In Australia, there is debate over when Generation X ends and Generation Y ( Millennials ) begins.

There has been debate in Australia and Canada as to which person is actually considered head of state.

Pliny may have mentioned them, although there is some debate as to the exact nature of the stone he referred to as Adamas ; In 2005, Australia, Botswana, Russia and Canada ranked among the primary sources of gemstone diamond production .< ref >

After much debate many of the immigrants were transported to Nauru, an arrangement known in Australia as the " Pacific Solution ".

There is much debate worldwide over natural resource allocations, this is partly due to increasing scarcity ( depletion of resources ) but also because the exportation of natural resources is the basis for many economies ( particularly for developed nations such as Australia ).

As part of the debate over further introduction of OBE into the teaching practice of Western Australia, various groups of concerned citizens and those in the teaching profession formed various single-issue lobby and action groups to progress their viewpoints.

On 11 June 2012, Singer was named an Companion of the Order of Australia for " eminent service to philosophy and bioethics as a leader of public debate and communicator of ideas in the areas of global poverty, animal welfare and the human condition.

Recently ( 2003 onwards ), self-determination has become the topic of some debate in Australia in relation to Aborigines ( indigenous Australians ).

This debate is part of what is known within Australia as the History Wars.

Then Prime Minister John Howard was questioned at the time by British journalists about the future of the monarchy in Australia, and there was debate about playing God Save the Queen during the opening of the Commonwealth Games.

Taylor talked so well that he raised the standard of debate in Australia — and perhaps of cricket itself — in a way which was an example to all professional cricketers ... Border stopped Australia losing.

Duffy's recommendations formed a part of the debate in Australia on the possible move from being a monarchy to become a republic.

In Australia, there is debate over Millenial birth dates.

At one point, Lawson and Paterson contributed a series of verses to The Bulletin magazine in which they engaged in a literary debate about the nature of life in Australia.

The Imperial British Conservative Party also had a presence in Australia, especially during the republican debate of the 1990s.

In the second debate in 2004 U. S. presidential election, Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry questioned the size of the coalition participating in the initial invasion, saying, "... when we went in, there were three countries: Great Britain, Australia and the United States.

These analyses have led to a robust debate about the effectiveness of the Sydney MSIC in Australia.

The context in which the Australasia style of debate is used varies, but in Australia and New Zealand is mostly used at the Primary and Secondary school level, ranging from small informal one-off intra-school debates to larger more formal inter-school competitions with several rounds and a finals series which occur over a year.

Hamilton was granted the award of Member of the Order of Australia on 8 June 2009 for " service to public debate and policy development, particularly in the fields of climate change, sustainability and societal trends ".

Clive Hamilton is the former Executive Director of The Australia Institute, an independent think-tank which has been cited as playing a significant role in debate over social and environmental policies.

In a debate on a censure motion on 20 February, Menzies said the fact that McKell was actively engaged in politics when the appointment was announced ( even though he had since vacated the political stage ) was " a grave disqualification " which " strikes at the very foundation of the office of the Governor-Generalship, because that office in Australia should be as far removed from party politics as is the Crown itself in Great Britain ".

Australia ’ s turbulent political climate nourished this division and the Australian of the Year award was embroiled in a wider debate about Australian nationalism.

In March, 1961, representatives of the national laboratories of Australia, Canada, The Netherlands, United Kingdom, U.S.S.R., United States, and West Germany, met at the NBS to devise means for reaching international agreement on a temperature scale between 10 and 90 Af.

The first is between western Australia and eastern Africa.

The second is between eastern Australia and western South America.

The Ashes is a Test cricket series played between England and Australia since 1882.

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.

As it took many years for the name " The Ashes " to be given to the ongoing series between England and Australia, there was no concept of there being a representation of the ashes being presented to the winners.

In the period between 1989 and the beginning of the 2005 series, the two sides had played 43 times ; Australia winning 28 times, England 7 times, with 8 draws.

The series alternates between the United Kingdom and Australia, and within each country each of the usually five matches is held at a different cricket ground.

The popularity and reputation of the cricket series has led to other sports or games, and / or their followers, using the name " Ashes " for contests between England and Australia.

The best-known and longest-running of these events is the rugby league rivalry between Great Britain and Australia ( see rugby league " Ashes ").

Another example is in the television show Gladiators, in which two series were based on contests between teams representing Australia and England.

In order for the song to become the anthem, it had to face a vote between the Royal anthem God Save the Queen, the " unofficial anthem " Waltzing Matilda and Song of Australia.

The first intercolonial match had been played between Victoria and South Australia on 2 August 1879.

Although clubs from other states were at times invited, the final was almost always between the premiers from the two strongest state competitions of the time — South Australia and Victoria — and the majority of matches were played in Adelaide at the request of the SAFA / SAFL.

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.

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

The islands situated between 60 ° S latitude parallel to the south and the Antarctic Convergence to the north, and their respective Exclusive Economic Zones fall under the national jurisdiction of the countries that possess them: South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands ( United Kingdom ; also an EU Overseas territory ), Bouvet Island ( Norway ), and Heard and McDonald Islands ( Australia ).

In the remotest parts of Australia fuel sellers are located hundreds of kilometres apart, so spare fuel must be carried or refuelling spots calculated carefully in order not to run out of fuel in between towns.

However, the series continued in Australia and the United Kingdom, with a further ten volumes being issued between 1999 and 2001.

The island lies almost halfway between Hawaii and Australia, and is a possession of the United States.

The one-off test in 1999 between England and Australia that was played to commemorate Australia's first test against Reverend Matthew Mullineux's British side saw England wear an updated version of this jersey.

* Lara struck 277 runs against Australia in Sydney, his maiden Test century, the fourth highest maiden Test century by any batsman, the highest individual score in all Tests between the two teams and the fourth-highest century ever recorded against Australia by any Test batsman.

Slow communications between the UK and Australia had always made identifying and correcting problems very difficult.

One way was greater cooperation between groups, such as the Edinburgh Missionary Conference of Protestants in 1910, the Justice, Peace and Creation Commission of the World Council of Churches founded in 1948 by Protestant and Orthodox churches, and similar national councils like the National Council of Churches in Australia which includes Roman Catholics.