Other than the indigenous climate and produce, Australian cuisine has been derived from the tastes of immigrant settlers to Australia and the produce they have introduced to the continent.

and likewise explains why large international coffee chains are not as successful as locally formed coffee houses ( such as local brands Miss Maud, Dome Coffee & Coffee Club ) as they do not cater for Australian tastes.

Heavily influenced by Anglo-Celtic origins the culture of Australia has also been shaped by multi-ethnic migration which has influenced all aspects of Australian life, including business, the arts, cooking, sense of humour and sporting tastes.

Both the subject matter and the presentation of the ballet were well in advance of Australian tastes at the time.

A self-effacing man of simple tastes and pleasures, Border served at the most tempestuous time in cricket history, and came to represent the indomitable spirit of the Australian game.

However, according to Nic, it was Australian band You Am I who had the biggest influence on Jet's developing musical tastes :" Hi Fi Way was the most important album of my generation ...

According to Trisha Dixon, Walling was an important influence on Australian gardening, steering tastes away from an Anglo-centric heritage towards a respect for the Australian climate and landscape.

The Australian scholar Sue Thomas referred to it as " an important informer ... of popular literary tastes in the late Victorian and Edwardian periods ".

The vowels of Australian English can be divided according to length.

However, its decisions can be overruled by the Australian Governor-General ( effectively by the national government ) under section 35 of the Australian Capital Territory ( Self-Government ) Act 1988.

In one hour, an average healthy adult can metabolize about 75 % of an Australian unit of alcohol or 95 % of a United Kingdom unit.

Or, third, it incorporates the United Kingdom rules of succession into the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act, which itself can now be altered only by Australia, according to the Australia Act 1986 ; in that way, the British rules of succession have been patriated to Australia and, with regard to Australia, are subject to amendment or repeal solely by Australian law.

S. A. Hamed Hosseini ( an Australian sociologist and expert in global social movement studies ), argues that the term anti-globalization can be ideal-typically used only to refer to only one ideological vision he detects alongside three other visions ( the anti-globalist, the alter-globalist and the alter-globalization ).

Singles, triples and fours and Australian pairs are some ways the game can be played.

The word bunyip can still be found in a number of Australian contexts, including place names such as the Bunyip River ( which flows into Westernport Bay in southern Victoria ) and the town of Bunyip, Victoria.

Keno can have house edges up to 25 %, slot machines can have up to 15 %, while most Australian Pontoon games have house edges between 0. 3 % and 0. 4 %.

As there is no offside rule in Australian rules football, players can be tackled from any direction, and often blindsided.

Many mementos of the Gallipoli campaign can be seen in the museum at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra, Australia, and at the Auckland War Memorial Museum in Auckland, New Zealand.

The Australian academic and practicing Pagan Caroline Jane Tully argued that many Pagans can react negatively to new scholarship regarding historical pre-Christian societies, believing that it is a threat to the structure of their beliefs and " sense of identity.

Some of the constructs discussed here can also be found in rural Australian areas.

Dennis ' " The Sentimental Bloke " and some of Henry Lawson's writings can be used to see the forms that have their origins in Irish and Irish-Gaelic in the Australian Language.

The prehistory of Papua New Guinea can be traced back to about 60, 000 years ago when people first migrated towards the Australian continent.

In some common law jurisdictions, such as England and Wales and the Australian state of Victoria, plea bargaining is permitted only to the extent that the prosecutors and the defense can agree that the defendant will plead guilty to some charges and the prosecutor will drop the remainder.

Most Australian soap operas focus on a mixed age range of middle-class characters and will regularly feature a range of locations where the various, disparate, characters can meet and interact, such as the café, the surf club, the wine bar, or the school.

A late ( 1890s ) reference to the urban legend of the murdering barber can be found in the poem by the Australian bush poet Banjo Paterson — The Man from Ironbark.

Usually injunctions will not impose positive obligations on tortfeasors, but some Australian jurisdictions can make an order for specific performance to ensure that the defendant carries out their legal obligations, especially in relation to nuisance matters.

* Dismissal — some constitutions allow a Head of state ( or their designated representative, as is the case in Commonwealth countries ) to dismiss a Head of government, though its use can be controversial, as occurred in 1975 when then Australian Governor-General, Sir John Kerr, dismissed Prime Minister Gough Whitlam in the Australian Constitutional Crisis.

: Information can be found on-line in the En route Supplement Australia ( ERSA ) which is published by Airservices Australia, a government owned corporation charged with managing Australian ATC.

In Australia, sugar gliders can be kept in Victoria, South Australia and the Northern Territory but not Western Australia, New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory, or Tasmania.

Due to the different source of Australian commonwealth power on de factos they can only be legally recognised whilst living within a state in Australia.

Others are confined to vast reservations, and not only does the Australian government justifiably not wish them to be viewed as exhibits in a zoo, but on their reservations they are extremely fugitive, shunning camps, coming together only for corroborees at which their strange culture comes to its highest pitch -- which is very low indeed.

The Australian touring party had been severely weakened by a dispute between the board and players that caused Clem Hill, Victor Trumper, Warwick Armstrong, Tibby Cotter, Sammy Carter and Vernon Ransford to be omitted.

A dramatic series in 1956 saw a record that will probably never be beaten: off-spinner Jim Laker's monumental effort at Old Trafford when he bowled 68 of 191 overs to take 19 out of 20 possible Australian wickets in the Fourth Test.

WSC affected all Test playing nations but it weakened Australia especially as the bulk of its players had signed up with Packer ; the Australian Cricket Board ( ACB ) would not select WSC-contracted players and an almost completely new Test team had to be formed.

In English terms it would be similar to the Canadian or Australian commonwealth status of the 20th century.

Anthony Burgess writes that " Australian English may be thought of as a kind of fossilised Cockney of the Dickensian era.

The words imported included some later considered to be typically Australian, such as bonzer.

Henry Sweet incorrectly predicted in 1877 that within a century American English, Australian English and British English would be mutually unintelligible.

Second, it is " merely an interpretative provision ", operating to ensure that references to " the Queen " in the Constitution are references to whoever may at the time be the incumbent of the " sovereignty of the United Kingdom " as determined with regard to Australia, following the Australia Act 1986, by Australian law.

However, Twomey expresses confidence that, if the High Court of Australia were to be faced with the problems of covering clause 2, it would find some way to conclude that, with regard to Australia, the clause is subject solely to Australian law.

The Australian Outback is full of very well-adapted wildlife, although much of it may not be immediately visible to the casual observer.

It turned out to be extremely dangerous, and most Australian players sustained injuries from being hit by the ball.

The English press and cricket authorities declared the Australian protests to be a case of sore losing and " squealing ".

* Crackerjack – a 2002 Australian comedy film about a wisecracking layabout who joins a lawn bowls club in order to be allowed to use a free parking spot but is forced to play bowls with the much older crowd when the club enters financial difficulty.

Another suggestion is that the bunyip may be a cultural memory of extinct Australian marsupials such as the Diprotodon or Palorchestes.

The groundwork for the modern bikini began to be laid in 1907, when Australian swimmer and performer Annette Kellerman was arrested on a Boston beach for wearing a form-fitting one-piece swimsuit, which became an accepted beach attire for women by 1910.

In 1978 An Australian Prayer Book was produced which sought to adhere to this principle, so that where the Liturgical Committee could not agree on a formulation, the words or expressions of the BCP were to be used.

In 1999, she volunteered to be monitored closely by the Australian television program 60 Minutes for one week without eating to demonstrate her methods.