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Australian gold rushes
The Australian gold rushes began in 1851 when gold was found in New South Wales and Victoria, drawing hundreds of thousands of migrants and making Australia a global producer.
Australian Gothic
Australian Gothic is a mode of literature, film, and art that transposes European Gothic conventions of haunting and entrapment onto the Australian bush, desert, and colonial past.
Australian Government
The Australian Government is the federal executive government of the Commonwealth of Australia, a Washminster hybrid of Westminster responsible government and American federalism formed at Federation on 1 January 1901, headed by the Prime Minister under a constitutional monarchy.
Australian Grand Prix
Australian Grand Prix: Formula 1 race at Albert Park, Melbourne, since 1996, after Adelaide 1985-1995; 5.278 km, 58 laps; record 465,498 attendance in 2025; contracted until 2037.
Australian green tree frog
Australian green tree frog (Litoria caerulea, White's tree frog, dumpy tree frog; Pelodryas caerulea), a large green Australian and southern New Guinea tree frog up to 11 cm, IUCN Least Concern, top pet-trade frog, named caerulea for blue alcohol-preserved specimens.
Australian Greens
The Australian Greens, founded 30 August 1992 as a federation of state Green parties on four pillars including ecological sustainability, descend from the United Tasmania Group of 1972, the world's first green party; they hold 10 Senate seats and one House seat after the 2025 election.
Australian House of Representatives
The Australian House of Representatives is the federal Parliament's lower house: 150 members from single-member electorates elected by full preferential voting; the majority party or coalition forms government and its leader becomes Prime Minister.
Australian Hydrographic Service
The Australian Hydrographic Service, also known as the Royal Australian Navy Hydrographic Service, is the Australian Department of Defence agency responsible for surveying and charting Australian waters, formed in 1920.
Australian Idol
Australian Idol, Australian TV singing competition, 2003-2009 on Network Ten and revived on Seven in 2023; winners include Guy Sebastian and 2026's Kesha Oayda, first female champion since 2007.
Australian Idol season 11
Australian Idol season 11 is the 2026 season of the Australian singing competition, the eleventh overall. It was won by Kesha Oayda, the first female winner since 2007.
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW): independent statutory Australian Government agency, established 1987, renamed 1992, producing national health and welfare statistics, data collections, and accredited data linkage services.
Australian Institute of Physics
The Australian Institute of Physics, also known as AIP, is an Australian not-for-profit professional society promoting physics in research, education, industry, and the community, founded in 1963.
Australian Kelpie
Australian Kelpie, or Kelpie: an Australian herding dog bred from Scottish working collies in the 1870s, named after the foundation female Kelpie; about 60% of Australian working dogs, with 3-4% dingo DNA markers.
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party (ALP) is Australia's oldest political party, a centre-left, trade union-founded party formed after the 1890s strikes, first in government under Watson in 1904, first majority government 1910, and reelected under Albanese in 2025.
Australian Literary Studies
Australian Literary Studies, commonly abbreviated ALS, is a refereed scholarly journal of Australian and international literary criticism founded in 1963 at the University of Tasmania, now an independent online journal.
Australian live export industry
Australian live export industry: exports of live cattle, sheep, goats and other livestock by sea and air, regulated under ASEL and ESCAS. Live sheep exports by sea end 1 May 2028 with a $140 million transition package; live cattle exports continue.
Australian locomotive classification
Australian locomotive classification is the letter, number, and combined schemes the separate state and Commonwealth railways used to identify locomotives, notably NSWGR's letter-and-number classes and Commonwealth Railways' wheel-arrangement letters.
Australian magpie
Australian magpie (Gymnorhina tibicen, also Cracticus tibicen), an Australian black-and-white artamid songbird related to butcherbirds, famed for carolling song, mimicry, territorial groups, and seasonal swooping.
Australian Maritime College
The Australian Maritime College (AMC) is Australia's national institute for maritime education, training, and research, a specialist institute of the University of Tasmania at Launceston.
Australian Maritime Safety Authority
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) is an Australian Commonwealth statutory authority, established in 1991, responsible for maritime safety, navigation aids, and national search and rescue services.
Australian Marriage Law Postal Survey
Australian Marriage Law Postal Survey (AMLPS): voluntary, non-binding ABS survey of electors, September–November 2017, on same-sex marriage; 61.6% yes, 79.5% participation, upheld by the High Court, led to December 2017 legalization.
Australian megafauna
Australian megafauna: Pleistocene giant animals including Diprotodon optatum (2,700 kg, largest marsupial ever), Megalania, and Procoptodon; over 85% of genera over 44 kg went extinct, with humans, climate, or both debated as causes.
Australian modernism
Australian modernism is the body of modernist art, literature, design, and architecture produced in Australia, a category scholars still debate as either belated European influence or a distinct local practice.
Australian monsoon
The Australian monsoon is the seasonal reversal of winds over northern Australia that each summer brings moist air and heavy rain, delivering most of the region's annual rainfall from November to April.
Australian motorcycle Grand Prix
The Australian motorcycle Grand Prix is a MotoGP World Championship round held since 1997 at the Phillip Island circuit in Victoria, Australia, moving to an Adelaide street circuit from 2027.
Australian Museum
The Australian Museum (AM), Australia's first museum, founded in Sydney in 1827, is an NSW Government natural science and culture institution holding over 22 million specimens and cultural objects, with free general entry, a Trust-based governance under the 1975 Act, and active First Nations repatriation programs.
Australian National Botanic Gardens
The Australian National Botanic Gardens (ANBG) is a Commonwealth reserve on Black Mountain in Canberra with more than 4,300 Australian native plant species, a herbarium, and a seed bank.
Australian National Maritime Museum
The Australian National Maritime Museum is Australia's national museum of the sea, opened in 1991 at Darling Harbour, Sydney, with a collection of over 160,000 objects and floating historic vessels including the destroyer HMAS Vampire.
Australian National University
Australian National University (ANU), Canberra university established by Act of Parliament 1 August 1946; research-focused Group of Eight member, amalgamated with Canberra University College 1960; 6 Nobel laureates; THE 73rd, QS 30th (2025).
Australian nationality law
Australian nationality law centers on the Australian Citizenship Act 2007, governing acquisition by birth, descent, adoption, and conferral, plus renunciation, ministerial revocation, court-ordered cessation for dual citizens only, and High Court limits from the Benbrika case.