In Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States general surgery is a five to seven year residency and follows completion of medical school, either MD, MBBS, MBChB, or DO degrees.

The UK and Australia also refer to School holidays ( typically Christmas, Easter, and Summer ) for the periods between School terms when children are not required to go to school, and Half-term holidays for the short break ( usually one week ) part-way through each School term.

After school, Harry took a gap year, during which he spent time in Australia, working ( as his father had done in his youth ) on a cattle station and participating in the Young England vs Young Australia Polo Test Match.

Children's librarians hold a special event known as National Simultaneous Storytime, where public and school libraries read the same book, at EST, to children around Australia.

* The symbol of Hornsby Girls High School, Australia, is the " Torch of Knowledge " and words of the school song include " Minerva by our southern seas her sacred groves replanted, with whispering gums to woo the breeze that flows o ' er lands enchanted ; with ageless hills she rimmed her bower, her sunlit shrine of learning, and here we keep through shine and shower the Torch of Knowledge burning ..." ( NOTE on Australianisms: gums here means " gum trees " ( eucalyptus ), not a part of the mouth ).

* Oberon High School, secondary school located in Victoria, Australia

The current OBE controversy in Western Australia relates specifically to the introduction of OBE in upper school ( year 11 and 12 ) classes.

In South Australia, Western Australia and Queensland grade 7 is part of primary school ; in other states it forms part of secondary education.

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

In much of the Commonwealth of Nations, including Australia, New Zealand, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, South Africa, Kenya, and Tanzania, the term school refers primarily to pre-university institutions.

A school entrance building in Australia

* St. Columba's College, Melbourne, an all-female Catholic secondary school in Melbourne, Australia

* October 1 – Sydney Boys High School ( the first boys ' public school ) is founded in Sydney, Australia.

Countries with mandatory school uniforms include Japan, South Korea, Thailand, India, Australia, U. A. E, Singapore, some schools in China, New Zealand and the United Kingdom, among as many other places.

In all of New Zealand and Malaysia along with parts of Australia, Bangladesh and Canada, high school is synonymous with secondary school, and encompasses the entire secondary stage of education.

In Australia, the term " high school " refers to secondary school, from Year 7 or Year 8 through to Year 12, varying from state to state.

* University Senior College, a year eleven and twelve school in Adelaide, South Australia

* Trinity College, Perth, an independent, single-sex secondary school for boys in Western Australia

* State school in Australia, Canada, Scotland, and the United States, a school funded with tax revenue and administered by a government or governmental agency

* St Ignatius ' College, Riverview, a Jesuit school in Sydney, Australia

A high-occupancy vehicle lane ( also HOV lane, carpool lane, diamond lane, and transit lane or T2 or T3 lanes in Australia and New Zealand ) is a restricted traffic lane reserved at peak travel times or longer for exclusive use of vehicles with a driver and one or more passengers, including carpools, vanpools and transit buses.

* Perth Central Area Transit, a range of buses operating in the free public-transport region of the central city of Perth, Australia

However the vast majority of schools in Australia ( both government & private ) do not have their own buses & thus most school children in Australia that do require bus travel to & from school, travel on public transport buses, either on standard public transport routes, or booked on permanent ' school travel ' routes.

After production of the P76 ceased, Leyland Australia limited its local production to the Mini and Mini Moke, both produced at Enfield, along with commercial vehicles and buses.

HyFLEET: CUTE buses were also operated in Beijing, China and Perth, Australia ( see below ).

Articulated buses have also been used in Australia and Europe ( Austria ( Gräf & Stift ), Italy, Germany ( Gaubschat, Emmelmann, Göppel, Duewag, Vetter ), Hungary ( Ikarus ), Poland ( Jelcz AP02 )) The first modern British " bendy buses " ( as they are referred to in the UK ) were built by Leyland-DAB and used in the city of Sheffield in the 1980s.

In Adelaide, Australia, articulated buses are used on the O-Bahn guided busway, reaching speeds of 100 km / h.

Other countries where natural gas-powered buses are popular include India, Australia, Argentina, and Germany.

17 buses entered service in early / mid-2008, another one ( fleet number 5504 ) was shipped to Australia in March 2008, after body assembly, for demonstration in several cities between April and May 2008, it finally entered service in June 2008.

The 2 buses with Volgren bodywork, which were once stored in Volgren's facility at Perth, Australia, entered service in 2002.

Some of the buses transferred to New World First Bus were even shipped to Australia () or the United Kingdom, and function as tour buses and school buses.

It was established in 1977, initially supplying bodywork for Volvo buses sold in Australia, and later supplying bus bodywork on all types of chassis for both local sale and export.

* 1: 76 scale-scale popular mainly in Britain, Australia and Hong Kong for highly detailed buses and lorries such as those by EFE and Corgi OOC, and Trax Models in Australia.

In Australia for example a HC licence covers buses as well as goods vehicles in the UK and most of the EU however a separate licence is needed.

The SmartRider is a credit card-sized smartcard incorporating a microchip and internal aerial, allowing the smartcard to communicate with processors located on Transperth buses and ferries and at train stations, as well as on some regional town services in Western Australia.

The penguin, which usually grows to an average of in height and in length ( though specific measurements vary by subspecies ), is found on the coastlines of southern Australia and New Zealand, with possible records from Chile.

The laws regulating the use of gaming machines in Australia are a matter for State governments, and as such they vary between States.

These varieties, which developed differently in different parts of Australia, vary along a continuum, from forms close to General Australian to more nonstandard forms.

Clutches vary considerably in size: some larger passerines of Australia such as lyrebirds and scrub-robins lay only a single egg, most smaller passerines in warmer climates lay between two and five, whilst in the higher latitudes of the northern hemisphere hole-nesting species like tits can lay up to a dozen and other species around five or six.

Although people in many parts of the world share common alphabets and numeral systems ( variations on the Latin Writing System are used throughout Europe, the Americas, Australia, and much of Africa ; the Hindu-Arabic numerals are nearly universal ), styles of calligraphy vary.

Their population size vary from decade to decade, largely dependent on rainfall ; current estimates range from 625, 000 to 725, 000 birds, with 100, 000 – 200, 000 in Western Australia and the remainder mostly in New South Wales and Queensland.

Dreaming stories vary throughout Australia, with variations on the same theme.

An additional 30, 000 ( numbers may vary ), primarily ethnic Vietnamese, live in the United States, Europe, and Australia.

* Australia – policies vary from state to state.

The latter might vary by region ( e. g. " Nero 7 Ultra Edition Enhanced " in the United States, " Nero 7 Premium Reloaded " in the United Kingdom and Australia ), although the name of core program remains Nero Burning ROM.

On 2 June 2005, up to 140 ( estimates vary ) false killer whales were beached at Geographe Bay, Western Australia.

Nebbiolo from California and Australia will vary from producer and quality of vineyard.

Queensland, the Northern Territory and Western Australia have all enacted statutory provisions to enable third party beneficiaries to enforce contracts, and limited the ability of contracting parties to vary the contract after the third party has relied on it.

It occurs in between three and eight percent of bird species worldwide ( estimates vary ), but is much more common in Australia and Southern Africa.

In contrast to the eucalypt woodlands that dominate much of Australia, mulga woodlands are not well adapted to regular fire and species in mulga communities vary in their ability to survive fires.

In Australia the rules vary from state to state.

The grounds on which abortion is permitted in Australia vary from state to state.

Regulations in Australia vary by State, but is banned in New South Wales.

The names of triangulation stations vary regionally ; they are generally known as trigonometrical stations in North America, trig points in the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia, and trig beacons in South Africa ; triangulation pillar is the more formal term for the concrete columns found in the UK.

These vary considerably between countries, but a limited selection of common ones employed in Australia is listed here:

In Australia, breeding usually occurs during spring ( September to December ), but can vary from region to region with changes in food availability and climate.

These rides typically vary from 20km-100km and raise money for charity, treadly offers a large list of these events Australia wide.

In Australia, " fossicking " is and was protected by a number of laws which vary from state to state.

Currently, management attempts vary, as feral horses are considered pests in some states, such as South Australia, but not others, including Queensland.