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	Australia Coins
		History -- The Commonwealth of Australia is located between the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean. The capital is Canberra. The six colonies that eventually became states of Australia is Western Australia, South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland, and Tasmania.
		The period of Australia being use as a penal colony came to an end when gold was discovered in Australia in the 1840’s.
		The Commonwealth of Australia was formed and by 1901 it became a self-governing dominion of the British Commonwealth.
	www.geocities.com /gandapa99/australia.htm (567 words)

	Train Accidents Australia
		Australia, Sydney, Granville: a commuter train derailed and crashed into the pillars of a bridge bringing it down on top of the train; 83 people died, more than 200 were injured.
		Australia, NSW, Glenbrook: a freight train collided with the rear of a stalled passenger train; 1 person died, 10 were injured.
		Australia, Victoria, Wodonga: a train collided with their bus on a level crossing; 25 people (most of them military personnel) died.
	www.emergency-management.net /train_acc_australia.htm (470 words)

	The World at War - Australian Timeline 1918-48
		Australia sends small expeditionary force to capture the German colonies in the southwest pacific and neutralise German naval wireless communications.
		At the peace conference at Versailles, Australia demands the annexation of the former German colonies.
		Australia sends the second AIF to support British war effort in Europe, especially in the Western Desert of North Africa, Greece & Crete, on Cyprus and the Middle East.
	worldatwar.net /timeline/australia/18-48.html (2125 words)

	Australia Timeline
		Australia turns to the US for help in its defence after the Japanese take Singapore.
		Australia allows the US to base its supreme command for the Pacific war on its territory.
		The government of Gough Whitlam is plagued by resignations and the blocking of its budget by the upper house of the parliament.
	www.hartford-hwp.com /archives/24/184.html (672 words)

	IBM@70 - Celebrating 70 years in Australia [Key milestone] 1948 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		By the end of the war, IBM Australia was showing a modest annual profit of £2,000 and was ready for peacetime growth.
		In 1948, IBM Australia expanded its range to include tabulating systems, the successors of the Hollerith inventions of the 1890s.
		At IBM Australia, he joined a team of just five in the data processing division, dwarfed by the 100 employees in the company's time recording division.
	www-8.ibm.com /au/70years/more_detail/1948.html (323 words)

	OVERVIEW: Australia's Ukrainian Catholic Church (08/08/99)
		This was a milestone in the journey of the Ukrainian Catholic Church in Australia.
		The committee alerted Australia to the terrible phenomenon of "ethnic cleansing" by using media outlets and press conferences, by urging that the matter be raised in the Federal Senate, and by involving the Bishops' Conference.
		The future of the Church in Australia depends on how well it is able to adapt to living in a culture foreign to the one in which it was born.
	www.ukrweekly.com /Archive/1999/329920.shtml (2017 words)

	Australia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Australia was uninhabited before stone-culture peoples arrived, perhaps by boat across the waters separating the island from the Indonesia archipelago about 40,000 years ago.
		Australia passed the Statute of Westminster Adoption Act on October 9, 1942, which officially established Australia's complete autonomy in both internal and external affairs.
		Today, Australia has come a long way, we now have an advanced Reconciliation movement, in an attempt to heal some of the pain of Australia's past.
	www.pabaden.ac.at /studentenarbeiten/australien/History.html (1508 words)

	The Jewish Community of Melbourne, Australia
		In 1923 the Palestine Welfare League was formed and in 1927 the Zionist Federation of Australia was launched.
		Immigration to Australia as a whole continued steadily in the 1920's-30's with an influx of migrants from Palestine and from countries in Europe like Germany, Austria, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia, where due to the upcoming anti-Semitism Jews feared for their lives.
		Mount Scopus Memorial College, opened in 1948, is Australia's largest and oldest orthodox school.
	www.bh.org.il /Communities/Archive/Melbourne.asp (1266 words)

	Australia/New Zealand Jewish Heritage Tours with Joy Katzen-Guthrie: Jewish Australia/New Zealand Historical Overview
		The Jewish Museum of Australia in Melbourne is a community museum which aims to explore and share the Jewish experience in Australia and benefit Australia's diverse society.
		Immigration to Australia as a whole continued steadily in the 1920's-30's with an influx of migrants from the Land of Israel and from countries in Europe like Germany, Austria, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia, where due to the upcoming anti-Semitism Jews feared their lives.
		The synagogue in Hobart (circa 1845) is one of the oldest of its kind south of the equator and the oldest in Australia.
	www.joyfulnoise.net /JoyAustralia5.html (6758 words)

	Vegetarianism in Australia - 1788 to 1948 : a cultural and social history by Edgar Crook (Book) in History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Australia has had for many years the highest meat consumption in the world, but conversely it also boasts one of the oldest Vegetarian Societies and the earliest Western animal cruelty laws.
		Through an analysis of literature and newspapers it examines how the diet became part of an artistic and cultural battle for Australian identity in the late 19th century that was waged in novels, poetry and popular journals.
		The growth of the health and natural food movement from the 1920s onwards is detailed and the influence and development in Australia of religious and temperance movements that promoted vegetarianism are also discussed.
	www.lulu.com /content/375879 (293 words)

	1948 in Australia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		See also: 1947 in Australia, other events of 1948, 1949 in Australia and the Timeline of Australian history.
		Premier of South Australia - Thomas Playford IV
		January 23 - De Havilland Australia conducts the first flight of its 3 engined Drover transport aircraft at Bankstown Airport
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1948_in_Australia (266 words)

	Scoop: Summary Australia-NZ Social Security Arrangements
		New Zealand is to pay Australia the sum of NZ$169 million in 2001/02 towards the cost of old age, disabled and sole parent benefits received by New Zealanders in Australia.
		Later Australia decided to extend the two year waiting period to widows and the partners of age and disability pensioners who did not qualify for those pensions in their own right or for a parenting payment.
		Australia claimed its social security costs for migrant New Zealanders were close to A$1 billion per year, while New Zealand pointed to the very strong contribution its citizens made to the Australian economy, including tax payments of around A$2.5 billion per year.
	www.scoop.co.nz /stories/PA0102/S00398.htm (1071 words)

	BOM - Australian Climate Extremes-Storm
		Westerly gales are part and parcel of the climate of southeastern Australia during the cooler months, but 1994 was notable for some particularly powerful events, which inflicted severe damage on at least two occasions.
		An even bigger event, arguably the “storm of the Century” in South Australia, was the infamous “hurricane” of 11 April 1948.
		The pier and foreshore at Glenelg (South Australia) on a calm summer day in 1936 (left), and the same scene (right) beset by huge waves and storm surges during the April 1948 gales (photos courtesy of the Adelaide Advertiser).
	www.bom.gov.au /lam/climate/levelthree/c20thc/storm4.htm (512 words)

	The 1948 War
		Powerful Arab interests, both inside and outside Palestine, are defying the resolution of the General Assembly and are engaged in a deliberate effort to alter by force the settlement envisaged therein.
		This is not the first time that the Arab states, which organized the invasion of Palestine, have ignored a decision of the Security Council or of the General Assembly.
		During the summer of 1948, Count Folke Bernadotte was sent by the UN to Palestine to mediate a truce and try to negotiate a settlement.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/History/1948_War.html (1639 words)

	M U Australia - Australian Women Corporate entry
		M U Australia (known for most of its history as the Mothers' Union) is part of the worldwide Mothers’ Union which is an organisation within the Anglican Church.
		Its national journal, Mothers in Australia (from 1945 Mianza and from 1960 Mia, Mia) was established in 1917.
		In 1974 Australia became the first overseas province to be granted autonomy.
	www.womenaustralia.info /biogs/AWE0737b.htm (1091 words)

	Rosemarie Susan Small, b: 1948 - Cairns, Qld Australia
		Born: 14 Jun 1994 - Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Died: -
		Born: 11 Oct 1993 - Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia Died: -
		Born: 6 Dec 1995 - Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia Died: -
	members.cox.net /lkington/gp595.htm (309 words)

	Australia at the 1948 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		1948 • 1952 • 1956 • 1960 • 1964 • 1968 • 1972 • 1976 • 1980 • 1984 • 1988 • 1992 • 1996 • 2000 • 2004
		Australia competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, England.
		Nations at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, England
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Australia_at_the_1948_Summer_Olympics (172 words)

	2002/88/2 Leaflet and catalogue, 'Australia's 100 Best Textile Designs for 1954/ an exhibition of selected entries for ...
		During her career, Shirley also created freelance textile designs of Australian flora including native heath, flannel flowers, wattle and other Australian flora, several of these were forwarded to FW Grafton & Co Ltd in England in 1952 and one was purchased for production and another exhibited.
		STP is best known for having developed a milestone exhibition in the 1940s of Australian artist-designed Modernage Fabrics, a pioneering early attempt to link art to Australian ind The Rocks studio where they were often taken around The Rocks area to study and draw.
		He trained in England and was sent to Australia in lieu of being sent to the Dutch East Indies.
	www.phm.gov.au /collection/database/?irn=11718&search=88-4&images= (887 words)

	1948: Australia - Archive Article - MSN Encarta
		1948: Australia - Archive Article - MSN Encarta
		Cross references refer to Archive articles of the same year.
		The Commonwealth of Australia, a member of the British Commonwealth of Nations, is a Federal Union composed of six states and two territories: New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia, Northern Territory, and the Australian Capital Territory, in which the...
	encarta.msn.com /sidebar_461505487/1948_Australia.html (125 words)

	Australian Treaty List - Multilateral
		ATS 1948 No. 23 (no text in printed version; text but no Schedules in electronic version); SP 151 p.
		The Protocol became an integral part of the GATT on 15 April 1948.
		Concluded between Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, South Africa, Southern Rhodesia and United Kingdom, with a number of subsequent accessions.
	www.austlii.edu.au /au/other/dfat/treaty_list/mulist/1948.html (1737 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Asia-Pacific \| Country profiles \| Timeline: Australia
		Recovery is uneven, and the Labor government is defeated in the election in 1931.
		2006 January - Australia and East Timor sign a deal to divide billions of dollars in expected revenues from oil and gas deposits in the Timor Sea.
		Under the agreement, discussions on a disputed maritime boundary are postponed.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/asia-pacific/country_profiles/1255673.stm (1289 words)

	Australia in England, 1948
		Northamptonshire v Australia at Northampton, 16-18 Jun 1948
		Yorkshire v Australia at Sheffield, 19-22 Jun 1948
		Surrey v Australia at Kennington Oval, 30 Jun-2 Jul 1948
	ind.cricinfo.com /link_to_database/ARCHIVE/1940S/1948/AUS_IN_ENG (298 words)

	eBay Australia - 1948, Coins Aust. Pre-Decimal, Stamps World, Non-Fiction items at low prices (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		NASCO AIRCHIEF HOLDEN FX FJ CHEVROLET PONTIAC 1948
		GERMANY 1948 buildings set of 24 mouned mint and others.
		Australia 1948 Test Cricket er page signed L.Hassett
	search.ebay.com.au /1948 (340 words)

	eBay - sixpence australia, Coins World, Australia items on eBay.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Australia 1925 Sixpence "GEORGE V" almost Extra Fine
		Australia - George V - Sixpence - 1911 - Silver ^IG^
		Australia - George V - Sixpence - 1926
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	BBC NEWS \| Asia-Pacific \| Country profiles \| Timeline: Australia
		1836 - South Australia established, with Adelaide as its capital.
		1999 - Australia leads intervention force in East Timor to counter pro-Indonesia militia violence after territory's independence vote.
		Australia pays Nauru to detain many of them.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/asia-pacific/1255673.stm (1299 words)

	Australia - Related Items - MSN Encarta
		all articles about the history of Australia and New Zealand
		The most striking feature of Australian history in the year 1942 was the ever-present threat that Australian soil might be invaded and thus become an actual battleground of World War II.
		Prior to 1942 Australia had participated in many theaters of the war.
	encarta.msn.com /related_761568792_14.1.4/1942_Australia.html (70 words)

	Australia Index (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		An article that goes indepth into the use and development of tanks in Australias campaigns in the pacific theatre.
		This article gives an overview on the political landscape of Australia and its most prominent politicians.
		Australia's War by Paul Langtry B.A. A work on the political and military influence of Australia's politicians on their army.
	worldatwar.net /nations/australia (125 words)

	Australia Dancing - Jeux d'enfants
		Jeux d'enfants was seen in Australia only in Melbourne and Sydney and was performed around 30 times over two tours, that by the Covent Garden Russian Ballet in 1938-1939 and that by the Original Ballet Russe in 1939-1940.
		This album of 69 fl and white and sepia-toned photographs was assembled by Anton Dolin as a record of a his performances in Australia with the Covent Garden Russian Ballet in 1938-1939.
		Some material from this album features in 'Every picture tells a story', National Library of Australia News, December 2000.
	www.australiadancing.org /apps/ad?action=ViewSubject&id=5061&resourceType=Picture (856 words)

	Vegetarianism in Australia - 1788 to 1948: A Cultural and Social History - SHOP.COM
		Vegetarianism in Australia - 1788 to 1948: A Cultural and Social History - SHOP.COM
		Vegetarianism in Australia - 1788 to 1948: A Cultural and Social History
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	Hillman Car Club of South Australia — 1948 Hillman Minx
		I first became interested in cars at the age of 9 years, only because they were a good means of transport.
		Petrol rationing had finished and Mum and Dad decided to get rid of their old Morris Cowley, and their choice of all our range of vehicles was a 1948 Hillman Minx.
		It was run in the first week, then we went on a trip to Melbourne, 5 of us, all the camping gear and food, a well laden car, and it still cornered beautifully.
	www.sa.hillman.org.au /Colwell.htm (1271 words)

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