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.

Celebrities may be known around the world ( e. g., pop stars and film actors ), within a specific country ( e. g., a top Australian rugby player ); or within a region ( e. g., a local television news anchor ).

Other conservative parties are the National Party of Australia, a sister party of the Liberals, Family First Party, Democratic Labor Party, Shooters Party and the Katter's Australian Party The second largest party in the country, the Australian Labor Party's dominant faction is Labor Right, a socially conservative element.

In an Australian context, the term " Commonwealth " ( capitalised ) thus refers to the federal government and " Commonwealth of Australia " is the official name of the country.

* 1964 – James Blundell, Australian country singer

The Australian and New Zealand systems are country specific and do not interconnect.

A speedometer from an Australian car, showing the speed of the vehicle only in kilometres per hour, as in almost every other country.

Its decline was due mainly to the reduction of real and psychological differences between country and city brought about by the postwar expansion of the Australian urban population and to the increased affluence and technological changes that accompanied it.

* 19-Slim Dusty, 76, Australian country music singer.

The main exception to this was the Australian Broadcasting Corporation produced Something in the Air, a rural-based serial examining a range of characters in a small country town.

American, Australian and Chinese oil companies, in particular, are excited about the prospect of finding petroleum and other natural resources in the country.

* September 27 – Gay Kayler Ashcroft, Australian country music singer

* October 26 – Keith Urban, New Zealand-born Australian country music singer

The subsequent introduction of a second variety of GM cotton led to increases in GM cotton production until 95 % of the Australian cotton crop was GM in 2009 making Australia the country with the fifth largest GM cotton crop in the world.

The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation ( ASIO ) is Australia's national security service, which is responsible for the protection of the country and its citizens from espionage, sabotage, acts of foreign interference, politically motivated violence, attacks on the Australian defence system, and terrorism.

However, rifts within Australian society, right through history, whether by denial of rights to the indigenous people or, on the contrary, by way of feelings of victimisation by the settling communities, and in recent times, the effects of cultural identity and assimilation taken to the extreme in the form of riots, street violence and ethnic gangs on both, the settled and the migrant communities, pose major challenges to multiculturalism in the country.

Australian company The Novita Group Pty Ltd owns the trademark " Skunkworks " in that country.

Some of his first rehearsals in the country involved conducting the Elizabethan Sydney Orchestra and the Australian Opera Chorus, both newly formed and on permanent contracts.

This was followed in 1978 by the first Australian Opera country tour with orchestra to north-eastern New South Wales ( Don Pasquale with the Queensland Theatre Orchestra, conducted by Tintner ).

A central argument made by Australian republicans is that, as Australia is an independent country, it is inappropriate for Britain's monarch to be Australia's Head of State.

At the Australian Federation Convention which produced the first draft that was to become the Australian Constitution in Sydney in 1891, a former Premier of New South Wales George Dibbs described as the " inevitable destiny of the people of this great country " the establishment of " the Republic of Australia ".

Hadlee followed this up with 7 wickets in a loss in the second test, and 11 wickets in a New Zealand victory in the third test, giving his country their first series win on Australian soil and a personal haul of 33 wickets in 3 tests.

* 1981 – Vanessa Amorosi, Australian singer-songwriter

* 1969 – Bernard Fanning, Australian singer-songwriter ( Powderfinger )

* 1983 – Missy Higgins, Australian singer-songwriter and actress

* 1949 – Rick Springfield, Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor ( Zoot )

* 1952 – Pat Drummond, Australian singer-songwriter ( The Bushwackers )

* 1989 – Jessica Mauboy, Australian singer-songwriter and actress ( Young Divas )

Bassist Nick Seymour ( ex-Plays with Marionettes, Bang, The Horla ) is the younger brother of singer-songwriter and guitarist Mark Seymour of the now defunct Australian rock group Hunters & Collectors.

* 1927 – Slim Dusty, Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer ( d. 2003 )

* 1943 – Judith Durham, Australian singer-songwriter and musician ( The Seekers )

* 1961 – Rick Price, Australian singer-songwriter and musician

* 1979 – Nic Cester, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist ( Jet and The Wrights )

* 1977 – Rebecca St. James, Australian singer-songwriter, author and actress

* 1960 – Conway Savage, Australian singer-songwriter, musician, and composer ( Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds )

* 1955 – Paul Kelly, Australian singer-songwriter

* 1972 – Darren Hayes, Australian singer-songwriter ( Savage Garden )

* 1968 – Kylie Minogue, Australian singer-songwriter, producer, and actress

* 1988 – Casey Donovan, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist

* 1990 – Lisa Mitchell, Australian singer-songwriter

* 1981 – Kate Miller-Heidke, Australian singer-songwriter

* 1976 – Jodi Martin, Australian singer-songwriter

* 1975 – Natalie Bassingthwaighte, Australian singer-songwriter and actress ( Rogue Traders )

* 1974 – Monique Brumby, Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer

* 1975 – Shannon Noll, Australian singer-songwriter

* 1976 – Sarah Blasko, Australian singer-songwriter

* 1953 – Greg Ham, Australian singer-songwriter, musician, and actor ( Men at Work ) ( d. 2012 )