* ABC Classics, an Australian record label

In 1992, Skyhooks were inducted into the Australian Recording Industry Association ( ARIA ) Hall of Fame, while their manager, Gudunski, and record label, Mushroom Records, received a ' Special Achievement Award '.

Later that year, Warner Music Australia bought out the ailing Festival-Mushroom Records for only $ 12 million and closed the label down but retaining the use of the Mushroom label for a couple of acts like Eskimo Joe and Gabriella Cilmi ( who subsequently got signed to Island Records in the UK, one of the first Australian acts to do so ).

A complete orchestral music collection has been recorded by German and Australian orchestras, all released on the CPO label, recordings all conducted by Werner Andreas Albert.

* Camera Obscura ( record label ), an Australian independent label specializing in psychedelic styles

Mushroom Records was an Australian record label formed by Michael Gudinski and Ray Evans in Melbourne in 1972.

Mushroom struggled to survive for its first two years and reportedly came close to folding on several occasions, but the label was dramatically pushed to the forefront of the Australian music scene in early 1975 following the massive success of Skyhooks, whose debut album, Living in the 70's, became the biggest-selling Australian LP ever released up to that time.

In the 1990s, Mushroom missed out on what could have been one of its biggest signings ; the label was reportedly in the front-running to sign rising new Australian band Silverchair, but the group opted to sign with Sony instead.

* EQ Recordings, an in-house record label of Stomp Entertainment, an Australian entertainment group and record house

Lover is an Australian fashion label launched in 2001 by designers Susien Chong and Nic Briand.

* Sound System Records, an Australian indie record label

* Heritage Records ( Australia ), a 1960s Australian record label

The double cross is the logo of the Australian Clothing label, Kaas Leisure Wear.

* Chatterbox Records, an Australian based record label

Mercury Records had been used for some Australian artists in the 80s and 90s, but was put into hibernation in 1999 in favour of the Universal label until 2007.

* Astor Radio Corporation, an Australian consumer electronics manufacturer from 1926 onwards, which also owned the Astor Records label

It wasn't until late 2001 that an Australian label, Catharsis Records, agreed to release the album, given the title Pride / Fall.

The original 1973 recording of this song – the first Australian hit for singer John Paul Young – was produced by Simon Napier-Bell, in whose SNB Records label Hemmings was a partner at the time.

They then signed to Mushroom Records and, as a sign of its respect for the band, the label agreed not to release any singles from the album, which peaked at No. 43 on the Australian Kent Music Report Albums Chart.

Itch-E and Scratch-E is an Australian electronic music group formed by Paul Mac and Andy Rantzen in Sydney in the early 1990s initially recording on the Volition label.

The band was formed in 2001 by ex-members of prominent bands on the Australian metal scene and after the release of a three track sampler album they were signed to a 5-album contract with German-based label LMP Records.

I persuaded an Australian friend who had lived `` outback '' for years to take me to see some aborigines living in the bush.

As had been the case on Bligh's tour 20 years before, the Australian media latched fervently onto the term, and, this time it stuck.

A fourth match was played, against a " United Australian XI ", which was arguably stronger than the Australian sides that had competed in the previous three matches ; this game, however, is not generally considered part of the 1882 – 83 series.

The Australian touring party had been severely weakened by a dispute between the board and players that caused Clem Hill, Victor Trumper, Warwick Armstrong, Tibby Cotter, Sammy Carter and Vernon Ransford to be omitted.

One is playing cricket ; the other is making no attempt to do so " after the latter had come into the Australian rooms to express sympathy for a Larwood bouncer had struck the Australian skipper in the heart and felled him.

WSC affected all Test playing nations but it weakened Australia especially as the bulk of its players had signed up with Packer ; the Australian Cricket Board ( ACB ) would not select WSC-contracted players and an almost completely new Test team had to be formed.

WSC came after an era during which the duopoly of Australian and English dominance dissipated ; the Ashes had long been seen as a cricket world championship but the rise of the West Indies in the late 1970s challenged that view.

Wakefield had read accounts of Australian settlement while in prison in London for attempting to abduct an heiress, and realised that the eastern colonies suffered from a lack of available labour, due to the practice of giving land grants to all arrivals.

It was reported in October 2011 that the Australian federal government had reached an agreement with all of the states on potential changes to their laws in the wake of amendments to the Act of Settlement.

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

Wicket-keeper Bert Oldfield's skull was fractured by a ball hitting his head ( although the ball had first glanced off the bat and Larwood had an orthodox field ), almost precipitating a riot by the Australian crowd.

By the 1850s, bunyip had also become a " synonym for imposter, pretender, humbug and the like " in the broader Australian community.

This connection was first formally made by Dr George Bennett of the Australian Museum in 1871, but in the early 1990s, palaeontologist Pat Vickers-Rich and geologist Neil Archbold also cautiously suggested that Aboriginal legends " perhaps had stemmed from an acquaintance with prehistoric bones or even living prehistoric animals themselves ...

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 Australian senate had threatened to block the Government's budget by refusing to pass the associated appropriation bills.

An alliance had formed, primarily against the conservatives ' arch-rivals the Australian Labor Party ( ALP ).

Since its original introduction, the cane toad has had a particularly marked effect on Australian biodiversity.

A similar situation had previously arisen in the Australian cane fields, but this experience was either unknown or ignored in New Guinea.

England won two out of the three matches played against Murdoch's Australian Eleven, and after the third match some Melbourne ladies put some ashes into a small urn and gave them to me as captain of the English Eleven .”

Australian captain Herbie Collins was stripped of all captaincy positions down to club level, and some accused him of throwing the match.

The words imported included some later considered to be typically Australian, such as bonzer.

The practice of the Australian states — for example, New South Wales and Victoria — has been, when legislating to repeal some imperial statutes so far as they still applied in Australia, to provide that imperial statutes concerning the royal succession remain in force.

However, Twomey expresses confidence that, if the High Court of Australia were to be faced with the problems of covering clause 2, it would find some way to conclude that, with regard to Australia, the clause is subject solely to Australian law.

Singles, triples and fours and Australian pairs are some ways the game can be played.

When confronted with the remains of some of the now extinct Australian marsupials, Aborigines would often identify them as the bunyip.

Australian English and New Zealand English are closely related to each other, and share some similarities with South African English.

In some historical cases the term machine carbine was the official title for sub-machine guns, such as the British Sten and Australian Owen guns.

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 ).

Along with many other members of a group of unusual species collectively called the " Australian megafauna ", it existed from approximately 1. 6 million years ago until extinction some 46, 000 years ago ( through most of the Pleistocene epoch ).

The variety of different ways to contest possession in Australian rules has led to first time observers of the game regarding it as having " no rules " or as some Australians unfamiliar with the game colloquially term it " Rafferty's Rules ".

Frontline broke new ground for Australian situation comedy, by adopting some innovative production strategies.

The 2009 campaign for Foster's contains two 40-second adverts, " Backpacker " and " Deep Sea "; both end with the slogan, " Foster's – get some Australian in you.

This is a typical feature of Australian Aboriginal languages, where the few fricatives that exist result from changes to plosives or approximants, but also occurs in some indigenous languages of New Guinea and South America that have especially small numbers of consonants.

< nowiki >* Although coin tossing isn't usually played in a casino, it has been known to be an official gambling game in some Australian casinos </ nowiki >

In the early 19th century some pioneering European settlers began occupying the land, for timber-cutting ( mainly ironbark and Australian red cedar ), lime production and grazing.

* Peter Hudson – Australian Rules Footballer, considered one of the greatest full-forwards in the game's history, when playing for Glenorchy he kicked 616 goals in 81 games with some records stating he instead kicked 769 goals ; he is also a member of the AFL Hall of Fame

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.

The series took some liberties with historical accuracy for the sake of drama, including a depiction of angry Australian fans burning a British flag at the Sydney Cricket Ground, an event which was never documented.

Australian author Sara Douglass incorporated some labyrinthine ideas in her series The Troy Game, in which the Labyrinth on Crete is one of several in the ancient world, created with the cities as a source of magical power.

Most indigenous Australian languages are very rich in liquids, with some having as many as seven distinct liquids.

But, although he persuaded some sporting bodies not to compete, Fraser did not try to the prevent the Australian Olympic Committee sending a team to the Moscow games.