A letter he had drafted in 1796 to Mr and Mrs Phillips is the first known text written in English by an indigenous Australian, thanking Mrs Phillips for caring for him in England, and asking for stockings and a handkerchief.

Some confusion has been caused by a letter that Popkin wrote, in 1935, to an Australian official historian.

In late 1998, the Australian Prime Minister John Howard with his Foreign Minister Alexander Downer drafted a letter setting out a major change in Australian policy.

Tom Shapcott, reviewing With Love and Fury, her posthumous collection of selected letters published in 2007, comments that her letter on this topic to the Australian Prime Minister John Howard was " almost brutal in its scorn ".

The non-U. S. singles were " Nobody Knows ," a minor hit in the UK, Australia and Germany ; " Dear Mr. President ," an open letter to the U. S. President George W. Bush ( featuring the Indigo Girls ) and a number 1 hit in Belgium, a top five hit in Germany, Australia and other countries ; " Leave Me Alone ( I'm Lonely )," a UK top 40 and Australian top five entry ; and "' Cuz I Can.

Arriving in London on 21 September, he therefore spent some time at the Australian High Commission composing his own letter to his Prime Minister, Andrew Fisher, in a similar vein to the Ashmead-Bartlett letter, and particularly critical of the British general and administrative staff:

The idea for a Remembrance Day silence was first suggested by Australian journalist Edward George Honey in a letter to The Times in May 1919.

Harris had offered to secure loan funds for the Australian government, and in March 1975 Cairns signed a letter agreeing to a 2. 5 % commission.

Harris had offered to secure loan funds for the Australian government and in March 1975, Cairns signed a letter agreeing to a 2. 5 % commission.

However, particularly in the late 1950s, the depiction of the monarch-now Elizabeth II-on Australian definitives became confined to the base domestic letter rate and the preceding minor values.

With the introduction of decimal currency on 14 February 1966, 24 new definitives were issued – the monarch was featured on the minor values ( 1c to 3c ) and on the base domestic letter rate ( 4c ) and the remainder featured Australian birds, Australian marine life, and early Australian maritime explorers.

* In April 2005, the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission warns of a domain name renewal scam where domain name holders have received a letter that looks like an invoice for the registration or renewal of a domain name, where the domain name in question is very similar to your actual domain name except has a different ending, for example it will end in “. net. au ” instead of “. com ”

On 2 June 2010, Johnson read out a letter to Parliament which he sent to the Australian Federal Police alleging he was subject to " illegal pressure " to resign from Federal Parliament by the Liberal National Party President Bruce McIver, during a meeting on 25 February in Canberra.

In an Australian case reported by Eagleson, a " farewell letter " had apparently been written by a woman prior to her disappearance.

Sydney's first archbishop, John Bede Polding, was influential in the preparation of the Australian bishops ' pastoral letter on Aborigines in 1869 which advocated for Aboriginal rights and dignity.

At the time, questions were being raised about the impartiality of David Flint, the head of the Australian Broadcasting Authority, when a letter of praise from Flint to Jones was revealed after the ABA had cleared Jones of wrongdoing.

In a letter, Jardine told Fender that his information about the Australian batting technique was correct and that it meant he was having to move more and more fielders onto the leg side.

Australian Prime Minister John Curtin referred to this in a letter to Winston Churchill in October 1942, saying:

Following these comments, the crowds at some matches barracked Ranjitsinhji while he was batting, and at the end of the tour, he wrote an open letter to mend his relations with the Australian public.

Australian Greens Senators Bob Brown and Kerry Nettle were attempting to hand Bush a letter from the wife of Mamdouh Habib, an Australian citizen who at the time was being held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, following his apprehension by United States forces in either ( this is disputed ) Afghanistan or Pakistan.

Chief among other English dialects are Canadian English ( based on the English of United Empire Loyalists who left the 13 Colonies ), and Australian English, which rank third and fourth in number of native speakers.

* Australian Company Number, number issued by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission to registered companies

As the size of the Australian diaspora has increased, so has the number of clubs outside Australia.

The Australian Sports Commission statistics show a 64 % increase in the total number of participants over the 10 year period between 2001 – 2010.

Though the New Zealand leg of the tour did not take long in comparison to the number of Australian games, the British and Irish experienced considerable difficulty across the Tasman after white-washing the Australians.

The word bunyip can still be found in a number of Australian contexts, including place names such as the Bunyip River ( which flows into Westernport Bay in southern Victoria ) and the town of Bunyip, Victoria.

Since then, a number of Australian states have introduced or tightened importation regulations.

The first single " Better Be Home Soon " peaked at number two on both Australian and New Zealand singles charts and reached top 50 In the US, though the following four singles were less successful.

" Intriguer topped the Australian album chart, reached number 3 in New Zealand and number 12 in the UK.

In 2009, " Don't Dream It's Over " was ranked number fifty on the Triple J Hottest 100 of All Time, voted by the Australian public.

During the combat operations from the atoll against Afghanistan ( 2001 – 2006 ) and Iraq ( 2003 – 2006 ), a number of allied militaries were based on the island including Australian, Japanese and the Republic of Korea.

* 1875 – The hits the Great Barrier Reef and sinks off the Australian east coast, killing approximately 100, including a number of high profile civil servants and dignitaries.

All Australian states allow for peremptory challenges in jury selection, however, the number of challenges granted to the counsels in each state are not all the same.

A song off the album, " Saltwater ", reached number six in the UK and topped the Australian singles charts for four weeks.

In 1971 Greenberg proposed the Indo-Pacific macrofamily, which groups together the Papuan languages ( a large number of language families of New Guinea and nearby islands ) with the native languages of the Andaman Islands and Tasmania but excludes the Australian Aboriginal languages.

According to the sketch from Monty Python's Flying Circus, it was rendered by a number of Australian university lecturers.

The Australian bulldog ant, Myrmecia pilosula, a haplodiploid species, has n = x = 1, the lowest chromosome number theoretically possible.

During the economic boom of the 1980s, the Western Australian government became closely involved with a number of large businesses.

Older Australian rotary dial telephones also had letters, but the combinations were often printed in the center plate adjacent to the number.

* " Television series ", the Australian, British, and a number of others countries ' equivalent term for the North American " television season ", a set of episodes produced by a television serial.

The primary reason for this is that gaming machines have been legal in the state of New South Wales since 1956 and over that time the number of machines has grown to 97, 103 ( at December 2010, including the Australian Capital Territory ).