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  • Australian Catholic priest, Archbishop of Melbourne for 46 years, and one of ... in World War I and the conscription of Australia's youth to fight in ...
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  • which was the first expedition to cross Australia from south to north, finding ... Burke emigrated to Australia in 1853. Upon arrival in Melbourne, he ...
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  • Grainger was born in Brighton, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia ... Grainger Museum] – University of Melbourne, Australia ...
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  • explorer, naval officer, and surveyor of Australia in the early period of ... Oxley is most famous for leading three expeditions across Australia ...
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  • Melbourne, Australia has a similar reputation, in comparison to Sydney, Australia—however, Sydney receives an average of 43.1 inches (1094 ...
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  • and longest-serving Prime Minister of Australia, serving eighteen and a ... of Scottish crofters who had emigrated to Australia in the mid-1850s in the ...
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  • cinema," and was part of the Melbourne International Film Festival ... due to few feature films produced in Australia, but in 1969, Jack and ...
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  • areas of savanna are found in Africa, Australia, India, Madagascar, the ... occurrence of savanna in tropical Australia and New Guinea ...
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  • who was the 22nd Prime Minister of Australia. He came to power in the ... and in some respects, colonial view of Australia and of Australian identity ...
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  • Together, they also co-owned and operated Australia Zoo, founded by his parents ... for Australian tourism, Irwin developed Australia Zoo into Queensland's ...
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  • to explore or map parts of New Holland (Australia) and New Guinea. He was ... China, the Spice Islands, and New Holland, (Australia). ...
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  • Eccles was born in Melbourne, Australia. He attended Melbourne High School and graduated from Melbourne University, in 1925. He was awarded a ...
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  • Leaf.jpg|Unidentified damselfly in Victoria, Australia Mating Damselflies ... Organization (CSIRO), ed., The Insects of Australia. A Textbook for Students ...
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  • was the twenty-third Prime Minister of Australia and longest serving Australian ... off the state-owned Commonwealth Bank of Australia, and stabilized the economy ...
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  • Dsc 2519.jpg|Total lunar eclipse taken from Melbourne, Australia on August 28, 2007. Image:Total lunar eclipse august 28 2007 edit.jpg|A sequence ...
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  • Hall; the Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne, Australia; and the Scottish ... Hall; the Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne, Australia; the spire of St. ...
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  • The Commonwealth of Australia is a nation strategically located between ... economic exploitation of the area, Australia grew to become a constitutional ...
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  • In 1948, after World War II, he flew his own plane to Australia. On ... He had a brief career as a racing driver in Australia between 1956 ...
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  • Alexander was born at 436 George Street, Sydney, Australia, on January ... elder brothers and his sister came from Australia to live with him. His sister ...
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  • also mapped substantial portions of Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific ... was presumed to be the southern coast of Australia. (At least part of the ...
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  • and heathland areas of south-eastern Australia and Tasmania. Wombats are valued components of the food chains in their Australia ...
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  • Brisbane is the third largest city in Australia and the most populous ... Australia as a whole, and Brisbane included, has developed a robust ...
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  • The Boxing Day Test match held in Melbourne, Australia involves the Australian ... The start of the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race in Australia is also ...
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  • to as the "Mighty Murray," is Australia's largest river. It ... its catchment area is one-seventh of Australia's land mass. Understandably ...
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  • of which dominate the tree flora of Australia. There are more than eight ... Image:Gumnut tree.jpg|Corymbia tree, growing in Melbourne, Australia ...
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  • player from Glebe, New South Wales, Australia. Known for his amiable ... versus the American Tony Trabert in Melbourne. His triumph took place ...
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  • colored chest, the koala is native to Australia, and the only extant representative ... supportive community. The koalas of South Australia were largely exterminated ...
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  • separating far northern continental Australia's Cape York Peninsula ... came with the British colonization of Australia, most notably in what came ...
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  • on the Tasman Peninsula in Tasmania, Australia. It is considered one of ... having re-offended after their arrival in Australia. Rebellious personalities ...
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  • London. The family returned to Australia when he was six months ... on the condition that he came home to Australia first, to try life on the land. ...
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  • politician and 21st Prime Minister of Australia. A member of the Australian ... his government left a permanent mark on Australia, such as Medicare, the ...
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  • first zoological garden established in Australia was Melbourne Zoo in 1860 ... is the Werribee Open Range Zoo in Melbourne, Australia, focusing on displaying ...
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  • military officer and governor of Queensland, Australia.Paul D. Wilson, [http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A070640b.htm Chermside, Sir Herbert Charles ...
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  • Canberra is the federal capital of the Commonwealth of Australia located ... a long dispute over whether Sydney or Melbourne should be the national ...
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  • CityLink#Western Link|sound tube]] in Melbourne, Australia. It was constructed to reduce roadway noise without detracting from the area's aesthetics.]] ...
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  • in the Pacific Ocean located between Australia, New Zealand and New Caledonia ... arrived at Port Jackson, New South Wales, Australia in January 1788 (Australia ...
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  • of what today is the nation state of Australia. He tried to develop cordial ... of birth. The egalitarian spirit of Australia has it origins in the pioneer ...
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  • the emu is the largest bird native to Australia and the second-largest ... The emu is common over most of mainland Australia, although it avoids ...
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  • Mechanics Institute, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, established 1859]] and cities across the UK and overseas. In Australia, for example, the first ...
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  • wide stretch of water. It is south of Australia's eastern corner. ... is regarded as the coldest place in Australia with temperatures even ...
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  • tribe of Aborigines who lived south of Sydney, Australia. is a Boomerang?] Boomerang Association of Australia. Retrieved January 14, 2009. ...
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  • Sydney is the most populous city in Australia, with a metropolitan ... Sydney is located on Australia's southeast coast. The city is ...
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  • Uranium Information Centre Ltd., Melbourne, Australia, October 2006. Retrieved ... A desalination plant is to be built in Australia's largest city, Sydney ...
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  • of their hind legs. They are native to Australia, New Guinea, and neighboring ... less well known than the red (outside of Australia), but the most often seen ...
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  • Ian. The Environmental Challenge. (Melbourne, Australia: Longman Cheshire ... *Marsh, Ian. The Environmental Challenge. Melbourne, Australia: Longman ...
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  • The Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park lies in Australia's Northern ... The importance of the site to the Australia's original inhabitants ...
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  • the Doctrines of Zeno the Stoic. Carlton, Australia: Melbourne University Press, 1976. *Zeno, The Fragments of Zeno and Cleanthes. Edited by A ...
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  • term in the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, where ... called Pahsaheman. In Victoria, Australia, indigenous people played ...
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  • Preshil school, established in Melbourne, Australia in the 1930s, ... Melbourne Community School in Australia was established in 1977 by ...
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  • in the south, bounded by Asia and Australia on the west and the Americas ... Current, on reaching the east coast of Australia, swing south to form the ...
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  • Reserve near Parliament House in Melbourne, Australia (and, in the same ... of New England, in Armidale, NSW Australia. Gordon Memorial College ...
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  • of Melaleuca, all of which occur in Australia. About 230 species are ... are popular garden plants, both in Australia and other tropical areas ...
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  • the 2003-2004 Border-Gavaskar Trophy series in Australia. ... Pathan made his Test debut in the Second Test against Australia at ...
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  • 2.7% of Australia's population |popplace=New South Wales  2.9%Queensland  4.2%Western Australia ...
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  • | birthplace = Melbourne, Australia | deathdate = | deathplace = ... Greer was born in Melbourne in 1939, growing up in the bayside suburb ...
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  • In Australia and New Zealand, the traditionally used term is "flat ... tower, apartment tower, or block of flats in Australia. ...
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  • and the 13th Governor-General of Australia. He fought in both World ... he completed his Governor-Generalship of Australia (1952-59). His term was ...
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  • caged bird worldwide. They are native to Australia where flocks of 10 to 100 ... and W.T. Cooper, Australian Parrots (Melbourne: Lansdowne Editions, 1981 ...
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  • World Science Fiction Convention in Melbourne, Australia. She received the ... of interview mainly about Lavinia] on Australia's ABC Radio National ...
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  • Library services in Australia developed along very different paths ... In 1856, the Victorian colonial government opened the Melbourne Public ...
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  • [[Image:Melbourne docklands urban renewal.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Melbourne ... the banks of the Yarra River in Melbourne, Australia. Recently, much of ...
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  • also a major sport in England and Wales, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa ... series, played between England and Australia in the early 1930s, and ...
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  • [[Image:Community Garden, Melbourne, Australia.jpg|right|thumb|350px ... some countries such as Great Britain and Australia. Small plots are made available ...
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  • [[Image:Peacock rear - melbourne zoo.jpg|thumb|right|225px|A rear ... Image:White_peacock.JPG | White peacock shot in Sydney, Australia ...
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  • : Australia Logan, Queensland Australia : Madagascar Antananarivo Madagascar ... : Australia Portland, Victoria Australia : Japan Eiheiji, Fukui Japan ...
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  • the city walls.Patrick Witton, Indonesia (Melbourne: Lonely Planet, 2003, ISBN ... State of New South Wales, Australia * France Paris, France ...
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  • most often used in the United Kingdom and Australia, is a secondary school ... In Australia, "grammar schools" are generally high-cost ...
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  • center for asylum seekers trying to enter Australia. == Geography == ... and current assets. Nauru House in Melbourne, Australia, was sold in 2004 ...
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  • funded radio station in Sydney, Australia and Melbourne-based independent ... With a history of support for alternative rock, Australia has produced ...
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  • National Archives of Australia, Specifications for registration of ... in 1889, at Melbourne, Australia. Wilhelm Fein invented the portable ...
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  • 1900, outside Parliament House in Melbourne, Australia]] ... Australia’s labor movement has a long history of craft, trade, and ...
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  • *Dugan, Michael. Cyclones. Australian Disasters. South Melbourne: Macmillan Education Australia, 1996. *Longshore, David. Encyclopedia of Hurricanes ...
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  • thumb|right|170px|Cussonia Court, University of Melbourne.]] College, 2008. Retrieved July 10, 2008 In Australia, Victoria University offers ...
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  • well.J. Bessant and R. Watts, Sociology Australia (Allen & Unwin, 2002 ... and B. Furze. (eds.) Society and Change, (Melbourne: Macmillan Education Australia ...
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  • he toured Europe, the United States, and Australia, and became the first Indian ... of Laws from the University of Melbourne, Australia, and in 2012 the University ...
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  • jpg|The National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia. Image:Art Gallery of New South Wales.JPG|The front of the Art Gallery of New South ...
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  • Perry died in Melbourne, Australia on February 2, 1995. He was 86–years–old ... |1933||U.S. Championships ||[[Image:Flag of Australia.svg|25px]] Jack ...
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  • [[File:The Eagles in concert - 2010 Australia - Glenn Frey.jpg|thumb ... DVD set titled Farewell 1 Tour-Live from Melbourne featuring two new songs: ...
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  • *St Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne *St. Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne *Melbourne University main building. ...
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  • of John Wesley outside Wesley Church in Melbourne, Australia]] ... *In Australia, the Methodist Church merged with the majority of the ...
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  • in North America, South America, and Australia. Turnip is a subspecies ... information from the University of Melbourne]. * [http://www.hort.purdue ...
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  • In 1854, he traveled to Melbourne, in order to become an assayer at ... Jevons left Australia in 1859 and returned to University College to ...
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  • spurts in traffic growth. The U.S., Australia, Japan, Brazil, Mexico ... #039; KLM, Colombia's Avianca, Australia's Qantas, and Mexico ...
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  • The city of Hastings, New Zealand and the Melbourne outer suburb of Hastings, Victoria, Australia were both named after Warren Hastings. ...
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  • * Hume, Lynne. Witchcraft and Paganism in Australia. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1997. * Lewis, James R., ed. Magical Religion and ...
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  • globe on a building in Collins Street, Melbourne, Australia]] Atlas' best-known cultural association is in cartography. The first publisher ...
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  • quot; during the '98 Yield tour in Melbourne, Australia. The late American rock singer Jeff Buckley paid tribute to Nusrat on his album, ...
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  • common in the southern continents; in Australia, 32 percent of passerine ... off the British east coast, reached Melbourne, Australia in just three months ...
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  • populations outside of Asia, Sydney, Australia also claims to have the ... Apart from Sydney, other state capital cities in Australia also celebrate ...
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  • outside Japan was in April 1963, at Port Melbourne, in Australia. ... in Africa and is a market leader in Australia. Due to its Daihatsu subsidiary ...
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  • Australia, too, saw active hospice development, with notable hospices ... Dying in Sydney in 1890, with hospices in Melbourne and New South Wales following ...
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  • Lumpur, Lisbon, Osaka, Buenos Aires, Melbourne, Montreal, Manila, Rome ... world, including: Beijing, China; Melbourne, Australia; Glasgow, Scotland; ...
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  • Minister, William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, at once became a powerful ... resigned his commission, allowing Melbourne to return to office. ...
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  • off the coasts of South America, Africa, Australia, and New Zealand. There ... the order evolved: The oceans between the Australia-New Zealand region and ...
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  • [[Image:Field hockey.jpg|250px|thumb|Field hockey game at Melbourne ... particularly in Europe, India, Pakistan, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa ...
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  • Pacific around New Zealand and Australia. Specimens are rare in ... In December 2005, the Melbourne Aquarium in Australia paid AUD$100 ...
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  • #039;s Holden headquarters are located in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. In ... products have been sold as Holdens in Australia and Chevrolets in other ...
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  • in the Caribbean, South Africa and Australia, as well as the Mediterranean ... Between Melbourne and Sydney, Dalton records a sighting of the Flying ...
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  • hurt Garland's reputation. A 1964 tour of Australia was largely disastrous. Although the reviews for the Sydney concert were positive and the ...
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  • * National Library of Australia in Canberra, Australia * National Library ... * State Library of Victoria in Melbourne * Sterling Memorial Library ...
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