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Australia made a mere 63 runs in its first innings, and England, led by A. N. Hornby, took a 38-run lead with a total of 101.

After winning the First Test by an innings after being controversially sent in by Hutton, Australia lost its way and England took a hat-trick of victories to win the series 3 – 1.

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.

After re-establishing its credibility in 1989, Australia underlined its superiority with victories in the 1990 – 91, 1993, 1994 – 95, 1997, 1998 – 99, 2001 and 2002 – 03 series, all by convincing margins.

In Australia, the Country Party from the 1920s to the 1970s, promulgated its version of agrarianism, which it called " Countrymindedness ".

Before its adoption as Australia's national anthem, Advance Australia Fair saw considerable use elsewhere.

British architects Brenda and Robert Vale have said that, as of 2002, " It is quite possible in all parts of Australia to construct a ' house with no bills ', which would be comfortable without heating and cooling, which would make its own electricity, collect its own water and deal with its own waste ... These houses can be built now, using off-the-shelf techniques.

Soon after its London premiere, Achurch brought the play to Australia in 1889.

Developed into its present form in Italy, ( where it is called bocce, the plural of the Italian word boccia which means " bowl "), it is played around Europe and also in overseas areas that have received Italian migrants, including Australia, North America, and South America ( where it is known as bochas ; bolas criollas in Venezuela, bocha ( the sport ) in Brazil ), initially among the migrants themselves but slowly becoming more popular with their descendants and the wider community.

The boomerang was first encountered by western people at Farm Cove ( Port Jackson ), Australia, in December 1804 where its use as a weapon was witnessed during a tribal skirmish:

However, the bunyip appears to have formed part of traditional Aboriginal beliefs and stories throughout Australia, although its name varied according to tribal nomenclature.

At the time of its formation BSC comprised around 90 percent of the UK's steelmaking capacity, had around 268, 500 employees and around 200 wholly or partly owned subsidiaries based in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Africa, South Asia, and South America.

In Australia, borough can designate a town and its surrounding area, such as the Borough of Queenscliffe.

Australia established its first central bank in 1920, Colombia in 1923, Mexico and Chile in 1925 and Canada and New Zealand in the aftermath of the Great Depression in 1934.

The Aranda people of central Australia saw the four Cross stars as the talon of an eagle and Gamma Centauri as its leg.

* 10 Bishop Abbots for 9 Patriarchal Monasteries in Egypt and 1 Patriarchal Monastery in Australia ; while 1 Patriarchal Monastery in North America still awaiting the nomination of its Bishop Abbot.

In South Australia, on 30 July 2008 the government introduced legislation to scrap parts of its double jeopardy law.

It was not widely syndicated as many of its contemporaries, and re-broadcast very little outside the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom.

In Australia, the University of Queensland established its Department of Correspondence Studies in 1911.

Although the Period takes its name from the Ediacara Hills where geologist Reg Sprigg first discovered fossils of the eponymous biota in 1946, the type section is located in the bed of the Enorama Creek within Brachina Gorge in the Flinders Ranges of South Australia, at.

In England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Australia, arraignment is the first of eleven stages in a criminal trial, and involves the clerk of the court reading out the indictment.

The first is between western Australia and eastern Africa.

In 1814 a bishop of Calcutta was made ; in 1824 the first bishop was sent to the West Indies and in 1836 to Australia.

The series is named after a satirical obituary published in a British newspaper, The Sporting Times, in 1882 after a match at The Oval in which Australia beat England on an English ground for the first time.

The first Test match between England and Australia was played in 1877, though the Ashes legend started later, after the ninth Test, played in 1882.

The term became popular again in Australia first, when George Giffen, in his memoirs ( With Bat and Ball, 1899 ), used the term as if it were well known.

:“ In 1882, she said, it was first spoken of when the Sporting Times, after the Australians had thoroughly beaten the English at the Oval, wrote an obituary in affectionate memory of English cricket “ whose demise was deeply lamented and the body would be cremated and taken to Australia ”.

The 1890s games were more closely fought, Australia taking their first series win since 1882 with a 2 – 1 victory in 1891 – 92.

In the First Test ( the first played at Edgbaston ), after scoring 376 England bowled out Australia for 36 ( Wilfred Rhodes 7 / 17 ) and reduced them to 46 – 2 when they followed on.

At Old Trafford, Australia won by just 3 runs after Victor Trumper had scored 104 on a " bad wicket ", reaching his hundred before lunch on the first day.

After what the MCC saw as the problems of the earlier professional and amateur series they decided to take control of organising tours themselves, and this led to the first MCC tour of Australia in 1903 – 04.

Australia had a narrow first innings lead of 22.

Australia, batting first, posted a massive 701 in the first innings.

He started badly, losing the first two Tests heavily after Australia were caught on sticky wickets.

It was in the 1960s that the bipolar dominance of England and Australia in world cricket was seriously challenged for the first time.

Australia had lost 2 – 1 during a tour of the West Indies in 1964 – 65, the first time they had lost a series to any team other than England.

After Australia took a 1 – 0 lead in the first two Tests, Botham was forced to resign or was sacked ( depending on the source ).

The rain-affected Third Test ended with the last two Australian batsmen holding out for a draw and England won the Fourth Test by three wickets after forcing Australia to follow-on for the first time in 191 Tests.

Australia, captained by Michael Clarke, batted first on a cloudy day after winning the toss and were bowled out for 280.

England bowled Australia out again for 281 and so won a series on Australian soil for the first time in 24 years.

In Australia, the grounds currently used are The Gabba in Brisbane ( first staged an England – Australia Test in the 1932 – 33 season ), Adelaide Oval ( 1884 – 85 ), The WACA, Perth ( 1970 – 71 ) the Melbourne Cricket Ground ( MCG ) ( 1876 – 77 ) and the Sydney Cricket Ground ( SCG ) ( 1881 – 82 ).

The site of the colony's capital was surveyed and laid out by Colonel William Light, the first Surveyor-General of South Australia, through the design made by the architect George Strickland Kingston.