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.

The Coral Sea Islands Territory includes a group of small and mostly uninhabited tropical islands and reefs in the Coral Sea, northeast of Queensland, Australia.

Since the reunions in the UK and Australia in 1957, two generations of Christadelphians have grown up with little awareness of the existence of the minority " fellowships ", or awareness that the main group is called " Central " by the minority groups.

TaikOz, a taiko performance group has been performing in Australia since 1997.

# Kerguelen (), a group of volcanic islands in the southern Indian Ocean, southeast of Africa, approximately equidistant between Africa, Antarctica and Australia ;

As a bottled beer produced by the Foster's Group ( formerly the Carlton United Beverages group ( CUB )) it has rarely been promoted in Australia since the early 2000s.

Founding a Wiccan group known as the Bricket Wood coven, he introduced a string of High Priestesses into the religion, including Doreen Valiente, Lois Bourne, Patricia Crowther and Eleanor Bone, through which the Gardnerian community spread throughout Britain and subsequently into Australia and the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

In the triangular one day series they won the group with Australia just scraping through, they also won the first ' final ' but South Africa lost the last two finals.

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.

The song Far Away in Australia sung by the Irish ballad group The Wolfe Tones portrays the sorrow of two young Irish lovers who are separated when the male youth is forced to make his living far away in Australia, leaving his girl behind.

Latin rap has also surfaced in the UK with a group called Cultura Londres who list Eric Bobo of Cypress Hill as one of their members, as well as in Australia with Maya Jupiter.

* Models ( band ), an alternative rock group from Australia

Another unaffiliated group, Media Study Group, established seven categories of poor journalistic practice: for example, the journalist stating personal opinion in a report, asserting incorrect facts, applying unequal space or treatment to two sides of a controversial issue ; then analyzed The Age Newspaper ( Melbourne Australia ) for the frequency of infraction of this code of practice.

The group was subsequently mostly inactive after that, although Hay and Ham had performed on occasion as Men at Work with guest musicians, including an appearance in February 2009, when they performed " Down Under " at the Australia Unites Victorian Bushfire Appeal Telethon.

In December 1975, the group won the RAM ( Rock Australia Magazine )/ Levi's Punk Band Thriller competition.

A group of radical socialist Australians in the 1890s voluntarily went to create a failed master-planned community, known as Nueva ( New ) Australia ; and Elisabeth Nietzsche, a German racial ideologist and sister of philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche came to Paraguay in her attempt to build a colony, Nueva Germania ( Neues Deutschland ) devoted to a hypothetical pure white " Nordic " society in the 1890s.

* Seven Sisters ( Queensland ), a group of small mountains on the Atherton Tableland in Australia

From 1975 to 1977, Skyhooks were — alongside Sherbet — the most commercially successful group in Australia, but over the next few years, Skyhooks rapidly faded from the public eye with the departure of key members, and in 1980 the band announced its break-up in controversial circumstances.

Oceania, island group of nine islands comprising three reef islands and six true atolls in the South Pacific Ocean, about one-half of the way from Hawaii to Australia.

The group had top 10 hits in the 1960s with " I'll Never Find Another You ", " A World of Our Own ", " Morningtown Ride ", " The Carnival Is Over " ( Russian folk song which the Seekers have sung at various closing ceremonies in Australia, including World Expo 88 and the Paralympics and still stands as the 30th best selling song in the United Kingdom ), " Someday One Day ", and " Georgy Girl " ( the title song of the film of the same name ).

The Seekers were the first Australian pop group to have a top 5 hit in all three countries – Australia, UK and US.

In January 1968, on Australia Day, in recognition of its achievements, the group was named joint Australians of the Year – the only group to have this honour bestowed upon it.

Percy Roberts, a leading judge will not be at the International Show this year for the Junior Judging Contest as he has been invited to judge in Australia in March.

Because the urn itself is so delicate, it has been allowed to travel to Australia only twice.

With several England players having retired or been injured after the 2005 series, Australia regained The Ashes in the 2006 – 07 series with a convincing 5 – 0 victory, the second time an Ashes series has been won by that margin.

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.

Scuba diving for abalone is allowed, and has a rich history in Australia.

It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election.

At the time, these were the oldest fossils discovered in Australia, though this record has now been far surpassed.

Arbor Day has been observed in Australia since 20 June 1889.

The practice of the Australian states — for example, New South Wales and Victoria — has been, when legislating to repeal some imperial statutes so far as they still applied in Australia, to provide that imperial statutes concerning the royal succession remain in force.

Australia has several indigenous plants which are popular among modern ayahuasqueros there, such as various DMT-rich species of Acacia.

As the size of the Australian diaspora has increased, so has the number of clubs outside Australia.

This has grown to about 35, 000 people in 32 countries playing in structured competitions outside of Australia.

Aon has 29 offices throughout Australia, including every state and territory capital city.

Like the USA, Australia has an a cappella association ( Vocal Australia ) who organizes events, education and resources for the vocal music community.

The concept has fallen into disuse in Australia.

Bluetongue has been observed in Australia, the USA, Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Europe.

To avoid the ambiguity of the term British, and to more emphatically associate the team's identity with both the United Kingdom and Ireland, from the 2001 tour of Australia the name British and Irish Lions has been used.

Originally invented in the 1980s in the Eastern Asia region, bubble tea has since become popular in Australia, USA and Europe.

Lara's match-winning performance of 153 not out against Australia in Bridgetown, Barbados in 1999 has been rated by Wisden as the second best batting performance in the history of Test cricket, next only to the 270 runs scored by Sir Donald Bradman in The Ashes Test match of 1937.

The origin of the word bunyip has been traced to the Wemba-Wemba or Wergaia language of Aboriginal people of South-Eastern Australia.

The word bunyip has been used in other Australian contexts, including The Bunyip newspaper as the banner of a local weekly newspaper published in the town of Gawler, South Australia.

In Australia the definition requires that at least some snow has been raised from the ground.

The most famous bush ballad is " Waltzing Matilda ", which has been called " the unofficial national anthem of Australia ".