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Austin, Mary ... Australian Patriotic Association

Austin, Mary novelist and essayist who wrote about Native American culture and social problems. Austin, Stephen founder in the 1820s of the principal settlements of English-speaking people in Texas when that territory was still part of Mexico. Australia: Year in Review 1994 A federal parliamentary state (formally a constitutional monarchy) and member of the Commonwealth, Australia occupies the smallest continent and includes the island state of Tasmania. Area: 7,682,300 sq km (2,966,200 sq mi). Pop. (1993 est.): 17,729,000. Cap.: Canberra. Monetary unit: Australian dollar, with (Oct. 4, 1993) a free rate of ... Australia: Year in Review 1995 A federal parliamentary state (formally a constitutional monarchy) and member of the Commonwealth, Australia occupies the smallest continent and includes the island state of Tasmania. Area: 7,682,300 sq km (2,966,200 sq mi). Pop. (1994 est.): 17,875,000. Cap.: Canberra. Monetary unit: Australian dollar, with (Oct. 7, 1994) a free rate of ... Australia: Year in Review 1996 A federal parliamentary state (formally a constitutional monarchy) and member of the Commonwealth, Australia occupies the smallest continent and includes the island state of Tasmania. Area: 7,682,300 sq km (2,966,200 sq mi). Pop. (1995 est.): 18,025,000. Cap.: Canberra. Monetary unit: Australian dollar, with (Oct. 6, 1995) a free rate of ... Australia: Year in Review 1997 A federal parliamentary state (formally a constitutional monarchy) and member of the Commonwealth, Australia occupies the smallest continent and includes the island state of Tasmania. Area: 7,682,300 sq km (2,966,200 sq mi). Pop. (1996 est.): 18,287,000. Cap.: Canberra. Monetary unit: Australian dollar, with (Oct. 11, 1996) a free rate of ... Australia: Year in Review 1998 Area: 7,682,300 sq km (2,966,200 sq mi) Australia: Year in Review 1999 Area: 7,682,300 sq km (2,966,200 sq mi) Australia: Year in Review 2000 Australia: Year in Review 2001 Australia: Year in Review 2002 Australia: Year in Review 2003 Australia: Year in Review 2004 Australia: Year in Review 2005 Australia: Year in Review 2006 Australia: Year in Review 2007 Australia: Year in Review 2008 Australia: Year in Review 2009 Australia: Year in Review 2010 Australia: Year in Review 2011 Australia: Year in Review 2012 In Australia the year 2011 began with all eyes in the country focused on an unfolding natural disaster in the northern state of Queensland, where the wettest December on record had triggered flood conditions across vast swaths of the state. On January 10 a flash flood swept through the main ... Australia: Year in Review 2013 The year 2012 began with significant political unrest in Australia amid speculation that Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd would seek to challenge Prime Minister Julia Gillard for that office. Rudd-whom Gillard had replaced as prime minister after an internal Labor Party coup in 2010-saw an opportunity to regain the top job ... Australia the smallest continent and one of the largest countries on Earth, lying between the Pacific and Indian oceans in the Southern Hemisphere. Australia's capital is Canberra, located in the southeast between the larger and more important economic and cultural centres of Sydney and Melbourne. Australia bushfires of 2009 series of bushfires that killed 173 people, injured 500, and destroyed numerous homes in the Australian state of Victoria on Feb. 7, 2009, a day later dubbed "Black Saturday." Australia Day holiday (January 26) honouring the establishment of the first permanent European settlement on the continent of Australia. On January 26, 1788, Arthur Phillip, who had sailed into what is now Sydney Cove with a shipload of convicts, hoisted the British flag at the site. In the early 1800s the date, ... Australia floods of 2010-11 natural disaster that principally affected the three eastern states of Australia and was one of the worst in the country's history. Queensland, in the north, was hit hardest, but the widespread flooding-of a scale not seen since the mid-1970s-that began in late November spread southward to inundate portions of the ... Australia's 2007 Election: The End of an Era: Year in Review 2008 On Nov. 25, 2007, headlines around the world announced that the Australian Labor Party's (ALP's) victory in that country's parliamentary election the previous day marked the end of a conservative era and the beginning of a period of substantial social change. The ALP captured 43.4% of the vote for 83 ... Australia, flag of national flag consisting of a dark blue field (background) with the Union Jack in the canton and six white stars. Its width-to-length ratio is 1 to 2. Australian Aboriginal languages family of some 200 to 300 indigenous languages spoken in Australia and a few small offshore islands by approximately 50,000 people. Many of the languages are already extinct, and some are spoken by only dwindling numbers of elderly people, but a few are still vigorous. There is currently a resurgence ... Australian Aborigine any of the indigenous people of Australia. Australian Alps mountain mass, a segment of the Great Dividing Range (Eastern Uplands), occupying the southeasternmost corner of Australia, in eastern Victoria and southeastern New South Wales. In a more local sense, the term denotes the ranges on the states' border forming the divide between the watersheds of the Murray River system, ... Australian Antarctic Territory external territory claimed by Australia and located in Antarctica. See Australian External Territories. Australian Ballet leading ballet company of Australia. In 1962 the Australian Ballet Foundation, founded by art patrons interested in promoting a national ballet, sponsored the Australian Ballet company. It was formed mainly with native talent from the former Australian Borovansky Ballet. Australian ballot the system of voting in which voters mark their choices in privacy on uniform ballots printed and distributed by the government or designate their choices by some other secret means. Victoria and South Australia were the first states to introduce secrecy of the ballot (1856), and for that reason the ... Australian Capital Territory political entity of the Commonwealth of Australia consisting of Canberra, the national and territorial capital, and surrounding land. Most of the Australian Capital Territory lies within the Southern Tablelands district of New South Wales in southeastern Australia, but there is also an area of some 28 square miles (73 square ... Australian Capital Territory, flag of Australian federal territory flag consisting of a yellow field (background) with a vertical blue stripe at the hoist. A white Southern Cross constellation is on the stripe, and the field bears a stylized version of the Canberra coat of arms. The flag's width-to-length ratio is 1 to 2. Australian cattle dog breed of herding dog developed in the 19th century to work with cattle in the demanding conditions of the Australian outback. It is called a heeler because it moves cattle by nipping at their feet; this trait was introduced to the breed from the dingo in its ancestry. An active, ... Australian Christmas tree (species Nuytsia floribunda), parasitic tree of the mistletoe family (Loranthaceae), native to western Australia. The tree may grow to 10 m (33 feet) or more and produces many yellow-orange flowers during the Christmas season. Its dry fruits have three broad, leathery wings. Australian Colonies Government Act legislation of the British House of Commons that separated the southeastern Australian district of Port Phillip from New South Wales and established it as the colony of Victoria. The act was passed in response to the demand of the Port Phillip settlers, who felt inadequately represented in the New South ... Australian Council of Trade Unions the dominant association and governing body of the trade union movement in Australia, established in May 1927. Membership grew significantly when the Australian Workers' Union joined the ACTU in 1967. Two other mergers with federations of white-collar unions-the Australian Council of Salaried and Professional Associations (in 1979) and the Council ... Australian Democratic Labor Party (ADLP), right-wing political party in Australia founded in 1956-57 by Roman Catholic and other defectors from the Australian Labor Party. Militantly anticommunist, the ADLP supported Western and other anticommunist powers in Oceania and Southeast Asia and strongly backed Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War. The party in effect supported the ... Australian Democrats left-of-centre political party founded in 1977 and supported by those dissatisfied with the major Australian parties, the Liberals on the right and the Australian Labor Party on the left. Its support is strongest among professionals and the intelligentsia. Australian Election of 2010: Year in Review 2011 The 2010 federal election was one of the most extraordinary in Australia's history. The cycle of events started in June when power brokers with the ruling Australian Labor Party urged Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard to challenge Prime Minister Kevin Rudd for the party's leadership, fearing that Rudd might lose ... Australian Encyclopaedia, The national encyclopaedia published in New South Wales and emphasizing distinctive features of Australia, particularly geography, natural history, and the Aborigines. Australian External Territories group of non-self-governing dependencies of Australia; apart from claims in Antarctica, the external territories of the Commonwealth of Australia are made up entirely of islands and cover an area almost as large as Australia itself. They consist of innumerable small reefs, cays, and atolls between the Great Barrier Reef of ... Australian federal election of 2010 Less than a month after becoming Australia's first woman prime minister, Julia Gillard of the centre-left Australian Labor Party (ALP) called an election for August 21, eight months earlier than was constitutionally required, hoping to capitalize on a surge in support for the ALP following her rise to the party's ... Australian Labor Party one of the major Australian political parties. The first significant political representation of labour was achieved during the 1890s; in 1891, for example, candidates endorsed by the Sydney Trades and Labor Council gained 86 out of 141 seats in the New South Wales legislature. The entry of labour into national ... Australian literature the body of literatures, both oral and written, produced in Australia. Australian National University state-subsidized university in Canberra, Australia. Founded in 1946, the university was originally confined to graduate study. In 1960, when Canberra University College (1929) became part of the university, undergraduates were admitted for the first time. Affiliated with the university are the Institute of Advanced Studies, the unit responsible for doctoral ... Australian Open one of the world's major tennis championships (the first of the four annual Grand Slam events), held at the National Tennis Centre at Melbourne Park in Melbourne, Australia. Australian Patriotic Association (1835-42), group of influential Australians of New South Wales that sought a grant of representative government to the colony from the British House of Commons. Their efforts aided significantly in the passage of the Constitution Act of 1842 and the incorporation of the city of Sydney as a municipality with ...