Shannon Burchell, of the Australian folk-rock group The John Butler Trio, makes extensive use of upright basses, performing extended live solos in songs such as Betterman.

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.

Denpasar is mentioned in " I've Been To Bali Too ", the single by Australian folk-rock band Redgum from their 1984 album Frontline.

Vũng Tàu is mentioned in I Was Only Nineteen, the # 1 single by Australian folk-rock band Redgum about the Vietnam war from the 1983 album Caught in the Act.

Spirit of Place is the first full-length album by Australian folk-rock band Goanna.

Ubud is mentioned in " I've Been To Bali Too ", the single by Australian folk-rock band Redgum from their 1984 album Frontline.

References to waifs in music are sometimes self-deprecating, as in the name of the Australian folk-rock band The Waifs, or Tracy Bonham's song " I'm Not a Waif ".

Kuta is mentioned in " I've Been To Bali Too ", the single by Australian folk-rock band Redgum from their 1984 album Frontline.

* The Aliens ( Australian band ), a 1970s new wave group

* The Atlantics, an Australian surf rock band formed in the early 1960s

The Australian band VulgarGrad, fronted by actor Jacek Koman, which plays songs of the Russian criminal underground, uses a contrabass balalaika.

* Buffalo ( band ), an Australian heavy metal band

Scott Owen, double bass player for Australian rock band The Living End

Notable rockabilly revivalists and psychobilly performers from the 1990s and first decade of the 21st century include Scott Owen ( from the Australian band The Living End ), Jimbo Wallace ( from the US band Reverend Horton Heat ), Kim Nekroman ( Nekromantix ), Patricia Day ( HorrorPops ), Geoff Kresge ( Tiger Army, ex-AFI ).

* Euphoria ( Australian band ), a 1990s Australian pop / dance trio

* Ekklesia, a female-fronted Australian metal / hardcore band.

* Infusion ( band ), an Australian dance-music act

Men at Work are an Australian rock band who achieved international success in the 1980s.

In February 2010, the Australian judge ruled that " Down Under " did contain a flute riff based on " Kookaburra " but stipulated that neither was it necessarily the hook nor a substantial part of the hit song ( Colin Hay wrote the song years before the flute riff was added by a later member of the band ).

* Midnight Oil ( band ), also known as " The Oils ", Australian rock band

The Australian alternative rock band, The Go-Betweens dedicated a track off their 1994 album The Friends of Rachel Worth, When She Sang About Angels in reference to Smith's long time influence on themselves.

* Phalanx ( album ), a 1983 live album by Australian surf rock band, Australian Crawl

* Persia ( EP ), 1984 extended-play record by Australian rock band The Church

* QED ( band ), a 1980's Australian New Wave band including Jenny Morris

In the 1980s, Crowe and friend Billy Dean Cochran formed a band, " Roman Antix ", which later evolved into the Australian rock band 30 Odd Foot of Grunts ( abbreviated to TOFOG ).

* Stella One Eleven, an Australian pop / rock band formed in 1997

* John Schumann ( born 1953 ), Australian singer, songwriter, guitarist, formerly in Redgum

* With a similar name and anti-Vietnam War theme, " I Was Only Nineteen " by the Australian group Redgum reached number one on the Australian charts in 1983.

The ensemble included members of Goanna and fellow folk rock group Redgum, Peter Garrett of Midnight Oil ( now Australian Federal Minister for Education ) and Lucas.

* Redgum, an Australian folk and political music band

Redgum were an Australian folk and political music group formed in Adelaide in 1975 by singer-songwriter John Schumann, Michael Atkinson on guitars / vocals and Verity Truman on flute / vocals ; they were soon joined by Chris Timms on violin.

Redgum also covered Australian consumer influences on surrounding nations in 1984's " I've Been To Bali Too ", both hit singles were written by Schumann.

On the first album, If You Don't Fight You Lose ( 1978 ) Redgum showed it was one of the few Australian bands prepared to tackle domestic politics and culture.

Other members of Redgum continue to work in the Australian music scene.

In 2005, Redgum were again brought to attention through the recording of an acoustic / hip hop cover of " I Was Only 19 " by Australian group The Herd with Schumann providing some vocals.

* Australian Rock Database's Redgum discography

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For example, Australia's national broadcaster, the Australian Broadcasting Commission, used it to announce its news bulletins until 1952 .< ref >

In 1978, the term Barassi Line was used to describe the dichotomy that existed in Australia's football culture, where Australian Football was most popular in all states bar New South Wales and Queensland.

S. A. Hamed Hosseini ( an Australian sociologist and expert in global social movement studies ), argues that the term anti-globalization can be ideal-typically used only to refer to only one ideological vision he detects alongside three other visions ( the anti-globalist, the alter-globalist and the alter-globalization ).

In British, Australian and New Zealand English, along with Dutch and Austrian German, a utility knife frequently used in the construction industry is known as a Stanley knife.

The word bunyip has been used in other Australian contexts, including The Bunyip newspaper as the banner of a local weekly newspaper published in the town of Gawler, South Australia.

" The word is also used in numerous other Australian contexts, including the House of the Gentle Bunyip in Clifton Hill, Victoria.

In 1978 An Australian Prayer Book was produced which sought to adhere to this principle, so that where the Liturgical Committee could not agree on a formulation, the words or expressions of the BCP were to be used.

Brabham used engines from Australian engineering firm Repco, which had never produced a Formula One engine before, based on aluminium V8 engine blocks from the defunct American Oldsmobile F85 road car project, and other off the shelf parts.

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

The stadium has been used by the Australian national football team for some friendly matches due to a large expatriate population living in England ( mainly in London ).

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.

Australian ads used a tune speaking the words " Are you keeping up with the commodore?

In his 1995 book Darwinian Fairytales, Australian philosopher David Stove used the term " Darwinism " in a different sense than the above examples.

* Kennedy, K. ( 1933 ): " Instruments of music used by the Australian Aborigines ".

In 1999 the Australian Senate Joint Standing Committee on Treaties was told by Professor Desmond Ball that the Pine Gap facility was used as a ground station for a satellite-based interception network.

Although the term " tackle " is used in Australian Rules to exclusively describe wrapping, holding or wrestling a player in possession, there are also several other ways of contesting possession in Australian rules that other sports would describe as a " tackle " and that also involve a degree of contact.

It is used annually as a racetrack for the Australian Grand Prix and associated support races.

Prior to the 1996 Australian Grand Prix, an earlier configuration of the current circuit was used for both the 1953 and 1956 Australian Grands Prix.

The Australian state of Victoria maintained, until 2009, provisions for a grand jury in the Crimes Act 1958 under section 354 Indictments, which had been used on rare occasions by individuals to bring other persons to court seeking them to be committed for trial on indictable offences.

In Australian and British English, a halter is a rope with a spliced running loop around the nose and another over the poll, used mainly for unbroken horses or for cattle.

Few personal computers used the 80186, with some notable exceptions: the Australian Dulmont Magnum laptop, one of the first laptops ; the Wang Office Assistant, marketed as a PC-like stand-alone word processor ; the Mindset ; the Siemens PC-D ( not 100 % IBM PC-compatible but using MS-DOS 2. 11: de: Siemens PC-D ); the Compis ( a Swedish school computer ); the RM Nimbus ( a British school computer ); the Unisys ICON ( a Canadian school computer ); ORB Computer by ABS ; the HP 100LX, HP 200LX, HP 1000CX and HP OmniGo 700LX ; the Tandy 2000 desktop ( a somewhat PC-compatible workstation with sharp graphics for its day ); the Philips: YES ; the Nokia MikroMikko 2.