* 1966 – Vietnam War: the Battle of Long Tan ensues after a patrol from the 6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment clashes with a Viet Cong force in Phuoc Tuy province.

The city centre is laid out on two perpendicular axes: a water axis stretching along Lake Burley Griffin, and a ceremonial land axis stretching from Parliament House on Capital Hill north-eastward along ANZAC Parade to the Australian War Memorial at the foot of Mount Ainslie.

Both World War I and World War II had a devastating effect on the sport of Australian football and on Australian sport in general.

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the game spread with the Australian Diaspora to areas such as New Zealand and South Africa ; however this growth went into rapid decline following World War I.

* 1915 – World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli begins — The invasion of the Turkish Gallipoli Peninsula by Australian, British, French and New Zealand troops begins with landings at Anzac Cove and Cape Helles.

The Australian War Crimes Section of the Tokyo tribunal, led by prosecutor William Webb ( the future Judge-in-Chief ), collected numerous written reports and testimonies that documented Japanese soldiers ' acts of cannibalism among their own troops, on enemy dead, and on Allied prisoners of war in many parts of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.

The British and French armies dismounted many of their cavalry regiments and used them in infantry and other roles: the Life Guards for example spent the last months of the War as a machine gun corps ; and the Australian Light Horse served as light infantry during the Gallipoli campaign.

* 40, 000 Horsemen, about the Australian Light Horse during the Sinai and Palestine campaign of World War I

* 1915 – World War I: Last Australian troops evacuated from Gallipoli.

* 1942 – World War II: nearly 250 Japanese warplanes attack the northern Australian city of Darwin killing 243 people.

Many mementos of the Gallipoli campaign can be seen in the museum at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra, Australia, and at the Auckland War Memorial Museum in Auckland, New Zealand.

Reported in The Australian on 1 July 1966, Holt's speech concluded with a remark which has come to be seen as encapsulating his unquestioning support for Johnson, for America's Vietnam policy and for continued Australian military involvement in the Vietnam War:

He served for 77 days on the front line in the Afghan War, although he was pulled out following publication of the story in an Australian magazine.

Memories of World War II linger among the older members of the Australian public, as does a contemporary fear of Japanese economic domination over countries, particularly Australia, although such fears have fallen off in response to Japan's economic stagnation in the 1990s.

* 1971 – Vietnam War: The Battle of Long Khanh between Australian and Vietnamese communist forces begins.

* 1942 – World War II: Japanese imperial submarines I-21 and I-24 shell the Australian cities of Sydney and Newcastle.

* 1943 – World War II: Australian and American forces finally defeat the Japanese army in Papua.

* 1916 – World War I: Battle of Fromelles – British and Australian troops attack German trenches in a prelude to the Battle of the Somme.

* 1968 – Vietnam War: North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces attack Australian troops defending Fire Support Base Coral, east of Lai Khe in South Vietnam on the night of 12 / 13 May, resulting in heavy casualties on both sides and beginning the Battle of Coral-Balmoral.

* 1943 – World War II: Battle of the Bismarck Sea – United States and Australian forces sink Japanese convoy ships.

File: Australian Aboriginal shield. JPG | Australian Aboriginal shield, Royal Albert Memorial Museum

It is also the location of many social and cultural institutions of national significance, such as the Australian War Memorial, Australian National University, Australian Institute of Sport, National Gallery, National Museum and the National Library.

Many are now held by the Australian War Memorial, State Library of Victoria and the Imperial War Museum in London.

* " Kangaroo feathers " and the Australian Light Horse from the Australian War Memorial

The control column ( joystick ) of Richthofen's aircraft can be seen at the Australian War Memorial, in Canberra.

* Harefield Park Hospital, Australian War Memorial, 11 June 1974

One is on display at the Royal Air Force Museum Cosford and the other is in storage at the Australian War Memorial after being displayed for many years at the Royal Australian Air Force Museum.

The lions that marked the original gate were given to Australia by the people of Belgium and can be found at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra.

and Schedvin, C. B ( 1997 ) War Economy 1942 – 1945, Australian War Memorial, Canberra.

Canberra: Australian War Memorial, 1973.

Canberra: Australian War Memorial, 1988.

The United Kingdom's Tomb of the Unknown Warrior is in Westminster Abbey, France's is buried underneath the Arc de Triomphe, Italy's is buried in the Monumento al Milite Ignoto in Rome, Canada's is buried at the National War Memorial in Ottawa, Australia's Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is located at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra, New Zealand's Tomb of the Unknown Warrior is in Wellington and the United States ' Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is located at Arlington National Cemetery.

* Australian War Memorial, Operations against German Pacific territories, 6 August 1914 – 6 November 1914.

His portrait by Ivor Hele is held by the Australian War Memorial, as are his wartime papers.

A notable collection is that of the Royal Australian Armoured Corps Memorial and Tank Museum, at Puckapunyal, Australia, which has five Matilda IIs on display.

Wake's medals are on display in the Second World War gallery at the Australian War Memorial Museum in Canberra.

Australian Aboriginal astronomy also describes dark cloud constellations, the most famous being the " emu in the sky " whose head is formed by the Coalsack.

In movies, Cary Grant's character teaches rhyming slang to his female companion in the film Mr. Lucky ( 1943 ) and describes it as Australian rhyming slang.

Although the Australian Official History of 24th Brigade's 2 / 32 battalion describes the counterattack force as " German ", the Australian historian Mark Johnston reports that German records indicate that it was the Trento Division that overran the Australian battalion.

An Australian telemovie made in 1998, The Day of the Roses, describes the coronial investigation into the incident.

1974 Australian Broadcasting Corporation | ABC interview with Arthur C. Clarke in which he describes a future of ubiquitous networked personal computers.

RMW Dixon describes how, historically, Australian languages show evidence of nouns inflecting on ergative, and bound pronouns on accusative patterns.

This article describes the history of the Australian state of Victoria.

In the 1960s, William Stewart and Heinz Kloss introduced the basic concepts for the sociolinguistic theory of pluricentric languages, which describes how standard language varieties differ between nations ( e. g. American // Canadian / Australian English ; Austrian / German / Swiss German ; Bosnian / Croatian / Montenegrin / Serbian Serbo-Croatian ).

The 19th-century Australian term flash mob referred to a segment of society, not an event, and showed no other similarities to the modern term flash mob or the events it describes.

In Australian slang, stepladder describes the player over which another player marks to take a specky.

For example, among the above named sources, the later describes Australian Music Radio Airplay Project ( AMRAP ), being a project funded by the federal government to promote music.

The Australian telephone numbering plan describes the allocation of phone numbers in Australia.

The Australian Fancy Pigeons book of standards describes standards used in the showing of fancy pigeons.

Neil Pigot, who did some work with the group, describes their style as " a sort of extension of the Python tradition, but very much in an Australian context.

Set during World War II, Clavell's literary debut describes the struggle for survival of British, Australian, Dutch, New Zealand and American prisoners of war in a Japanese camp in Singapore — a description informed by Clavell's own three-year experience as a prisoner in the notorious Changi Prison camp.

The railing surrounding his grave bears a plaque which describes his role in Australian history:

* Xavier Herbert-although not formally associated with the movement, his Capricornia of 1938, describes the early pioneer movement in the contemporary Northern Territory, Australian values, and white settler relationships positive and negative with the natives, as well as the native culture itself.

Michael Selvey describes the accusations placed on the bowler in relation to his widely disputed bowling action and delivery, stating the Australian president ’ s reference to the Sri Lankan as a ‘ chucker .’ The controversy linked to Muralitharan ’ s delivery emerged in 1995, when the umpire of the test match between Sri Lanka and Australia deemed Muralitharan ’ s delivery as illegal on the suspicion that he was throwing the ball.

He describes the time he lived as an Australian in Lahore as " enjoyable.

Jeff " Swampy " Marsh, a storyboard writer, describes Alazraqui's voice for Rocko as " not really an accurate Australian accent " ; according to Marsh the team used the voice as Alazraqui used the voice for the pilot.

* Neil Collins, the sole Australian driver in the LTPMC describes his journey behind the wheel of a 1912 Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost.