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In Australian English, the littoral thalassinidean Trypaea australiensis is referred to as the yabby ( a term which also refers to freshwater crayfish of the genus Cherax ), frequently used as bait for estuarine fishing ; elsewhere, however, they are poorly known, and as such have few vernacular names, " mud lobster " and " ghost shrimp " counting among them.
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England won two out of the three matches played against Murdoch's Australian Eleven, and after the third match some Melbourne ladies put some ashes into a small urn and gave them to me as captain of the English Eleven .”
The series was overshadowed by the furore over various Australian bowlers, most notably Ian Meckiff, whom the English management and media accused of illegally throwing Australia to victory.
WSC came after an era during which the duopoly of Australian and English dominance dissipated ; the Ashes had long been seen as a cricket world championship but the rise of the West Indies in the late 1970s challenged that view.
In English terms it would be similar to the Canadian or Australian commonwealth status of the 20th century.
Australian English ( AusE, AuE, AusEng, en-AU < ref > is the language code for Australian English, as defined by ISO standards ( see ISO 639-1 and ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 ) and Internet standards ( see IETF language tag ).</ ref >) is a major variety of the English language and is used throughout Australia.
Although English has no official status in the Constitution, Australian English is Australia's de facto official language and is the first language of the majority of the population.
Australian English started diverging from British English after the founding of the colony of New South Wales in 1788 and was recognised as being different from British English by 1820.
Australian English began its development after the landing of the First Fleet at Sydney Cove.
The earliest form of Australian English was first spoken by the children of the colonists born into the colony of New South Wales.
Anthony Burgess writes that " Australian English may be thought of as a kind of fossilised Cockney of the Dickensian era.
Some elements of Aboriginal languages have been adopted by Australian English — mainly as names for places, flora and fauna ( for example dingo ) and local culture.
The primary way in which Australian English is distinctive from other varieties of English is through its unique pronunciation.
Australian English monophthongs
Australian English diphthongs
The vowels of Australian English can be divided according to length.
There exist pairs of long and short vowels with overlapping vowel quality giving Australian English phonemic length distinction, which is unusual amongst the various dialects of English, though not unknown elsewhere, such as in regional south-eastern dialects of the UK and eastern seaboard dialects in the US .< ref >
Australian and australiensis
:* Metanephrops australiensis – Australian scampi
Australian and is
Others are confined to vast reservations, and not only does the Australian government justifiably not wish them to be viewed as exhibits in a zoo, but on their reservations they are extremely fugitive, shunning camps, coming together only for corroborees at which their strange culture comes to its highest pitch -- which is very low indeed.
The Australian aborigine is the conventional exemplar of degraded humanity ; ;
And Secretary Rusk, en route to Bangkok, doubtless is trying to make emergency arrangements for the possible entry of Australian or Thai SEATO forces.
A fourth match was played, against a " United Australian XI ", which was arguably stronger than the Australian sides that had competed in the previous three matches ; this game, however, is not generally considered part of the 1882 – 83 series.
One is playing cricket ; the other is making no attempt to do so " after the latter had come into the Australian rooms to express sympathy for a Larwood bouncer had struck the Australian skipper in the heart and felled him.
The Australian Labor Party ( also ALP and Labor, was Labour before 1912 ) is a social-democratic political party in Australia.
The ALP was founded as a federal party prior to the first sitting of the Australian Parliament in 1901, but is descended from Labour parties founded in the various Australian colonies by the emerging labour movement in Australia, formally beginning in 1891.
The Australian Democrats is an Australian political party espousing a socially liberal ideology.
Australian and referred
Crowded House are referred to as The Crowdies by Australian fans.
A more recent Australian invention is the term " reginalds " to describe underpants ( referred to as " undies " in Australian slang ), from " Reg Grundies " after Reg Grundy, the Australian media tycoon.
As such, the Australian monarch approves with commission issued under the royal sign-manual and Public Seal of the State her New South Wales Premier's recommendation for viceroy, who is from then until being sworn-in referred to as the governor-designate.
The MCG, often referred to by locals as " The G ", has also hosted other major events, including International Rules between the Australian Football League ( AFL ) and Gaelic Athletic Association, international Rugby union, State of Origin series ( rugby league ), FIFA World Cup qualifiers and International Friendly matches, serves as the finish line for the Melbourne Marathon and also major rock concerts.
It is referred to within Victoria as the " Spiritual Home of Australian Sport ".
Elections for the Australian Senate use what is referred to as above-the-line voting where candidates for each party are grouped on the ballot, allowing the voter to vote for the group or for a candidate.
Tennis is enjoyed by millions of recreational players and is also a hugely popular worldwide spectator sport, especially the four Grand Slam tournaments ( also referred to as the " Majors "): the Australian Open played on hard courts, the French Open played on red clay courts, Wimbledon played on grass courts, and the US Open played also on hard courts.
Bushrangers, or bush rangers, originally referred to runaway convicts in the early years of the British settlement of Australia who had the survival skills necessary to use the Australian bush as a refuge to hide from the authorities.
The states referred de facto matters under Section 51 ( xxxvii ) of the Australian Constitution.
The 150 members of the House are elected from single member electorates ( geographic districts, commonly referred to as " seats " but officially known as " Divisions of the Australian House of Representatives ").
On 26 June 2003, the Senate referred an Inquiry into an Australian Republic to the Senate Legal and Constitutional References Committee.
Cinema of Australia, more commonly referred to as the Australian film industry, refers to the system of production, distribution, and exhibition of films in Australia.
Sir Donald George Bradman, AC ( 27 August 1908 – 25 February 2001 ), often referred to as " The Don ", was an Australian cricketer, widely acknowledged as the greatest batsman of all time.
** Fremantle Football Club, a team in the Australian Football League commonly referred to as the " Freo Dockers "
* Birds including the eponymous Black Swan, Silver Gull, Cormorants ( locally referred to as ' shags '), Twenty-eight parrots, Rainbow Lorikeet, Kingfisher, Red-tailed Black Cockatoo, Australian Pelican, Australian Magpie, Heron, Ducks
Australian Fur Seals use the coastline for breeding and resting, and Little Penguins ( sometimes referred to as " blue penguins " or " fairy penguins ") nest along the foreshore.
* Northern Territory National Emergency Response, often referred to as " the intervention ", changes to welfare provision introduced by the Australian government in 2007
In 1939, Clark visited Australia, and later referred to it as " that intolerable continent ", adding that Australian galleries had the worst art but the best Victorian pornography in the world.
Normally a dispute such as this would be referred to the International Court of Justice or the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea for an impartial decision, but the Australian government had withdrawn itself from these international jurisdictions ( solely on matters relating to maritime boundaries ) shortly before Timorese independence.
In countries following the British Army tradition ( Australian Army, Canadian Army, and others ) this organization is referred to as a section.
* Power Without Glory ( 1950 ) by Frank Hardy is an unveiled and highly critical account of the life of Australian business man and political figure John Wren ( referred to by Hardy as John West ).
The Australian Light Horse troops referred to them as " Horse Chestnuts ".
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