Jardine's first experience against Australia came when his Oxford University team played against the 1921 Australian touring side.

Up until the fourth tour in 1877, led by Lillywhite, touring teams had played first-class games against the individual colonial sides, but Lillywhite felt that his side had done well enough against New South Wales to warrant a game against an All Australian team.

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.

Fry insisted that Grace would not have started the 1948 season with any notion of being beaten by that season's Australian touring team, for " he was sanguine " and would have put everything he could muster into the task of beating them with no acceptance of defeat " till after it happened ".

Cars from all three classes would contest the Australian Touring Car Championship as well as non-championship Australian touring car events such as the Bathurst 1000 ; but for the purposes of race classification and points allocation, cars competed in two classes:

AVESCO introduced carnival street-race V8 Supercar events ( such as the Clipsal 500 ) and strove to turn Australian touring car racing into a world-class product.

After discussion of banning them from touring, Australian comedy act The Chaser did a lounge music version of their song " Rancid Amputation " on their show The Chaser's War on Everything, claiming that the music, and not the lyrics are the problem, by performing a lounge music version.

While vocalist Peter Garrett was studying at Australian National University in Canberra, he answered an advertisement for a spot in Farm, and by 1975 the band was touring the east coast.

The Australian team was banned from touring South Africa in the 1970s in protest against the racist policies of its government and more recently, Prime Minister John Howard intervened to ban the national side from touring Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe.

O ' Reilly met his first wife, Australian secretary and pianist Susan M. Cameron, the daughter of a wealthy Australian mining figure in whose name he endowed a professorship at UCD for at least a decade, in 1959 in Australia, after she was suggested as a social contact when he was touring for rugby.

Quickly snapped up as the lead driver in the newly formed factory supported Alfa Romeo touring car team for the 1985 season, he abandoned his first serious Australian Touring Car Championship campaign to make his second Formula One comeback with the Haas Lola team.

Lord Dalmeny awarded Hobbs his County Cap as the players left the field ; Amid press acclaim, Hobbs maintained his form over the following weeks ; he scored another century against Essex and hit 94 runs against the touring Australian cricket team.

After this, he batted consistently throughout the season, scoring a double century for Surrey against a touring Australian Imperial Forces cricket team, centuries in each of the three Gentlemen v Players matches — the only player ever to do so in one season — and 101 for the " Rest of England " against Yorkshire, the County Champions, at the end of the season.

In his opening first-class game, he played against the Australian touring team, and tore the same thigh muscle injured in Australia.

He was picked to play for Rest of India against Karnataka in Irani Cup and also in the Board President's XI squad against the touring Australian team.

At the start of the 1964 season Boycott hit 151 against Middlesex, followed by another hundred against Lancashire in May, and then played for the MCC against the Australian touring side at Lord's, where he scored 63.

* V8 Supercars, an Australian touring car racing category

She promoted the album by extensive touring with Australian country singer Troy Cassar-Daley and UK singer Charlie Landsborough.

She promoted the album with extensive touring with Australian country singer Troy Cassar-Daley and UK singer Charlie Landsborough.

In 1908, Rovers gained a memorable 21-16 win over the first touring Australian side.

The Australian Labor Party ( also ALP and Labor, was Labour before 1912 ) is a social-democratic political party in Australia.

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.

Labor was the first party in Australia to win a majority in either house of the Australian Parliament, at the 1910 federal election.

The Australian Democrats is an Australian political party espousing a socially liberal ideology.

* 1904 – The Australian Labor Party becomes the first such party to gain national government, under Chris Watson.

For example, Australian left-wing " true believers " levelled it at supporters of the failed republic referendum of 1999 ( where the vote was split not along conventional party lines but very much along socio-economic divides, with the rich overwhelmingly supporting the change while the less well-off were opposed – a superficially bizarre pattern for a non-economic issue ).

The largest party in Australia, the Liberal Party of Australia adheres to the principles of social conservatism and Australian conservatism.

Other conservative parties are the National Party of Australia, a sister party of the Liberals, Family First Party, Democratic Labor Party, Shooters Party and the Katter's Australian Party The second largest party in the country, the Australian Labor Party's dominant faction is Labor Right, a socially conservative element.

* Climate Change Coalition, Australian political party

They also won 56 % of the two party preferred vote, which is still the greatest winning margin at a federal election in Australian political history.

The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party.

However, the party split in two over the decision in late 1978, with a new National Party forming and becoming independent, holding three seats in the Western Australian lower house, while the National Country Party remained in coalition and also held three seats.

Elections for the Australian Senate use what is referred to as above-the-line voting where candidates for each party are grouped on the ballot, allowing the voter to vote for the group or for a candidate.

The prime minister's party will normally have a majority in the House of Representatives and party discipline is exceptionally strong in Australian politics, so passage of the government's legislation through the House of Representatives is mostly a formality.

No " Country " or rural conservative parties emerged as serious long-term forces in South Australian state politics, often folding in to the non-Labor party.

By 1904, the party system was entrenched in Western Australian politics.

With the Australian Labor Party also holding 46 seats, the balance of power lay with the two re-elected Independent Labor member, James Geraghty and John Seiffert, who had been expelled from the party for disloyalty during the previous parliament.

The Australian Labor Party, the first social democratic labour party in the world, was formed in 1891.

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.

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.