The line up continued with appearances at the 2008 Homebake Festival in Sydney and as ' EG Awards Hall of Fame ' inductees on 4 December in Melbourne.

A garbled version of this eventually found its way into the English press when Phillip was appointed in 1786 to lead the expedition to Sydney.

Then in the early 1980s there were major changes in the Australian brewing industry, including the merger of Castlemaine ( Brisbane ), Swan ( Perth ) and Toohey's ( Sydney ) into a national brewing group, as a result of acquisitions by Perth entrepreneur Alan Bond.

The Granville rail disaster occurred on 18 January 1977 at Granville, a suburb in western Sydney, when a crowded commuter train derailed, running into the supports of a road bridge that collapsed onto two of the train's passenger carriages.

* 1788 – The British First Fleet, led by Arthur Phillip, sails into Port Jackson ( Sydney Harbour ) to establish Sydney, the first permanent European settlement on the continent.

First Students at Macquarie UniversityThe idea of founding a third university in Sydney was flagged in the early 1960s when the New South Wales Government formed a committee of enquiry into higher education to deal with a perceived emergency in university enrollments in New South Wales.

Among the most successful were The Easybeats, formed in Sydney but who recorded their international hit " Friday on My Mind " ( 1966 ) in London and remained there for their forays into psychedelic-tinged pop until they disbanded in 1970.

* Phoenix ( hulk ), a frigate that was damaged in 1824 and turned into a prison hulk in Sydney

This was also Kangaroos ' veteran Shannon Grant's last AFL game, and he was given a standing ovation by both Swans and Kangaroos players as he represented both clubs throughout his career ( although it was at North Melbourne where Grant really made his mark in the game ) Their only clash in 2009 ( Round 14, which the Swans won by 15 points to end a four-game losing streak ) was aired into both the Sydney and Brisbane markets rather than the live vs. match which was a high-rating television match around the rest of the country.

A similar twist was incorporated into a 1980 Australian production at the Bondi Pavilion Theatre in Sydney, where Lady Bracknell was played by female impersonator Tracey Lee.

The University of Sydney is organised into sixteen faculties and schools, through which it offers bachelor's degrees, master's degrees, and doctoral degrees.

In 1848, in the New South Wales Legislative Council, William Wentworth proposed a plan to expand the existing Sydney College into a larger university.

With assistance from the Cape Breton Development Corporation, St. Francis Xavier University Sydney Campus and NSEIT were merged into the College of Cape Breton ( CCB ) in June 1974.

As an extreme example of the integration of ex-IWW militants into the mainstream labour movement one might instance the career of Donald Grant, one of the Sydney Twelve sentenced to fifteen years imprisonment for conspiracy to commit arson and other crimes.

English operetta continued into the 1890s, with works by composers such as Edward German, Ivan Caryll and Sydney Jones.

In the UK work on the Experimental Packet Switched system circa 1973, the need to define so called higher level protocols above the HDLC link level communications protocol and the content of an NCC ( UK ) publication ' Why Distributed Computing ' resulting from considerable research into future configurations for computer systems resulted in the UK presenting the case for an International Standards Committee to cover this area at the ISO meeting in Sydney in March 1977.

Many contemporary Christian denominations incorporate this tune into hymnals, under various names, including " Lord of the Dance ," adapted in 1963 by English poet and songwriter Sydney Carter.

In 1890 Robert Louis Stevenson, his wife Fanny Vandegrift Stevenson, and her son Lloyd Osbourne sailed on the Janet Nicoll, a trading steamer owned by Henderson and Macfarlane of Auckland, New Zealand, which operated between Sydney, Auckland and into the central Pacific.

Research into the molecular and developmental biology of C. elegans was begun in 1974 by Sydney Brenner and it has since been used extensively as a model organism.

Because all research into C. elegans essentially started with Sydney Brenner in the 1970s, many scientists working in this field share a close connection to Brenner, having either worked as a post-doctoral or post-graduate researcher in Brenner's lab or in the lab of someone who previously worked with Brenner.

Sydney was incorporated in 1904 and dissolved on August 1, 1995, when it was merged into the regional municipality.

A few years into the war there was also a naval engagement between French ships and a British convoy off Sydney, Nova Scotia, near Spanish River ( 1781 ), Cape Breton.

Sydney is on the east bank of the Sydney River where it discharges into South Arm of Sydney Harbour.

They include the Olympics in Barcelona in 1992, Atlanta in 1996, Sydney in 2000, Salt Lake City in 2002, Athens in 2004, Turin in 2006, Beijing in 2008, Vancouver in 2010, and London in 2012.

The major communities of the region include Halifax and Sydney in Nova Scotia, Saint John, Fredericton and Moncton in New Brunswick, and Charlottetown in Prince Edward Island.

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.

* From sportingpulse. com: " The North Sydney Junior League has extended the mercy rule to include our competitive grades U / 9 to U / 12's.

Prominent Australian conservative think tanks include The Centre for Independent Studies, the Sydney Institute and the Institute of Public Affairs.

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.

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.

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.

Sydney's port facilities include the privately owned bulk coal unloading pier in Whitney Pier as well as the publicly owned Sydney Marine Terminal at the northern edge of the central business district.

Examples include San Francisco, Manchester, Brighton and Liverpool in the UK, Sydney, Cape Town and the Greek island of Mykonos.

Other film festivals in Sydney include the renowned short film festivals Tropfest and Flickerfest.

Other attractions include the Royal Botanical Gardens, Luna Park and Sydney Tower.

Examples of ethnic communities in Sydney include ;

Other internationally recognized practitioners include Alain de Rogaine in Paris, Yuishi Kogazawa in Kyoto and Camille Kelly in Sydney.

Shellwork objects include baby shoes, jewelry boxes and replicas of famous landmarks, including the Sydney Harbour Bridge and the Sydney Opera House.

They include Frognal House, the birthplace and residence of Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney, after whom Sydney, Australia was named ( now converted for use as residential and nursing accommodation ), Lamorbey House ( now used by Rose Bruford College ), Sidcup Place ( now a Brewers Fayre bar and restaurant ) and " The Hollies " ( now converted for residential use ).

Reflecting changes since the first Sydney Mardi Gras, participants in the Mardi Gras Parade now include groups of uniformed police officers from Australian Federal Police and New South Wales State Police, as well as interstate police officers, firefighters and other emergency services personnel from the Australian LGBTI community.

Parade entrants include members of Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays, the Australian Defence Force, Amnesty International Australia, Australian Marriage Equality, City of Sydney, Fire and Rescue NSW, Taronga Conservation Society and DNA ( magazine ) among many others.

Commonly encountered vegetation in this environments include but are not limited to ; Sydney redgums ( Angophora costata ), Sydney Peppermints ( Eucalyptus piperita ), Port Jackson Pine ( Callitris rhomboidea ), Red Bloodwoods ( Corymbia gummifera ), Pomaderris sp., Old Man Banksia ( Banksia serrata ), Hairpin Banksia ( Banksia spinulosus ), Rock Banksia ( Banksia oblongifolia ), Sydney Boronia ( Boronia ledifolia ), Native Sarsaparilla ( Smilax glyciphylla ), Violet Twining Pea ( Hardenbergia violacea ), Dusky Coral Pea ( Kennedia rubicunda ), the traditional narcotic Hop Bush ( Dodonaea triquetra ), Native Pea ( Dillwynia sieberi ), sometimes Dwarf Apple ( Angophora hispida ), parasitic Devils Twine ( Cassytha sp.