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  Australia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Australia's neighbouring countries are Indonesia, East Timor and Papua New Guinea to the north, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and New Caledonia to the northeast, and New Zealand to the southeast.
Queen Elizabeth II is the Queen of Australia, a role that is distinct from her position as Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.
Australia led the formation of the Cairns Group and APEC, and is a member of the OECD and the WTO.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Australia   (4825 words)

  
 Australia. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Australia, remote from any other continent, has many distinctive forms of plant life—notably species of giant eucalyptus—and of animal life, including the kangaroo, the koala, the flying opossum, the wallaby, the wombat, the platypus, and the spiny anteater; it also has many unusual birds.
Australia has valuable mineral resources, including coal, iron, bauxite, copper, tin, lead, zinc, and uranium; the country is an important producer of opals and diamonds.
Australia was probably first sighted by a Portuguese, Manuel Godhino de Eredia, in 1601 and may have been sighted by a Spaniard, Luis Vaez de Torres, around 1605–6.
www.bartleby.com /65/au/Australi.html   (2063 words)

  
 The Eleventh ASEAN-Australia Forum (1988)
The Eleventh ASEAN - Australia Forum was held in Manila on 7 - 8 June 1988.
Australia agreed that human resources development would be an important aspect of activities in all sectors.
The delegations from Australia and the ASEAN member countries expressed then appreciation to the Government of the Republic of the Philippines for hosting the 11th ASEAN - Australia Forum and for the hospitality and courtesy extended to them.
www.aseansec.org /12989.htm   (817 words)

  
 Australia (09/05)
Australia's comparative advantage in primary products is a reflection of the natural wealth of the Australian continent and its small domestic market; 20 million people occupy a continent the size of the contiguous United States.
Australia was one of the founders of both the United Nations and the South Pacific Commission (1947), and in 1950, it proposed the Colombo Plan to assist developing countries in Asia.
Australia also is active in meetings of the Commonwealth Regional Heads of Government and the Pacific Islands Forum, and has been a leader in the Cairns Group--countries pressing for agricultural trade reform in World Trade Organization (WTO) negotiations -- and in the APEC forum.
www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/2698.htm   (4388 words)

  
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Cooper is a native of Australia and Mr.
In her petition seeking relocation to Australia, the mother consented to a longer visitation period with the father during summers.
While we are not certain the members of this court would have permitted this relocation given the implications for the relationship between father and children, we conclude under the prevailing standard of review the substantive terms of the trial court's order fall within the permissible span of that court's discretion.
www.hiltonhouse.com /cases/Condon_CA.txt   (10409 words)

  
 1988 in Australia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
January 26 - Australia Day, Australia celebrates its bicentennial day with a tall ships parade in Sydney Harbour.
January 2 - Imparja starts broadcasting to remote Central Australia via satellite It would have its official launch on January 15.
The Grand Final was played early so that Channel Ten could broadcast the 1988 Seoul Olympics.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1988_in_Australia   (631 words)

  
 Ephemeroptera Galactica - FAMU's Mayfly Research Group   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
A catalogue of references in the scientific literature to the mayflies (Ephemeroptera) of Australia is presented, along with indications of stages described and geographic distributions.
Because the mayfly fauna of Australia is still poorly known, and the documented geographic distribution of the described species we do know is extremely patchy, we feel that little purpose would be served by listing precise but very incomplete distributions in a work at such a broad scale as this one.
The restriction of the family to a small area in the middle of the eastern coast of Australia presents a biogeographical puzzle.
www.famu.edu /acad/research/mayfly/publications/aus.html   (3918 words)

  
 1988 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar.
The the 1988 Summer Olympics open in Seoul, South Korea.
October 30 - Expo '88 in Brisbane Australia draws to a close after a 6 month spectacular.
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/1988   (2594 words)

  
 Cultural Policy in Australia
The Commonwealth of Australia occupy the whole of the island continent of Australia, lying between the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
Australia does not have a blueprint (formal expression) for a national cultural policy, stated either on the federal level (the Commonwealth Government) or by the governments of the states, although the main political parties in their official platforms include a commitment concerning most aspects of cultural development.
The National Museum of Australia is a Commonwealth statutory authority established with the support of a political parties by the National Museum of Australia Act 1980.
www.wwcd.org /policy/clink/Australia.html   (3493 words)

  
 Australia - Atlapedia Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Lying southeast of Asia, it is bound by the Pacific Ocean to the east, the Coral Sea to the northeast, the Timor Sea to the northwest, the Indian Ocean to the west and the Tasman Sea to the southeast.
Australia can experience hurricanes and cyclones on both coasts mainly on the northeast and northwest while droughts are also common.
In 1949 Sir Robert Menzies was elected Prime Minister of a Liberal coalition government and in the same year Australia contributed forces to a UN command in the Korean War.
www.atlapedia.com /online/countries/austral.htm   (2099 words)

  
 UNICEF - At a glance: Australia - UNICEF in Australia
Australia’s best-known artist and designer Ken Done has been an active supporter of UNICEF Australia since 1988.
UNICEF Australia has been active since the early 1970s, defending the rights of children and raising funds to support UNICEF’s work for children worldwide.
Our Global Parent monthly giving programme was launched in Australia in 2002, with plans to extend it to other countries in the UNICEF family.
www.unicef.org /infobycountry/australia.html   (389 words)

  
 H4000
After the public hearing commenced in Melbourne on 16 June 1988, the attention of the Commission was drawn, on a number of occasions, to industrial action and threats of industrial action by the trade union movement and individual unions.
The ACTU claim was for an increase in all rates of pay of 3% on and from 1 July 1988 and for a further increase of 3% on and from 1 December 1988 to provide for the maintenance of living standards for employees.
A dissection of private investment shows that between the half-year to September 1987 and the half-year to March 1988 expenditure on dwelling construction grew at an annual rate of 21.4 per cent, non-dwelling construction at a rate of 14.7 per cent and equipment at a rate of 9.7 per cent.
www.airc.gov.au /safetynet_review/decisions/H4000.htm   (14800 words)

  
 VDARE.com: Today’s Letter: An Australian Reader on “Immigration Day” Down Under
Here in Australia, our old national day "Australia Day" 26th January has been transformed into what is virtually immigration day with all kinds of celebrations of "diversity" and "multiculturalism".
For most of it's history Australia day was a commemoration of the British colonization with re-enactments of Captain Arthur Phillip RN hopping out of a rowboat, raising the Jack and raising a toast of rum to the King.
During the 1988 200th Australia Day commemorations this was a big deal but the Aboriginal component was actually quite welcomed by most of the population.
www.vdare.com /letters/tl_071503.htm   (429 words)

  
 Blue-tongued Lizards
Skink lizards have overlapping scales that are usually smooth and contain small plates of bone.
Australia has six species of blue-tongued lizards and three are common and widespread in New South Wales.
Wilson, S.K. and Knowles, D.G. Australia's Reptiles: A Photographic Reference to the Terrestrial Reptiles of Australia.
www.amonline.net.au /factsheets/blue_tongue_lizard.htm   (1340 words)

  
 Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Website: Information for School Students   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
In Australia, the Commonwealth Electoral Act was amended to grant all Aborigines the right to vote in federal elections.
In Australia, the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 is enacted.
In Australia, the Office of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner is created to monitor the human rights of Indigenous Australians.
www.hreoc.gov.au /info_for_students/timeline/index.html   (1918 words)

  
 National Archives of Australia - National History Challenge - Winner 2003   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
As Australia agreed to grant Mr and Mrs Petrov political asylum, a conflict was created between the two nations.
Although the aim of the Royal Commission was to resolve the conflict of Soviet espionage in Australia, the commission created additional political conflict as three staff members of the opposition leader, Dr Evatt were named in one of Mr Petrov's papers.
An international level of conflict was felt between Australia and the Soviet Union because Mr Petrov was granted political asylum in Australia.
www.naa.gov.au /education/challenge/2003_winner.html   (3332 words)

  
 Slim Dusty Bio
Slim is the most prolific and biggest selling recording artist in Australia with more than 5 million of his recordings sold on the domestic market.
He is rightly known as the "Historian of the Bush" but his songs and his stage performances reflect the changing face of Australia in the country as well as in the city, and his touring show is as popular now as it has ever been.
In Australia's Bicentennial Year, travels right round Australia at the head of the biggest country music show to tour the nation.
www.slimdusty.com.au /bio.html   (1996 words)

  
 Suzuki GF250   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Released in about 1988 in Australia, its roots lie with the bike that "2 Wheels" magazine dubbed 1984 "Dog of the Year", the Suzuki GS250FW.
The GS250FW was an 8 valve, 4 cylinder 250cc bike that cost an arm and a leg, was comprehensively out performed by the 250 two strokes of that time, and offered buyers a level of mechanical complexity they probably did not want nor need.
Anyway a few years later, in 1988, Mr Suzuki was still labouring with a 4 cylinder 250 cc bike, and the GF250 was it.
www.arcom.com.au /~millal/GF250.htm   (369 words)

  
 Synergy Power Corporation - Company's Profile   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Synergy is headquartered in Hong Kong and has offices in Malaysia, Australia, the Philippines and the United States.
Since 1988, Synergy has installed many stand-alone remote area power systems in different parts of the world.
Synergy has installations and/or distributors in Australia, Brunei, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Jordan, Malaysia, Myanmar, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, the South Pacific islands, the United Kingdom and the United States.
www.synergypowercorp.com /profile.htm   (338 words)

  
 Booklets Australia 1988 - Discover it on PostageParadise.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Australia Won Series 1-0.1st, AUS v ENG, 04/02/ 1988, Melbourne Cricket Gr, Australia won by 22 runs.
Information on the World Schools Debating Championships 1988 in Australia will be added as it is supplied.
Australia Since 1988 Australia has changed quite...Australia Since 1988 Australia has changed quite a bit, one would hope it was for the better and it looks that way.
www.postageparadise.com /booklets/1988-australia/i20m3470.html   (404 words)

  
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Mr Weston has worked at ABF since 1988 and is currently Chief Executive of George Weston Foods, ABF's Australian subsidiary.
He joined the group in 1988 in Australia and ran George Weston Foods' milling operations in Victoria from 1989 to 1990.
He was then Managing Director of Westmill Foods from 1992 until 1998, after which he worked for the group Finance Director until joining Allied Bakeries where he was Chief Executive from 1999 to 2003.
www.abf.co.uk /media/press_release.asp?pr=20040923_1   (460 words)

  
 Amazon.com: National Geographic's Australia's Aborigines (1988) : Video   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Now, however, it seems the Gagudju are experiencing their final generation, as young members of the tribe have gone off to practice the ways of modern civilization.
In a spectacularly beautiful and remote corner of northern Australia, a handful of people are living in the twilight of their culture.
For australia's aborigines, they beleived of themselves as being life itself, creating it, shaping it throughout their entire life.
amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/630447394X?v=glance   (881 words)

  
 Eakin’s Coral Literature
Elevated temperatures and bleaching on a high latitude coral reef: the 1988 Bermuda event.
Jones, G. The importance of recruitment to the dynamics of a coral reef fish population.
Jones, M. The Torres Reefs, North Queensland, Australia - strong tidal flows a modern control on their growth.
www.ngdc.noaa.gov /paleo/outreach/coral/coral_literature.html   (12075 words)

  
 Broomball World - Who the HELL is Kim Shapley
An ex field hockey player, I wasn't much impressed initially, but persevered, and by the third week, was starting to fall in love with the game and I've played it at every opportunity since, and missed probably a hand full of matches though injury in 15 years, (and I would've if I could've).
In 1984 we took a team across to Canberra, Australia for the 2nd Interstate match between South Australia and the ACT.
In 1988, in Australia's bicentennial year, we organised an Australian team to tour Canada, playing some 21 matches in 27 days, I was fit then!
members.ozemail.com.au /~kshapley/shapley.html   (1114 words)

  
 Greater Toronto Area Netball League // Your source for Netball in the GTA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
England later changed the name to Netball, although Australia and New Zealand knew the game as 7-a side Basketball, and continued with the same name until 1960 when the IFNA (International Federation of Netball Association) was formed.
The first World Youth Netball Championships for players under the age of 21 took place in 1988 in Australia.
Canada has participated at World Championships since 1979, held in Trinidad and Tobago, Singapore, Scotland, Australia, England and New Zealand with their best standing a sixth place in Australia in 1991.
www.gtanl.ca /whatis.htm   (504 words)

  
 Library of Congress / Federal Research Division / Country Studies / Area Handbook Series/ Indonesia / Bibliography
Townsville, Queensland, Australia: Centre for Southeast Asian Studies, James Cook University of North Queensland, 1985.
Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia: Centre for Asian Studies, University of Western Australia, 1967.
Townsville, Queensland, Australia: Centre for Southeast Asian Studies, James Cook University of North Queensland, 1980.
memory.loc.gov /frd/cs/indonesia/id_bibl.html   (9044 words)

  
 Legislative instruments and exemptions - Miscellaneous Legislative Instruments
Exemption of AS332L and AS332L1 helicopters operated by Lloyd Helicopters Pty Ltd from compliance with subregulation 207(3) of CAR 1988 in respect of requirements of paragraph 4.3 of section 20.16.3 of the CAOs.
Directions under subregulation 235(2) of CASR 1988 on the manner of determining the maximum take-off weight for certain DHC-8 aircraft for take-offs from wet runways.
Delegations under Part 3 of CAR 1988 to John G Viney and John Northey Ashford of the Gliding Federation of Australia.
www.casa.gov.au /rules/miscinst/index.htm   (2686 words)

  
 that's the SPIRIT! › Wine › Eaglehawk from Wolf Blass
The Eaglehawk wines were first released in 1988 in Australia and have always represented excellent value for money.
The wines are made by the award winning winemaking team from Wolf Blass and remain consistent with the tradition of quality, varietal character and consistency.
Since arriving in Australia in 1961, Wolf Blass has always used the image of the eaglehawk as a source of pride and inspiration.
www.thatsthespirit.com /en/wine/brands/eaglehawk.asp   (151 words)

  
 Great Buildings in Australia - Great Buildings Online
Rothbury Winery, by Keith Cottier, at Pokolbin, New South Wales, Australia, 1972.
Sydney Football Stadium, by Philip Cox, Richardson and Taylor, at Sydney, Australia, 1986 to 1988.
Sydney Maritime Museum, by Philip Cox, Richardson and Taylor, at Darling Harbor, Sydney, Australia, 1986 to 1988.
www.greatbuildings.com /types/locations/australia.html   (127 words)

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