Blandfordia is the only genus in the family Blandfordiaceae, with four species distributed in eastern Australia.

The two species of Doryanthes, the only genus of the family, are huge rosette-forming herbs that are a conspicuous element of the flora in the vicinity of Sydney, Australia, being hard not to notice when in flower.

It contains only one genus, Xanthorrhoea, endemic to Australia.

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

Furthermore, in 2002, Bligh's great-great-grandson Lord Clifton, the heir-apparent to the Earldom of Darnley, argued that the Ashes urn should not be returned to Australia because it belonged to his family and was given to the MCC only for safe keeping.

At the close of the second last day's play, Australia were 113 – 2, needing only 64 more runs.

This made Woodfull the only captain to regain the Ashes and he retired upon his return to Australia.

Bradman and Jack Fingleton injured themselves during Hutton's marathon effort, and with only nine men, Australia fell to defeat by an innings and 578 runs, the heaviest in Test history.

The 1948 series ended with one of the most poignant moments in cricket history, as Bradman played his final innings for Australia in the Fifth Test at The Oval, needing to score only four runs to end with a career batting average of exactly 100.

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.

The AFL is the List of sports attendance figures # Top 10 in average attendance | most attended national competition in Australia and the only fully professional league for Australian football in the world.

However, in 1908 with the Scottish and Irish unions refusing to be involved, the Anglo-Welsh side only sported red jerseys with a thick white band on their jerseys on tour to Australia and New Zealand.

The 1959 tour to Australia and New Zealand marked once again a very successful tour for the Lions, who only lost six of their 35 fixtures.

The Lions tour to Australia in 1989 was a short affair, being only 12 matches in total.

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.

Biomedical engineering is regulated in some countries, such as Australia, but registration is typically only recommended and not required.

Currently there is only one borough in Australia, the Borough of Queenscliffe in Victoria, although there have been more in the past.

In Australia, the levels of fat in cream are not regulated, therefore labels are only under the control of the manufacturers.

The album did not fare as well as their debut in the US, only reaching number 40, but it achieved Australasian success, reaching number one in Australia and number two in New Zealand.

The world's first digital computer music was generated in Australia by programmer Geoff Hill on the CSIRAC computer which was designed and built by Trevor Pearcey and Maston Beard, although it was only used to play standard tunes of the day.

Chiropractic is well established in the U. S., Canada and Australia and is the " third largest of the doctored health professions ( behind only medicine and dentistry )".

In some countries, authors also earn income from a government scheme such as the ELR ( Educational Lending Right ) and PLR ( Public Lending Right ) schemes in Australia.

As part of the introduction of mobile phone competition in Australia, the Australian government mandated GSM as the new standard for mobile networks, and required that Telstra close the AMPS network by 2000.

In Australia, the term " borough " is an occasionally used term for a local government area.

The Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act created a federal system, in which power is divided between the federal, or national, government and the States — the evolved status of the colonies.

In an Australian context, the term " Commonwealth " ( capitalised ) thus refers to the federal government and " Commonwealth of Australia " is the official name of the country.

In Australia, a Chief Minister is the head of government of a self-governing territory, while the head of government of a state is a Premier.

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

Also Australian government ecommerce website provides information on ecommerce in Australia.

Military aid is received from Australia, the People's Republic of China, and the United Kingdom ( although the latter has suspended aid as a result of the 2006 military coup against the civilian government ).

The expulsion of the diplomats followed accusations by leader of Fiji, Frank Bainimarama, that Australia and New Zealand were interfering in Fiji's internal affairs and " wage a negative campaign against the government and people of Fiji ".

The expulsion of the diplomats followed accusations by leader of Fiji, Frank Bainimarama, that Australia and New Zealand were interfering in Fiji's internal affairs and " wage a negative campaign against the government and people of Fiji ".

However, the post still ultimately represented the government of the United Kingdom until, after continually decreasing involvement by the British government, the passage in 1942 of the Statute of Westminster Adoption Act 1942 ( see Statute of Westminster ) and the Australia Act 1986, whereafter the governor became the direct, personal representative of the uniquely Australian sovereign.

As Australia shares its monarch equally with fifteen other countries in the Commonwealth of Nations and the sovereign lives predominantly outside New South Wales ' borders, the governor's primary task is to perform the sovereign's constitutional duties on his or her behalf, acting within the principles of parliamentary democracy and responsible government as a guarantor of continuous and stable governance and as a nonpartisan safeguard against the abuse of power.

As South Australia ( 1836 ), Tasmania ( January 1855 ) and Victoria ( May 1855 ) obtained responsible government, their Lieutenant-Governors were replaced by Governors.

On 25 April 2005, to mark the 90th anniversary of the Gallipoli landing, government officials from Australia and New Zealand, most of the last surviving Gallipoli veterans, and many Australian and New Zealand tourists traveled to Turkey for a special dawn service at Gallipoli.

Habitat is also preserved in the large Aboriginal local government area of Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara in South Australia and in the Great Victoria Desert Nature Reserve of Western Australia.

# Public holiday, a day decreed by government as a day when the bulk of the population is not normally expected to be at work, such as Australia Day, Anzac Day, bank holidays or Christmas Day.

Following Holden's successful application for a A $ 149 million government grant to build a localised version of the Chevrolet Cruze in Australia from 2011, Holden in 2009 announced that it would initially import the small car unchanged from South Korea as the Holden Cruze.

He also established the Australian Council for the Arts ( later the Australia Council ), which began the tradition of federal government support for Australian arts and artists, an initiative that was considerably expanded by Holt's successor John Gorton.

In 1967 the Holt government made the historic decision not to depreciate the Australian dollar in line with Britain's depreciation of the pound sterling, a custom that Australia had previously always followed, but this decision created considerable dissent within the Coalition ; Country Party leader John McEwen was particularly angered by the move — he saw it as a threat to Australia's balance of payments and feared that it would lead to increased production costs for primary industry.

In the chapter on Vietnam in The Frightened Country, his 1979 book on Australian foreign policy, Renouf bluntly suggested that Holt was in effect " seduced " by Johnson, and notes that the Johnson administration criticized the Holt government for not doing enough and repeatedly pressured Australia to increase its troop commitment in Vietnam.

The low-pressure direct gasoline injection developed by R Sarich was tested by Ford in an automobile size 2-stroke engine, and in 2012, Orbital won a contract by the Australia government for a two-stroke, direct injection engine for airborne drones.