first occasion was in 1988 for a museum tour as part of the Australian Bicentenary celebrations ; the second was for the 2006 / 7 Ashes series.

A fourth match was played, against a " United Australian XI ", which was arguably stronger than the Australian sides that had competed in the previous three matches ; this game, however, is not generally considered part of the 1882 – 83 series.

Australian captain Herbie Collins was stripped of all captaincy positions down to club level, and some accused him of throwing the match.

Bradman was succeeded as Australian captain by Lindsay Hassett, who led the team to 4 – 1 victory in 1950 – 51.

The series was overshadowed by the furore over various Australian bowlers, most notably Ian Meckiff, whom the English management and media accused of illegally throwing Australia to victory.

The Australian team of 1989 was comparable to the great Australian teams of the past, and resoundingly defeated England 4 – 0.

But the most dominant Australian player was leg-spinner Shane Warne, whose first delivery in Ashes cricket in 1993, to dismiss Mike Gatting, became known as the Ball of the century.

Use of the name " Ashes " was suggested by the Australian team when rugby league matches between the two countries commenced in 1908.

However, by mid-1837 the South Australian Register was warning of escaped convicts from New South Wales, and tenders for a temporary gaol were sought.

In 1867 gas street lighting was implemented, the University of Adelaide was founded in 1874, the South Australian Art Gallery opened in 1881 and the Happy Valley Reservoir opened in 1896.

* 1980 – Azaria Chamberlain disappears, probably taken by a dingo, leading to what was then the most publicized trial in Australian history.

The Australian Labor Party ( also ALP and Labor, was Labour before 1912 ) is a social-democratic political party in Australia.

The ALP was founded as a federal party prior to the first sitting of the Australian Parliament in 1901, but is descended from Labour parties founded in the various Australian colonies by the emerging labour movement in Australia, formally beginning in 1891.

Labor was the first party in Australia to win a majority in either house of the Australian Parliament, at the 1910 federal election.

Australian English started diverging from British English after the founding of the colony of New South Wales in 1788 and was recognised as being different from British English by 1820.

The earliest form of Australian English was first spoken by the children of the colonists born into the colony of New South Wales.

According to linguist Bruce Moore, " the major input of the various sounds that went into constructing the Australian accent was from south-east England.

In the United Kingdom, His Majesty's Declaration of Abdication Act was, with the consent of the Australian, Canadian, New Zealand, and South African governments, passed through parliament and the Crown thus passed to the next-in-line descendant of Sophia: Edward's brother, Prince Albert, Duke of York.