To become a clinical neuropsychologist in Australia requires the completion of a 3-year Australian Psychology Accreditation Council ( APAC ) approved undergraduate degree in psychology, a 1-year psychology honours, followed by a 2-year Masters or 3-year Doctorate of Psychology ( D. Psych ) in clinical neuropsychology.

* Feather, N. T. ( 1989 ) " Attitudes towards the high achiever: The Fall of the Tall Poppy ," Australian Journal of Psychology, 41 ," pp. 239 – 267

Australian National University, Central Queensland University, Griffith University, La Trobe University, Deakin University, Victoria University of Wellington, UNITEC, University of Alberta, Dalhousie University, University of British Columbia, Camosun College, George Brown College, University of the Philippines, University of Asia and the Pacific, University of Abertay Dundee, University of Cumbria, University of Leicester, University of Bonn, Harmburg University, Zeppelin University, University of Applied Sciences Bielefeld, International Christian University, Kanazawa University, Seigakuin University, Tomakomai Komazawa University, Tohoku Fukush University, Kanazawa University, Seigakuin University, Tohoku Fukush University, Nagoya City University, NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY, Kurume University, The University of AIZU, Ritsumeikan University & Ritsumeikan Asia, Pacific University, Rissho University-Faculty of Psychology, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Yantai University, Nanjing Normal University, Yanbian University of Science a Technology, Northeast Normal University, Renmin University, School of International Studis of Peking University, Shanghai Normal University, Humanities and Transmission College, Changchun Nomal University, Qingdao University, Guangdong University of Technology, Xian International Studies University, Xinyang Normal University, Harbin Institute of Technology, Beijing Language And Culture University, The Central University for Nationalities, Jilin University, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Harbin Institute of Technology in Weihai, Yanbian University, Shandong Normal University, Wenjing School of Yantai University, Hefei University, National Kaohsiung Normal University, Fokuang University, Chung-Yuan Christian University in Taiwan, I-Shou University, Yuan Ze University, National Chengchi University, Chang Jung Christian University, Russian State University for the Humanities, Rostov State University of Economics, Russian State Social University, Maritime State University, St. Petersburg State University, Maxim Gorky Literary Institute, Mongolia National University, Huree Institute of Information & Communication Technology, Mongolia Int ' l University, Ulaanbaatar State University, Mongolian State University of Education, Ulaanbaatar University, City University of Hongkong, Vietnam National University-Hochiminh, University of Medicine & Pharmscy at Hochiminh, Foreign Trade University, University of Social Sciences and Humanities-Hanoi, University of Social Sciences and Humanities-Ho Chi Minh City, the University of Liege, Vesalius College

* Australian Psychology Accreditation Council

The standard route to full membership ( MAPS ) of the APS involves six years of Australian Psychology Accreditation Council ( APAC ) accredited study including two years masters program in a selected specialisation.

* Australian Psychology Accreditation Council ( APAC )

* The Australian Clinical Psychology Association ( ACPA )

* Australian National Heavy Vehicles Accreditation Scheme.

The youngest umpire to achieve Level 2 Accreditation was a 15-year old male West Australian in 2009.

* Australia Diver Accreditation Scheme Website ( Australian Government )

* National Childcare Accreditation Council, a non-profit organization funded by and accountable to the Australian Government

* Australian Diver Accreditation Scheme for occupational divers

School Counselors around the world are affiliated with national and regional school counseling associations including: Asociacion Argentina de Counselors ( AAC-Argentina ), American Counseling Association ( ACA-USA ), African Counseling Association ( AfCA ), American School Counselor Association ( ASCA-USA ), Associacao Portuguesa de Psicoterapia centrada na Pessoa e de Counselling ( APPCPC-Portugal ), Australian Guidance and Counselling Association ( AGCA ), British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy ( BACP-UK ), Canadian Counseling Association ( CCA )/ Association Canadienne de Counseling ( ACC ), Center for Excellence in School Counseling and Leadership ( CESCaL ) ( USA ), Center for School Counseling Outcome Research ( CSCOR-USA ) Council for the Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs ( CACREP-USA and international ), Counselling Children and Young People ( BACP affiliate, UK ), Counseling & Psychotherapy in Scotland ( COSCA ), Cypriot Association of School Guidance Counsellors ( OELMEK ), European Counseling Association ( ECA ), France Ministry of Education, Federacion Espanola de Orientacion y Psicopedagogia ( FEOP-Spain ), Department of Education-Malta, Hellenic Society of Counselling and Guidance ( HESCOG-Greece ), Hong Kong Association of Guidance Masters and Career Masters ( HKAGMCM ), Institute of Guidance Counselors ( IGC ) ( Ireland ), International Association for Educational and Vocational Guidance ( IAEVG )/ Association Internationale d ' Orientation Scolaire et Professionnelle ( AIOSP )/ Internationale Vereinigung für Schul-und Berufsberatung ( IVSBB )/ Asociación Internacional para la Orientación Educativa y Profesional ( AIOEP ), International Baccalaureate ( IB ), International Vanguard of Counsellors ( IVC ), Kenya Association of Professional Counselors ( KAPC ), National Board for Certified Counselors ( NBCC, USA ), National Center for Transforming School Counseling ( NCTSC ) at The Education Trust ( USA ), National Office for School Counselor Advocacy ( NOSCA ) at The College Board ( USA ),

Accreditation of qualifications are done in accordance with the Australian Qualifications Framework.

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

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.

Originating from the early intercolonial matches, these tests continued well after Federation of Australia in 1901 and the Australian Football Council co-ordinated regular interstate carnivals.

The AFL became the de facto governing body when it pushed for the closure of the International Australian Football Council in 2002.

After a decade as president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, he entered parliament as a Labor MP at the 1980 federal election and became Prime Minister within three years, leading Labor to victory at four consecutive federal elections: 1983, 1984, 1987 and 1990.

* NSW Council for Civil Liberties: an Australian organisation opposed to the Death Penalty in the Asian region

During a Council of Australian Governments meeting of 2007, model legislation to rework double jeopardy laws was drafted, but there was no formal agreement for each state to introduce it.

The Governor-General is President of the Federal Executive Council and Commander-in-Chief of the Australian Defence Force.

He enjoyed good relationships with union leaders like Albert Monk, President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, and Jim Healy, leader of the radical Waterside Workers Federation and he gained a reputation for tolerance, restraint and a willingness to compromise, although his controversial decision to use troops to take control of cargo facilities during a waterside dispute in Bowen, Queensland in September 1953 provoked bitter criticism.

He also established the Australian Council for the Arts ( later the Australia Council ), which began the tradition of federal government support for Australian arts and artists, an initiative that was considerably expanded by Holt's successor John Gorton.

* Australian Council of Trade Unions ( ACTU )- Australian Council of Trade Unions

In 2004 he was recognised as the Australian Humanist of the Year by the Council of Australian Humanist Societies, and in June 2012 was named a Companion of the Order of Australia for his services to philosophy and bioethics.

Keating was instrumental in the introduction of the Prices and Incomes Accord, an agreement between the Australian Council of Trade Unions ( ACTU ) and the government to negotiate wages.

Western Australia's constitution contains nothing to preclude the premier being a member of the upper house, the Western Australian Legislative Council.

Askin, along with his Minister for Local Government, Pat Morton, oversaw the rapid escalation of building development in inner-city Sydney and the central business district, which followed in the wake of his controversial 1967 abolition of Sydney City Council and a redistribution of municipal electoral boundaries that was aimed at reducing the power of the rival Australian Labor Party.

* Council of Australian Humanist Societies

Nick Xenophon was elected on an independent No Pokies ticket in the South Australian Legislative Council at the 1997 South Australian state election on 2. 9 percent, and re-elected at the 2006 election on 20. 5 percent, before being elected to the Australian Senate at the 2007 federal election on 14. 8 percent.

* AWB Limited, the former Australian Wheat Board, an Australian company that oversees the exports of grain

The College also oversees the program for training officers in the Australian Army Reserve.

* ARIA, the Australian Recording Industry Association ( website ) is the organization which oversees the collection, administration and distribution of music licenses and royalties in Australia.

In about 2000 the National Campdraft Council of Australia was formed and oversees the four campdrafting bodies which are the Australian Bushmen's Campdraft and Rodeo Association ( based in Tamworth ), the Australian Campdraft Association ( in Queensland ), the Southern Campdrafters Association and Gippsland Campdraft Association ( GCA ).

In Australia a returning officer is an employee of the Australian Electoral Commission or a State Electoral Commission who heads the local divisional office full-time, and oversees elections in their division, or an employee of a private firm which carries out elections and / or ballots in the private and / or public sectors, or anyone who carries out any election and / or ballot for any group or groups.

Staunch Australian right-wingers, on the other hand, level it at those who support such things as government funding for the arts, free tertiary education, and the ABC – all causes which are described by critics as " middle-class welfare ".

Supporters of Unions, such as the ACTU or Australian Labor Party, often credit trade unions with leading the labour movement in the early 20th century, which generally sought to end child labour practices, improve worker safety, increase wages for both union workers and non-union workers, raise the entire society's standard of living, reduce the hours in a work week, provide public education for children, and bring other benefits to working-class families.

On 13 June 2011, Stott Despoja was named a Member of the Order of Australia for service to the Parliament of Australia, particularly as a Senator for South Australia, through leadership roles with the Australian Democrats, to education, and as a role model for women.

In Australia, technical and further education or TAFE institutions provide a wide range of predominantly vocational tertiary education courses, mostly qualifying courses under the National Training System / Australian Qualifications Framework / Australian Quality Training Framework.

Category: Australian vocational education and training providers

Category: Australian vocational education and training providers

* April 9 – John Marden, Australian Headmaster and pioneer of women's education ( d. 1924 )

The language contact post secondary education between Australian ISL users and ' Australian BSL ' users accounts for some of the dialectal differences we see between modern BSL and Auslan.

Tertiary education in the US for some deaf Australian adults also accounts for some ASL borrowings found in modern Auslan.

In 1977, the New South Wales Friends of the Australian Opera and the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust established the Armstrong-Martin Scholarship to further the musical education of professional opera singers.

The Australian Defence Force allow personnel to enlist with parental consent from the age of 17 with a minimum education requirement of Year 9 English and Maths.

JCU was one of the first Australian universities to offer tourism studies, and is recognised as a global leader in tourism education.

Situated on Lizard Island's most westerly point, the research station is operated by the Australian Museum, providing research and education facilities for those interested in studying coral reefs.

Corryong is also home to the Australian Institute of Flexible Learning ( AIFL ) which offers 100 % online education to all of Australia.

Tertiary education providers include the Central Gippsland Institute of TAFE which operates several campuses in Morwell as well as Morwell Technical College, College of Australian Training and Kurnai College.

In recent times, the University has suffered cutbacks in government funding, a problem experienced across most of the Australian higher education sector.

Recent higher education reforms by the Howard government have allowed Australian universities to increase fees and take in a greater number of full-fee paying students, and despite a large student backlash, La Trobe has taken advantage of the reforms, increasing fees by 25 % in 2005.

The Australian College of Pharmacy provides continuing education programs for pharmacists.

The Australasian Union of Jewish Students ( AUJS ) is a federation of Jewish student societies at Australian and New Zealand universities and other higher education institutions.