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Austral Plan
The Austral Plan (Plan Austral) was Argentina's heterodox anti-inflation program, announced by President Raúl Alfonsín on 14 June 1985, which froze prices and wages and introduced the austral currency.
Australasia
Australasia is a geographic name for the lands south of Asia, coined by Charles de Brosses in 1756; today usually Australia and New Zealand, sometimes including New Guinea and Pacific islands, and often used interchangeably with Oceania.
Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy
The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (AusIMM) is a Melbourne-based professional institute for the resources sector, founded in 1893 with 16,000 members in over 100 countries.
Australasian New Car Assessment Program
The Australasian New Car Assessment Program (ANCAP) crash-tests and star-rates new cars sold in Australia and New Zealand, publishing ratings from zero to five stars.
Australasian Plant Pathology
Australasian Plant Pathology is a peer-reviewed journal covering plant pathology, published by Springer Nature as the official journal of the Australasian Plant Pathology Society since 1978.
Australasian wetland flora
Australasian wetland flora is the collective vegetation of Australia's and New Zealand's swamps, marshes, bogs, billabongs, and floodplains, from water lilies to floodplain trees such as river red gum.
Australe Lingula
Australe Lingula is a tongue-shaped region of Mars' south polar layered deposits on Planum Australe, centered near 84 degrees S, about 430 km across, IAU-approved in 2006 as a classical albedo feature name.
Australe Mensa
Australe Mensa: 172-km-wide dome-shaped ice plateau of Mars' south polar layered deposits, IAU-named 2006, marked by Swiss-cheese depressions and studied by SHARAD radar.
Australe Montes
Australe Montes is a region of mountains on Mars near the south polar cap, formally approved by the IAU in 2003 and named from a classical albedo feature.
Australe Scopuli
Australe Scopuli, a hilly region near Mars's south pole within Planum Australe (about 210–280°E, 75–85°S), where CO2 and water ice layers alternate with dark sand and seasonal gas jets form fan-shaped deposits, imaged by Mars Express HRSC.
Australe Sulci
Australe Sulci is a sulcus, a grooved terrain of roughly parallel ridges and valleys, near the south pole of Mars; the IAU approved the name in 2006.
Australia
Australia (Commonwealth of Australia): sovereign nation federated 1 January 1901 from six British colonies. Population 27.9 million (2026), 32% overseas-born; high-income OECD member since 1971, GDP per capita about US$65,000.
Australia (2008 film)
Australia is a 2008 epic romantic adventure film directed by Baz Luhrmann, starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman, set in northern Australia on the eve of World War II.
Australia (continent)
Australia (continent): smallest of Earth's continents, the mainland plus Tasmania, sometimes grouped as Oceania. Formerly part of Gondwana; separated from Antarctica about 70 million years ago and drifts north about 7 cm yearly.
Australia 108
Australia 108 is a 100-level residential skyscraper in Melbourne's Southbank, the tallest residential building in the Southern Hemisphere at 319 m with 1,105 apartments and a golden Starburst honoring the Commonwealth Star.
Australia 31–0 American Samoa
Australia 31–0 American Samoa: 2002 FIFA World Cup OFC qualifier, 11 April 2001, Coffs Harbour; world-record largest international win, Archie Thompson's 13-goal record, Zdrilic 8 goals.
Australia Act 1986
Australia Act 1986 (Cth), passed with the Australia Act 1986 (UK) and six state Acts, took effect 3 March 1986, ending UK legislative power over Australia, state-court Privy Council appeals, and disallowance of state laws.
Australia at the 1964 Summer Paralympics
Australia at the 1964 Summer Paralympics: 15-athlete Australian team at the Tokyo Games, 8-12 November 1964, winning 12 gold, 11 silver, 7 bronze for fourth on the medal table, led by swimmer Elizabeth Edmondson's three golds.
Australia at the 1980 Winter Paralympics
Australia at the 1980 Winter Paralympics: Australia's first official Winter Paralympic team at Geilo, Norway, 2-8 February 1980. Two athletes, Kyrra Grunnsund and Peter Rickards, competed in alpine and cross-country skiing and won no medals.
Australia at the 1984 Winter Paralympics
Australia at the 1984 Winter Paralympics: Innsbruck, 15-21 January 1984. Three athletes (Rodney Mill, Kyrra Grunnsund, Andrew Temple) plus guide Peter Smythe; best result Grunnsund fifth in men's combination; no medals.
Australia at the 1998 Winter Paralympics
Australia at the 1998 Winter Paralympics: four male alpine skiers at Nagano, Japan. James Patterson won gold in downhill and bronze in slalom; Australia placed equal 16th with two medals.
Australia at the 2002 Winter Paralympics
Australia at the 2002 Winter Paralympics: six male alpine skiers at Salt Lake City, 9-18 March 2002. Michael Milton won four LW2 golds; Bart Bunting two golds and a silver; Australia finished eighth with 6 gold, 1 silver.
Australia at the 2018 Winter Paralympics
Australia at the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Paralympics: largest-ever Australian winter team of 12 athletes plus guides, winning 1 gold and 3 bronze for 15th on the medal table, with Simon Patmore's gold the first since 2002.
Australia at the 2024 Summer Olympics
Australia at Paris 2024: 467 athletes, 33 sports; 53 medals, 18 gold, fourth on the gold table, its best gold haul, with Jessica Fox winning six career individual medals.
Australia at the 2028 Summer Olympics
Australia at the 2028 Summer Olympics (Los Angeles, 14–30 July 2028): expected team of about 580 athletes, largest since Sydney 2000; new sports cricket, squash, flag football; dAIS funding boost.
Australia at the FIFA World Cup
Australia at the FIFA World Cup: the Socceroos' record across seven tournaments (1974, 2006, 2010, 2014, 2018, 2022, 2026), best finishes of Round of 16 in 2006 and 2022, AFC membership since 2006, and a 2026 Round of 32 exit to Egypt on penalties.
Australia at the Olympics
Australia at the Olympics has competed in every Summer Games since 1896, winning 497 medals and 147 gold. It will host the Games in Brisbane in 2032.
Australia at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships
Australia at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships: national team results, highlighted by 2022 men's team sprint gold in Paris (41.600s), 2025 Santiago double bronze, and 2026 Shanghai silver.
Australia at the Women's Cricket World Cup
Australia are the most successful nation in Women's Cricket World Cup history, with seven titles from 1978 to 2022, most recently beating England in the 2022 final under Meg Lanning.
Australia at the Women's T20 World Cup
Australia at the Women's T20 World Cup covers the national team's campaigns since 2009, including seven titles in ten editions, more than every other nation combined.