Governor Gawler took over from Hindmarsh in late 1838 and, despite being under orders from the Select Committee on South Australia in Britain not to undertake any public works, promptly oversaw construction of a governor's house, the Adelaide Gaol, police barracks, a hospital, a customs house and a wharf at Port Adelaide.

In 1939 Nazi Germany and Stalin's Soviet Union signed a Non-Aggression Treaty and, despite foundational antipathies between the dictatorships, they became co-belligerents at the outbreak of World War II ( Australia declared war on Nazi Germany for invading Poland, but the USSR promptly invaded and annexed East Poland as per an agreement with Adolf Hitler ).

Richter promptly quit the WWF afterward, while Moolah continued to be champion for another two years — excluding a six-day reign by Velvet McIntyre during a tour of Australia in 1986 — before losing the belt to Sherri Martel on July 24, 1987.

He promptly travelled to Australia to lead England in the 1982-83 Ashes.

Australia was 240 for 7 at that stage ; the innings promptly collapsed to 245 all out.

Japan declared war in December 1941, and quickly seized Hong Kong, Malaya, Singapore, and Burma, and threatened Australia and India.

Within months of the declaration of the European War in 1914 ; Japan, Australia and New Zealand seized all German possessions in the South West Pacific.

Japanese naval forces soon seized American, Dutch and British possessions across the Pacific and Southeast Asia, except for Australia, which became a main American forward base along with Hawaii.

James Busby proposed that New Zealand should have a national flag, after an unregistered New Zealand ship was seized in Australia.

Following the outbreak of World War I, the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force seized the islands in 1914 and Australia later received a League of Nations mandate for the islands.

While visiting Australia, he was deposed from this position, however, when the third-ranked officer, Lieutenant-Colonel Sitiveni Rabuka staged the first of two coups and seized power.

When she arrived in Australia for a tour customs agents seized her records.

In Victoria, Australia for example, Part 4 of the Forests ( Licences and Permits ) Regulations 2009 states that " an authorised officer may use the broad arrow brand ... to mark trees in a timber harvesting area which are not to be felled ; or to indicate forest produce which has been seized under the Act ; or to indicate that forest produce lawfully cut or

Several were sentenced to terms of imprisonment, others sentenced to penal transportation to Australia, and two were sentenced to death by hanging – Lewsyn yr Heliwr ( also known as Lewis Lewis ) for robbery and Dic Penderyn ( also known as Richard Lewis ) for stabbing a soldier ( Private Donald Black of the Highland Regiment ) in the leg with a seized bayonet.

Murdoch died in Melbourne, Australia in 18 February 1911 ; present at the Test match between Australia and South Africa, he was seized with apoplexy during the lunch interval and died later in the afternoon.

Lindwall yorked Reg Simpson first ball and Australia seized the initiative, reducing England to 6 / 30 before bowling them out for 122 to take the match by 70 runs.

In 2004, an " underground weapons factory " was seized in Melbourne, Australia, yielding among other things a number of silenced copies of the Owen submachine gun with magazines instead inserted underneath rather than overhead, suspected to have been built for sale to local gangs involved in the illegal drug trade.

Many such vessels went to Australia during the Australian gold rush, or after being seized as slavers and sold.

He also established the Australian Council for the Arts ( later the Australia Council ), which began the tradition of federal government support for Australian arts and artists, an initiative that was considerably expanded by Holt's successor John Gorton.

The Mindframe national media initiative followed an ambivalent response by the Australian Press Council to an earlier media resource kit issued by Suicide Prevention Australia and the Australian Institute for Suicide Research and Prevention.

Yiwarra Kuju ( One Road ) – The Canning Stock Route, a joint initiative between the National Museum of Australia and FORM, was held at the museum from July 2010 to January 2011.

Two attempts by the Japanese to continue their strategic initiative and offensively extend their outer defensive perimeter in the south and central Pacific to where they could threaten Australia and Hawaii or the US West Coast were thwarted at the naval battles of Coral Sea and Midway respectively.

Sticky Institute in Melbourne, Australia is a not-for-profit artist-run initiative dedicated solely to the distribution of zines.

* Excellence in Research for Australia, an initiative of the Australian Government

Beginning the 1994 – 95 season with 150 for NSW in a tour match against the England, Taylor followed up with 59 in an opening stand of 97 as Australia made 426 in the first innings to take the initiative in the First Test in Brisbane.

On the same day, concerts inspired by the initiative happened in other countries, such as Australia and Germany.

Airservices Australia ADS-B initiative is one of the major implementation programs in this field.

However, the pedigree of the current private finance initiative ( PFI ) was in Australia in the late 1980s.

In later years, Betar Australia took the initiative to organize community protests outside the Iraqi Embassy in Canberra during the First Gulf War and outside the Iranian Embassy to protest Iranian state sponsorship of terrorism.

In the First Test in Brisbane, Ponting top-scored in Australia's first innings with 196 runs, and he followed this up with 60 not out in the second as Australia took the initiative with a commanding win.

The National Front of New Zealand, commonly known as the " New Zealand National Front " ( NZNF ) was an initiative of John Tyndall of the British National Front formed in 1977 ; sister organisations were also formed in Australia and South Africa at the same time.

The initiative was taken by religious organizations in the United States, Australia, and many European nations, and eventually developed into various apparatus that sustained adoption as a socially integrated system.

In February 1917, however, Murdoch was able to return to Australia to teach Japanese at the Royal Military College, Duntroon, and at the University of Sydney ( where he founded the Japanese studies program ), concurrent appointments instituted on the initiative of the Australian Defense Department.

Woodfull and his fellow Victorian Ponsford played a significant part by making three century opening stands — 162 at Lord's, 159 at The Oval and 106 at Old Trafford to help Australia take the initiative in three Tests.

The Australian High Tech Crime Centre ( AHTCC ) is an Australia-wide policing initiative to coordinate the efforts of Australian law enforcement in combating serious, complex and multi-jurisdictional high tech crimes, especially those beyond the capability of single policing jurisdictions in Australia.

Crime Stoppers is a community policing initiative that commenced operation in the Australian state of Victoria in 1987, it has been operating Australia wide since 1998.

River Recovery is Greening Australia's initiative to rehabilitate key river reaches around Australia.

The Saltshaker Project is an initiative of Greening Australia, SE NSW, the Boorowa Regional Catchment Committee, and Boorowa Council, in association with the Boorowa Landcare Network, to tackle dryland salinity, reduced water quality, and biodiversity in Boorowa, New South Wales.

The South Australian Youth Conservation Corps ( YCC ) is an initiative of the South Australian Government and was delivered by Conservation Volunteers Australia ( CVA ) from 2003.

It was originally an initiative called ' Orange Fridays ' supported by Amnesty International, demanding that David Hicks be returned to Australia to face a fair trial or be released.

South Australia and Tasmania were the only states to participate in this initiative and negotiations were long and drawn out.

* Asia Pacific Screen Awards, an international cultural initiative of the State Government of Queensland, Australia