As South Australia's seat of government and commercial centre, Adelaide is the site of many governmental and financial institutions.

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.

In Australia's Federal Parliament, the ACT is represented by four federal members: two members of the House of Representatives ; the Division of Fraser and the Division of Canberra and is one of only two territories to be represented in the Senate, with two Senators ( the other being the Northern Territory ).

* 1984 – Advance Australia Fair is proclaimed as Australia's national anthem, and green and gold as the national colours.

Riversleigh, in Queensland, is one of Australia's most renowned fossil sites and was recorded as a World Heritage site in 1994.

Most of Australia's iron ore is also mined in the Pilbara and it also has one of the world's major manganese mines,

The song Waltzing Matilda, which is about a swagman and squatters, is probably Australia's best internationally known and most well-loved song.

Riversleigh, in Queensland, is one of Australia's most renowned fossil sites and was recorded as a World Heritage site in 1994.

He is Labor's longest-serving Prime Minister and Australia's third-longest-serving Prime Minister.

* 1948 – Taman Shud Case: The body of an unidentified man is found in Adelaide, Australia ; involving an undetectable poison and a secret code in a very rare book, the case remains unsolved and is " one of Australia's most profound mysteries ".

Having been almost entirely rebuilt twice, once due to Japanese air raids during World War II, and again after being devastated by Cyclone Tracy in 1974, the city is one of Australia's most modern capitals.

He later opined that the governor-general's role was more than a representative of the sovereign, explaining: " under section 2 of the Constitution the Governor-General is the Queen's representative and exercises certain royal prerogative powers and functions ; under section 61 of the Constitution the Governor-General is the holder of a quite separate and independent office created, not by the Crown, but by the Constitution, and empowered to exercise, in his own right as Governor-General and not as a representative or delegate of the Queen, all the powers and functions of Australia's head of state.

He is known as host of the Minnesota Public Radio show A Prairie Home Companion ( also known as Garrison Keillor's Radio Show on United Kingdom's BBC Radio 4 Extra, as well as on RTÉ in Ireland, Australia's ABC, and Radio New Zealand National in New Zealand ).

Hobart is Australia's second oldest capital city after Sydney, New South Wales.

Hobart is home to Australia's oldest theatre, the Theatre Royal, as well as the Playhouse theatre, the Backspace theatre and many smaller stage theatres.

Today, Holt is mainly remembered for his somewhat controversial role in expanding Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War, for his famous " All the way with LBJ " quote, and for the sensational circumstances of his death.

Heinz Australia's head office is located in Melbourne.

The writ of habeas corpus as a procedural remedy is part of Australia's English law inheritance.

An exception is found off Australia's western coast, where the shelf width exceeds 1, 000 kilometres ( 600 mi ).

AUSTRAC ( Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre ) is Australia's anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing regulator and specialist financial intelligence unit.

* 2005 – Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani becomes Iraqi president ; Shiite Arab Ibrahim al-Jaafari is named premier the next day.

Unter den Linden is a tree-lined east – west avenue from the Brandenburg Gate to the site of the former Berliner Stadtschloss, and was once Berlin's premier promenade.

The premier example is photosynthesis, in which most plants use solar energy to convert carbon dioxide and water into glucose, disposing of oxygen as a side-product.

* The word premier " leader of a provincial or territorial government " is commonly pronounced, with and being rare variants.

The ICC Cricket World Cup is the premier international championship of men's One Day International ( ODI ) cricket.

The Usher Hall is Edinburgh's premier venue for classical music, as well as the occasional prestige popular music gig.

* 1954 – Gamal Abdul Nasser is made premier of Egypt.

It is now the premier IFF event for Men's and Women's Club teams.

It should also be noted that the wording of the Basic Law on the term of the Chief Executive is substantially different from the articles in the PRC constitution concerning the length of term of the president, premier, etc.

Based on ice sledge hockey, inline sledge hockey is played to the same rules as inline puck hockey ( essentially ice hockey played off ice using inline skates ) and has been made possible by the design and manufacture of inline sledges by RGK, Europe ’ s premier sports wheelchair maker.

The DPR, which is the premier legislative institution, originally included 462 members elected through a mixed proportional / district representational system and thirty-eight appointed members of the armed forces ( TNI ) and police ( POLRI ).

* 1970 – Moammar Gadhafi is proclaimed premier of Libya.

It is Pakistan's premier centre of banking, industry, economic activity and trade and is home to Pakistan's largest corporations, including those involved in textiles, shipping, automotive industry, entertainment, the arts, fashion, advertising, publishing, software development and medical research.

Radio-Television-Luxembourg is Europe's premier private radio and television broadcaster.

It is a premier hub airport in the Middle East.

The Constitution specifies that in everyday practice sovereignty is exercised by the Niue Cabinet of Ministers, comprising the premier and three other ministers.

The new Speaker calls for nominations for premier ; the candidate with the most votes from the 20 members is elected.

With thirty franchised member clubs ( 29 in the United States and 1 in Canada ), the NBA is widely considered to be the premier men's professional basketball league in the world.

* 1945 – World War II: The former premier of Vichy France Pierre Laval is shot by a firing squad for treason.

The Oxford English Dictionary ( OED ), published by the Oxford University Press, is the self-styled premier dictionary of the English language.

The former Imperial Castle in Poznań | Imperial Castle is now one of Poznań's premier cultural-theatrical institutions.

In what is now known as the Hopetoun Blunder, the governor-general, Lord Hopetoun, invited Sir William Lyne, the premier of the most populous state, New South Wales, to form a government.

There do exist checks on the prime minister's power: parliament may revoke its confidence in an incumbent prime minister ; cabinet or caucus revolts can quickly bring down a sitting premier, and even mere threats of such action can persuade and / or compel a prime minister to resign his post, as happened with Jean Chrétien ; the Senate may delay or impede legislation put forward by the Cabinet, such as when Brian Mulroney's bill creating the Goods and Services Tax ( GST ) came before the upper chamber ; and, given Canada's federal nature, the jurisdiction of the federal government is limited to areas prescribed by the constitution.

While contemporary sources will still speak of early prime ministers of Canada as premier, the modern practice is such that the federal head of government is known almost exclusively as the prime minister, while the provincial heads of government are termed premiers ( save for within Quebec and New Brunswick, where the premiers are addressed in French as Premier ministre du, literally translated as Prime Minister of ).