The 1983 America's Cup saw Lexcen's Australia II, with John Bertrand at the helm, take on the NYYC skipper Dennis Conner and the defender yacht, Liberty.

Australia IV, Lexcen's final design, was defeated by the Iain Murray designed and skippered Kookaburra III in the Defender Trials.

In 1988, the Toyota Lexcen was released by Toyota Australia in Ben Lexcen's honour.

* 1988 – Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II officially opens World Expo ' 88 in Brisbane, Australia.

* 1944 – World War II: possibly the biggest prison breakout in history occurs as 545 Japanese POWs attempt to escape outside the town of Cowra, New South Wales, Australia.

Category: Battles of World War II involving Australia

Category: World War II sites in Australia

* English in the British Isles until its consolidation as a national language in the Renaissance and the rise of Modern English ; subsequently internationally under the various states in or formerly in the British Empire ; globally since the victories of the predominantly English speaking countries ( United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and others ) and their allies in the two world wars ending in 1918 ( World War I ) and 1945 ( WW II ) and the subsequent rise of the United States as a superpower and major cultural influence.

Category: Battles of World War II involving Australia

The Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia is the representative in Australia at federal / national level of the Australian monarch ( currently Queen Elizabeth II ).

The Governor of New South Wales is the state viceregal representative of the Australian monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, who is equally shared with 15 other sovereign nations in a form of personal union, as well as with the six other jurisdictions of Australia, and resides predominantly in her oldest realm, the United Kingdom.

However, as Northcott was born in Victoria, it was not until Sir Eric Woodward's appointment by Queen Elizabeth II in 1957 that the position was filled by a New South Wales-born individual ; this practice continued until 1996, when Queen Elizabeth II commissioned as her representative Gordon Samuels, a London-born immigrant to Australia.

The Governor of Victoria is the representative in the Australian state of Victoria of its monarch, Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia and is one of the Governors of the Australian states.

:: Example 2 ( parliamentary absentee monarchy ): Under Chapter II, Section 61 of the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act 1900:

In the late 1930s, the idea of producing a car made entirely in Australia was conceived, but plans were put on hold after the outbreak of World War II.

Memories of World War II linger among the older members of the Australian public, as does a contemporary fear of Japanese economic domination over countries, particularly Australia, although such fears have fallen off in response to Japan's economic stagnation in the 1990s.

* 1991 – Elizabeth II, in her capacity as Queen of Australia, signs letters patent allowing Australia to become the first Commonwealth Realm to institute its own separate Victoria Cross award in its own honours system.

* 1953 – The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, who is crowned Queen of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Her Other Realms and Territories & Head of the Commonwealth, the first major international event to be televised.

Like his father before him, Cade left his young family to fight for Australia in the Armed Forces in World War II.

In 1937 Eccles returned to Australia, where he worked on military research during World War II.

Both before and after World War II, numerous satirical cartoons and comedy skits were written, mostly in Australia, based on events of the bodyline tour.

* 1942 – World War II: Japanese naval troops invade Tulagi Island in the Solomon Islands during the first part of Operation Mo that results in the Battle of the Coral Sea between Japanese forces and forces from the United States and Australia.

* 1942 – World War II: Ten Japanese warplanes raid the town of Broome, Western Australia, killing more than 100 people.

Beginning after World War II, the Methodist churches in the United States continued developing, at a much greater pace, ministries on Universities, Colleges, Junior Colleges and other higher education institutions, on campuses of both church-owned and state schools throughout the United States and Canada, and to a lesser degree in Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.

After World War II, Australia was the first country to make the drug available for civilian use.

The site of the colony's capital was surveyed and laid out by Colonel William Light, the first Surveyor-General of South Australia, through the design made by the architect George Strickland Kingston.

At this time, the company was producing all of its passenger cars in Australia, and every model was of Australian design ; however, by the end of the decade, Holden was producing cars based on overseas designs.

The second generation Holden Gemini from 1985 was also based on an Isuzu design, although, its manufacture was undertaken in Australia.

The status of intelligent design in Australia is somewhat similar to that in the UK ( see Education in Australia ).

Mars Society Australia plans to build its own station based on the Mars Oz design.

He was the architect for the Bahá ' í Houses of Worship in Uganda and Australia, and Shoghi Effendi approved his design of the unbuilt House of Worship in Haifa, Israel.

Cars sold to U. S., Canada, Australia and Arabic countries got new parts once remaining old design caliper stock was used up.

The single-hose design generally used today was invented in Australia by Ted Eldred.

The engine design has also been used over the years in GM products built and sold under the Pontiac, Oldsmobile, Buick, Hummer, Opel ( Germany ), and Holden ( Australia ) nameplates.

With over 34 design awards to his credit, Durie has been invited to exhibit and compete at international garden shows around the world, winning gold medals in Australia, Singapore, Japan, New Zealand and the prestigious Chelsea Flower Show in the UK.

CIBSE publishes several guides to HVAC design relevant to the UK market, and also the Republic of Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong.

* www. yourhome. gov. au / technical / index. html-Your Home Technical Manual developed by the Commonwealth of Australia to provide information about how to design, build and live in environmentally sustainable homes.

Yeoman introduced an observation-based approach to land use in Australia in the 1940s ; and the keyline design as a way of managing the supply and distribution of water in the 1950s.

In the 1960s Seidler again broke new ground with his radical design for the Australia Square project ( 1961 – 67 ).

The design introduced the two principles of incorporating large public open spaces and circular forms to office towers in Australia.

* 1952: Hutter House, Turramurra ( Sydney ), Australia – since greatly modified such that hardly anything of Seidler's design remains.

* 2004 – 09: Alliance Française Building, Sydney, Australia ( his last commercial design )

The final design which was adopted contains the Union Flag in the left corner symbolising Australia's historical links to the United Kingdom, the stars of the Southern Cross on the right half of the flag indicating Australia's geographical location and the seven pointed Federation Star in the bottom left representing the six states and the territories of Australia.

The design of the whole new family of banknotes was assigned to the Swedish company Crane AB, while its production was assigned to the Australian company Note Printing Australia Ltd and Crane AB.

Australia and New Zealand each had their own design of red telephone box, and some examples have been preserved in sensitive or historic sites.

The Albert Bridge is a railway bridge of steel truss design crossing the Brisbane River, Queensland, Australia.

Known colloquially as the duck brake, the design was used by many notable riders of the day, and was widely exported to England, Australia, and other countries.

A. Neville Thiele in Australia, and later Richard H. Small ( who taught and did design work in Australia, England, and the United States ), first comprehensively adapted electronic filter theory to the design of loudspeaker enclosures, particularly at the low frequencies handled by woofers.