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Australian Aboriginal flag
The Australian Aboriginal Flag, designed by Luritja artist Harold Thomas and first flown in Adelaide in July 1971, has black, red and yellow symbolism, was proclaimed a Flag of Australia in 1995, and its copyright passed to the Commonwealth in 2022.
Australian Aboriginal languages
Australian Aboriginal languages are the indigenous languages of Australia, mostly in the Pama-Nyungan family. About 250 existed in 1788; 177 were still spoken or used in 2025-26, 45 strong, with 113 under revival.
Australian Aboriginal oral storytelling
Australian Aboriginal oral storytelling is the transmission of knowledge, history, law, and belief through spoken narrative, song, dance, and gesture, practiced across Australia for many thousands of years.
Australian Aboriginal poetry movement
The Australian Aboriginal poetry movement is the written verse of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, published since Oodgeroo Noonuccal's pioneering 1964 collection We Are Going.
Australian Active Service Medal
Australian Active Service Medal (AASM), Australian campaign medal instituted 13 September 1988 for Australian Defence Force service in prescribed warlike operations since 14 February 1975, awarded with operation clasps, no post-nominal, replaced for new operations by the 2012 Australian Operational Service Medal.
Australian Alps
The Australian Alps are mainland Australia's highest mountain region across ACT, NSW and Victoria, with over 1.6 million hectares in eleven National Heritage-listed parks, headwaters of the Murray, Murrumbidgee and Snowy rivers, and declining snow cover.
Australian and New Zealand Army Corps
Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC), First World War corps formed in Egypt December 1914 under Birdwood; its 25 April 1915 Gallipoli landing created Anzac Cove, Anzac Day, and the word Anzac.
Australian and New Zealand Standard Industrial Classification
The Australian and New Zealand Standard Industrial Classification (ANZSIC) is the standard industry classification used in Australia and New Zealand, jointly developed by the Australian Bureau of Statistics and Statistics New Zealand in 1993.
Australian Antarctic Territory
Australian Antarctic Territory (AAT): Australia's external territory in East Antarctica, about 5.9 million km2 or 42% of the continent, transferred from the UK in 1933, administered via Casey, Davis and Mawson stations.
Australian Army
The Australian Army, formed 1 March 1901 as the Commonwealth Military Forces, is the land force of the Australian Defence Force; it fought as the AIF in both world wars and is restructuring into specialist littoral-focused brigades under the 2023 Defence Strategic Review.
Australian Army Cadets
The Australian Army Cadets (AAC), formerly the Commonwealth Cadet Corps (1906) and Australian Cadet Corps (1951), is an Australian youth development program for ages 13-18, first formed 1866 at St Mark's Collegiate School, with over 18,000 cadets in 250 units.
Australian Army Legal Corps
The Australian Army Legal Corps is the corps of Australian Army officers, all admitted legal practitioners, who advise commanders and specialize in operational, administrative, and disciplinary law.
Australian Army Reserve
Australian Army Reserve (ARes), the part-time volunteer component of the Australian Army under the Defence Act 1903: about 14,000 part-timers in 50+ units, 20-100 service days a year, first compulsory call-out in 2020 for Black Summer bushfires, expanded inactive contingent from 2026.
Australian Ballet School
The Australian Ballet School is a Melbourne classical ballet school founded in 1964 to train dancers for The Australian Ballet, whose members are about 75% its graduates.
Australian Baseball League
The Australian Baseball League (ABL) is Australia's professional baseball league, founded in 2010 as a Baseball Australia-MLB joint venture, playing November to February for the Claxton Shield with four teams since 2025-26.
Australian bat lyssavirus
Australian bat lyssavirus (ABLV) is a rabies-related Lyssavirus unique to Australia, endemic in flying foxes and insectivorous bats; identified 1996, four fatal human cases (1996, 1998, 2013, 2025), preventable with rabies vaccine and immunoglobulin.
Australian Book Review
Australian Book Review (ABR) is an Australian monthly literary and cultural magazine founded in 1961 by Max Harris and Rosemary Wighton and based in Melbourne since its 1978 revival.
Australian Border Force
The Australian Border Force (ABF) is Australia's frontline border security and customs agency, created 1 July 2015 from the merger of customs and immigration functions, now within Home Affairs and operationally independent.
Australian Bridge Design Standard AS 5100
AS 5100, titled Bridge design, is the only Australian standard specific to bridges, covering their design, assessment, rehabilitation, and strengthening; it is maintained by Standards Australia committee BD-090.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) is Australia's national public broadcaster, established as the Australian Broadcasting Commission in 1932 and reconstituted under the ABC Act 1983; it runs TV, radio, ABC iview streaming and Indo-Pacific international services.
Australian Bureau of Statistics
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), formerly the Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics, is Australia's official statistical agency, an independent statutory authority that conducts the five-yearly Census of Population and Housing.
Australian bush poetry
Australian bush poetry is metred and rhymed verse about Australia, Australians, and Australian life, which grew from colonial ballads and remains a living performance tradition today.
Australian Capital Territory
The Australian Capital Territory (ACT) is a self-governing Australian territory containing Canberra, the national capital. Created as the Federal Capital Territory on 1 January 1911 from New South Wales land, it gained self-government under the 1988 Self-Government Act; population 487,200 at December 2025.
Australian Cattle Dog
Australian Cattle Dog, also called Blue Heeler, Red Heeler, or Queensland Heeler: an Australian herding breed developed in the 1840s from collie-dingo crosses, recognized by the AKC in 1980, 35-50 lb, 12-16 year lifespan.
Australian Centre for Field Robotics
The Australian Centre for Field Robotics (ACFR) is a robotics research institute at the University of Sydney, known for pioneering SLAM and mine automation research.
Australian children's literature
Australian children's literature is the body of books and picture books written or published in Australia for young readers, beginning with A Mother's Offering to Her Children in 1841.
Australian Chinese cuisine
Australian Chinese cuisine is the distinct tradition of Chinese food developed in Australia since 1850s goldfields cookshops, known for dim sims, long soup, and short soup.
Australian Citizens Party
Australian Citizens Party (ACP), formerly the Citizens Electoral Council (CEC), is a minor Australian political party founded in 1988 and affiliated with the Lyndon LaRouche movement, federally registered since 2007 and led by Craig Isherwood.
Australian colonial poetry
Australian colonial poetry is the poetry written in English in Australia between British settlement in 1788 and about 1888, developing from English imitations toward a distinctively Australian voice.
Australian Communications and Media Authority
The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) is an independent Australian statutory authority regulating broadcasting, telecommunications, spectrum, and unsolicited communications, formed in 2005 by merging two regulators.