In Australia, the grounds currently used are The Gabba in Brisbane ( first staged an England – Australia Test in the 1932 – 33 season ), Adelaide Oval ( 1884 – 85 ), The WACA, Perth ( 1970 – 71 ) the Melbourne Cricket Ground ( MCG ) ( 1876 – 77 ) and the Sydney Cricket Ground ( SCG ) ( 1881 – 82 ).

Traditionally, Melbourne hosts the Boxing Day Test and Sydney hosts the New Year Test.

Financial institutions in Melbourne and banks in Sydney closed.

Adelaide was not as badly hit as the larger gold-rush cities of Sydney and Melbourne, and silver and lead discoveries at Broken Hill provided some relief.

In 1982, in a move that heralded big changes within the sport, one of the original VFL clubs and now struggling, South Melbourne, relocated to Sydney and became known as the Sydney Swans.

Australia holds the first day of the Boxing Day Test in Melbourne at the Melbourne Cricket Ground and the start to the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race.

This is particularly so in Sydney and Melbourne, where headways on many lines in the core of the network reach 3 – 5 minutes in peaks and 10 – 20 minutes off peak ( about 18 hours a day ) and enter an underground loop for passenger distribution in the city centre ; and where ridership per capita exceeds the sum of metro and commuter rail in comparable North American urban areas such as Toronto, Boston or the San Francisco Bay Area.

Founding drummer Hester left in May 1994, citing family reasons, but briefly returned for their Farewell to the World concerts in Melbourne and Sydney in 1996.

On 6 December 2008 Crowded House played the Homebake festival in Sydney, with warm up gigs at small venues in Hobart, Melbourne and Sydney.

Today it has campuses in Alexandria, Cairo, and various dioceses throughout Egypt, as well as outside Egypt, in New Jersey, Los Angeles, Sydney, Melbourne and London, where potential clergymen and other qualified men and women are taught many subjects, among which are theology, church history, missionary studies, and Coptic language.

In Australia, due to the increasing influx of migrants, fusion cuisine is being reinvented and is becoming increasingly the norm at numerous cafes and restaurants ; with Melbourne and Sydney now being considered as some of the best cities in the world with regard to the quality and creativity of Asian-fusion restaurants.

* 1899 – The Australian Premiers ' Conference held in Melbourne decides to locate Australia's capital city, Canberra, between Sydney and Melbourne.

Some of the first examples were created ca 1981 by graffiti artist Blek le Rat in Paris ; by 1985 stencils had appeared in other cities including New York City, Sydney and Melbourne, where they were documented by American photographer Charles Gatewood and Australian photographer Rennie Ellis.

Hobart is served by Hobart International Airport with flights to / from Melbourne ( Qantas, Virgin Australia, Jetstar Airways and Tiger Airways Australia ); Sydney ( Qantas, Jetstar and Virgin ); Brisbane ( Virgin ); Gold Coast ( Jetstar ); and Canberra ( Virgin ).

Memorial windows for the first three HMA Ships Sydney and the carrier HMAS Melbourne ( R21 ) | HMAS Melbourne

Following his retirement, Brabham and his family moved to a farm between Sydney and Melbourne.

Ethics aside, New South Wales could not afford the £ 1000 and only managed to travel to Melbourne after half the team ’ s travel cost of £ 181 was put up by Sydney barrister Richard Driver.

On 27 May 2009, Caltex Oil Australia Ltd. announced it would be acquiring 302 Mobil service stations in Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney and Adelaide, subject to approval of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.

Among the other bands constituting Australia's second wave were Johnny Dole & The Scabs, the Hellcats, and Psychosurgeons ( later known as the Lipstick Killers ) in Sydney ; The Leftovers, The Survivors, and Razar in Brisbane ; and La Femme, The Negatives, and The Babeez ( later known as The News ) in Melbourne.

Notable pub-rock venues include the Largs Pier Hotel and the Governor Hindmarsh Hotel in Adelaide, the Royal Antler Hotel in Narrabeen, Sydney and the Civic Hotel in Sydney's city centre, the famous Star Hotel in Newcastle NSW and the Station Hotel in Prahran, Melbourne, which was one of the premier pub-rock venues in Australia for more than two decades, Poyntons Carlton Club Hotel in Carlton Melbourne's first Sunday night Live pub-rock venue.

As a result of this policy, Adelaide does not share the convict settlement history of other Australian cities like Sydney, New South Wales ; Brisbane, Queensland and Hobart, Tasmania.

2007 was a much better season for Essendon, in which, despite significant wins over Adelaide ( twice ), Fremantle, St Kilda, Sydney ( by one point in Sydney ), the previous year's premiers West Coast ( their second successive win by a solitary point ) and Carlton, they missed the finals for the third year running.

He and his brother Cliff ( Clifford Thomas Holt, born 1910 ) spent their early life in Sydney and attended three different schools in Sydney and Adelaide between 1913 and 1919.

It had already granted membership to congregations in Adelaide, Auckland, the Philippines and Pakistan, and congregations in Sydney, Russia and Spain had applied for membership.

Produced in Melbourne at the studios of HSV-7, Neighbours rated well in Melbourne, Brisbane and Adelaide, but not in Sydney.

The modern church has properties in Adelaide, Sydney and Melbourne, and smaller congregations elsewhere.

An Australian tour 2010 – 2011 is being performed in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Brisbane and Adelaide.

The first commercial networks in Australia involved commercial stations in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, and later Perth, sharing programming, with each network forming networks based on their allocated channel numbers: TCN-9 Sydney, GTV-9 Melbourne, QTQ-9 Brisbane, NWS-9 Adelaide and STW-9 Perth together formed the Nine Network, while their equivalents on VHF channels 7 and 10 formed the Seven Network and Network Ten respectively.

The 1908 split between the Chicago and Detroit factions in the United States was echoed by internal unrest in the Australian IWW from late 1908, resulting in the formation of a pro-Chicago local in Adelaide in May 1911 and another in Sydney six months later.

Major greyhound racing venues include Wentworth Park in Sydney, Cannington Park in Perth, Greyhound Park in Adelaide, Albion Park in Brisbane and Sandown Park in Melbourne.

Statues of Edward can be found throughout the former empire, such as those in Waterloo Place, London ; Centenary Square, Birmingham ; Union Street, Aberdeen ; Queen's Park, Toronto ; North Terrace, Adelaide ; Franklin Square, Hobart ; Queen Victoria Gardens, Melbourne ; Phillips Square, Montreal and outside the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney.

Race formats include sprint races, with either a 100 km or 200 km race on Saturday and one 200 km race on Sunday, two 250 km races over the weekend ( Adelaide and Sydney ), two 300 km races over the weekend ( Gold Coast ) or endurance races such as Bathurst, which runs over 1000 km race distance, and the Sandown, which runs over 500 km.

Venues included the Perth Entertainment Centre, The Seagull Stadium on the Gold Coast, Memorial Drive in Adelaide, the Sydney Entertainment Centre and a final concert at the Melbourne Tennis Centre on 23 December 1988, the same night that the last episode of Young Talent Time went to air on Network Ten.

The next day Nicol, after playing a number of concerts in Sydney and Adelaide, giving interviews and signing autographs was escorted to the airport by Brian Epstein and flew home to Britain.

The festival, usually held in late January, debuted on the 1992 Australia Day public holiday in Sydney, Australia, and expanded to Adelaide, Melbourne and Perth by the following year ; the Gold Coast and Auckland were added to the schedule in 1994.

Since 1994, the Big Day Out has annually travelled to Auckland ( New Zealand ), the Gold Coast, Sydney, Adelaide, Melbourne and Perth during a three-week period.

They live in an apartment in Coogee, in eastern Sydney, and a villa in the French Côte d ' Azur-where they spend about half of each year.

Through a series of mutation experiments comparing these mutants with each other and other known amino acid codons, Sydney Brenner concluded that the amber and ochre mutations corresponded to the nucleotide triplets " UAG " and " UAA ".

" The Gift of the Magi " is a short story written by O. Henry ( a pen name for William Sydney Porter ), about a young married couple and how they deal with the challenge of buying secret Christmas gifts for each other with very little money.

Other important investments that have helped position Sydney as an eastern hub of Nova Scotia include the twinning of Highway 125 and the creation of the Centre for Sustainability in the Environment at nearby Cape Breton University, which draws hundreds of international students each year.

The Sydney Festival, held each year in January, is Sydney's and Australia's biggest performing arts festival, incorporating classical and contemporary music, theatre, visual arts, new media, etc.

The international Sydney Film Festival takes place each year in June at various venues in the CBD.

The Sydney Writers ' Festival is held each year in May, featuring readings and discussions by Australian and international writers.

There are multiple regular passenger flights each day to Sydney, Brisbane and Port Macquarie.

Unlike some other Australian cities, the road network, suburbs, parks and other elements of the city were designed in context with each other, rather than haphazard planning as witnessed in much of Sydney.

More than 500 radio stations, including one in each Canadian province and American state, plus one in Sydney, Australia played this Dream Network tribute broadcast.

Sydney and Parramatta Loyalist Associations, with approximately 50 members each, were formed in 1804 for similar reasons as the English ones and helped put down the Castle Hill convict rebellion in the same year.

George ) and Lizzie ( Mrs Sydney Brough ) — all well known on the London stage, and further connected with it in each case by marriage.

Australia has two Mazu temples, one each in Sydney and Melbourne.

The NRL consists of sixteen teams: eight clubs based within Greater Sydney, two in regional New South Wales, three in Queensland, one in Victoria, one each in the Australian Capital Territory and New Zealand.

Mortuary stations served each of the three sections of the necropolis, with a fourth at the main junction and a fifth on Regent Street adjacent to Sydney Central Station.

Although Kid and Sydney each have an eye for each other, Sharane decides to openly flirt with Kid, much to Sydney's disgust.

Since then, ISMMs are organized every 2 – 3 years, each time in a different part of the world: Fontainebleau, France ( 1994 ); Atlanta, USA ( 1996 ); Amsterdam, Netherlands ( 1998 ); Palo Alto, CA, USA ( 2000 ); Sydney, Australia ( 2002 ); Paris, France ( 2005 ); Rio de Janeiro, Brazil ( 2007 ); Groningen, Netherlands ( 2009 ); and Intra ( Verbania ), Italy ( 2011 ).

Relations between the " currency lad " ( first-generation Australian ) Hume and the aloof Englishman Hovell had deteriorated, and they raced each other back to Sydney to claim credit for their discoveries.

While the relay visited each Australian capital city, it also focused strongly on Sydney and the surrounding region, as this was the main catchment area for ticket sales.

After visiting each capital city ( except Sydney ) by air, the relay travelled in New South Wales ( NSW ) from Moss Vale through the Southern Highlands, Illawarra, Campbelltown, Penrith, Windsor, Hunter and Central Coast areas before heading to Sydney.