Although England decisively won the Ashes 4 – 1, Bodyline caused such a furore in Australia that diplomats had to intervene to prevent serious harm to Anglo-Australian relations, and the MCC eventually changed the Laws of cricket to curtail the number of leg side fielders.

There have been several players in the VFL / AFL who were born outside Australia and since 1982, an increasing number of players have been recruited from outside Australia through initiatives such as the Irish experiment and more recently, international scholarship programs.

As the size of the Australian diaspora has increased, so has the number of clubs outside Australia.

Gosses Bluff crater, one of a number of meteor impact crater s that can be found across outback Australia.

The Ban Amendment was strenuously opposed by a number of industry groups as well as nations including Australia and Canada.

He also held the record for the highest total number of runs in a Test career, after overtaking Allan Border in an innings of 226 played at Adelaide Oval, Australia in November 2005.

A large number of bunyip sightings occurred during the 1840s and 1850s, particularly in the southeastern colonies of Victoria, New South Wales and South Australia, as European settlers extended their reach.

The current world rankings show England in top place for association croquet, followed by Australia and New Zealand sharing second place, with the United States in fourth position ; the same four countries appear in the top six of the golf croquet league table, below Egypt in top position, and with South Africa at number five.

Originally active from 1985 to 1996, the band have had consistent commercial and critical success in Australia and New Zealand and international chart success in two phases, beginning with their self-titled debut album, Crowded House, which reached number twelve on the US Album Chart in 1987 and provided the Top Ten hits, " Don't Dream It's Over " and " Something So Strong ".

The single, " Don't Dream It's Over ", was released in December 1986 and reached number one on the New Zealand Singles Chart and number eight in Australia.

The album did not fare as well as their debut in the US, only reaching number 40, but it achieved Australasian success, reaching number one in Australia and number two in New Zealand.

The song peaked at number seven in New Zealand and reached the top 20 in Australia.

The album reached number one in New Zealand, number two in Australia, number six in the UK and made the top 20 in several European countries.

It topped the New Zealand Album Chart, reached number 2 in Australia and number 4 in the UK.

The album debuted at number one in Australia, New Zealand and the UK in July 1996.

It topped the album chart in New Zealand and made number 2 in Australia and number 3 in the UK.

As the threat of Cold War eased, a number of such civil defense organisations have been disbanded or mothballed ( as in the case of the Royal Observer Corps in the United Kingdom and the United States civil defense ), while others have changed their focuses into providing rescue services after natural disasters ( as for the State Emergency Service in Australia ).

* 1987 – All the children held at Kia Lama, a rural property on Lake Eildon, Australia, run by the Santiniketan Park Association, are released after a police raid.

Apart from these there are many semi-professional and amateur leagues around Australia, where they play a very important role in the community, and particularly so in rural areas.

While this was OK for Europe, it meant that GSM could not cover large, sparsely populated rural areas of Australia cost effectively.

The ballad was taken to Australia by early settlers from Britain and Ireland and gained particular foothold in the rural outback.

There are community colleges located in metropolitan, regional and rural locations of Australia.

However, extremely high taxes ensure that everyone on the planet lives a frugal, rural life, like the farmers of old Australia, to keep the Norstrilians tough.

While stereotyped as rural music, the Country music format is common and popular throughout the United States and in some other countries ( particularly Canada and Australia, both of which share much of the same Anglo-Saxon and Celtic roots as the United States ).

On another occasion, Crowe donated a large sum of money ($ 200, 000 ) to a struggling primary school near his home in rural Australia.

" Shire " is the most common word in Australia for rural Local Government Areas ( LGA ).

In contrast, South Australia uses district and region for its rural LGA units, while Tasmania uses municipality.

In rural areas of Australia their equivalents are called localities ( see suburbs and localities ).

** All the children held at Kia Lama, a rural property on Lake Eildon, Australia, run by the Santiniketan Park Association, are released after a police raid.

Black panther sightings are frequently recorded in rural Victoria and New South Wales and Western Australia.

Weir's major breakthrough in Australia and internationally was the lush, atmospheric period mystery Picnic at Hanging Rock ( 1975 ), made with substantial backing from the state-funded South Australian Film Corporation and filmed on location in South Australia and rural Victoria.

Not all of these were full-fledged branches: in Leipzig there was a depot run by H. Bohun Beet, and In Canada and Australia there were small, functional depots in the cities and an army of educational representatives penetrating the rural fastnesses to sell the Press ’ s stock as well as books published by firms whose agencies were held by the Press, very often including fiction and light reading.

The Great Artesian Basin became an important water supply for cattle stations, irrigation, and livestock and domestic usage, and is a vital life line for rural Australia.

In tropical Australia, some rural and remote Australian Aboriginal communities have very high prevalences of strongyloidiasis

Sheep grazing in rural Australia.

Certainly, republicanism in Australia has traditionally been supported most strongly by urban working class of Irish Catholic background, whereas monarchism is a core value associated with urban and rural inhabitants of British Protestant heritage and the middle class, to the extent that there were calls in 1999 for 300, 000 exceptionally enfranchised British subjects who were not Australian citizens to be barred from voting on the grounds that they would vote as a loyalist bloc in a tight referendum.

* Wildwood, Victoria, an outer rural suburb of Melbourne, Australia

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.

In Australia the designation of " township " traditionally refers to a small town — a small community in a rural district: such a place in Britain might qualify as a village or a hamlet.

Evidence for the fire hypothesis is the sudden increase in widespread ash deposits at the time that people arrived in Australia, as well as land-management and hunting practices of modern Aboriginal people as recorded by the earliest European settlers before Aboriginal society was devastated by European contact and disease.

Although Secret Messages debuted at number four in the United Kingdom, it fell off the charts, failing to catch fire with a lack of hit singles in the U. K. ( though " Rock ' n ' Roll Is King " was a sizeable hit in UK, the US and Australia ) and a lukewarm media response.

S. S. Papanui, en route from Britain to Australia with emigrants, arrived in James Bay in 1911 on fire.

Kolaia man wearing a headdress worn in a fire ceremony, Forrest River, Western Australia.

Robert grieves for his friend George until Luke Marks, who was fatally injured in the fire, manages, before dying, to tell Robert that George survived Lady Audley ’ s attempted murder and that George, with Luke ’ s help, left with intent of returning to Australia.

An opal " triplet " from Andamooka South Australia showing blue and green fire

In the 1956 Melbourne Games in Australia, local veterinary student Barry Larkin protested against the relay by tricking onlookers by carrying a fake flame, consisting of a pair of underpants set on fire in a plum pudding can, attached to a chair leg.

While on tour in Australia in 1981 he was notified that Penelope Bartley had died in a fire.

Fires in northern Australia are less threatening than in southern Australia as many of the trees are largely fire resistant while other plants simply regenerate very quickly.

The Department of Conservation and Land Management in Western Australia ( CALM ) carries out fuel reduction backburning in the national park ; this limits the risk of a large scale bush fire by reducing the amount of dry leaf litter on the ground.

On 6 April 2007, Longley's $ 2 million home in Fremantle, Western Australia, was destroyed by a fire.

Kolaia man wearing a headdress worn in a fire ceremony, Forrest River, Western Australia.

Most of the wooded parts of present-day Australia have become sclerophyll dominated as a result of the extreme age of the continent combined with Aboriginal fire use.

In Australia there is a dark ride named The Ghost Train at Luna Park, Melbourne, and a similarly named ride was destroyed by fire in 1979 at Luna Park Sydney.

Aboriginal burning appears to have been responsible for the widespread occurrence of savanna in tropical Australia and New Guinea, and savannas in India are a result of human fire use.

Most fire hydrants in Australia are protected by a silver-coloured cover with a red top, secured to the ground with bolts to protect the hydrant from vandalism and unauthorised use.

The 1812 Overture, complete with cannon fire, performed at the 2005 Classical Spectacular in Melbourne, Australia.

Relics from the fire are preserved in the collection of the National Museum of Australia.

In Western Australia, fire fighting is organised by the Fire and Emergency Services Authority of Western Australia ( FESA ) together with Local Councils.

Born in Sydney, Australia, Pyro is a mutant who possesses the power to psionically control fire and flame, though not generate it.

It is designed to show the wild extremes faced by this particular part of Australia: fire, drought and flood.