In 1904, Australians elected the first Labor Party prime minister in the world: Chris Watson.

However, he also said that in 1977 United States Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher made a special trip to Sydney to meet with him and told him, on behalf of US President Jimmy Carter, of his willingness to work with whatever government Australians elected, and that the US would never again interfere with Australia's democratic processes.

In 1998 he was elected to the Constitutional Convention as a candidate of Australians for a Constitutional Monarchy.

While ATSIC's existence was always subject to the oversight of governments, who represent all Australians, ATSIC was a group of elected individuals whose main goal was the oversights that happened to Indigenous Australians.

English captain Graham Gooch won the toss and elected to bowl first, hoping to use the pitch conditions to make batting difficult for the Australians.

In 1921, England having lost six Test matches in succession to the Australians under Warwick Armstrong, Tennyson was recalled to the side for the second Test at Lord's, and though the game was again lost, he scored an undefeated 74 in the second innings against Jack Gregory and Ted McDonald at their fastest.

Despite it being Murdoch's wicket that started the riot, the English public were more sympathetic towards him than Gregory, and although the Australians played against weak opposition, including many XVIIIs, they attracted large crowds, leading the counties to regret their decision to snub them.

Syd's father Ned Gregory was one of the eleven Australians selected to play in a match against England at the MCG in 1877-a match later designated as the first-ever Test.

In 1899, he scored 1, 183 runs making him one of only four Australians, with George Giffen, Warwick Armstrong ( both three times ) and Jack Gregory, to take over 100 wickets and make over 1, 000 runs on a tour of England.

In their second innings, the Australians, boosted by a spectacular run-a-minute 55 from Hugh Massie, managed 122, which left England only 85 runs to win.

In the early hours of 17 July, the Australian 24th Brigade — supported by 44th Royal Tank Regiment (" RTR ") and strong fighter cover from the air — assaulted Miteirya ridge ( known as " Ruin ridge " to the Australians ).

Once again, however, a critical situation for the Axis forces was retrieved by vigorous counter-attacks from hastily assembled German and Italian forces, which forced the Australians to withdraw back to their start line with 300 casualties.

Of the ten Australians appointed since 1965, Lord Casey, Sir Paul Hasluck and Bill Hayden were former federal parliamentarians ; Sir John Kerr was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales ; Sir Ninian Stephen and Sir William Deane were appointed from the bench of the High Court ; Sir Zelman Cowen was a vice-chancellor of the University of Queensland and constitutional lawyer ; Peter Hollingworth was the Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane ; and Major-General Michael Jeffery was a retired military officer and former Governor of Western Australia.

The festival's chief executive, Richard Moore, compared Loach's tactics to blackmail, stating that " we will not participate in a boycott against the State of Israel, just as we would not contemplate boycotting films from China or other nations involved in difficult long-standing historical disputes .” Australian lawmaker Michael Danby also criticised Loach ’ s tactics stating that “ Israelis and Australians have always had a lot in common, including contempt for the irritating British penchant for claiming cultural superiority.

During his third century at the start of the tour, during a period of abuse from the spectators, he observed to a sympathetic Hunter Hendry that " All Australians are uneducated, and an unruly mob ".

That was an addition of 8, 395 Sinhalese Australians ( a 40. 6 percent increase ) from the 2001 Census.

The beer began to gain wide popularity in the mid 1960s with an innovative television advertising campaign featuring a very similar recording of the theme from the film The Magnificent Seven, images of working-class Australians at work and play, and a voice-over by notable Australian actor John Meillon.

* January 30 – WWII – Australians capture Derna, Libya from the Italians.

** The Australian referendum, 1967 passes with an overwhelming 90 % support, removing, from the Australian Constitution, 2 discriminatory sentences referring to Indigenous Australians.

In words like " chance ", " plant ", " branch ", " sample " and " demand ", the vast majority of Australians use the short / æ / vowel from the word " cat ".

Aboriginal Australians are believed to have first arrived on the Australian mainland by boat from the Indonesian archipelago between 40, 000 to 60, 000 years ago.

The settlement of Australia by Indigenous Australians between 48, 000 and 70, 000 years ago, and by Europeans from 1788, has significantly affected the fauna.

However, the further the Australians and New Zealanders advanced, the deeper was the salient they created such that the German artillery could concentrate on them from three directions.

Indigenous Australians have occupied the lands of Australia for some 40, 000 – 60, 000 years, during which time they developed a unique hunter gatherer diet, known as " bush tucker ", drawn from regional Australian flora and fauna — such as the kangaroo.

Australians are high consumers of dairy products, consuming ( on average ) some 102. 4L of milk per person a year, which in part is due to its quality-coffee culture, 12. 9 kg of cheese, 3. 8 kg of butter ( a small reduction from previous year, largely for dietary purposes ) and a small increase to 7. 1 kg of yoghurt products.

For example, in 1993, references to the Queen were removed from the Oath of Citizenship, sworn by naturalised Australians, who would now pledge loyalty to " Australia and its people.

Several notable films based on stories from Australian literature ( generally with strong rural themes ) were made in Australia in the 1950s-but by British and American production companies, including A Town Like Alice ( 1956 ) which starred Virginia McKenna and Peter Finch ; The Shiralee ( 1957 ) also starring Peter Finch with Australian actors Charles Tingwell, Bill Kerr and Ed Devereaux in supporting roles ; Roberry Under Arms, again starring Finch in 1957 ; and Summer of the Seventeenth Doll ( 1959 ), starring Ernest Borgnine, John Mills and Angela Lansbury ; and in 1960, The Sundowners was shot in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales with foreign leads Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, and Peter Ustinov but a supporting cast including Australians Chips Rafferty, John Meillon and Leonard Teale.

The majority of Australians with French ancestry are descended from Huguenots.

Hundreds of thousands of Australians and international guests come out in support of the Parade, with many lining up for a viewing spot from early in the afternoon.

The name comes from the Bibbulmun, or Noongar people, Indigenous Australians from the Perth area.

In a unanimous verdict by the High Court of Australia on 27 March 2008, the two provisions of the legislation, purporting to ban Western Australians from using a betting exchange and prohibiting an unauthorised business from using Western Australian race lists, were declared invalid as they applied to Betfair.

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.

They include the Indigenous Australians, the Melanesians ( now divided into Austronesian-speaking populations and Papuans, and including the great genetic diversity of New Guinea ), the Semang people of the Malay peninsula, and indigenous first nation Fijians.

Total Allied deaths were 43, 000 British, 15, 000 French, 8, 700 Australians, 2, 700 New Zealanders and 1, 370 Indians.

A group of radical socialist Australians in the 1890s voluntarily went to create a failed master-planned community, known as Nueva ( New ) Australia ; and Elisabeth Nietzsche, a German racial ideologist and sister of philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche came to Paraguay in her attempt to build a colony, Nueva Germania ( Neues Deutschland ) devoted to a hypothetical pure white " Nordic " society in the 1890s.

In the case of indigenous Australians, unlike with the Māori of New Zealand, no treaty was ever entered into with the indigenous peoples entitling the Europeans to land ownership, under the doctrine of terra nullius ( later overturned by Mabo v Queensland, establishing the concept of native title well after colonization was already a fait accompli ).

8. 9 % of Western Australians were born in England, 2. 4 % in New Zealand, 1. 2 % in Scotland, 1. 1 % in South Africa, and 1. 1 % in Italy.

* March 30 – Indigenous Australians legally allowed to drink alcohol in New South Wales.

The dead POWs included 6, 318 British personnel, 2, 815 Australians, 2, 490 Dutch, about 356 Americans and a smaller number of Canadians and New Zealanders.

Australians Choosing Their Future, Pan Macmillan, Sydney, New South Wales, C. 18, ' Republic.

Married at St John's Church of England, Balmain North, Sydney, New South Wales, on 23 January 1909, both of his parents were native-born Australians of Irish, English, and Scottish descent, with convict links to Tasmania long before Flynn's birth.

Former New Zealand Prime Minister Mike Moore declared that Australians and New Zealanders have more in common than New Yorkers and Californians.

It is thought the majority of Valparaíso's people have non-Spanish European background, such as: British and Irish, Australians and New Zealanders, North Americans ( U. S. or Canadian ), Croats and Bosnians, Dutch and Belgians, French, Germans, Greeks, Italians, Portuguese and Scandinavians.

" ( However, 60, 000 Australians & 3, 500 New Zealanders fought in the Vietnam War, where respetively 500 & 37 died, and  3, 000 & 187 were wounded.

The peoples of other continents ( Sub-Saharan Africans, Native Americans, Aboriginal Australians and New Guineans, and the original inhabitants of tropical Southeast Asia ) have been largely conquered, displaced and in some extreme cases – referring to Native Americans, Aboriginal Australians and South Africa's indigenous Khoisan peoples – largely exterminated by farm-based societies such as Eurasians and Bantu.

Indigenous Australians make up 1. 6 % of the population, and the largest overseas-born groups come from England ( 8. 6 %), Italy ( 4. 4 %), New Zealand ( 2. 2 %), Scotland ( 1. 4 %) and Portugal ( 1. 0 %).

Anzac Day, 25 April is another day strongly associated with Australian nationhood, however it more particularly commemorates Australians who fought in wars and is named to honour the soldiers of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps who landed at Gallipoli, on that same day in 1915, during the First World War.

Australians and New Zealanders have a rivalry, especially in certain sports such as rugby league, rugby union and netball.

Rivalry between Australia and allies such as the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and New Zealand is friendly and jocular in nature, as Australians often view these nations as members of an Anglosphere cultural tradition which has significant overlap with their own.