* 1990 – Carmen Lawrence becomes the first female Premier in Australian history when she becomes Premier of Western Australia.

* 1896 – Sir Lawrence Wackett, Australian aircraft engineer ( d. 1982 )

The Liberal National Party led by Lawrence Springborg went on to lose the March 2009 election to Anna Bligh's Australian Labor Party.

** Lawrence Hargrave, Australian engineer ( d. 1915 )

Carmen Lawrence, the first female premier of an Australian state, later represented Fremantle in the federal House of Representatives.

Manned kite flying and aerial photography was advanced also by French Marcel Maillot, British Robert Baden-Powell, Americans Charles Lamson and William Abner Eddy, Australian Lawrence Hargrave ( inventor of box kite in 1893 and kite train in 1884 ) and French Captain Saconney.

This, along with continuous stage work, led to the attention of Australian Broadcasting Commission radio drama producer Lawrence H. Cecil, who was to act as his coach and mentor throughout 1939 and 1940.

* An engraving of Lawrence Hargrave alongside some of his gliders appeared on the reverse of the Australian $ 20 banknote from 1966 to 1994.

* Amirah Inglis, ' Hargrave, Lawrence ( 1850-1915 )', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 9, MUP, 1983, pp 196 – 198.

* The Hargrave Files papers and drawings by Lawrence Hargrave, and miscellaneous articles about Hargrave's kites from the archives of the Australian Kite Association

The South African fans and pundits went on to criticise referee Bryce Lawrence for " one-sided " refereeing, claiming that Australian openside David Pocock was allowed to " reduce the breakdown to a farce ".

Carmen Mary Lawrence ( born 2 March 1948 ) is a retired Australian politician ; a former Premier of Western Australia and the first woman to become Premier of a State of the Commonwealth of Australia.

After leaving the State Parliament of Western Australia Lawrence became a Member of the House of Representatives in the Australian federal parliament.

Lawrence became the first directly elected Federal President of the Australian Labor Party in 2003.

Carmen Lawrence was the first female Premier of an Australian State.

In December 1993, Carmen Lawrence, Jim McGinty and Geoff Gallop joined in a petition to the High Court of Australia to challenge the franchise system for the Western Australian Legislative Council.

On 14 November 1995, the Royal Commission released a report which found that Lawrence had misled the Western Australian Parliament concerning her knowledge of and role in the tabling of the petition.

* Australian Women Fact File on Carmen Lawrence

An online biography based on the O ' Dwyer and Randolph books asserts that the engine Whitehead purportedly used in Pittsburgh attracted the attention of Australian aeronautical pioneer, Lawrence Hargrave, who in 1889 invented a rotary engine: " This steam machine was so ingenious that several years later Lawrence Hargrave told of using miniature designs of " Weisskopf-style " steam machines, as well as the " Weisskopf System " for his model trials in Australia.

* Chris Lawrence ( rugby league ) ( born 1988 ), Australian professional rugby league player

Harry Chauvel was portrayed in film: by Bill Kerr in The Lighthorsemen ( 1987 ), which covered the exploits of an Australian cavalry regiment during the Third Battle of Gaza ; by Ray Edwards in A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia ( 1990 ), which took place around the 1919 Paris peace conference ; and by Colin Baker in the 1992 Young Indiana Jones TV movie Daredevils of the Desert, another retelling of the Third Battle of Gaza from the director of The Lighthorsemen.

Matthew Lawrence Hayden AM ( born 29 October 1971 ) is a former Australian cricketer, and was signed to the Chennai Super Kings in the IPL until the 2010 season.

In the 1955 film Interrupted Melody, which starred Eleanor Parker as Australian soprano Marjorie Lawrence, Eileen Farrell supplied the singing voice.

From 1966 to 1994 the Australian twenty dollar note | Australian 20 dollar note featured Hargrave on the reverse.

As a concert soloist, Barry-Smith has performed in Fauré ’ s Requiem ( Melbourne Symphony Orchestra ), Haydn's Paukenmesse ( Queensland Philharmonic Orchestra ), Bach ’ s St John Passion ( Brisbane Chorale ), Nigel Butterley's Lawrence Hargrave Flying Alone ( Sydney Symphony ), Bach ’ s St Matthew Passion, Christmas Oratorio and Purcell's Ode to St Cecilia ’ s Day ( Bach Society of Queensland ), and as the baritone soloist in the Australian composer's Richard Mills 2001 work, Symphonic Poems.

It was reputedly invented by the Australian leg-spinner Clarrie Grimmett.

Vegemite was invented in 1922 by food technologist Cyril P. Callister when, following the disruption of British Marmite imports after World War I, his employer, the Australian company Fred Walker & Co., gave him the task of developing a spread from the used yeast being dumped by breweries.

* Vegemite is invented by Australian Fred Walker.

The novel is notable stylistically for its use of an invented Lunar dialect consisting predominantly of standard English and Australian colloquial words but strongly influenced by Russian grammar, especially omission of article " the ", which does not exist in most Slavic languages ( cf.

In Australian aboriginal mythology, Pundjel is a creator god who invented most of the skills used by Australian Aborigines, including religious rites.

The rsync utility uses an algorithm invented by the Australian computer programmer Andrew Tridgell for efficiently transmitting a structure ( such as a file ) across a communications link when the receiving computer already has a similar, but not identical, version of the same structure.

Favourite games like cricket and rugby were imported from Britain at this time and a locally invented variant of football: Australian Rules Football took off as treasured cultural traditions.

Michell / Kingsbury fluid dynamic tilting-pad bearings were invented independently and almost simultaneously by both British-born Australian, Anthony George Maldon Michell and American tribologist Albert Kingsbury.

It was invented in 1930 by Harry Melbourne, an 18 year old moulder employed by MacRobertson's ; an Australian confectionery company.

In 1893 he invented the pêche Melba in honour of the Australian singer Nellie Melba, and in 1897, Melba toast.

The stories about " Bazza " ( Humphries ' nickname, as well as an Australian term of endearment for the name Barry ) gave wide circulation to Australian slang, particularly jokes about drinking and its consequences ( much of which was invented by Humphries ), and the character went on to feature in two Australian films, in which he was portrayed by Barry Crocker.

In 1893 he invented the pêche Melba in honour of the Australian singer Nellie Melba, and in 1897, Melba toast.

According to the Australian government, an electrical " power-board " was invented in 1972 by Australian electrical engineer Peter Talbot working under Frank Bannigan, Managing Director of Australian company Kambrook.

Renmark is famous among Australian youth for being the closest town to the vineyard on which the concept of box wine or goon was invented in 1965.

Fluid-film thrust bearings were invented by Australian engineer George Michell ( pronounced Mitchell ) who patented his invention in 1905.

The Peach Melba (, pronounced ) is a classic dessert, invented in 1892 or 1893 by the French chef Auguste Escoffier at the Savoy Hotel, London to honour the Australian soprano, Nellie Melba.

He modified the linear scoring system invented by John Atkinson Pendlington and developed by Australian scorer Bill Ferguson into a version that is known as the Frindall system.

This evolution of the illusion was invented by Australian Illusionist, John Taylor.