When the deadline came, Australian media baron Rupert Murdoch was negotiating to buy the paper and save it.

When confronted with the remains of some of the now extinct Australian marsupials, Aborigines would often identify them as the bunyip.

When the former Australian Federal Education Minister, Brendan Nelson, raised the notion of intelligent design being taught in science classes, the public outcry caused the minister to quickly concede that the correct forum for intelligent design, if it were to be taught, is in religious or philosophy classes.

When the Australian television programme 60 Minutes challenged her to demonstrate how she could live without food and water, the supervising medical professional Dr. Beres Wenck found that after 48 hours Jasmuheen displayed symptoms of acute dehydration, stress and high blood pressure.

The Australian alternative rock band, The Go-Betweens dedicated a track off their 1994 album The Friends of Rachel Worth, When She Sang About Angels in reference to Smith's long time influence on themselves.

When talking about the album for an Australian interview in August 2012 Parkes said " It might well be my favorite album to date.

When being photographed for the album's cover, Potger was replaced by Ray – his day job with the Australian Broadcasting Commission ( ABC ) as a radio producer barred him from involvement in a commercial enterprise.

When Australian comedian Paul Hogan used the phrase, " I'll slip an extra shrimp on the barbie for you " in an American television advertisement, it was intended to make what he was saying easier for his American audience to understand, and was thus a deliberate distortion of what an Australian would typically say.

When the Victorian state government ( controlled by the Australian Labor Party ) announced plans to end this grazing, the then federal government, controlled by a coalition of conservative parties who are the ALP's traditional opponents, floated the idea of using national cultural heritage powers ( on the basis of the cultural place given to the mountain cattleman, notably through The Man from Snowy River ) to override the state decision.

When Tasmania granted Betfair a license despite these efforts the Western Australian state legislature passed a law that specifically criminalised using betting exchanges from within the state ; however, that law was later ruled to be unconstitutional.

Strong box office performances were recorded in 2009-10 by Bruce Beresford's Mao's Last Dancer ; the Aboriginal musical Bran Nue Dae the dramatization of John Marsden's novel Tomorrow, When the War Began ; and the crime drama Animal Kingdom which featured major Australian screen stars Ben Mendelsohn, Joel Edgerton, Guy Pearce and Jackie Weaver.

Tomorrow, When the War Began became the highest-grossing domestic film of 2010 and it was nominated for nine Australian Film Institute Awards.

When the Australian Cricket Hall of Fame was created in Melbourne in 1996, Bradman was made one of its 10 inaugural members.

When Paul Eddington visited Australia during the 1980s, he was treated as a visiting British PM by the then Australian leader, Bob Hawke, who was obviously a great fan of the show.

When the Australian missionary and social worker Graham Staines and his two minor sons were burned alive ( 22 January 1999 ), President Narayanan condemned it as a barbarous crime belonging to the world's inventory of black deeds.

* When Australian federal politicians Peter Costello and Tony Abbott sued Bob Ellis for allegations made about their sex lives in his book Goodbye Jerusalem, the Australian radio comedy drama How Green was my Cactus made a parody of the sketch using the comedians ' voices, not the politicians.

When the BBC lost Neighbours to Channel 5 in January 2008, it moved into the Australian soap's old slot of 1: 45pm.

When the Australian Imperial Force was formed, he was sent as the commander of the 4th Infantry Brigade to Egypt.

When Hughes resigned in 1984, throwing Australian cricket into turmoil, Chappell received a share of the blame for the outcome.

When the Australian colonies federated on 1 January 1901, an official competition for a design for an Australian flag was held.

When Julia Gillard became Prime Minister on 24 June 2010 after the parliamentary Labor Party decided to replace Kevin Rudd as leader, she declared that she would not move into The Lodge until she had " fulsomely earned the trust of the Australian people to be prime minister " at an election ; instead, she remained living in her home in Altona in Melbourne and her flat in Canberra.

When the series premiered viewers were presented with a level of titillation and taboo subjects that had never been seen on Australian television before, and the event came to be known as " the night Australian television lost its virginity.

When he was 15 years old, he played in his first West Indian under-19 youth tournament and that same year, Lara represented West Indies in Under-19 cricket.

Private Eye's Colemanballs column has now expanded to include occasional quotes from sportsmen themselves ( e. g. Frank Bruno's " That's cricket, Harry, you get these sort of things in boxing "), politicians ( John Major's " When your back's against the wall it's time to turn round and fight "), and malapropisms from other public figures.

When he was a child, a near-fatal accident prompted his father to make him a primitive bat, and the child took to cricket with great enthusiasm.

When he retired from cricket he ran a sweetshop in Blackpool.

When the cards were laid down, Captain Imran Khan had the last laugh when Richard Illingworth was caught by Ramiz Raja off his delivery to finish off the final and crown Pakistan World Champions of cricket.

When he was born his grandfather, a cricket coach, rang his father in Scotland to announce that " It's a young cricketer!

When he left school in 1895, Hobbs initially worked as an errand boy before his father's connections at the university helped him to get a summer job as a college servant, chiefly assisting the cricket team.

When first-class cricket resumed in 1919, county matches were reduced to two days in a short-lived experiment that many players, including Hobbs, disliked.

When he was 13, he was recruited to play for two cricket teams.

When South Africa was banned from international cricket because of the country's apartheid policy, the team's two lucrative tours to England in 1970 and to Australia in 1971 – 72 were cancelled.

When the members formed the White Conduit Club for cricket in the early 1780s they played at White Conduit Fields in Islington but they soon became dissatisfied with the surroundings and complained that the site was " too public ".

When Mickey Stewart was unable to play after the first day because of dysentery he seriously considered calling up the cricket journalist Henry Blofeld, but managed to survive with just 10 men.

When Deayton was told he could put another item into the room, he chose cricket ( led on by the rapturous cries of the studio audience ) which Nick, reluctantly, put into the room.

When inter-group warfare was forbidden by colonial rulers, the islanders developed a unique, aggressive form of cricket.

When Hughes returned to bowl in the West Indies second innings, he trapped Gordon Greenidge lbw with his first ball, completing a hat-trick over two different innings and becoming the only player in Test cricket history to achieve the three wickets of a hat-trick in three different overs.

When WSC players rejoined official cricket for 1979-80, there was plenty of debate over the Australian captaincy.

When first purchased, most bats are not ready for immediate use and require knocking-in in order to allow the soft fibres to strike a hard new cricket ball without causing damage to the bat, and allowing full power to be transferred to the shot.

When a batsman assumes a normal stance this generally means that the cricket ball bounces on the cricket pitch on or near the batsman's popping crease.

When cricket restarted, Hutton resumed his role as one of England's leading batsmen ; by the time of England's tour to Australia in 1950 – 51, the team relied heavily on his batting and did so for the remainder of his career.

When Hutton returned to cricket in July, scoring two centuries, he was appointed captain of the MCC for the winter tour.

When he was appointed England captain, many in the cricketing establishment held his professionalism against him with the result that Hutton never felt comfortable dealing with the amateurs who ran English cricket at the time.

When Len Hutton was appointed as English national cricket captain in 1952 he remained a professional.

When available, he plays provincial cricket for Northern Districts and is also an international member of Indian Premier League team the Royal Challengers Bangalore.