* 1989 – 1, 645 Australian domestic airline pilots resign after the airlines threaten to fire them and sue them over a dispute.

Other transnational competitions include the Pro 12, involving Irish, Italian, Scottish and Welsh teams ; The Rugby Championship, involving South African, Australian, New Zealand and Argentinian Teams ; and the Heineken Cup, involving the top European teams from their respective domestic competitions.

After returning home from his first overseas tour, Benaud was prolific during the 1953 – 54 Australian season, which was purely domestic with no touring Test team.

The 1961 / 62 Australian season was purely a domestic one, with no touring international team.

The Australian Telecommunications Commission ( ATC ), trading as Telecom Australia, ran domestic telecommunication services.

On 1 February 1992 it was merged with Australia ’ s domestic telecommunications carrier, the Australian Telecommunications Corporation Limited (“ Telecom ”) to create the Australian and Overseas Telecommunications Corporation Limited ( AOTC ).

In 2006, Kelly's work was described by fellow Australian journalists, Toby Creswell and Samantha Trenoweth, " is distinguished for his broad and deep grasp of the inter-relationship of economics and political shifts, and his ability to place Australian domestic developments into an international and historical context ".

* Gold Coast Airport, Australian domestic and international airport on the Gold Coast

British traditions persist to varying degrees in domestic cooking and the takeaway food sector, with roast dinners, the Australian meat pie and fish and chips remaining popular, but there are also new elements featured in these foods.

There is also a significant domestic market for Australian wines, with Australians consuming nearly 500 million litres of wine per year in the early 21st Century.

During observations, the barking of Australian dingoes revealed itself to have a relatively small variability, and the subgroups of barking characteristic of domestic dogs could not be found.

According to the present state of knowledge, it is not possible to get Australian dingoes to bark more frequently by having them in contact with other domestic dogs.

Prime Minister Gough Whitlam instituted a number of changes, including removing reference to the United Kingdom in Queen Elizabeth's Australian title on 19 October 1973, when she signed her assent to the Royal Style and Titles Act, and creating a domestic system of conferring civil and military honours.

In the late 19th and early 20th century, domestic art began to thrive ( particularly with the " Heidelberg School " in what was then an outer suburb of Melbourne ) and the NGV was well-placed to add an excellent collection of key Australian works, which trace the metamorphosis of imported European styles into distinctively Australian art.

Notable Australian musicians include: the opera singers Dame Nellie Melba and Dame Joan Sutherland ; country music stars Slim Dusty ( Australia's biggest selling domestic artist ) and John Williamson ; solo artists John Farnham and Olivia Newton-John, Pub rock band Cold Chisel, folk-rocker Paul Kelly ; Dance group The Avalanches ; jazz guitarist Tommy Emmanuel ; pioneer rocker Johnny O ' Keefe, global folk-rock band The Seekers, global rock and pop bands Men At Work, The EasyBeats, Air Supply, Crowded House, AC / DC, INXS, Little River Band, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Midnight Oil, Dragon, Silverchair, Youth Group, You Am I and Powderfinger ; the " pop princess " Kylie Minogue, Pendulum, Pop Rock duo Savage Garden and alternative music stars the John Butler Trio, Xavier Rudd, Wolfmother, Tame Impala and The Vines.

Throughout the 1930s and early 1940s, Hall was in charge of Australia's leading domestic studio, Cinesound Productions, and was particularly successful with a series of comedies based on the popular writings of author Steele Rudd, which featured the adventures of a fictional Australian farming family, the Rudds, and the perennial father-and-son duo, ' Dad and Dave '.

Tomorrow, When the War Began became the highest-grossing domestic film of 2010 and it was nominated for nine Australian Film Institute Awards.

The most successful Australian actors and film-makers are easily lured by Hollywood and rarely return to the domestic film industry.

Australian equivalents to SIC and IFRIC Interpretations have also been issued, along with a number of ' domestic ' standards and interpretations.

The term " code sharing " or " codeshare " was coined in 1989 by Qantas and American Airlines, and in 1990 the two firms provided their first codeshare flights between an array of Australian cities and U. S. domestic cities.

During the early 1970s, a solid white Russian Blue ( called the Russian White ) was created by the Australian breeder, Mavis Jones, through the crossing of a Russian Blue with a domestic white cat.

Trans Australia Airlines or TAA, ( renamed Australian Airlines in 1986 ) was one of the two major Australian domestic airlines between its inception in 1946 and its sale to Qantas in May 1996.

* 1978 – James Hopes, Australian one-day cricketer

Bangladesh won just one match out of six, but their solitary victory was against an Australian side that at the time were world champions in what Wisden described as " the biggest upset in one-day international history ".

Langer is also a solid gully fielder, and was very occasionally the wicket-keeper for the Australian one-day team.

Despite success in the Australian Test team, he did not get recalled to the one-day team, even after he was named as the domestic ING Cup's player of the season in 2002 / 03.

The Australian selectors always viewed Hughes as a Test match player rather than a one-day player, and he was generally only selected for the shorter game when another player was injured or otherwise unavailable.

Australian one-day all-rounder Brad Hogg is another current exponent of left-arm wrist-spin, as is his teammate, batsman Simon Katich.

Tait rejoined the Australian one-day squad for the 2011 Cricket World Cup, playing in seven games and taking 11 wickets before the side lost to India in the quarter-finals.

Finally, Wessels was included in the Australian XI, for a one-day game against a World XI, which included four fellow South Africans.

Former Australian captain and teammate Kim Hughes, had publicly supported Wessels on this fact, saying: " Kepler hits so many boundaries that he is always going to score enough runs and, even in one-day cricket, you need someone who can anchor the innings.

However in 2005 under the captaincy of Australian Mike Hussey Durham finished second and achieved promotion in both the County Championship and the one-day National Cricket League.

In 2005-06 he became a one-day only player with Western Australian selectors preferring to play young spinner Beau Casson ahead of Hogg in the state's Pura Cup side.

They compete in the Australian first-class competition known as the Sheffield Shield, the Australian one-day competition currently known as the Ford Ranger One Day Cup and for the last several seasons in the newer shorter Australian Twenty20 Competition.

He toured Sri Lanka in 1994 for the Singer Cup one-day tournament with some degree of success where the other Australian pacemen did not perform very well in the heat and slow conditions.

In one-day internationals, DeFreitas seldom let England down-but bowled more economically than penetratively until his second Australian tour.

A strong start to the 2006 – 07 Australian domestic season, exemplified by 150 * against Tasmania in the Pura Cup and 126 * against New South Wales in the Ford Ranger Cup ( previously ING Cup ) saw White recalled to the Australia one-day squad.

Despite being written off as underdogs before the Australian tour began, England drew the one-day international series against Australia, two all, and retained the Ashes with a six wicket victory in the one-off test match at Bowral.

Hussey was a relative latecomer to both the one-day international and Test Australian teams, debuting at 28 and 30 years of age in the respective formats, with 15, 313 first-class runs before making his Test debut.

Mullally did not play in England in 1989, and the 1989 / 90 Australian season was something of a disappointment as he took just 11 first-class wickets, but in 1990 Mullally returned to county cricket with Leicestershire, doing reasonably well with the highlight a haul of 6-38 ( which remains his best in List A cricket ) in a one-day game against the touring New Zealanders in June.

The Australian squads were announced on 20 September, and the axe fell on the lacklustre performers on the team during the recent Ashes series, with Damien Martyn dropped from the Test side in favour of Brad Hodge but retaining his one-day spot.

On the night of 18 January 2004, Hookes went to the Beaconsfield Hotel in St Kilda, Melbourne with members of the Victorian and South Australian cricket teams, to celebrate a win by Victoria over South Australia in a one-day match.