The ACT Government is a member of the Council of Australian Governments.

In 1988, when the ACT gained self-government, Jervis Bay became a separate territory administered by the Australian Government Minister responsible for Territories, presently the Minister for Home Affairs ( Australia ).

In 1907 the Australian Government awarded McCormick £ 100 for his composition.

The ad hominem argument was particularly used by the Howard Government against members of the Australian Labor Party.

The Australian Government has introduced legislation that requires ISP's to " restrict access to age restricted content ( commercial MA15 + content and R18 + content ) either hosted in Australia or provided from Australia " that was due to commence from 20 January 2008, known as Cleanfeed.

The Australian Federal Government is considering changes to the Australian Criminal Code that would classify any plants containing any amount of DMT as " controlled plants ".

* 1909 – New South Wales Premier Charles Wade signed the Seat of Government Surrender Act 1909, formally completing the transfer of State land to the Commonwealth to create the Australian Capital Territory.

Governors-General were expected to exercise a supervisory role over the Australian Government in the manner of a colonial Governor.

As a result of decisions made at the 1926 Imperial Conference, the Governor-General ceased to be the diplomatic representative of the British Government, and the British right of supervision over Australian affairs was abolished.

All communication between the Australian colonies and the British Government was meant to go through the Governor-General, and the other colonies had Lieutenant-Governors.

Before the war ended, the Australian Government took steps to encourage an Australian automotive industry.

Both GM and Ford provided studies to the Australian Government outlining the production of the first Australian designed car.

The Australian Government tried to revive the industry with the Button car plan, which encouraged car makers to focus on producing fewer models at higher, more economical volumes, and to export cars.

During the 1990s Holden, other Australian automakers and trade unionists pressured the Australian Government to halt the lowering of car import tariffs.

* 1942 – The Australian Federal Government becomes the sole collector of income tax in Australia as the State Income Tax is abolished.

The premises must meet the Australian Government Standards.

* Honorary Officer of the Order of Australia-For service to the South Australian Government by

The Australian Government maintains authority on the island through an Administrator ( currently Owen Walsh ) who is appointed by the Governor-General of Australia.

Arguably inelegant implementation makes the future of OBE unclear, and at odds with the Australian Government in Canberra.

In January 2007, the Western Australian Government responded to the massive opposition by teachers and parents to its implementation of an OBE system by stating that it would allow year 11 and 12 students to be graded traditionally.

The first occasion was in 1988 for a museum tour as part of the Australian Bicentenary celebrations ; the second was for the 2006 / 7 Ashes series.

A fourth match was played, against a " United Australian XI ", which was arguably stronger than the Australian sides that had competed in the previous three matches ; this game, however, is not generally considered part of the 1882 – 83 series.

Australian captain Herbie Collins was stripped of all captaincy positions down to club level, and some accused him of throwing the match.

Bradman was succeeded as Australian captain by Lindsay Hassett, who led the team to 4 – 1 victory in 1950 – 51.

The series was overshadowed by the furore over various Australian bowlers, most notably Ian Meckiff, whom the English management and media accused of illegally throwing Australia to victory.

The Australian team of 1989 was comparable to the great Australian teams of the past, and resoundingly defeated England 4 – 0.

But the most dominant Australian player was leg-spinner Shane Warne, whose first delivery in Ashes cricket in 1993, to dismiss Mike Gatting, became known as the Ball of the century.

Use of the name " Ashes " was suggested by the Australian team when rugby league matches between the two countries commenced in 1908.

However, by mid-1837 the South Australian Register was warning of escaped convicts from New South Wales, and tenders for a temporary gaol were sought.

In 1867 gas street lighting was implemented, the University of Adelaide was founded in 1874, the South Australian Art Gallery opened in 1881 and the Happy Valley Reservoir opened in 1896.

* 1980 – Azaria Chamberlain disappears, probably taken by a dingo, leading to what was then the most publicized trial in Australian history.

The Australian Labor Party ( also ALP and Labor, was Labour before 1912 ) is a social-democratic political party in Australia.

The ALP was founded as a federal party prior to the first sitting of the Australian Parliament in 1901, but is descended from Labour parties founded in the various Australian colonies by the emerging labour movement in Australia, formally beginning in 1891.

Labor was the first party in Australia to win a majority in either house of the Australian Parliament, at the 1910 federal election.

Australian English started diverging from British English after the founding of the colony of New South Wales in 1788 and was recognised as being different from British English by 1820.

The earliest form of Australian English was first spoken by the children of the colonists born into the colony of New South Wales.

According to linguist Bruce Moore, " the major input of the various sounds that went into constructing the Australian accent was from south-east England.

In the United Kingdom, His Majesty's Declaration of Abdication Act was, with the consent of the Australian, Canadian, New Zealand, and South African governments, passed through parliament and the Crown thus passed to the next-in-line descendant of Sophia: Edward's brother, Prince Albert, Duke of York.

Second, it is " merely an interpretative provision ", operating to ensure that references to " the Queen " in the Constitution are references to whoever may at the time be the incumbent of the " sovereignty of the United Kingdom " as determined with regard to Australia, following the Australia Act 1986, by Australian law.

( However, it became very clear in a conversation between Scullin and King George V's Private Secretary, Lord Stamfordham, on 11 November 1930, that this was merely the official reason for the objection, the real reason being that an Australian, no matter how highly regarded personally, was not considered appropriate to be Governor-General.

He is considered by some to be merely a cold-blooded killer, while others consider him to be a folk hero and symbol of Irish Australian resistance against the Anglo-Australian ruling class.

In 1999, four authors, the Australian mathematician Brendan McKay, the Israeli mathematicians Dror Bar-Natan and Gil Kalai, and the Israeli psychologist Maya Bar-Hillel ( collectively known as " MBBK ") published a paper in Statistical Science, in which they argue that the case of Witztum, Rips and Rosenberg ( WRR ) is " fatally defective, indeed that their result merely reflects on the choices made in designing their experiment and collecting the data for it.

But, like his predecessor, he found that Australian Prime Ministers no longer wanted a Governor-General acting as an Imperial overseer, or as a representative of the British government, but merely as discreet figureheads.

* In Cricket World Cup 1999, Pakistan was shot out for merely 132 runs to hand over the World cup trophy to a strong Australian team.

Although the Sigma was merely an Australian version of the Mitsubishi Galant which was already available in the UK, the company's plan was to circumvent the " gentlemen's agreement ", a voluntary import quota which limited Japanese-manufactured imports to 11 per cent of the market.

A 2007 research paper noted that firms from other countries merely pick over their leftovers: " uch of the competition is relatively orderly whereby predominantly Australian, New Zealand, and Canadian firms compete for business not required by English or American law firms.

Allmusic's Eduardo Rivadavia described Disembowelment as " till revered in underground circles as doom-grind pioneers ... works remain genre classics ".< ref name =" Rivadavia "> Justin Donnelly of Metal Forge declared they were " the legendary unground Australian doom / grindcore / ambient act " and " often referred to as merely a doom band, the sort of music ... is actually far more than eclectic and broad sounding than simply labelling them to one particular genre ".

While Preston's work transcended the merely decorative and stylistic modernism which had emerged in Australian popular culture and print production, commercial photography and interior design would also prove an acute influence.

Australian supporters of the silver medal winner, Snowy Baker, often claim that Douglas ' father was the referee and sole judge, but Douglas Sr was there merely to present medals, and had no part in the actual judging.

Sanananda, an Australian victory, was presented as merely a mopping-up operation.

Treaties do not become part of Australian law merely because Australia is a signatory to them.

Janine Roberts has argued that genocide was Australian policy, if only by emission, noting that despite contemporary newspapers regularly decrying " the barbarous crop of exterminators " and " a system of native slaughter ... merciless and complete ", the government contended that " no illegal acts were occurring ", with the worst incidents being described as merely " indiscretions ".