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unusual facts about Australia A


Varun Chopra

Chopra was part of the England Lions' tour of Australia in 2013, and made a century against Australia A.


Francis Fainifo

He was born in Auckland, New Zealand, but has played international rugby with Australia A.

Mark Chisholm

The following season he made his debut for the Wallabies in a test against Scotland in Edinburgh and was subsequently named in the 22 against France the following week and went on to start at lock for Australia A against the French Barbarians in Paris.


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1997 in sumo

To mark 100 years of trade relations between Japan and Australia a tour by top division wrestlers visits Melbourne on the 6th and 7th, where an exhibition tournament is held at Melbourne Park (home of the Australian Open), and Sydney on the 13th and 14th, at the Sydney Entertainment Centre.

Aristolochia littoralis

In Australia A. littoralis is fatal to the caterpillars of Ornithoptera euphorion and of the threatened Richmond Birdwing Butterfly and threatens to displace their proper host plant, A. tagala.

Asgiriya Stadium

More success soon followed in the coming years as Sri Lanka won their first Test against Australia in 1999, which still remains the Sri Lanka's only Test win against Australia; a game remembered for the dreadful collision between Steve Waugh and Jason Gillespie.

Assyrian genocide

A monument to the victims of the Assyrian genocide has been built in Fairfield in Australia, a suburb of Sydney where one in ten of the population is of Assyrian descent.

Australian Gamer

It was created in 2005 by gaming friends Matt Burgess and Guy "Yug" Blomberg in order to give Australia a voice within the gaming world after the release of Dance Dance Revolution was cancelled in Australia; Australia is notoriously neglected when it comes to video game releases.

Bellerive

Bellerive, Tasmania, Australia, a suburb of the City of Clarence, part of the greater Hobart area

Chief superintendent

In Australia, a chief superintendent is senior to the rank of superintendent in all the Australian police forces excepting the Western Australia Police, where the rank of assistant commissioner is used in the place of chief superintendent; it is junior to the rank of commander (Victoria Police, South Australia Police) and the rank of assistant commissioner (New South Wales Police, Queensland Police).

Conservation Volunteers Australia

With the majority of CVA's offices located in regional Australia, a major focus of the organisation's work involves assisting individual landholders, Landcare groups and Catchment Management Authorities involved in land management programs; councils and shires; and all major National Parks agencies.

Cricket in the United States

Leo Magnus Cricket Complex in Los Angeles - Hosted five List-A match between India-A and Australia-A in 2000

Daniel Delany

Delany College, Granville, NSW, Australia (a secondary school) is named after Daniel Delany.

Deepdene

Deepdene, Victoria, Australia, a Melbourne locality once part of the suburb of Balwyn

Department of Education Building

#JM Freeland, “Architecture in Australia, A History, 1974, Penguin Books

Drumcondra

Drumcondra, Victoria, Australia, a residential suburb of Geelong, overlooking Corio Bay.

Errol Vieth

Errol Vieth (born 1950) is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Contemporary Communication, at Central Queensland University, Australia, a researcher, and an author.

Evil Overlord List

In Australia, a minor literary scandal erupted in 1997 when it emerged that award-winning author Helen Darville plagiarised this list for her regular column in Brisbane's Courier-Mail newspaper, which led to her being fired.

Frank McEncroe

The Chiko Roll brand today is owned by Simplot Australia, a wholly owned subsidiary of the J. R. Simplot Company, a private food and agribusiness company based in Boise, Idaho.

Georg Tintner

In 1954, he went to Australia and became resident conductor of the National Opera of Australia (a private company) before joining the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust Opera in 1957.

George Barrington

According to his biographer Richard S. Lambert, the first volume of Barrington's memoirs about Australia, "A Voyage to Botany Bay," is the work of Barrington's that is least changed, or wholly invented, by editors and publishers.

George Lyell

In 1914, together with Gustavus Athol Waterhouse, Lyell published The Butterflies of Australia,a comprehensive description of hundreds of species, including many that had never been described in prior publications.

Gisborne

Gisborne, Victoria, Australia, a town named after Henry Fyshe Gisborne

Hornby Lighthouse

Hornby Lighthouse, also known as South Head Lower Light, is an active lighthouse located on the tip of South Head, New South Wales, Australia, a headland to the north of the suburb Watsons Bay.

I Don't Wanna Take This Pain

A personal favourite of Minogue's, its original mix was released as the third single in Australia, a remixed version of the song was released in the United Kingdom as the fifth and final single in the fourth quarter of 1991 and received a mixed reception from music critics.

Marty Morton

When Rod Hull left The Super Flying Fun Show and Australia, a duplicate of Emu was made so the character could continue on the show as Marty and Emu, much to Hull's annoyance, Comedian Marty Morton took over Hull's co-hosting position with Marilyn Mayo in Australia.

McKenzie River

McKenzie River (Victoria), in south-eastern Victoria, Australia, a tributary of the Bemm River

Playford family

Thomas Playford II served as Premier of South Australia from 1887 to 1889 and 1890 to 1892, as well as a Senator in the newly formed Commonwealth of Australia (a name he coined), including a stint as the Federal Minister for Defence.

Psephos

Maintained by Dr Adam Carr, of Melbourne, Australia, a historian, former aide to Australian MP Michael Danby and current aide to Senator David Feeney, Psephos includes detailed statistics for presidential and legislative elections from 174 countries, with at least some statistics for every country that has what Carr considers to be genuine national elections.

Queanbeyan District Cricket Club

Brad Haddin (NSW, Australia); Mark Higgs (cricketer) (NSW, SA, Australia); Lea Hansen (Vic, Australia A); Neil Bulger (Aust. Indigenous); Peter Solway (Aust. Country); John Bull (Aust. Country); Colin Crouch (Aust. Country); Michael Spaseski (Aust. Country); Em Preston (Aust. u/21).

Radio Data System

ETSA the South Australia Electricity Trust and Saab Systems Australia, a local South Australian company, pioneered the idea after Saab engineer Trent Ryan developed the idea in late 1999 and brought it to Saab for further refinement.

Rangle River

The original story was written by Zane Grey while at Bermagui during his 1935 fishing tour of Australia, a period which also produced the film White Death (1936).

Royal Boskalis Westminster

In 2007 the company was engaged in two major contracts in Australia - a €300 million contract to deepen the shipping channels of Port Phillip in Melbourne utilising its dredge the Queen of the Netherlands, and a €50 million contract to expand the harbour at Newcastle

RPH

Radio Print Handicapped Network, or RPH Australia, a radio reading service network

Section 96 of the Constitution of Australia

However, in Australia, a vertical fiscal imbalance is present, meaning that the Commonwealth has significantly greater income than the states.

Souls on Board

Souls on Board have played the Big Day Out and St Kilda Festivals, shared stages with Maxïmo Park (UK), Yura Yura Teikoku (Japan), Ground Components, Expatriate, Midnight Juggernauts, Dukes of Windsor, and toured Australia a bunch of times including jaunts with Dan Kelly and the Alpha Males, End of Fashion & Glenn Richards (Augie March).

Studebaker Commander

In Australia, a crew of three drivers led by Norman "Wizard" Smith tackled overland records using a Commander roadster.

The Pea-Pickers

Not quite a critical response, but in his autobiography Flaws in the Glass, Australian Nobel Laureate Patrick White, writing of his experience of the Second World War says "Otherwise I had dried up. There were stirrings of what I had it in me to write if there were ever a peace, but that didn't seem likely. So I read. I read The Bible, literally from cover to cover. I read The peapickers and was filled with a longing for Australia, a country I saw through a childhood glow".

Vodafone Hutchison Australia

The joint venture entity is owned by Hutchison Telecommunications Australia (a subsidiary of Hutchison Whampoa) and by Vodafone Group plc on a 50-50 basis.