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3 unusual facts about Time in Australia


2012 Australian Grand Prix

The team requested a delay to the scrutineering process, with the FIA agreeing and allowing HRT until 11am local time to work on the car before presenting it to race stewards.

Access 31

At 5pm (AWST) on 6 August 2008, Access 31 ceased transmission after both the Lotterywest grant and the private contribution was withdrawn.

Solar eclipse of November 13, 2012

The most populous city to experience totality was Cairns, which had 2 minutes of totality an hour after daybreak (06:39 AEST, 20:39 UTC) with the sun at an altitude of 14°.


Broken Hill Football League

Indeed the city of Broken Hill to this day conducts itself in many ways as a city aligned to South Australia, using the same time zone (Australian Central Standard Time), being in the (08) Western/central area code, and its local television station, Central GTS/BKN, covers Broken Hill and parts of South Australia.

Surveyor Generals Corner

There are three times New Year's Eve at Surveyor Generals Corner (also in Cameron Corner and Poeppel Corner), because it is located at the intersection of three time zones.


see also

2011–12 WNBL season

ABC broadcast one game a week, at 1:00PM at every standard time in Australia.

Ewen Sinclair-Maclagan

In 1910, he was a major and serving with the Yorkshire Regiment when the then Brigadier William Bridges, who knew Sinclair-Maclagan from his time in Australia, offered him a position as a drill instructor at the newly established Royal Military College at Duntroon.

Gordon Landsborough

During his time in Australia he researched and wrote a book (as yet unpublished) about a distant relative, explorer William Landsborough.

Maurice Guillaux

During his time in Australia he also gave many aerial displays, was the first person to fly a seaplane in Australia, and was the first person to fly from Ham Common, now RAAF Base Richmond.