Apart from the city of Canberra, the Australian Capital Territory also contains agricultural land ( sheep, dairy cattle, vineyards and small amounts of crops ) and a large area of national park ( Namadgi National Park ), much of it mountainous and forested.

Australian National University | ANU school of art, originally built as Canberra High School

The two main tertiary institutions are the Australian National University ( ANU ) in Acton and the University of Canberra ( UC ) in Bruce.

The Australian National Football Council's primary role was to govern the game at national level to facilitate interstate representative and club competition.

Between 1977 and 1987, the Australian Football Council ( AFC ) in conjunction with the VFL ran a night series, which invited clubs and representative sides from around the country to participate in the " National Football League " for the Wills Cup, however Victorian sides still dominated.

* Advance Australia Fair ( Australian National Anthem )

* Jeffreys, Elizabeth and Michael, and Moffatt, Ann, Byzantine Papers: Proceedings of the First Australian Byzantine Studies Conference, Canberra, 17 – 19 May 1978 ( Australian National University, Canberra, 1979 ).

Papers on Far Eastern History 16, Australian National University.

Faculty of Asian Studies, Australian National University.

In federal Australian politics, the conservative Liberal, National, Country Liberal and Liberal National parties are united in a coalition, known simply as the Coalition.

The Southern Cross was written into the lyrics of " Advance Australia Fair " in 1901: " Beneath our radiant Southern Cross "; the song was adopted as the Australian National Anthem in 1984.

Other conservative parties are the National Party of Australia, a sister party of the Liberals, Family First Party, Democratic Labor Party, Shooters Party and the Katter's Australian Party The second largest party in the country, the Australian Labor Party's dominant faction is Labor Right, a socially conservative element.

In Australia, the National Union of Workers represents unionised workers ; their activities form part of the Australian labour movement.

* Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs, an Australian National Rugby League team

* Australian National Drag Racing Association ( ANDRA )

* Australian National Drag Racing Association ( ANDRA )

With the introduction of National Health Practitioner registration legislation on July 1, 2010, the title " doctor " is not restricted in any Australian state.

On taking office, Holt declared that Australia had no intention of increasing its commitment to the war, but just one month later, in December 1966, he announced that Australia would treble its troop commitment to 4, 500, including 1, 500 National Service conscripts, creating a single independent Australian task force based at Nui Dat.

From 1952 to 1962 he worked as a professor at the John Curtin School of Medical Research ( JCSMR ) of the Australian National University.

* Australian National Gallery, Canberra

National associations of the English-speaking world include the American Library Association, the Australian Library and Information Association, the Canadian Library Association and the Research Libraries UK ( a consortium of 30 university and other research libraries in the United Kingdom ).

The MCG is listed on the Victorian Heritage Register and was included on the Australian National Heritage List on 26 December 2005.

Percival Serle wrote of Phillip in his Dictionary of Australian Biography:

* Australian Oxford Dictionary ( AOD )

( 2000 ), " Menzies, Sir Robert Gordon ( Bob ) ( 18941978 )", Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 15, Melbourne University Press, ( Melbourne ), pp 354 – 361.

* Biographical Entry – The Australian Dictionary of Biography Online

* Australian Bureau of Statistics 1996 Census Dictionary – Religion category

* Australian Dictionary of Biography-Joseph Lyons

* Australian Dictionary of Biography-Robert Menzies

* Australian Dictionary of Biography-Billy Hughes

* Biography at the Australian Dictionary of Biography

Reflecting different national usages, cunt is described as " an unpleasant or stupid person " in the Compact Oxford English Dictionary, whereas Merriam-Webster has a usage of the term as " usually disparaging and obscene: woman ", noting that it is used in the U. S. as " an offensive way to refer to a woman "; the Macquarie Dictionary of Australian English states that it is " a despicable man ", however when used with a positive qualifier ( good, funny, clever, etc.

* Australian Dictionary of Biography-Billy Hughes

* Australian Dictionary of Biography-Stanley Bruce

* Australian Dictionary of Biography-John Latham

* C. J. Lloyd, ' McEwen, Sir John ( 1900 – 1980 )', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Vol.

* Wilma Radford, ' Badham, Charles ( 1813-1884 )', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 3, MUP, 1969, pp 68 – 71.

* Clifford-Smith, Silas ( 2008 ), ' Joan Lindsay ', Dictionary of Australian Artists Online,, ( biography of her art career )

* Croft, Julian ( 2000 ) ' Norway, Nevil Shute ( 1899 – 1960 )' in Australian Dictionary of Biography.

* Australian Dictionary of Biography Online entry for Jack Lang

* MacDonald JD ( 1987 ) The Illustrated Dictionary of Australian Birds by Common Name, Reed, p40, ISBN 0-7301-0184-3

* Andrade, David Alfred ( 1859-1928 ) Australian Dictionary of Biography.

* Australian Dictionary of Biography

* Australian Dictionary of Biography, Australia's pre-eminent dictionary of national biography

* John Curtin ( 1885 – 1945 ) – Australian Dictionary of Biography, Online Edition

Dictionary of Australian Biography ( 1949 ) online edition