People depend less on seeds for foods in Australia, New Zealand, and Argentina, where extensive grazing lands support sheep or cattle, and the consumption of meat is high.

* Ada ( ship ), wooden Ketch, wrecked near Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia

The group includes eight genera and about 85 species distributed in the temperate zones of Europe and Asia, Malaysia, India, Madagascar, Africa and the Pacific, from Australia and New Zealand to South America.

* ANZAC Day ( Australia and New Zealand ) – April 25

* 1770 – James Cook names and lands on Possession Island, Queensland and claims the east coast of Australia as New South Wales in the name of King George III.

* 1986 – A low-pressure system that redeveloped off the New South Wales coast dumps a record 328 millimeters ( 13 inches ) of rain in a day on Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Countries that officially recognize the Armenian genocide include Argentina, Armenia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Chile, Cyprus, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Lebanon, Lithuania, The Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, Uruguay, Vatican City and Venezuela ; additionally, some regional governments of countries recognize the Armenian genocide, such as New South Wales in Australia and Wales in the United Kingdom, also officially recognize the Armenian Genocide.

Australia 36. 6 %, New Zealand 20. 3 %, South Korea 16. 3 %, Mauritius 4. 9 % ( 2002 )

There are also sight-seeing overflights from Australia which fly nonstop over Antarctica and return, although overflights from New Zealand stopped after the fatal crash of Air New Zealand Flight 901 on Mount Erebus in late 1979.

The 12 countries had significant interests in Antarctica at the time: Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Chile, France, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, South Africa, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and the United States.

Other common names are ear shells, sea ears, as well as muttonfish or muttonshells in Australia, ormer in Great Britain, and venus's-ears in South Africa and in New Zealand.

The majority of abalone species are found in cold waters, off the Southern Hemisphere coasts of New Zealand, South Africa and Australia, and Western North America and Japan in the Northern Hemisphere.

Abalone is also farmed in Australia, Hawaii, Canada, Chile, France, Iceland, Ireland, Mexico, Namibia, New Zealand, South Africa, Thailand, and the United States.

( Scuba diving for abalone in the states of New South Wales and Western Australia is illegal ; a free-diving catch limit of two is allowed ).

Abalone pearl jewelry is very popular in New Zealand and Australia, in no minor part due to the marketing and farming efforts of pearl companies.

* 1971 – Vietnam War: Australia and New Zealand decide to withdraw their troops from Vietnam.

* 1770 – James Cook formally claims eastern Australia for Great Britain, naming it New South Wales.

* Albert, New South Wales, a town in Australia

* Ailanthus integrifolia – New Guinea and Queensland, Australia

Ambergris can be found in the Atlantic Ocean and on the coasts of Brazil, Madagascar, the East Indies, The Maldives, China, Japan, India, Australia, New Zealand, and the Molucca islands.

* Alfred Town, a village in New South Wales, Australia

Playing across the western U. S., the tour made stops in Hawaii ( although no game was played ), New Zealand, Australia, Ceylon, Egypt, Italy, France, and England.

In total Carnegie funded some 3, 000 libraries, located in 47 US states, and also in Canada, the United Kingdom, what is now the Republic of Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, the West Indies, and Fiji.

The carnival included teams representing Victoria, South Australia, Queensland, New South Wales, Tasmania, Western Australia and New Zealand.

The membership of nearly 25, 000 women, all singing in English, includes choruses in most of the fifty United States as well as in Australia, Canada, England, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Japan, New Zealand, Scotland, Sweden, Wales and the Netherlands.

* ANZAC Day ( Australia, New Zealand )

The Middle East, Australia and New Zealand hold their events between January and March.

Although colour change in leaves occurs wherever deciduous trees are found, coloured autumn foliage is noted in various regions of the world: most of Anglo-America, Eastern Asia ( including China, Korea, and Japan ), Europe, parts of Australia and New Zealand.

On their 1950 tour of New Zealand and Australia they also adopted the nickname British Lions, first used by British and South African journalists on the 1924 South African tour, after the lion emblem on their ties, the emblem on their jerseys having been dropped in favour of the four-quartered badge with the symbols of the four represented unions.

In 1888, the promoter of the first expedition to Australia and New Zealand, Arthur Shrewsbury, demanded " something that would be good material and yet take them by storm out here ".

However, in 1908 with the Scottish and Irish unions refusing to be involved, the Anglo-Welsh side only sported red jerseys with a thick white band on their jerseys on tour to Australia and New Zealand.

Shaw & Shrewsbury Team, 1888, The first British or Irish touring rugby team, a private-enterprise trip to Australia and New Zealand

One of the world's largest Bauxite mines in Weipa, Australia

The largest reserves are found in the USA, Russia, China, India and Australia.

( largest metropolitan-wide network in Australia )

The largest party in Australia, the Liberal Party of Australia adheres to the principles of social conservatism and Australian conservatism.

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.

Ltd., a subsidiary of the Germany-based company Cognis, is also producing β-carotene from microalgae grown in two sites in Australia that are the world ’ s largest algae farms.

In the final, Australia made 359 runs for the loss of two wickets, the largest ever total in a final, defeating India by 125 runs.

Chiropractic is well established in the U. S., Canada and Australia and is the " third largest of the doctored health professions ( behind only medicine and dentistry )".

Recent research compared the variation between all of the described Diprotodon species with the variation in one of Australia ’ s largest living marsupials the Eastern Grey Kangaroo and found the range was comparable, with a near continent-wide distribution.

* 1869 – The largest alluvial gold nugget in history, called the " Welcome Stranger ", is found in Moliagul, Victoria, Australia.

* Four pillars policy, a legislative policy of the Government of Australia to maintain the separation of four of the largest banks in Australia by disallowing their merger or acquisition by any of the other three banks

Mount Isa, Australia, is often incorrectly referred to as the largest city in the world by area.

In reality, Mount Isa is the second largest city in Australia ; there are several cities around the world with larger incorporated areas.

The Great Victoria is the largest desert in Australia and consists of many small sandhills, grassland plains, areas with a closely packed surface of pebbles ( called desert pavement or gibber plains ) and salt lakes.

Irish Australians form the second largest ancestry group in Australia, numbering 1, 919, 727 or 9. 0 per cent of respondents in the 2001 Census.

Greenland is the world's largest island with an area of over 2. 1 million km², while Australia, the world's smallest continent has an area of 7. 6 million km², but there is no standard of size which distinguishes islands from continents, or from islets.

Australia was the largest single supplier of coal, iron ore, wool, and sugar to Japan in 1990.

Japanese investment by 1988 made Australia the single largest source of Japanese regional imports.

Lake Eyre () is the lowest point in Australia, at approximately ( AHD ) below sea level, and, on the rare occasions that it fills, it is the largest lake in Australia and 18th largest in the world.