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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Curriculum
The Australian Curriculum is Australia's national F-10 school curriculum developed by ACARA, with eight learning areas, seven general capabilities, and three cross-curriculum priorities; Version 9.0 was endorsed 1 April 2022.
Australian Defence Force
The Australian Defence Force (ADF) is Australia's military, comprising the Navy, Army, and Air Force under the Chief of the Defence Force. Over 61,000 full-time personnel; transforming to an integrated, focused force under the 2024 National Defence Strategy.
Australian Defence Force ranks
Australian Defence Force ranks: the officer and other-rank structures of the RAN, Army, and RAAF, set out in Defence Act 1903 Schedule 1, with O-1 to O-10 equivalency codes and E10 warrant officers.
Australian Democrats
The Australian Democrats, also known as the Australian Democrats Party, is a centrist party founded in 1977 by Don Chipp that lost federal parliamentary representation in 2008.
Australian dollar
The Australian dollar, also known as the Aussie dollar, is the decimal currency of Australia, issued by the Reserve Bank of Australia since 1960 and decimalised in 1966.
Australian English
Australian English is the national variety of English spoken by people born and raised in Australia, originating in the late 18th-century convict settlement, with Broad, General, and Cultivated accent types and vocabulary from British dialects and Aboriginal languages.
Australian family law
Australian family law, governed by the Family Law Act 1975, covers no-fault divorce, children's best interests, property settlement, and child support, with major reforms commencing May 2024 and June 2025.
Australian Federal Police
Australian Federal Police (AFP): Australia's national policing agency, created by the AFP Act 1979 from the Commonwealth Police and ACT Police; enforces Commonwealth law, polices the ACT, and is overseen by the Ombudsman and NACC.
Australian flag debate
Australian flag debate: ongoing dispute over replacing the Australian National Flag, chosen in 1901 and confirmed by the Flags Act 1953, with a design omitting the Union Jack; polling shows majority retention.
Australian frontier wars
The Australian frontier wars: violent conflicts between Indigenous Australians and British settlers, soldiers, and colonial police from 1788 to the 1930s, with at least 20,000 Indigenous deaths and ongoing commemoration debates.
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 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 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 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 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 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.