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Australia Day

Index Australia Day

Australia Day is the official national day of Australia. [1]

133 relations: ABC News (Australia), Abel Tasman, Adelaide, Adelaide Oval, Admiralty, Anglicanism, Anna Bligh, Annandale, New South Wales, Anzac Day, Archbishop, Arthur Phillip, Australia Act 1986, Australia Day Live Concert, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Australian citizenship affirmation, Australian honours system, Australian Local Government Association, Australian nationality law, Australian Natives' Association, Australian of the Year, Australian referendum, 1967 (Aboriginals), Big Day Out, Botany Bay, Brisbane, British Empire, Canberra, Citizenship, City of Darebin, City of Perth Skyworks, City of Sydney, City of Yarra, Colony of New South Wales, Constitution of Australia, Dawes Point, New South Wales, Day of Mourning (Australia), Don Chipp, Elizabeth II, Emancipist, Eureka Rebellion, Federation of Australia, First Fleet, First Fleet Re-enactment Voyage, Flag of Great Britain, French ship Astrolabe (1781), French ship Boussole (1781), Friendship (ship), Geoffrey Blainey, George III of the United Kingdom, George Johnston (British Marines officer), Governor-General of Australia, ..., Greenwich Mean Time, Henry Parkes, Herald Sun, High Court of Australia, History of Australia, Holiday, Homophone, Indigenous Australians, Isaac Nichols, James Cook, James Ruse, Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse, John Howard, John Hunter (Royal Navy officer), Kevin Rudd, Kim Beazley, Lachlan Macquarie, List of Australian Local Hero Award recipients, Malcolm Turnbull, Manning Clark, Mateship, Melbourne, Melbourne University Publishing, Mick Dodson, Nathan Rees, National Australia Day Council, National day, National Indigenous Television, New Holland (Australia), New South Wales, New South Wales Corps, Newspoll, Old Parliament House, Canberra, One Day International, Order of Australia, Parliament House, Canberra, Penal colony, Peter Beattie, Peter Hollingworth, Philip Gidley King, Port Jackson, Portsmouth, Possession Island (Queensland), Powerhouse Museum, Prime Minister of Australia, Privy Council of the United Kingdom, Proclamation Day, Queen Victoria, Regatta, Royal Hobart Regatta, Royal Standard of the United Kingdom, Rum Rebellion, Skiff, States and territories of Australia, Steamboat, Steve Bracks, Sydney Cove, Sydney Gazette, Sydney Opera House, Tenterfield Oration, Test cricket, The Advertiser (Adelaide), The Age, The Australia Institute, The Australian, The Bulletin, The Central Queensland Herald, The Courier-Mail, The Daily Telegraph (Sydney), The Guardian, The Mercury (Hobart), The Sunday Mail (Brisbane), The Sydney Morning Herald, The West Australian, Thirteen Colonies, Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney, Trove, Victoria (Australia), Victoria University, Australia, Victorian gold rush, Waterman (occupation), Western Australia Day, William Bligh. Expand index (83 more) »

ABC News (Australia)

ABC News is a national news service in Australia produced by the News and Current Affairs division of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

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Abel Tasman

Abel Janszoon Tasman (1603 – 10 October 1659) was a Dutch seafarer, explorer, and merchant, best known for his voyages of 1642 and 1644 in the service of the Dutch East India Company (VOC).

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Adelaide

Adelaide is the capital city of the state of South Australia, and the fifth-most populous city of Australia.

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Adelaide Oval

Adelaide Oval is a sports ground in Adelaide, South Australia, located in the parklands between the city centre and North Adelaide.

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Admiralty

The Admiralty, originally known as the Office of the Admiralty and Marine Affairs, was the government department responsible for the command of the Royal Navy firstly in the Kingdom of England, secondly in the Kingdom of Great Britain, and from 1801 to 1964, the United Kingdom and former British Empire.

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Anglicanism

Anglicanism is a Western Christian tradition that evolved out of the practices, liturgy and identity of the Church of England following the Protestant Reformation.

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Anna Bligh

Anna Maria Bligh (born 14 July 1960) is a former Australian politician who served as the 37th Premier of Queensland, in office from 2007 to 2012 as leader of the Labor Party.

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Annandale, New South Wales

Annandale is a suburb in the Inner West of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.

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Anzac Day

Anzac Day is a national day of remembrance in Australia and New Zealand that broadly commemorates all Australians and New Zealanders "who served and died in all wars, conflicts, and peacekeeping operations" and "the contribution and suffering of all those who have served".

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Archbishop

In Christianity, an archbishop (via Latin archiepiscopus, from Greek αρχιεπίσκοπος, from αρχι-, 'chief', and επίσκοπος, 'bishop') is a bishop of higher rank or office.

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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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Australia Act 1986

The Australia Act 1986 is the short title of each of a pair of separate but related pieces of legislation: one an Act of the Commonwealth (i.e. federal) Parliament of Australia, the other an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Australia Day Live Concert

Australia Day Live was a concert on Federation Mall, the lawns of Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, that was hosted each year on 25 January.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) founded in 1929 is Australia's national broadcaster, funded by the Australian Federal Government but specifically independent of Government and politics in the Commonwealth.

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Australian citizenship affirmation

The Australian citizenship affirmation is a short statement that enables Australian citizens to publicly display their pride in being Australian.

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Australian honours system

The Australian honours system consists of a number of orders, decorations, and medals through which the country's sovereign awards its citizens for actions or deeds that benefit the nation.

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Australian Local Government Association

The Australian Local Government Association (ALGA) is the principal organisation representing Local Government bodies in Australia, and acts as the independent interest body for Australian local mayors, councillors and local government employees.

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Australian nationality law

Australian nationality law determines who is and who is not an Australian citizen.

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Australian Natives' Association

The Australian Natives' Association (ANA) was a mutual society founded in Melbourne, Australia in April 1871 as the Victorian Natives' Association.

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Australian of the Year

The Australian of the Year is an award conferred on an Australian citizen by the National Australia Day Council, a not-for-profit Australian Governmentowned social enterprise.

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Australian referendum, 1967 (Aboriginals)

The Australian referendum of 27 May 1967, called by the Holt Government, approved two amendments to the Australian constitution relating to Indigenous Australians.

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Big Day Out

The Big Day Out was an annual music festival that was held in five Australian cities: Sydney, Melbourne, Gold Coast, Adelaide and Perth, as well as Auckland, New Zealand.

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Botany Bay

Botany Bay, an open oceanic embayment, is located in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, south of the Sydney central business district.

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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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British Empire

The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its predecessor states.

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Canberra

Canberra is the capital city of Australia.

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Citizenship

Citizenship is the status of a person recognized under the custom or law as being a legal member of a sovereign state or belonging to a nation.

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City of Darebin

The City of Darebin is a local government area in Victoria, Australia, in the northern suburbs of Melbourne.

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City of Perth Skyworks

The City of Perth Skyworks (previously named for other sponsors) is a fireworks show in Perth, Western Australia.

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City of Sydney

The City of Sydney is the local government area covering the Sydney central business district and surrounding inner city suburbs of the greater metropolitan area of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

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City of Yarra

The City of Yarra is a local government area in Victoria, Australia in the inner eastern and northern suburbs of Melbourne.

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Colony of New South Wales

The colony of New South Wales was a colony of the British Empire from 1788 to 1901, when it became a State in the federal Commonwealth of Australia on 1 January 1901.

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Constitution of Australia

The Constitution of Australia is the supreme law under which the government of the Commonwealth of Australia operates, including its relationship to the States of Australia.

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Dawes Point, New South Wales

Dawes Point is a suburb of the City of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.

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Day of Mourning (Australia)

The Day of Mourning was a protest held by Aboriginal Australians on 26 January 1938, the 150th anniversary of British colonisation of Australia.

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Don Chipp

Donald Leslie Chipp, AO (21 August 192528 August 2006) was an Australian politician who was the first leader of the Australian Democrats.

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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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Emancipist

An emancipist was a convict sentenced and transported under the convict system to Australia, who had been given a conditional or absolute pardon.

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Eureka Rebellion

The Eureka Rebellion was a rebellion in 1854, instigated by gold miners in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, who revolted against the colonial authority of the United Kingdom.

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Federation of Australia

The Federation of Australia was the process by which the six separate British self-governing colonies of Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia, and Western Australia agreed to unite and form the Commonwealth of Australia, establishing a system of federalism in Australia.

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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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Flag of Great Britain

The flag of Great Britain, commonly known as the Union Jack or Union Flag, is a maritime flag of Great Britain that was used from 1606 to 1801.

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French ship Astrolabe (1781)

Astrolabe was a converted flûte of the French Navy, famous for her travels with Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse.

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French ship Boussole (1781)

Boussole was a former flûte of the French Navy, famous for its exploration of the Pacific under Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse.

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Friendship (ship)

A number of sailing ships have been named Friendship.

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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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George III of the United Kingdom

George III (George William Frederick; 4 June 1738 – 29 January 1820) was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 25 October 1760 until the union of the two countries on 1 January 1801, after which he was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland until his death in 1820.

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George Johnston (British Marines officer)

Lieutenant-Colonel George Johnston (19 March 1764 – 5 January 1823) was briefly Lieutenant-Governor of New South Wales, Australia after leading the rebellion later known as the Rum Rebellion.

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Governor-General of Australia

The Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia is the representative of the Australian monarch, currently Queen Elizabeth II.

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Greenwich Mean Time

Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is the mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London.

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Henry Parkes

Sir Henry Parkes, (27 May 1815 – 27 April 1896) was a colonial Australian politician and longest non-consecutive Premier of the Colony of New South Wales, the present-day state of New South Wales in the Commonwealth of Australia.

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Herald Sun

The Herald Sun is a morning newspaper based in Melbourne, Australia published by The Herald and Weekly Times, a subsidiary of News Corp Australia, itself a subsidiary of News Corp. The Herald Sun primarily serves Victoria and shares many articles with other News Corporation daily newspapers, especially those from Australia. It is also available for purchase in Tasmania, the Australian Capital Territory and border regions of South Australia and southern New South Wales such as the Riverina and NSW South Coast, and is available digitally through its website and apps. In March 2009, the paper had a daily circulation of 530,000 from Monday to Friday.

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High Court of Australia

The High Court of Australia is the supreme court in the Australian court hierarchy and the final court of appeal in Australia.

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History of Australia

The History of Australia refers to the history of the area and people of the Commonwealth of Australia and its preceding Indigenous and colonial societies.

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Holiday

A holiday is a day set aside by custom or by law on which normal activities, especially business or work including school, are suspended or reduced.

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Homophone

A homophone is a word that is pronounced the same (to varying extent) as another word but differs in meaning.

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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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Isaac Nichols

Isaac Nichols (29 July 1770 – 18 November 1819) was an English Australian farmer, shipowner and public servant who was a convict transported to New South Wales on the Third Fleet, on the Admiral Barrington.

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James Cook

Captain James Cook (7 November 1728Old style date: 27 October14 February 1779) was a British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the Royal Navy.

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James Ruse

James Ruse (9 August /17605 September 1837) was a Cornish farmer who, at the age of 23, was convicted of breaking and entering and was sentenced to seven years' transportation to Australia.

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Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse

Jean François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse (variant spelling of his name comte "de La Pérouse"; 23 August 17411788?) was a French Naval officer and explorer whose expedition vanished in Oceania.

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John Howard

John Winston Howard, (born 26 July 1939) is a former Australian politician who served as the 25th Prime Minister of Australia, in office from 1996 to 2007.

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John Hunter (Royal Navy officer)

Vice Admiral John Hunter (29 August 1737 – 13 March 1821) was an officer of the Royal Navy, who succeeded Arthur Phillip as the second governor of New South Wales, Australia and served as such from 1795 to 1800.

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Kevin Rudd

Kevin Michael Rudd (born 21 September 1957) is a former Australian politician who was the 26th Prime Minister of Australia, serving from December 2007 to June 2010 and again from June to September 2013.

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Kim Beazley

Kim Christian Beazley, AC (born 14 December 1948), is the Governor of Western Australia and former Deputy Prime Minister of Australia and Leader of the Opposition.

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Lachlan Macquarie

Major General Lachlan Macquarie, CB (Lachann MacGuaire; 31 January 1762 – 1 July 1824) was a British Army officer and colonial administrator from Scotland.

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List of Australian Local Hero Award recipients

The Local Hero Award is a part of the Australian of the Year awards.

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Malcolm Turnbull

Malcolm Bligh Turnbull (born 24 October 1954) is an Australian politician serving as the 29th and current Prime Minister of Australia and Leader of the Liberal Party since 2015.

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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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Mateship

Mateship is an Australian cultural idiom that embodies equality, loyalty and friendship, usually among men.

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Melbourne

Melbourne is the state capital of Victoria and the second-most populous city in Australia and Oceania.

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Melbourne University Publishing

Melbourne University Publishing (MUP) is the book publishing arm of the University of Melbourne.

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Mick Dodson

Michael James "Mick" Dodson (born 10 April 1950, in Katherine, Northern Territory) is an Aboriginal Australian barrister, academic, and member of the Yawuru peoples in the Broome area of the southern Kimberley region of Western Australia.

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Nathan Rees

Nathan Rees (born 12 February 1968), is a former Australian politician, 41st Premier of New South Wales and parliamentary leader of the New South Wales division of the Australian Labor Party from September 2008 to December 2009.

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National Australia Day Council

The National Australia Day Council (NADC), a nonprofit social enterprise owned by the Australian Government, is the coordinating body for the Australian of the Year Awards and Australia Day throughout Australia.It was founded in 1990, as the successor of The Australian National Day Committee.

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National day

A national day is a designated date on which celebrations mark the nationhood of a nation or non-sovereign country.

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National Indigenous Television

National Indigenous Television (NITV) is an Australian television channel that broadcasts programming produced primarily by indigenous peoples of Australia.

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New Holland (Australia)

New Holland (Nieuw Holland; Nova Hollandia) is a historical European name for mainland Australia.

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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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New South Wales Corps

The New South Wales Corps was formed in England in 1789 as a permanent regiment to relieve the New South Wales Marine Corps, who had accompanied the First Fleet to Australia.

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Newspoll

Newspoll is an Australian opinion polling brand, published by The Australian and administered by Galaxy Research.

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Old Parliament House, Canberra

Old Parliament House, known formerly as the Provisional Parliament House, was the seat of the Parliament of Australia from 1927 to 1988.

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One Day International

A One Day International (ODI) is a form of limited overs cricket, played between two teams with international status, in which each team faces a fixed number of overs, usually 50.

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Order of Australia

The Order of Australia is an order of chivalry established on 14 February 1975 by Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia, to recognise Australian citizens and other persons for achievement or meritorious service.

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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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Penal colony

A penal colony is a settlement used to exile prisoners and separate them from the general population by placing them in a remote location, often an island or distant colonial territory.

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Peter Beattie

Peter Douglas Beattie (born 18 November 1952) is a former Australian politician who served as the 36th Premier of Queensland, in office from 1998 to 2007.

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Peter Hollingworth

Peter John Hollingworth (born 10 April 1935) is an Australian retired Anglican Archbishop.

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Philip Gidley King

Captain Philip Gidley King (23 April 1758 – 3 September 1808) was the third Governor of New South Wales, and did much to civilise the young colony in the face of great obstacles.

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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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Portsmouth

Portsmouth is a port city in Hampshire, England, mainly on Portsea Island, south-west of London and south-east of Southampton.

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Possession Island (Queensland)

Possession Island is a small island in the Torres Strait Islands group off the coast of far northern Queensland, Australia.

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Powerhouse Museum

The Powerhouse Museum is the major branch of the Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences in Sydney, the other being the historic Sydney Observatory.

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Prime Minister of Australia

The Prime Minister of Australia (sometimes informally abbreviated to PM) is the head of government of Australia.

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Privy Council of the United Kingdom

Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, usually known simply as the Privy Council, is a formal body of advisers to the Sovereign of the United Kingdom.

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Proclamation Day

Proclamation Day is the name of official or unofficial holidays or other anniversaries which commemorate or mark an important proclamation.

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Queen Victoria

Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death.

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Regatta

A regatta is a series of boat races.

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Royal Hobart Regatta

The Royal Hobart Regatta began in 1838, is a series of aquatic competitions and displays held annually in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia and is Tasmania's oldest sporting event.

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Royal Standard of the United Kingdom

The Royal Standards of the United Kingdom refers to either one of two similar flags used by Queen Elizabeth II in her capacity as Sovereign of the United Kingdom and its overseas territories.

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Rum Rebellion

The Rum Rebellion of 1808 was the only successful armed takeover of government in Australian history.

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Skiff

The term skiff is used for a number of essentially unrelated styles of small boat.

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States and territories of Australia

Australia (officially known as the Commonwealth of Australia) is a federation of six states, together with ten federal territories.

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Steamboat

A steamboat is a boat that is propelled primarily by steam power, typically driving propellers or paddlewheels.

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Steve Bracks

Stephen Phillip Bracks AC (born 15 October 1954) is a former Australian politician and the 44th Premier of Victoria.

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Sydney Cove

Sydney Cove is a small bay on the southern shore of Sydney Harbour, one of several harbours in Port Jackson, on the coast of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

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Sydney Gazette

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser was the first newspaper printed in Australia, running from 5 March 1803 until 20 October 1842.

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Sydney Opera House

The Sydney Opera House is a multi-venue performing arts centre in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

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Tenterfield Oration

The Tenterfield Oration was a speech given by Sir Henry Parkes, Premier of the Colony of New South Wales at the Tenterfield School of Arts in rural New South Wales, Australia on 24 October 1889.

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Test cricket

Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket and is considered its highest standard.

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The Advertiser (Adelaide)

The Advertiser is a conservative, daily tabloid-format newspaper published in the city of Adelaide, South Australia.

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The Age

The Age is a daily newspaper that has been published in Melbourne, Australia, since 1854.

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The Australia Institute

The Australia Institute is a progressive Australian think tank conducting public policy research, funded by grants from philanthropic trusts, memberships and commissioned research.

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The Australian

The Australian is a broadsheet newspaper published in Australia from Monday to Saturday each week since 14 July 1964.

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The Bulletin

The Bulletin was an Australian magazine first published in Sydney on 31 January 1880.

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The Central Queensland Herald

The Central Queensland Herald was a newspaper published in Rockhampton, Queensland from 1930 to 1956 and was created with the merger of The Artesian and The Capricornian.

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The Courier-Mail

The Courier-Mail is a daily tabloid newspaper published in Brisbane, Australia.

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The Daily Telegraph (Sydney)

The Daily Telegraph is an Australian daily tabloid newspaper published in Sydney, New South Wales, by Nationwide News Limited, a division of News Corp Australia, formerly News Limited.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Mercury (Hobart)

The Mercury is a centre-right daily newspaper, published in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, by Davies Brothers Pty Ltd, part of News Corp Australia and News Corp.

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The Sunday Mail (Brisbane)

The Sunday Mail is Brisbane's only Sunday newspaper.

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The Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) is a daily compact newspaper published by Fairfax Media in Sydney, Australia.

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The West Australian

The West Australian, widely known as The West (Saturday edition: The Weekend West) is the only locally edited daily newspaper published in Perth, Western Australia, and is owned by Seven West Media (SWM), as is the state's other major newspaper, The Sunday Times.

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Thirteen Colonies

The Thirteen Colonies were a group of British colonies on the east coast of North America founded in the 17th and 18th centuries that declared independence in 1776 and formed the United States of America.

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Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney

Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney PC (24 February 1733 – 30 June 1800), was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1754 to 1783 when he was raised to the peerage as Baron Sydney.

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Trove

Trove is an Australian online library database aggregator; a free faceted-search engine hosted by the National Library of Australia, in partnership with content providers including members of the National & State Libraries Australasia.

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Victoria (Australia)

Victoria (abbreviated as Vic) is a state in south-eastern Australia.

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Victoria University, Australia

Victoria University (VU) is an Australian public university based in Melbourne, Victoria.

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Victorian gold rush

The Victorian gold rush was a period in the history of Victoria, Australia approximately between 1851 and the late 1860s.

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Waterman (occupation)

A waterman is a river worker who transfers passengers across and along city centre rivers and estuaries in the United Kingdom and its colonies.

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Western Australia Day

Western Australia Day (formerly known as Foundation Day)King, Rhianna (2012).

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William Bligh

Vice-Admiral William Bligh (9 September 1754 – 7 December 1817) was an officer of the British Royal Navy and a colonial administrator.

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Anniversary Day, Australia Day Ambassador, Australia Day Eve, Australia Day Regatta, Australia day, Australian Day, Citizen's Day, Foundation Day of Australia, Invasion Day, Invasion day, National Day (Australia), National Day of Australia, Survival Day, Sydney sesquicentenary.

References

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

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