The tank unit had not been trained in close infantry support and failed to coordinate with the Australian infantry.

He was invited and then trained with former US Vice President Al Gore as a Climate Change Presenter ( now named Climate Reality ), launched Clean up the World Day with The UN in New York, and is an Ambassador for Greenpeace, Australian Conservation Foundation, Planet Ark and National Tree Day.

The Australian Army's officer corps are trained at the Royal Military College, Duntroon and the Australian Defence Force Academy is also located in the capital.

By 1945, more than 37, 500 Australian aircrew had been trained in Australia ; a majority of these, over 27, 300, had also graduated from schools in Australia.

Keith Chisholm ( who later became an ace and served with No. 452 Squadron RAAF over Europe and the Pacific ) was the first Australian to be trained under EATS.

Eleven United States airmen and a few dozen Australian special operatives trained a thousand Dayaks from the Kapit Division to battle the Japanese with guerilla warfare.

In Sydney she won a competition that led to her being trained by J. C. Williamson's theatre company, and she began acting on Australian radio.

This has been reflected in the historical cheaper pricing of key Australian artists who worked on paper, including expressionist-surrealist Joy Hester, romanticist landscape painter Hans Heysen, modernists Frank and Muriel Medworth, landscape painters Albert Namatjira and Kenneth MacQueen, Bauhaus trained teacher Ludwig Hirschfeld Mack and the master printmaker Murray Griffin, famous for his prints of birds.

Patsy King is an Australian television character actress, a Melbourne theatre performer who trained as a Shakespearean actress with the Melbourne National Theatre ; she spent her early days in the United Kingdom.

There are still cases of psychics professing to have trained with the Australian police and failing to provide credible evidence to support qualifications or evidence of being a psychic profiler or intuitive profiler with the Australian Police.

He trained with Joanne Priest and graduated from The Australian Ballet School in 1975.

It also trained civilians in munitions manufacturing and was commissioned by the Australian Government to manufacture military aircraft parts-including the majority of parts for the Beaufort Bomber.

Rabuka was trained initially in New Zealand army schools, from which he graduated in 1973, and later did postgraduate work at the Indian Defence Services Staff College in 1979, and at the Australian Joint Services Staff College in 1982.

In the Australian Federal Police, Drill Instructors are trained and accredited by the Recognition and Ceremonial team.

* The Passion of the Christ ( 2004 ) was directed and co-written by Australian trained actor-director Mel Gibson ( who was raised a Traditionalist Catholic in Australia ).

Thring trained as an actor at Melbourne radio station 3XY and began acting in professional stage roles after his discharge from the Royal Australian Air Force in 1945.

British and Australian productions, rather than having a second second AD, will hire a " second " 2AD experienced in the same duties, and trained to the same level, to allow a division of the duties.

The travellers included Hudson Fysh and Paul McGinness, two pilots who had both been trained in the Australian Flying Corps during World War I.

An officer in the Thai military, he trained with the Australian, British and United States armed services.

Vajiralongkorn trained for periods with the United States, British and Australian armed services, studying special forces demolition, unconventional warfare tactics and advanced navigation training.

In November 2005, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Four Corners TV program broadcast for the first time a transcript of an interview with Hicks, conducted by the Australian Federal Police ( AFP ) in 2002, and other material, including a report that Hicks had signed a statement written by American military investigators stating that he had trained with al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, learning guerrilla tactics and urban warfare.

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 ).

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In the beginning of 2009, Crowe appeared in a series of special edition postage stamps called " Legends of the Screen ", featuring Australian actors.

It featured many actors who had appeared in Australian soap operas Sons and Daughters, Prisoner, Home and Away and Neighbours.

During a visit to Australia in 1958, a similar special was made for the Australian Broadcasting Commission, " The Gladys Half-Hour ", which also featured local actors Ray Barrett, and John Bluthal, who would appear in several later Milligan projects.

It starred Australian actors Judy Morris and Ivar Kants and was filmed in just three weeks.

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.

Chauvel directed a number of successful Australian films, including 1944's World War II classic The Rats of Tobruk which starred Peter Finch and Chips Rafferty and 1955's Jedda, which was notable for being the first Australian film to be shot in colour, and the first to feature Aboriginal actors in lead roles and to be entered at the Cannes Film Festival.

Several notable films based on stories from Australian literature ( generally with strong rural themes ) were made in Australia in the 1950s-but by British and American production companies, including A Town Like Alice ( 1956 ) which starred Virginia McKenna and Peter Finch ; The Shiralee ( 1957 ) also starring Peter Finch with Australian actors Charles Tingwell, Bill Kerr and Ed Devereaux in supporting roles ; Roberry Under Arms, again starring Finch in 1957 ; and Summer of the Seventeenth Doll ( 1959 ), starring Ernest Borgnine, John Mills and Angela Lansbury ; and in 1960, The Sundowners was shot in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales with foreign leads Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, and Peter Ustinov but a supporting cast including Australians Chips Rafferty, John Meillon and Leonard Teale.

There continued to be an appeal for Australian actors in Hollywood as " action-men ", with the casting of Australian George Lazenby to replace Sean Connery portraying the superspy James Bond in the 1969 film On Her Majesty's Secret Service.

The most successful Australian actors and film-makers are easily lured by Hollywood and rarely return to the domestic film industry.

Their productions occasionally incorporate the return to the live stage of famous Australian screen actors such as Cate Blanchett, Hugo Weaving, Geoffrey Rush etc.

A significant number of Australian actors appeared in the supporting cast.

According to the Australian film and Sound Archive, the only actors positively identified are ;

During the UK tour's summer break director Christopher Luscombe and the show's creative team recreated the UK production in Seoul, South Korea with a new cast of American, Australian and New Zealander actors and local celebrities as the Narrator.

Chauvel directed a number of successful Australian films, the last being 1955's Jedda, which was notable for being the first Australian film to be shot in colour, and the first to feature Aboriginal actors in lead roles and to be entered at the Cannes Film Festival.

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