The Salvation Army in England, America, Australia and New Zealand commonly used concertinas in their bands, and other concertina bands and musicians performed in all parts of the English speaking world.

In 1880, the Salvation Army started its work in three other countries: Australia, Ireland, and the United States.

The Salvation Army has apologized for comments made by Major Andrew Craibe's in Australia in 2012,, saying " The Salvation Army sincerely apologises to all members of the GLBT community and to all our clients, employees, volunteers and those who are part of our faith communities for the offense caused by this miscommunication.

In Australia, the Red Shield has become one of the country's most identified and trusted brands, leading the Australian Salvation Army to prefer to use this symbol over the crest on its uniform, corps buildings and advertising materials.

The Salvation Army is well known for its network of thrift stores or Charity Shops, colloquially referred to as " the Sally Ann " in Canada, " Sally's " or " Salvo " in the US and " op shops " in Australia, which raise money for its charitable and religious activities by selling donated used items such as clothing, housewares and toys.

On June 18 2012 the Salvation Army was featured in an ABC news report that stated " Salvos back away from anti-gay comments " in which the army stated " The Salvation Army in Australia is distancing itself from a statement by its international parent organisation that homosexuality is " an unacceptable urge ".

On June 23, 2012, The Salvation Army Australia Eastern Territory offered a formal apology to LGBT people for his comments, stating " The Salvation Army encompasses a diverse community with a wide range of opinions on human sexuality and other subjects.

The leadership of The Salvation Army in the Australia Eastern Territory continues to reflect on Christian and Biblical tradition, and especially on the themes of justice and mercy, to further deepen the understandings of our own members and build a more healthy relationship with the GLBT community.

From the 1940 to the 1970s the Salvation Army in Australia sheltered approximately 30, 000 children.

He moved to Melbourne, Australia with the Salvation Army then to southern Africa resuming his career as cinematographer.

Christian organisations such as the St. Vincent de Paul Society, the Salvation Army and Anglicare povide high profile social services throughout Australia.

* In Ursula Dubosarsky's novel for children, The Game of the Goose ( Penguin Australia 2000 ), three children find an old copy of the Game of the Goose in a Salvation Army store, and have magically transforming adventures while playing it.

Arriving at Fremantle, Western Australia, he jumped ship and for seven years followed a bewildering array of occupations: seller of the Salvation Army's War Cry, assistant lighthouse keeper at the Cape Leeuwin Lighthouse in Augusta W. A.

" Salvation Jane " flowers in Adelaide, South Australia

E. plantagineum has become an invasive species in Australia, where it is also known as Paterson's Curse, Patterson's Curse or Salvation Jane ( particularly in South Australia ).

In Australia, major national opportunity shop chains include the St. Vincent de Paul Thrift Store ( trading as Vinnies ), the Salvation Army ( trading as Salvos ), the Red Cross, MS Australia, and the Brotherhood of St. Laurence.

* Boothville House, Former Salvation Army maternity hospital in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

He emigrated to Australia at the age of 17 aboard the S. S. Vedic, a ship chartered by the Salvation Army to bring 700 young emigrant to Australia.

The British Army and their Imperial forces in Canada, Australia and New Zealand issued identification tags from the beginning of the First World War.

The First Battle of El Alamein ( 1 – 27 July 1942 ) was a battle of the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War, fought between Axis forces ( Germany and Italy ) of the Panzer Army Africa ( Panzerarmee Afrika ) commanded by Field Marshal ( Generalfeldmarschall ) Erwin Rommel, and Allied ( specifically, British Imperial ) forces ( Britain, British India, Australia, South Africa and New Zealand ) of the British Eighth Army commanded by General Claude Auchinleck.

In March 1942, with the assistance of Australia, the territory became an important Allied base, and Nouméa the headquarters of the United States Navy and Army in the South Pacific.

Although the British Army had established a base at King George Sound ( later Albany ) on the south coast of western Australia in 1826 in response to rumours that the area would be annexed by France, Perth was the first full-scale settlement by Europeans in the western third of the continent.

* Special Air Service Regiment ( Australia ) ( SASR ), a special forces unit of the Australian Army.

Rationed in Australia during World War II, Vegemite was included in Australian Army rations and by the late 1940s was used in nine out of ten Australian homes.

* October – William Light, British Army colonel and the first Surveyor-General of South Australia ( b. 1786 )

* Camp Columbia, a United States Army post in Australia during World War II

Subsequent SEAL operations during the invasion of Afghanistan were conducted within Task Force K-Bar, a joint special operations unit of Army Special Forces, United States Air Force Special Tactics Teams, and special operations forces from Germany, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Denmark, Norway, and Turkey, under the command of Navy SEAL Captain Robert Harward.

Anzac Day is a national day of remembrance in Australia and New Zealand, originally commemorated by both countries on 25 April every year to honour the members of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps ( ANZAC ) who fought at Gallipoli in the Ottoman Empire during World War I.

The battle saw the British Army, supported by contingents from British imperial territories, including Australia, New Zealand, Newfoundland, Canada, India and South Africa, mount a joint offensive with the French Army against the German Army, which had occupied large areas of France since its invasion of the country in August 1914.

* MUTA is an abbreviation for Murray Bridge Training Area in South Australia, used by the Australian Army

Other parts of the world that Aztlan Underground have performed include Canada, Australia, and Venezuela.

Sixty-six series have been played, with Australia winning 31 and England 30.

Many towns or suburbs of Australia have also been influenced or named after Aboriginal words.

Within the ACT 4. 5 % of the population have a postgraduate degree compared to 1. 8 % across the whole of Australia.

The Tasmanian Seaway separates East Antarctica and Australia, and is reported to have opened to water circulation 33. 5 Ma.

Other songs and marches have been influenced by Advance Australia Fair, such as the Australian Vice-Regal salute.

First: it " mandates that whoever is the sovereign of the United Kingdom is also, by virtue of this external fact, sovereign of Australia "; accordingly, changes to British succession laws would have no effect on Australian law, but if the British amendment changed the sovereign, then the new sovereign of the United Kingdom would automatically become the new sovereign of Australia.

Or, third, it incorporates the United Kingdom rules of succession into the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act, which itself can now be altered only by Australia, according to the Australia Act 1986 ; in that way, the British rules of succession have been patriated to Australia and, with regard to Australia, are subject to amendment or repeal solely by Australian law.

In the United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Australia, Austria and France, air marshals have also been added to some flights to deter and thwart hijackers.

Many cultures have built devices that travel through the air, from the earliest projectiles such as stones and spears, the boomerang in Australia, the hot air Kongming lantern, and kites.

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.

Since 1967 there have been many matches between Australian Football teams ( mainly from Australia ) and Gaelic football teams ( mainly from Ireland ), under various sets of hybrid, compromise rules known as International rules football.

Architects who have been strongly influenced by the anthroposophic style include Imre Makovecz in Hungary, Hans Scharoun and Joachim Eble in Germany, Erik Asmussen in Sweden, Kenji Imai in Japan, Thomas Rau, Anton Alberts and Max van Huut in Holland, Christopher Day and Camphill Architects in the UK, Thompson and Rose in America, Denis Bowman in Canada, and Walter Burley Griffin and Gregory Burgess in Australia.

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.

The main sources for gem material are Brazil and the U. S .. Australia, France, Germany, Namibia, Norway, and Spain have also produced gem quality amblygonite.

Circumstantial evidence, such as the early settlement of Australia over 40, 000 years ago, and findings in Crete dated 130, 000 years ago, suggests that boats have been used since ancient times.

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.