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Australian Bicentenary

Index Australian Bicentenary

The bicentenary of Australia was celebrated in 1988. [1]

44 relations: Aboriginal Memorial, Arthur Phillip, Aus Steam '88, Australia Day, Australia Live, Bicentenary of James Cook in Australia, Bicentennial National Trail, Bob Hawke, Brisbane, Canberra, Darling Harbour, Elizabeth II, First Fleet, First Fleet Re-enactment Voyage, Gary Foley, Geoffrey Blainey, Hawke Government, Hyde Park, Sydney, Indigenous Australians, Institute of Public Affairs, John Bell (Australian actor), Johnnie Walker Australian Classic, Malcolm Fraser, Manning Clark, Manning Clark's History of Australia - The Musical, Multiculturalism, Museums Victoria, New South Wales, Parliament House, Canberra, Perth, Port Jackson, Princess Theatre (Melbourne), Royal Melbourne Golf Club, Sydney, Sydney Football Stadium, Uniting Church in Australia, Urban planning, V/Line, V/Line A class, World Expo 88, 16th World Scout Jamboree, 1988 Women's Cricket World Cup, 1988 Youth Cricket World Cup, 2GB.

Aboriginal Memorial

The Aboriginal Memorial is a work of contemporary Indigenous Australian art from the late 1980s, and comprises 200 decorated hollow log coffins.

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Arthur Phillip

Admiral Arthur Phillip (11 October 1738 – 31 August 1814) was a Royal Navy officer and the first Governor of New South Wales who founded the British penal colony that later became the city of Sydney, Australia.

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Aus Steam '88

Aus Steam '88 was an Australian Bicentenary activity in Melbourne, Australia featuring many steam locomotives from New South Wales, Victoria and also England.

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Australia Day

Australia Day is the official national day of Australia.

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Australia Live

Australia Live was a four-hour telecast, broadcast live on the Nine Network, on 1 January 1988 to open Australia's Bicentennial celebrations.

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Bicentenary of James Cook in Australia

The Bicentenary of James Cook in Australia was commemorated in Australia in 1970.

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Bicentennial National Trail

The Bicentennial National Trail (BNT), originally known as the National Horse Trail, is one of the longest multi-use, non-motorised, self-reliant trails in the world, stretching 5,330 kilometres from Cooktown, Queensland, through New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory to Healesville, 60 km north-east of Melbourne, Victoria.

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Bob Hawke

Robert James Lee Hawke, (born 9 December 1929) is a former Australian politician who was the 23rd Prime Minister of Australia, serving from 1983 to 1991.

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Brisbane

Brisbane is the capital of and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland, and the third most populous city in Australia.

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Canberra

Canberra is the capital city of Australia.

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Darling Harbour

Darling Harbour is a harbour adjacent to the city centre of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

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Elizabeth II

Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; born 21 April 1926) is Queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms.

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First Fleet

The First Fleet was the 11 ships that departed from Portsmouth, England, on 13 May 1787 to found the penal colony that became the first European settlement in Australia.

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First Fleet Re-enactment Voyage

The First Fleet Reenactment Voyage (also known as the Second First Fleet) was a project to assemble a fleet of tall ships to sail from England to Australia in a historical reenactment of the First Fleet that colonised Australia in 1788.

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Gary Foley

Gary Edward Foley (born 11 May 1950) is an Australian Aboriginal Gumbainggir activist, academic, writer and actor (he eschews Australian nationality).

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Geoffrey Blainey

Geoffrey Norman Blainey (born 11 March 1930) is an Australian historian, academic, philanthropist and commentator with a wide international audience.

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Hawke Government

The Hawke Government was the federal executive government of Australia led by Prime Minister Bob Hawke of the Australian Labor Party from 1983 to 1991.

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Hyde Park, Sydney

Hyde Park, the oldest public parkland in Australia, is a park in the central business district of Sydney, New South Wales.

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Indigenous Australians

Indigenous Australians are the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people of Australia, descended from groups that existed in Australia and surrounding islands prior to British colonisation.

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Institute of Public Affairs

The Institute of Public Affairs (IPA) is a conservative public policy think tank.

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John Bell (Australian actor)

John Anthony Bell, AO, OBE (born 1 November 1940) is an Australian actor, theatre director and theatre manager.

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Johnnie Walker Australian Classic

The Johnnie Walker Australian Classic was a golf tournament held in Australia from 1988 to 1992.

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Malcolm Fraser

John Malcolm Fraser (21 May 1930 – 20 March 2015) was an Australian politician who served as the 22nd Prime Minister of Australia, in office from 1975 to 1983 as leader of the Liberal Party.

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Manning Clark

Charles Manning Hope Clark AC (3 March 1915 – 23 May 1991), an Australian historian, was the author of the best-known general history of Australia, his six-volume A History of Australia, published between 1962 and 1987.

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Manning Clark's History of Australia - The Musical

Manning Clark's History of Australia - The Musical is an Australian musical written to coincide with the Australian Bicentenary by Tim Robertson and Don Watson with John Romeril with music by Martin Armiger and George Dreyfus with David King.

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Multiculturalism

Multiculturalism is a term with a range of meanings in the contexts of sociology, political philosophy, and in colloquial use.

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Museums Victoria

Museums Victoria is an organisation which operates three major state-owned museums in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, the Melbourne Museum, the Immigration Museum and Scienceworks.

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New South Wales

New South Wales (abbreviated as NSW) is a state on the east coast of:Australia.

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Parliament House, Canberra

Parliament House is the meeting place of the Parliament of Australia, located in Canberra, the capital of Australia.

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Perth

Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia.

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Port Jackson

Port Jackson, consisting of the waters of Sydney Harbour, Middle Harbour, North Harbour and the Lane Cove and Parramatta Rivers, is the ria or natural harbour of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

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Princess Theatre (Melbourne)

The Princess Theatre is a 1452-seat theatre in Melbourne's East End Theatre District, Australia, and is the oldest continuous entertainment site on mainland Australia.

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Royal Melbourne Golf Club

Royal Melbourne Golf Club is a 36-hole golf club in Australia, located in Black Rock, Victoria, a suburb southeast of Melbourne.

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Sydney

Sydney is the state capital of New South Wales and the most populous city in Australia and Oceania.

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Sydney Football Stadium

The Sydney Football Stadium (SFS), commercially known as the Allianz Stadium since February 2012, is a football stadium located in Moore Park, Sydney, Australia.

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Uniting Church in Australia

The Uniting Church in Australia (UCA) was established on 22 June 1977 when most congregations of the Methodist Church of Australasia, about two thirds of the Presbyterian Church of Australia and almost all the churches of the Congregational Union of Australia came together under the Basis of Union.

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Urban planning

Urban planning is a technical and political process concerned with the development and design of land use in an urban environment, including air, water, and the infrastructure passing into and out of urban areas, such as transportation, communications, and distribution networks.

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V/Line

V/Line is a government-owned corporation that operates the regional passenger train and coach services in Victoria, Australia.

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V/Line A class

The A class are a class of diesel locomotives rebuilt from B class locomotives by Clyde Engineering, Rosewater for V/Line in 1984-1985.

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World Expo 88

World Expo 88, also known as Expo 88, was a specialised Expo held in Brisbane, the state capital of Queensland, Australia, during a six-month period between Saturday, 30 April 1988 and Sunday, 30 October 1988, inclusive.

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16th World Scout Jamboree

The 16th World Scout Jamboree was held 30 December 1987 to 7 January 1988, the first World Scout Jamboree held in the Southern Hemisphere, and the first to change the date from the traditional August to January to coincide with summer.

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1988 Women's Cricket World Cup

The 1988 Shell Bicentennial Women's World Cup was an international cricket tournament played in Australia from 29 November to 18 December 1988.

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1988 Youth Cricket World Cup

The 1988 McDonald's Bicentennial Youth World Cup was an international cricket tournament played in Australia from 28 February to 13 March 1988.

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2GB

2GB is a commercial radio station in Sydney, Australia broadcasting on 873 kHz, AM.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Bicentenary

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