The Australians were greatly demoralised by the manner of their second-innings collapse, but fast bowler Fred Spofforth, spurred on by some gamesmanship by his opponents, refused to give in.

Despite the debut of Donald Bradman, the inexperienced Australians, led by Jack Ryder, were heavily defeated, losing 4 – 1.

Indeed, some boomerangs were not thrown at all, but were used in hand to hand combat by Indigenous Australians.

In 2006, for the first time, Australians were able to complete their census online.

On 16 July, the Australians — supported by British tanks — launched an attack to try to take Point 24 but were forced back by German counter-attacks, suffering nearly fifty percent 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.

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

On 23 April he made his first recorded direct observation of indigenous Australians at Brush Island near Bawley Point, noting in his journal: "... and were so near the Shore as to distinguish several people upon the Sea beach they appear'd to be of a very dark or black Colour but whether this was the real colour of their skins or the Cothes

The terminology reflected differences in understanding, as neither the English public nor the Board of the Marylebone Cricket Club ( MCC )— the governing body of English cricket — could understand why the Australians were complaining about what they perceived as a commonly used tactic.

However, there were occasions when the Australians felt that their hosts had crossed the mark with tactics resembling bodyline.

An Australian journalist reported that several business deals in Hong Kong and Shanghai were lost by Australians because of local reactions.

The Indigenous Australians were hunter-gatherer tribes and did not farm or cultivate crops, and in keeping with these cultural features, they also never developed pottery.

Indigenous Australians in most jurisdictions were " protected ", effectively being wards of the State.

The 2006 Census in Australia found that there were approximately 29, 055 Sinhalese Australians ( 0. 1 percent of the population ).

It is unclear whether these were returning Sri Lankan emigrants with Australian citizenship, their Sri Lankan Australian children, or other Australians present on business or for some other reason.

The first notable players to use two hands were the 1930s Australians Vivian McGrath and John Bromwich, but they were lonely exceptions.

In 1968, they were named as joint Australians of the Year – the only group thus honoured.

These Indigenous Australians were well established throughout Western Australia by the time European explorers began to arrive in the early seventeenth century.

There were 58, 496 Indigenous Australians in Western Australia in 2001, forming 3. 1 % of the population.

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.

They were pursued by three of the Australians who caught them at The Oval gates where a furious altercation ensued in front of bystanders.

The Australians understood this twenty years later when Joe Darling, touring England for the first time in 1896, said: " We were all told not to trust the Old Man as he was out to win every time and was a great bluffer ".

The decision generated considerable acrimony, but surprised and pleased the Australians, who felt Hutton was their most formidable opponent with the bat.

Ella ’ s dependable hands were lauded by former Scottish rugby international Norman Mair in The Scotsman: " Ella has hands so adhesive that when he fumbled a ball against Scotland ( in 1984 ) you would not have been surprised to see those Australians of the appropriate religious persuasion cross themselves ," ( Ella & Smith, 1987, p. 54 ).

On their tour that year ( 1882 ) the Australians played just one Test, at The Oval in London.

:“ In 1882, she said, it was first spoken of when the Sporting Times, after the Australians had thoroughly beaten the English at the Oval, wrote an obituary in affectionate memory of English cricket “ whose demise was deeply lamented and the body would be cremated and taken to Australia ”.

The battle had begun when a force of between 2, 000 and 3, 000 Boers had surrounded a force of 500 Australians, Rhodesians, Canadians and British soldiers at a supply dump at Brakfontein Drift.

The first of the matches with coloured uniforms was the WSC Australians in wattle gold versus WSC West Indians in coral pink, played at VFL Park in Melbourne on 17 January 1979.

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 ".

In the fieldwork that led to his famous Elementary Forms of Religious Life, Durkheim, a secular Frenchman, looked at anthropological data of Indigenous Australians.

England then took the first ever Ashes white wash, as they defeated the Australians 3 – 0 at home in 1886.

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.

On 20 June, Midwinter was at Lord's where he was due to play for the Australians against Middlesex.

Afterwards, the row was patched up and Gloucestershire invited the Australians to play the county team, minus Midwinter, at Clifton College.

It became a favorite vegetable of Australians by the 1830s and was frequently seen at the Sydney Markets.

Before the arrival of the First Fleet of Europeans at Sydney in 1788, indigenous Australians survived off the often unique native flora and fauna of the Australian bush, for between 40, 000 and 60, 000 years.

Although Australians often drink tea at home, it has been found that in out-of-home establishments where tea and coffee are sold together, tea accounted for only 2. 5 % of total sales.

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.

The Australians could not take advantage of a pitch that favoured batting, and finished the day at 6 / 181.

Bradman was honoured at a number of cricket grounds, notably when his portrait was hung in the Long Room at Lord's ; until Shane Warne's portrait was added in 2005, Bradman was one of just three Australians to be honoured in this way.

Gobineau's basic concept, as further refined and developed in Nazism, places the black Aboriginal Australians and " African savages " at the bottom of the hierarchy, while the white Northern and Western European Aryans ( consisting of Germans, Finnish, Swedish, Icelanders, Norwegians, Danish, British, French, Northern Italians, Irish and Dutch ) were at the top ; white olive-skinned Southern Europeans ( consisting of the Spanish, Southern Italians, Greeks and Portuguese, i. e. those of what is called the Mediterranean race, which was regarded as another subrace of the Caucasian race ) in the upper middle ranks ; Slavs ( Even though the Slavs are white and of Indo-European ancestry, the Nazis placed them lower on the scale because they were regarded as primarily of the Alpine race rather than the Nordic race, and thus fit only to be peasants.

The Australians then achieved a series of victories against the Germans at Chignes, Mont St Quentin, Peronne and Hargicourt.

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.