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21All Aussie Adventures — infobox television show name = All Aussie Adventures caption =Title Sequence format = Mockumentary, Satire runtime = approx. 0:25 (per episode) creator = Glenn Robbins Tom Gleisner starring = Glenn Robbins country = AUS network = Network Ten The… …
22William Spence — William Guthrie Spence (7 August 1846 13 December 1926), Australian trade union leader and politician, played a leading role in the formation of both Australia s largest union, the Australian Workers Union, and the Australian Labor Party.Early… …
231890 Australian maritime dispute — The 1890 Australian Maritime Dispute, commonly known as the 1890 Maritime Strike, was on a scale unprecedented in the Australian colonies to that point in time, causing political and social turmoil across all Australian colonies and in New… …
24Roger McDonald — (born 23 June 1941, in Young, New South Wales, Australia) is the author of seven novels, two works of non fiction, and a number of commissioned novelisations, film and television tie ins, photography book texts, and television scripts. His first… …
25Smoko — (also smoke o or smoke oh ) is a term used in Australian English, New Zealand English and Falkland Islands English for a short, often informal, cigarette break taken during work or military duty, although the term can also be used to describe any …
26coal mining — Coal was very important in the economic development of Britain. It was used as fuel in the factories built during the Industrial Revolution and continued to be important until the 1980s. The main coalfields are in north east England, the north… …
27Queensland — /kweenz land , leuhnd/, n. a state in NE Australia. 2,295,123; 670,500 sq. mi. (1,736,595 sq. km). Cap.: Brisbane. * * * State (pop., 2001: 3,635,121), northeastern Australia. Bounded on the north by the Pacific Ocean and the Great Barrier Reef,… …
28organized labour — Introduction also called trade unionism, association and activities of workers in a trade or industry for the purpose of obtaining or assuring improvements in working conditions through their collective action. Great Britain (United… …
29Swagman — A swagman (also called tussocker) is an old Australian term describing an underclass of transient temporary workers, who travelled by foot from farm to farm carrying the traditional swag. Also characteristic of swagman attire was a hat strung… …
30Henry George Chauvel — Infobox Military Person name=Sir Harry Chauvel caption=Sir Harry Chauvel lived=16 April 1865 Death date and age|1945|3|4|1865|4|16|df=yes placeofbirth=Tabulam, New South Wales, Australia placeofdeath=Melbourne, Victoria, Australia… …
