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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.
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England won two out of the three matches played against Murdoch's Australian Eleven, and after the third match some Melbourne ladies put some ashes into a small urn and gave them to me as captain of the English Eleven .”
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.
WSC came after an era during which the duopoly of Australian and English dominance dissipated ; the Ashes had long been seen as a cricket world championship but the rise of the West Indies in the late 1970s challenged that view.
In English terms it would be similar to the Canadian or Australian commonwealth status of the 20th century.
Australian English ( AusE, AuE, AusEng, en-AU < ref > is the language code for Australian English, as defined by ISO standards ( see ISO 639-1 and ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 ) and Internet standards ( see IETF language tag ).</ ref >) is a major variety of the English language and is used throughout Australia.
Although English has no official status in the Constitution, Australian English is Australia's de facto official language and is the first language of the majority of the population.
Australian English began its development after the landing of the First Fleet at Sydney Cove.
The earliest form of Australian English was first spoken by the children of the colonists born into the colony of New South Wales.
Anthony Burgess writes that " Australian English may be thought of as a kind of fossilised Cockney of the Dickensian era.
Some elements of Aboriginal languages have been adopted by Australian English — mainly as names for places, flora and fauna ( for example dingo ) and local culture.
The primary way in which Australian English is distinctive from other varieties of English is through its unique pronunciation.
Australian English monophthongs
Australian English diphthongs
The vowels of Australian English can be divided according to length.
There exist pairs of long and short vowels with overlapping vowel quality giving Australian English phonemic length distinction, which is unusual amongst the various dialects of English, though not unknown elsewhere, such as in regional south-eastern dialects of the UK and eastern seaboard dialects in the US .< ref >
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In Australia, the major Australian banks started issuing debit or EFTPOS cards ( each under a different brand name ) starting in 1986 and merchants started installing EFTPOS terminals at the same time.
The major Australian banks started issuing debit or EFTPOS cards ( each under a different brand name ) starting in 1986 and merchants started installing EFTPOS terminals at the same time.
Following a bombardment which started at 03: 30 on 10 July, the Australian 26th Brigade launched an attack against the ridge north of Tel el Eisa station along the coast ( Trig 33 ).
Brabham was a Royal Australian Air Force flight mechanic and ran a small engineering workshop before he started racing midget cars in 1948.
The following Australian season in 1952-53, Benaud started modestly and in the five first-class matches before the Tests, scored 208 runs at 26. 00 including a 63 and 69, and 14 wickets at 38. 64.
The first successful wave of Australian evening soap operas started in 1967 with Bellbird produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
The US Open, Miami Masters, US Open Series, and World Team Tennis started using this challenge system in 2006 and the Australian Open and Wimbledon introduced the system in 2007.
Fry insisted that Grace would not have started the 1948 season with any notion of being beaten by that season's Australian touring team, for " he was sanguine " and would have put everything he could muster into the task of beating them with no acceptance of defeat " till after it happened ".
Recently, Australian Shiraz producers have started to add up to 4 % Viognier to their Shiraz to add apricot tones to the wine's nose and palate.
Supposedly, the liner started to slide into the water before Elizabeth could officially launch her, and acting sharply, she managed to smash a bottle of Australian red over the liner's bow just before it slid out of reach.
Davenport started 1998 by reaching the singles semifinals of the Australian Open, which was her second consecutive Grand Slam singles semifinal.
Davenport started 1999 by winning the Sydney singles final and reaching the Australian Open singles semifinal, before losing to Amélie Mauresmo.
The Australian ISP BigPond employed this system when it started cable modem tests in 1996.
* 2009: 2009 Australian dust storm: On September 23, a dust storm that started in South Australia and inland New South Wales, Australia, blanketed New South Wales with reddish orange skies.
Sampras finished 1990 at world number 5, having started the year ranked world number 61 just prior to the start of the Australian Open.
1999 also started out disappointingly, as Sampras withdrew from the Australian Open and failed to win a title during the early part of the season.
Many actors and filmmakers started their careers in Australian films, a large number of whom have acquired international reputations, and a number of whom have found greater financial benefits in careers in larger film producing centers, such as Hollywood.
In the mid-1970s, Bill Mollison and David Holmgren started developing ideas about stable agricultural systems on the southern Australian island state of Tasmania.
In late 1991, before the Australian season started, Taylor was appointed to lead an Australia A side to tour Zimbabwe.
He started the " Irish experiment " at Mebourne which started recruiting Gaelic footballers from Ireland and converting them to Australian rules footballers.
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The Australian stopped trying to talk a pidgin I could understand, and spoke strange words from deep in his chest.
The Australian team from the 1911 – 12 tour.
Wakefield had read accounts of Australian settlement while in prison in London for attempting to abduct an heiress, and realised that the eastern colonies suffered from a lack of available labour, due to the practice of giving land grants to all arrivals.
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.
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.
* 1966 – Vietnam War: the Battle of Long Tan ensues after a patrol from the 6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment clashes with a Viet Cong force in Phuoc Tuy province.
According to linguist Bruce Moore, " the major input of the various sounds that went into constructing the Australian accent was from south-east England.
Apart from the city of Canberra, the Australian Capital Territory also contains agricultural land ( sheep, dairy cattle, vineyards and small amounts of crops ) and a large area of national park ( Namadgi National Park ), much of it mountainous and forested.
Because of its elevation and distance from the coast, the Australian Capital Territory experiences four distinct seasons, unlike many other Australian cities whose climates are moderated by the sea.
The city centre is laid out on two perpendicular axes: a water axis stretching along Lake Burley Griffin, and a ceremonial land axis stretching from Parliament House on Capital Hill north-eastward along ANZAC Parade to the Australian War Memorial at the foot of Mount Ainslie.
Australian English likewise blends American and British alongside native usages, but retains a significantly higher degree of distinctiveness from both of the larger varieties than does Canadian English, particularly in terms of pronunciation and vocabulary.
In the Australian Capital Territory, the Act of Settlement was, on 11 May 1989, converted, from an act of the Parliament of England into an ACT enactment, by section 34 ( 4 ) of the Australian Capital Territory ( Self-Government ) Act 1988 ( Cwlth ), and then renamed The Act of Settlement 1700 by the Legislation Act 2001.
Between 1977 and 1987, the Australian Football Council ( AFC ) in conjunction with the VFL ran a night series, which invited clubs and representative sides from around the country to participate in the " National Football League " for the Wills Cup, however Victorian sides still dominated.
Originating from the early intercolonial matches, these tests continued well after Federation of Australia in 1901 and the Australian Football Council co-ordinated regular interstate carnivals.
Action from a 1999 Australian football match in Australian rules football in Nauru | Nauru at the Linkbelt Oval
Since 1967 there have been many matches between Australian Football teams ( mainly from Australia ) and Gaelic football teams ( mainly from Ireland ), under various sets of hybrid, compromise rules known as International rules football.
* Australian Football explained in 17 languages – a publication from AFL. com. au
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