From 2011 to 2012 two new teams were added to the competition — the Gold Coast Suns in 2011 and the Greater Western Sydney Giants in 2012.

Although Tasmanian AFL Bid has been ongoing, the AFL's focus has become gaining marketshare in lucrative and broadcasting rights in two populous Australian states, introducing clubs on the Gold Coast, Queensland ( Gold Coast Football Club ) and in Greater Western Sydney ( Greater Western Sydney Football Club ).

The Western Australian Department of Environment and Conservation has been working with the University of Sydney to develop baits to train native animals not to eat the toads.

Granville has a major college of Technical and Further Education, which is part of the South Western Sydney Institute of TAFE.

* Paul Williams – Australian Rules Footballer who played 306 games for Collingwood & Sydney, current caretaker coach of the Western Bulldogs

* 1918 – The Western Union Cable Office in North Sydney, Nova Scotia receives a top-secret coded message from Europe ( that would be sent to Ottawa, Ontario and Washington, DC ) that said on November 11, 1918 all fighting would cease on land, sea and in the air.

* South Western Sydney Institute

* Western Sydney Institute, including OTEN

* November 19 – WWII: Both commerce raiding hilfskreuzer Kormoran and Australian cruiser HMAS Sydney sink following a battle off the coast of Western Australia.

Royal Mint branches were established in Sydney, New South Wales, Melbourne, Victoria, and Perth, Western Australia for the purpose of minting gold sovereigns from Australia's rich gold deposits.

It is on the Great Western Highway west of Sydney and south-east of Lithgow.

After reaching Wilsons Promontory and Western Port in January 1798 he was forced by bad weather and lack of provisions to return to Sydney.

They arrived on the shores of Corio Bay, mistakenly believing it to be Western Port, and returned to Sydney in January 1825, lavishly praising the quality of the country they had passed through.

After first living in Elizabeth Bay, Bashir and Shehadie moved their family to Pendle Hill in Western Sydney, where Bashir worked as a General Practitioner.

* Greater Western Sydney Football Club

* Western Sydney Regional Park

Ramp metering is used to regulate access to a number of major roads in Sydney, including: M4 Western Motorway ( Wallgrove Road on-ramp ); the M5 East motorway ( Kingsgrove Road on-ramp ); and the citywest Link to Anzac Bridge.

* the seven hills of Western Sydney, Australia

Broken Hill is one of the stops of the Indian Pacific passenger service, operated by the Great Southern Railway, from Sydney in New South Wales to Perth in Western Australia via Adelaide in South Australia.

The Juris Doctor is now offered at a number of Australian Universities including: Australian National University, University of Canberra, Bond University, Monash University, University of Melbourne, University of New South Wales, University of Notre Dame Australia, RMIT University, University of Southern Queensland, University of Sydney, University of Technology, Sydney, University of Western Australia, and Murdoch University.

The arrival of the first British settlers at Sydney in 1788 introduced Western civilisation to the Australian continent.

* Parramatta Stadium is home to the Parramatta Eels rugby league team and the Western Sydney Wanderers.

Wolverhampton Wanderers, playing as the " Los Angeles Wolves ", won the Western Division and then went on to earn the League Title by defeating the Eastern Division champions Washington Whips ( Aberdeen of Scotland ) in the championship match.

is a Japanese football player, who plays as a midfielder for A-League club Western Sydney Wanderers.

On September 28th 2012, it was announced that Shinji Ono had signed with new A-League club Western Sydney Wanderers on a two-year deal as the club's inaugural marquee player.

* Western Sydney Wanderers — With the introduction of the Western Sydney team into the competition Sydney FC will contest a true local derby for the first time, in the 2012 / 13 season.

Anthony Popovic (; born 4 July 1973 in Sydney, Australia ) is an Australian former football ( soccer ) player and head coach of Western Sydney Wanderers.

On 17 May 2012 it was announced he had signed with the new Western Sydney Wanderers FC soccer franchise as head coach.

* Western Sydney Wanderers

In these matches, Caversham beat Nomads United ( Christchurch ), Central United ( Auckland ) defeated Eastern Suburbs ( Auckland ), North Shore United beat Hamilton Wanderers, and Western Suburbs ( Wellington ) beat Miramar Rangers.

* Western Sydney Wanderers FC

They were in fact quietly laughing at him, for their King wished to have nothing to do with the Western world.

In the Middle East, Iraq, Syria and Egypt were, a short while ago, in the Western camp.

Aristotle's writings were the first to create a comprehensive system of Western philosophy, encompassing morality, aesthetics, logic, science, politics, and metaphysics.

The title " teacher " was first given to Aristotle by Muslim scholars, and was later used by Western philosophers ( as in the famous poem of Dante ) who were influenced by the tradition of Islamic philosophy.

In contrast, in the Arian German kingdoms established on the wreckage of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century, there were entirely separate Arian and Nicene Churches with parallel hierarchies, each serving different sets of believers.

A variety of social, political and economic reforms were introduced by the Japanese government, in hope of modernising the country in the Western style, and included the annexation of Hokkaido.

His appeals to Western Europe for help against the Turks were also the catalyst that triggered the Crusades.

This honor was intended, in part, to commemorate the diplomatic and trading history which existed long before other Western nations were officially aware of Japan's existence.

The sixty-odd club members were the leading business tycoons of Western Pennsylvania and included among their number Frick's best friend, Andrew Mellon, his attorneys Philander Knox and James Hay Reed, as well as Frick's business partner, Carnegie.

It may be viewed as didactic, mocking, or merely descriptive ; in any event it preserves the attitudes and practices that were the foundation of a long and significant tradition in Western literature.

His writings were very influential in the development of Western Christianity.

Today, the Byzantine text-type is the subject of renewed interest as the original form of the text from which the Western and Alexandrian text-types were derived.

Sculpture and performance art are prominent, and abstract and partially abstracted forms are valued, and were valued long before influence from the Western tradition began in earnest.

Armoured cars were put into use by the British on the Western Front.

Remarque comments in the preface that " Quiet on the Western Front will try simply to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped shells, were destroyed by the war.

( The Western Schism had begun in 1378 and there were two competing popes at the time, one in Avignon supported by France and Spain, and one in Rome supported by most of Italy, Germany and England.

The office of Admiral of England ( or Lord Admiral and later Lord High Admiral ) was created around 1400, though there were before this Admirals of the Northern and Western Seas.

Disruption in the trade of tin for bronze from Western Europe may have contributed to the increasing popularity of brass in the east and by the 6th – 7th centuries AD over 90 % of copper alloy artefacts from Egypt were made of brass.

All Belarus ground forces were now grouped within these two commands, the Western Operational Command at Grodno, former from the previous 28th Army Corps, the former Soviet 28th Army, and the North Western Operational Command, the former 65th Army Corps, at Borisov.

Banking reform accelerated in 2001 as all the Communist-era payments bureaus were shut down ; foreign banks, primarily from Western Europe, now control most of the banking sector.

The 2nd and 7th divisions were assigned independent roles, operating in Western Thrace and eastern Macedonia respectively.

The Bauhaus had a major impact on art and architecture trends in Western Europe, the United States, Canada and Israel in the decades following its demise, as many of the artists involved fled, or were exiled, by the Nazi regime.

After a series of rival leagues were organized but failed, ( most notably the American Base Ball Association, which spawned the clubs which would ultimately become the St. Louis Cardinals and Brooklyn Dodgers ) the current American League, evolving from the minor Western League of 1893, was established in 1901.