Later in 1882, following the famous Australian victory at The Oval, Bligh led an England team to Australia, as he said, to " recover those ashes ".

This Australian team, led by Bradman, who turned 40 during his final tour of England, has gone down in history as The Invincibles.

Bradman was succeeded as Australian captain by Lindsay Hassett, who led the team to 4 – 1 victory in 1950 – 51.

In the 1974 – 75 series, with the England team breaking up and their best batsman Geoff Boycott refusing to play, Australian pace bowlers Jeff Thomson and Dennis Lillee wreaked havoc.

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.

The Australian team of 1989 was comparable to the great Australian teams of the past, and resoundingly defeated England 4 – 0.

Use of the name " Ashes " was suggested by the Australian team when rugby league matches between the two countries commenced in 1908.

* 1948 – The Australian cricket team completed a 4 – 0 Ashes series win over England during their undefeated Invincibles tour.

In 1991, it gained its first South Australian team, Adelaide, which paid five million dollars to enter the AFL.

In 2007 the international rules series was abandoned because of the aggression and the severity of the Australian team in the previous year, but in 2008, under new rules to protect the player with the ball, it resumed in Australia.

The modern form of AAS was largely developed during the 1950s by a team of Australian chemists.

The Australian press dubbed the tactic Bodyline, and claimed it was a deliberate attempt by the English team to intimidate and injure the Australian players.

* Buffaloes, nickname of the South Africa national Australian rules football team

* Darwin Buffaloes, an Australian Rules Football team in Northern Territories, Australia

* Australia national basketball team, officially nicknamed " Australian Boomers "

Bundaberg Rum is a major sponsor of the Australian Wallabies rugby union team and also sponsors the Bundaberg Rum Rugby Series.

A reserves team has played in the Northern Conference of the North East Australian Football League since the competition was established in 2011.

The victory song of the Australian national cricket team is entitled " Under the Southern Cross I Stand ".

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 ).

A large crowd of over 10, 000 fans welcome the Australian team on completing the first World Cup Hat-trick # Cricket | hat-trick – Martin Place, Sydney.

* Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs, an Australian National Rugby League team

A Great Britain national Australian rules football team | British Bulldog player is chased down and tackled by a Nauru national Australian rules football team | Nauru Chief opponent as he tries to get a kick away.

The Australian stopped trying to talk a pidgin I could understand, and spoke strange words from deep in his chest.

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.

However, by mid-1837 the South Australian Register was warning of escaped convicts from New South Wales, and tenders for a temporary gaol were sought.

The ALP was founded as a federal party prior to the first sitting of the Australian Parliament in 1901, but is descended from Labour parties founded in the various Australian colonies by the emerging labour movement in Australia, formally beginning in 1891.

* 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.

Australian English started diverging from British English after the founding of the colony of New South Wales in 1788 and was recognised as being different from British English by 1820.

According to linguist Bruce Moore, " the major input of the various sounds that went into constructing the Australian accent was from south-east England.

The primary way in which Australian English is distinctive from other varieties of English is through its unique pronunciation.

Apart from the city of Canberra, the Australian Capital Territory also contains agricultural land ( sheep, dairy cattle, vineyards and small amounts of crops ) and a large area of national park ( Namadgi National Park ), much of it mountainous and forested.

Because of its elevation and distance from the coast, the Australian Capital Territory experiences four distinct seasons, unlike many other Australian cities whose climates are moderated by the sea.

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.

Australian English likewise blends American and British alongside native usages, but retains a significantly higher degree of distinctiveness from both of the larger varieties than does Canadian English, particularly in terms of pronunciation and vocabulary.

In the Australian Capital Territory, the Act of Settlement was, on 11 May 1989, converted, from an act of the Parliament of England into an ACT enactment, by section 34 ( 4 ) of the Australian Capital Territory ( Self-Government ) Act 1988 ( Cwlth ), and then renamed The Act of Settlement 1700 by the Legislation Act 2001.

Between 1977 and 1987, the Australian Football Council ( AFC ) in conjunction with the VFL ran a night series, which invited clubs and representative sides from around the country to participate in the " National Football League " for the Wills Cup, however Victorian sides still dominated.

Originating from the early intercolonial matches, these tests continued well after Federation of Australia in 1901 and the Australian Football Council co-ordinated regular interstate carnivals.

Action from a 1999 Australian football match in Australian rules football in Nauru | Nauru at the Linkbelt Oval

Since 1967 there have been many matches between Australian Football teams ( mainly from Australia ) and Gaelic football teams ( mainly from Ireland ), under various sets of hybrid, compromise rules known as International rules football.

* Australian Football explained in 17 languages – a publication from AFL. com. au

* 1911 – The Australian Bureau of Statistics conducts the country's first national census.

Past Australian censuses were conducted in 1911, 1921, 1933, 1947, 1954, and 1961-2011 every five years.

* 1911 – Nora Heysen, Australian artist ( d. 2003 )

* 1911 – Wilfred Burchett, Australian journalist ( d. 1983 )

* May 19 – John Gorton, Australian politician, 19th Prime Minister of Australia ( b. 1911 )

The 1908 split between the Chicago and Detroit factions in the United States was echoed by internal unrest in the Australian IWW from late 1908, resulting in the formation of a pro-Chicago local in Adelaide in May 1911 and another in Sydney six months later.

The highest mountain is Bimberi Peak ( 1911 m ) which is the highest peak in the Australian Capital Territory.

* William Hart-Smith ( 1911 – 1990 ), New Zealand / Australian poet

The University of Western Australia ( UWA ) was established by an Act of the Western Australian Parliament in February 1911, and began teaching students for the first time in 1913.

** 1888-1889 Franz Leopold Sonnenschein ( b. 1857-d. 1897 ); next, as it was since 14 April 1888 administratively part of the ( German ) Marshall Islands, it had mere Bezirksamtleute ( District officers ; 2 October 1888-1906 ), then, being since 1 April 1906 administratively part of German New Guinea, Stationsleiter (' Station Chiefs '; from 1911, subordinated to the administrators of Ponape district ) till 6 November 1914, finally the island was lost ( Australian administration, first by a military Commander, then under League of Nations mandate )

* Jack Ross ( Australian footballer ) ( born 1911 ), Australian rules footballer

By 1911, Tobruk had become an Italian military post, but during World War II, Allied forces, mainly the Australian 6th Division, took Tobruk on 22 January 1941.

Hobbs designed many of the well known public buildings in Perth and Fremantle and was first treasurer of the Western Australian Institute of Architects in 1896, and later president from 1909 to 1911.

*, a River class torpedo boat destroyer commissioned into the Australian Commonwealth Naval Forces in 1910, transferred to the RAN on its foundation in 1911, operated until 1929, and scuttled

* was an Indefatigable class battlecruiser launched in 1911, shortly after the formation of the Royal Australian Navy, and sunk in 1924 in accordance with the terms of the Washington Naval Treaty.

It was founded at Duntroon, in the Australian Capital Territory, in 1911 and is situated on picturesque grounds at the foot of Mount Pleasant near Lake Burley Griffin, close to the Department of Defence headquarters at Russell Hill.

Founded in 1911 by the Australian government, the Commonwealth Bank is one of the ' big four ' Australian banks, with National Australia Bank ( NAB ), ANZ and Westpac.

* 1911: Population of the Australian Capital Territory: 1, 714

The Commonwealth Bank of Australia was founded by an Australian Act of Parliament in 1911.

Australia's first Catholic cardinal, Patrick Francis Moran ( 1830 – 1911 ), had been a proponent of Australian Federation but in 1901 he refused to attend the inauguration ceremony of the Commonwealth of Australia because precedence was given to the Church of England.

Australian states as at 1911

At the age of 25, in 1908, Hurley learned that Australian explorer Douglas Mawson was planning an expedition to Antarctica ; fellow Sydney-sider Henri Mallard in 1911, recommended Hurley for the position of official photographer to Mawson's Australasian Antarctic Expedition, ahead of himself.