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Australian native bees
Australian native bees: over 1,600 to about 2,000 indigenous bee species, from 24 mm carpenter bees to 2 mm Quasihesma, mostly solitary, with 11 eusocial stingless species (Tetragonula, Austroplebeia) that pollinate crops and native plants.
Australian Open
Australian Open: first Grand Slam tennis tournament of the year, held each January on hard courts at Melbourne Park, Melbourne. Formerly Australasian Championships (1905) and Australian Championships; record 2026 attendance 1,368,043 and AUD 111.5m prize pool.
Australian Operational Service Medal
Australian Operational Service Medal (AOSM), instituted 22 May 2012 by Letters Patent, recognises Australian Defence Force members and certain civilians in declared military operations; it replaced the AASM and ASM and uses unique per-operation ribbons (Border Protection, Greater Middle East Operation, Special Operations, Indo-Pacific).
Australian Overland Telegraph Line
The Australian Overland Telegraph Line is a 3,178 km telegraph line built between 1870 and 1872 to connect Adelaide with Port Darwin in northern Australia.
Australian Paralympic Equestrian Team
Australian Paralympic Equestrian Team: Australia's Para-equestrian dressage squad since Atlanta 1996, with nine Paralympic medals (3 gold, 1 silver, 5 bronze), best Games Sydney 2000, and Sharon Jarvis its first three-time equestrian Paralympian.
Australian passport
Australian passport: travel document issued by the Australian Passport Office (DFAT) under the Passports Act 2005 to Australian citizens; biometric ePassport since 2005, 6-week routine processing, Priority and Fast Track options, ranked 6th-7th for visa-free access.
Australian plate
The Australian plate is a major tectonic plate carrying Australia and nearby crust, moving northeast at about 7 cm per year, the fastest continental land mass on Earth.
Australian property law
Australian property law covers the Torrens title-by-registration system with indefeasibility, native title under the Native Title Act 1993 after Mabo (No 2), and Commonwealth foreign investment screening including the 2025 ban on foreign purchases of established dwellings.
Australian Qualifications Framework
The Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) is Australia's national policy for regulated qualifications across schools, VET, and higher education. Introduced in 1995, it defines 10 levels from Certificate I to Doctoral degree, with the Undergraduate Certificate and Vocational Degree added in 2025.
Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service
Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service (AQIS), Australian Government agency established 1986 for border quarantine and export inspection and certification; absorbed into DAFF Biosecurity in 2012.
Australian Rally Championship
The Australian Rally Championship is Australia's premier domestic rally championship, run since 1968 and decided over six rounds; Possum Bourne holds the record with seven driver titles.
Australian Recording Industry Association
Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA), founded 1983, is Australia's peak recorded-music trade body: it compiles the weekly ARIA Charts, stages the ARIA Music Awards, issues Gold and Platinum accreditations, and sets chart eligibility rules including 2026 generative-AI exclusions.
Australian Renewable Energy Agency
The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) is an Australian Government statutory agency, established on 1 July 2012, that funds renewable energy projects, supporting more than 850 projects with over $5 billion in grants.
Australian Research Council
The Australian Research Council (ARC), a non-corporate Commonwealth entity under the ARC Act 2001, funds Australian university research in all disciplines except medical research via the NCGP and administers ERA and EI.
Australian rules football
Australian rules football, known in Australia as footy, is a contact team sport developed in Melbourne and codified in 1859, the oldest surviving football code.
Australian science fiction
Australian science fiction is science fiction written by Australians or set in Australia, a tradition dating from mid-nineteenth-century utopian writing and honored by the Ditmar Awards.
Australian Science Olympiad Physics
The Australian Science Olympiad Physics is Australia's national physics competition for secondary students, running from a July open exam through a January Summer School to the International Physics Olympiad team.
Australian sea lion
The Australian sea lion (Neophoca cinerea) is an endangered eared seal endemic to Australia, breeding in South and Western Australia, with a declining population of fewer than 12,000.
Australian Secret Intelligence Service
Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS): Australia's foreign intelligence collection agency, established 1952, avowed 1977, statutory under the Intelligence Services Act 2001, reporting to the Minister for Foreign Affairs; distinct from domestic ASIO.
Australian Securities and Investments Commission
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) is Australia's corporate, markets, financial services, and credit regulator, enforcing the Corporations Act 2001 and handling conduct and disclosure regulation under Australia's twin peaks model.
Australian Securities Exchange
The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) is Australia's principal stock exchange, listing about 2,000 companies worth AUD 3 trillion, and clearing and settling trades on both ASX and Cboe Australia.
Australian Security Intelligence Organisation
The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO), established 16 March 1949 under PM Ben Chifley with first Director-General Justice G S Reed, is Australia's domestic security intelligence agency. Governed by the ASIO Act 1979, it counters espionage, sabotage, terrorism and foreign interference, overseen by the IGIS and PJCIS.
Australian Senate
The Australian Senate is the upper house of Australia's federal Parliament: 76 senators, 12 per state and 2 per territory, elected by proportional representation since 1949, serving as a house of review that cannot introduce money bills.
Australian Service Medal
Australian Service Medal (ASM), Australian Defence award with operation clasps, instituted 13 September 1988 for peacekeeping and non-warlike service from 14 February 1975; replaced for new operations by the Australian Operational Service Medal.
Australian Sex Party
Australian Sex Party, Australian minor party founded 2009 by Fiona Patten and Robbie Swan; registered after an obscenity dispute, won a Victorian Legislative Council seat in 2014, renamed the Reason Party in 2017 and deregistered 29 August 2017.
Australian Shepherd
Australian Shepherd: an American-developed medium-sized herding breed, despite the name, perfected in the western US from British and Spanish stock; 20-23 inch males, merle colors, natural bobtail, MDR1 drug sensitivity, AKC Herding Group since 1993.
Australian Signals Directorate
Australian Signals Directorate (ASD), formerly Defence Signals Bureau/Division/Directorate, is Australia's foreign signals intelligence and cyber security agency, founded 1947 from WWII's Central Bureau and FRUMEL, a Five Eyes member and statutory agency since 2018.
Australian Silky Terrier
Australian Silky Terrier, formerly Sydney Silky: a small Australian toy terrier from late 19th-century Yorkshire and Australian Terrier crosses, blue-and-tan silky coat, 23-26 cm tall, officially named in 1956-1959.
Australian Speleological Federation
Australian Speleological Federation (ASF), founded 1956, is Australia's national caving body: an ACNC-registered environmental organisation of 26 clubs and 950+ members, representing Australia on the International Union of Speleology and publishing caving codes, Caves Australia, and Helictite.
Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder
The Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) is a radio telescope of 36 dish antennas operated by CSIRO in Western Australia, and a Square Kilometre Array precursor.