This surrender was accepted by the brigadier J. R. Stevenson, who represented Lieutenant General Sturdee, the commander of the First Australian Army, on board the warship HMAS Diamantina Arrangements were made to repatriate from Chuuk the 737 Nauruans who survived Japanese captivity there.

** Perth class destroyer, a class of warship used by the Royal Australian Navy

* HMAS Derwent, a naval base and a warship of the Royal Australian Navy

Japanese commanders listen to the terms of surrender aboard an Australian warship.

* HMAS Bowen, an Australian warship named after Bowen, Queensland

* HMS Quadrant ( G11 ), a Second World War British / Australian warship

On the night of the 8 to 9 August 1942, Miakawa commanded a force of heavy cruisers, plus one destroyer, that heavily defeated the U. S. Navy warship force, plus one Royal Australian Navy cruiser, in the Battle of Savo Island in Ironbottom Sound off Guadalcanal.

Matters changed with the outbreak of the First World War ; he joined the Australian force formed in New Guinea for the defence of the area in the face of German warship activities.

* HMAS Murchison ( K442 ), a warship of the Royal Australian Navy

In 1856, Victoria received its own naval vessel, HMCSS Victoria, and its deployment to New Zealand in 1860 during the First Taranaki War marked the first occasion that an Australian warship had been deployed overseas.

One of the most notable examples was in World War II when the German commerce raider Kormoran, disguised as a Dutch merchant ship, surprised and sank the Australian light cruiser HMAS Sydney in 1941, causing the greatest recorded loss of life on an Australian warship.

A paravane being lowered into the sea from an Australian warship in 1940.

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

Benaud was another contender with 219 wickets, but it was Statham who broke the record ( only to be overtaken by Trueman in New Zealand ) and Benaud had to be content with breaking Ray Lindwall's Australian record of 228 Test wickets.

At the time of her birth Outhwaite's father was a professor at Ormond College, University of Melbourne, and later moderator-general of his church for 1912-14, and when the World War I broke out, chaplain-general of the Australian military forces.

Born in New South Wales, with whom he began his first class cricket career in 1984, he captained the Australian Test cricket team from 1999 to 2004, and was the most capped Test cricket player in history, with 168 appearances, until Sachin Tendulkar of India broke this record in 2010.

The establishment of TAA broke the domestic air transport monopoly of ANA ( Australian National Airways ) in the late 1940s, and taking over the Queensland air network from QANTAS.

* July 29, 2009: On his morning breakfast radio show, Australian DJ Kyle Sandilands provoked outrage when his " Lie Detector " segment featured a 14 year old girl who, when quizzed on her sexual history by her mother, broke down, revealing she had been raped at the age of 12.

Fitzsimmons had his first 28 definite professional fights in Australia, where he lost for the Australian Middleweight title to Mick Dooley ( rumours spoke of a fixed bout ) and where he also won a fight by knockout while on the floor: when Edward Starlight Robins dropped Fitzsimmons to the canvas in round nine of their fight, he also broke his hand and could not continue, therefore the referee declared Fitzsimmons the winner by a knockout.

On 29 August, Bapaume fell into British and American hands, which resulted in an advance by the Australian Corps, who crossed the Somme River on 31 August and broke the German lines during the Battle of Mont St. Quentin.

Ottoman forces eventually broke through and nine Australian ground staff from the half-flight became prisoners of war.

The marriage ended in divorce in 1990 after the couple broke up in 1984 ; however, Sobers acquired dual Australian citizenship through marriage in 1980.

The series broke new ground for Australian television and captured the imagination of viewers like few programs before or since.

She was reportedly engaged in 2001 to Crispin Conroy, the former Australian ambassador to Nepal, but they broke up later.

Concerns have been raised about possible attacks on the al-Aqsa Mosque after a serious fire broke in the mosque in 1969 ( started by Denis Michael Rohan, an Australian fundamentalist Christian found by the court to be insane ).

While advocating an Australian Republic, he broke with the Australian Republican Movement ( ARM ) over disagreement about how the President of Australia should be chosen, forming a group called " Real Republic ", which advocated direct election of the President as opposed to the model advocated by Malcolm Turnbull of the ARM, under which the President would be chosen by a joint sitting of the Parliament, and which was the model proposed in the 1999 referendum.

When World War I broke out, Lauder was in Melbourne on one of his Australian tours.

He was thus thoroughly equipped when war broke out, and on 8 August 1914 was selected by General Bridges to command the 1st Australian divisional artillery.

The Australian captain Richie Benaud was another contender with 219 wickets, but it was Statham who broke the record.

This convention is not always followed, however ; for example the maiden speeches of Pauline Hanson in the Australian House of Representatives and Richard Nixon in the United States House of Representatives broke the tradition.

Promoted to colonel in 1913, Chauvel became the Australian representative on the Imperial General Staff but the First World War broke out while he was still en route to the United Kingdom.

In November 1975, Hughes finally broke into the Western Australian team, making his first-class debut against New South Wales at the WACA Ground.

After what might fairly be called a lean patch in his career, at least in comparison with his earlier output, the 2009 film, Mao's Last Dancer broke records at the Australian box office and won numerous film-festival honors.

2UE was the centre of the cash for comment affair, an Australian scandal that broke in 1999.

The cash for comment affair was an Australian scandal that broke in 1999, concerning paid advertising in radio that is presented to the audience in such a way as to sound like editorial commentary.

The division remained off the Australian Army's order of batle until World War II broke out when all five Militia ( reserve ) divisions were barred from serving overseas and the 2nd AIF's 6th Division was formed with new, all-volunteer infantry brigades, from 28 September 1939.

From here, Holden continued to pursue the goal of producing an Australian car.

After the War, Hartnett returned to GMH and continued to pursue the goal of producing an Australian car.

The endowment supports a scholarship for international students seeking to pursue PhD research at the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Australian National University.

On 24 February, Love announced he would retire at the end of the 2008-09 Australian cricket season to pursue a career in physiotherapy.

Moncrieff was billed as ' Little Gladys: The Australian Wonder Child ' and her performances helped her to raise funds to move to Brisbane to pursue her career.

When Robots Go Bad was their next studio album and saw the duo pursue a more pop-electro sound that featured several vocalists including London based soul singer Sabirajade and Australian singer / rapper B +.

The two-page statement released announced they would pursue a " full import strategy " for the Australian market due to unviable 380 sales.

In December 2006, an Australian Federal Parliamentary Committee recommended that Australia and New Zealand pursue a full union, or at least adopt a common ANZ currency and more common markets.

In 1988, he left Fiji for six months to pursue a fellowship at the Australian National University, and on his return, he was appointed Head of EPOC ( the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific ( ESCAP ) Pacific Operations Centre in Vanuatu, a position he held until 2000.

He entered medical school at the University of Western Australia, but Jason continued to pursue the creative arts, studying ballet, contemporary dance, and jazz dance at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts.

On February 5, 2008 Mitsubishi Motors Australia announced that the Clovelly Park plant would be shut down on March 31, and Mitsubishi would pursue a " full import strategy " for the Australian market due to unviable 380 sales.

He subsequently appeared in a number of Australian films and television productions Echo Point and Home & Away before he moved to the United States in 1997, in order to pursue a career in Hollywood films and to train in a two-year program at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York City.

Sir Otto Niemeyer of the Bank of England advised Australian governments to pursue a deflationary economic policy and honour their debt repayments.

In 2004 he surprised many in Australia when he quit Australian rules football and left for the United States to pursue a career as a punter in the National Football League, where he would ultimately be paid many times more than he would have earned in Australia and extended his playing career by many years.

Despite an excellent self-titled album of dark and moody, stoner rock based heavy metal, a Fear Factory support, and a notable live broadcast on Triple J's Australian Music Show, the Hanging Tree found it difficult to make headway beyond their own turf and split up at the end of 1996 when Borich left to pursue a session career in the United States.