ADFA teaches military undergraduates and postgraduates and is officially a campus of the University of New South Wales while Duntroon provides Australian Army Officer training.

The Australian High Commission in Suva told Bainimarama that his threats are not " the proper role for the military in a democracy.

About 80, 000 Indian, United Kingdom and Australian soldiers become prisoners of war, the largest surrender of British-led military personnel in history.

In May 1940, without resigning his seat, Holt joined the Second Australian Imperial Force as a gunner, but a few months later three Cabinet ministers and several of Australia's top military staff were killed in an air crash in Canberra.

Reported in The Australian on 1 July 1966, Holt's speech concluded with a remark which has come to be seen as encapsulating his unquestioning support for Johnson, for America's Vietnam policy and for continued Australian military involvement in the Vietnam War:

The Defence Act of 1903 granted the Australian federal government the powers to conscript men of military age for home defense.

During the Pacific War, Papua was governed by an Australian military administration from Port Moresby, where General Douglas MacArthur occasionally made his headquarters.

In 1914, Australian troops occupied German New Guinea, and it remained under Australian military control through World War I until 1921.

Category: Australian military personnel of World War II

A National Security Act was passed, the recruitment of a volunteer military force for service at home and abroad was announced, the 2nd Australian Imperial Force, and a citizen militia was organised for local defence.

Approximately 49, 000 Australian military personnel served in Vietnam.

The Sheridan was never used in Australian Army service, however it was trialled by the Royal Australian Armoured Corps beginning 1967 and appeared in several Manual of Land Warfare pamphlets ( the equivalent of US military FMs ) of late 1960s vintage.

At the time of her birth Outhwaite's father was a professor at Ormond College, University of Melbourne, and later moderator-general of his church for 1912-14, and when the World War I broke out, chaplain-general of the Australian military forces.

Category: Australian military memorials

Prime Minister Gough Whitlam instituted a number of changes, including removing reference to the United Kingdom in Queen Elizabeth's Australian title on 19 October 1973, when she signed her assent to the Royal Style and Titles Act, and creating a domestic system of conferring civil and military honours.

* Distinguished Service Cross ( Australia ), Australian military award

A total of 16, 647 were made with approximately 7, 000 of them being recruited into military service by the Swiss, Austrian and Australian armies and the Royal Navy.

On 4 November 2009, Fijian military leader, Voreqe ( Frank ) Bainimarama, expelled the Australian high commissioner James Batley and his New Zealand counterpart.

Z Force, an Australian-British-New Zealand military intelligence commando unit, formed by the Australian Services Reconnaissance Department, also carried out many raiding and reconnaissance operations in the South West Pacific theatre, most notably Operation Jaywick, in which they destroyed tonnes of Japanese shipping at Singapore Harbour.

During World War I, Harefield Park was used as an Australian military hospital.

General Sir John Monash GCMG, KCB, VD ( 27 June 1865 – 8 October 1931 ) was a civil engineer who became the Australian military commander in the First World War.

Category: Australian rules football terminology

The frog, also known as the common crossing ( or V-Rail in Australian terminology ), refers to the crossing point of two rails.

The terminology received international attention as a result of the 2005 Cronulla riots, where t-shirts ( especially those t-shirts that embodied the Australian flag ) and scrawlings on the beach read " 100 % Aussie Pride " and were largely seen as a display of ethnic identification.

Much of the Australian slang and terminology was also replaced with American usages ( examples: " Oi!

Category: Australian rules football terminology

Category: Australian rules football terminology

A DFP is known more commonly within United States Army slang as a " fighting position ", or the slang term " ranger grave ", within United States Marine Corps slang as a " fighting hole ", in Australian and New Zealand Army Corps ( ANZAC ) forces terminology as a " fighting pit ", in Australian Army terminology as a " Gun-Pit ", within the British and Canadian military argot as a " slit trench ", or simply — but less accurately — as a " trench ".

* For terminology specific to Australia, see Glossary of Australian railway terminology.

In Australian military terminology, a CASEVAC refers to the evacuation of a small number of troops, usually just one.

Category: Australian rules football terminology

Similar terminology is used in the Australian Labor Party ( see Socialist Left ).

Similar terminology is used also in the context of the Australian Labor Party.

For instance, it is characteristic of the " Iroquois " system of kinship terminology, its variants the " Crow " and " Omaha ", and most Australian Aboriginal systems, that a male parallel cousin is referred to as " brother ", and a female parallel cousin is " sister ".

Category: Australian rules football terminology

Category: Australian rules football terminology

Category: Australian rules football terminology

Category: Australian rules football terminology

Category: Australian rules football terminology

In Australian and British terminology, a toile is a version of a garment made by a fashion designer or dressmaker to test a pattern.

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.

* Australian Aboriginal English refers to the various varieties of the English language used by Indigenous Australians.

The noun license ( American English ) or licence ( British English, Indian English, Canadian English, Australian English, New Zealand English ) refers to that permission as well as to the document recording that permission.

In Tasmania and the Australian Capital Territory, the term " high school " generally refers to Years 7 – 10, whereas the term " College " is used for Years 11 – 12.

In Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, the term crayfish or cray generally refers to a saltwater spiny lobster, of the genus Jasus that is indigenous to much of southern Oceania, while the freshwater species are usually called yabby or, from the indigenous Australian and Māori names for the animal respectively, or by other names specific to each species.

Australian cuisine refers to the cuisine of the Commonwealth of Australia and its preceding indigenous and colonial societies.

Indigenous Australian music refers to the music of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders.

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.

They are also commonly called possums, though that term technically refers to Australian fauna of the suborder Phalangeriformes.

The term Grass Parakeet ( or Grasskeet ) refers to a large number of small Australian parakeets native to grasslands such as Neophema and Princess Parrot.

* Books. google entries on Alfred Lee's discovery regarding what the Australian Encyclopaedia entry refers to as the " Barrington Prologue.

In modern usage, stocking specifically refers to the form of women's hosiery configured as two pieces, one for each leg ( except for American and Australian English, where the term can also be a synonym pantyhose ).

NSW refers to New South Wales, an Australian state.

Tuition payments, known primarily as tuition in American English and as tuition fees in British English, Canadian English, Australian English, New Zealand English and Indian English, refers to a fee charged for educational instruction during higher education.

Colin Hay, singer from the Australian band Men at Work, refers to lapsang souchong in his song " Beautiful World " from his 2001 album Going Somewhere.

In particular it refers to the invention of George Julius, the English-born, New Zealand educated, Australian inventor, engineer and businessman, a leader of Australian engineering in the first half of the twentieth century.

Modern Australian use of the term refers to a blue collar working class man, who is generally over-worked and under-paid.

In Australian history, the term Constitutional Convention refers to four distinct gatherings.

The name refers to the then rural area of Heidelberg east of Melbourne where practitioners of the style found their subject matter, though usage expanded to cover other Australian artists working in similar areas.

The Canberra Times of August 14, 1945, refers to VP Day celebrations, and a public holiday for VP Day was gazetted by the government in that year according to the Australian War Memorial.

In Australia, especially within the context of sport, " tribunal " frequently refers to the AFL Tribunal, the disciplinary body of the Australian Football League.