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 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 asked whether he was a missionary or a linguist, he replied " I am a mule.

When the Spanish conquered the area, rituals about Uku Pacha became crucial in missionary activity and mining operations.

When reforms abolished traditional systems of education, Rhee enrolled in Paejae School, an institution which had been established by a missionary from the United States.

When he outpaced fellow learners he was given additional private tuition by a missionary, Ernst Westphal, and his wife.

When the Catholic missionary Francis Xavier first arrived in Japan, he was welcomed by the Shingon monks since he used the word Dainichi for the Christian God.

When a group of women were sent out to join them three years later, several marriages ensued ; a few members of the present-day population can trace their ancestry back to those missionary families.

When in 1805 Mr. Cram, a New England missionary, asked to do mission work among the Seneca, Red Jacket responded expressing how the Seneca had suffered at the hands of Europeans.

When asked to tell about Taylor's life, James E. Welch, a frontier Baptist missionary, wrote:

When a later missionary, Odoric de Pordenone (: fr: Odoric de Pordenone ), visited Thane in 1324-1325, he collected their remains and moved on to China.

" When the missionary was sufficiently taken aback, Jones added that he didn't necessarily believe everything he heard.

When combined with training in discipleship, church planting and other modern missionary doctrine, the result is an accelerating, self-propelled conversion of large portions of the culture.

# When a person or group completes a correspondence course, they are invited to contact a church-planting missionary group from ( if possible ) a related cultural group.

When Tewodros saw this book he became violently angry, pulling a gun on Stern, and had to be restrained from killing the missionary.

When the partner is lying face down, it is a variation of the doggy style position, and when he or she is lying face up it is a variation of the missionary position.

When authority was transferred to the British who supplanted the Germans, Kagera was open to Lutheran missionary activity.

When she categorically stated that she would only marry a returned missionary in an LDS Church temple, Scott's career plans changed and he applied for missionary service.

When Arai Hakuseki, a Japanese scholar, interrogated the Italian missionary Giovanni Battista Sidotti in 1708, he noticed that " Sinae ", the Latin plural word Sidotti used to refer to China, was similar to Shina, the Japanese pronunciation of 支那.

When the missionary Johann Ludwig Krapf passed through Weldiya in April 1842, it was the headquarters of Dejazmach Faris Aligas and his brother Birru.

When in 1891 a missionary asked 150 Munda Christians to " inter-dine " with people of different rank, only 20 Christians did so, and many converts lost their new faith.

When Lyman met John Johnson, the owner of the Smiths ' house, he discovered Johnson was the father of the missionary who had baptized him just weeks before.

When appointed secretary of the missionary society in 1836, he devoted his chief energies to its service, until appointed president of the Wesleyan University, at Middletown, Connecticut, in 1841.

When the Italian Catholic missionary Matteo Ricci visited Ming China, he wrote that there were " exceedingly large numbers of books in circulation " and noted that they were sold at very low prices.

When St. Augustine came as a missionary at the request of the Pope Gregory the Great to Canterbury, Roman Catholicism soon was taken up as the dominant religion.