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Major General Sir Thomas Makdougall Brisbane, 1st Baronet, GCB, GCH, FRS, FRSE (23 July 1773 – 27 January 1860), was a British Army officer, administrator...17 KB (1,779 words) - 19:13, 1 April 2024
Peter Maxwell John Sterling OAM (born 16 June 1960) nicknamed Sterlo, is an Australian former rugby league commentator, television personality and player...25 KB (2,709 words) - 18:35, 16 May 2024
Queenstown is a town in the West Coast region of the island of Tasmania, Australia. It is in a valley on the western slopes of Mount Owen on the West Coast...17 KB (1,728 words) - 08:51, 31 March 2024- 816 Squadron is a Royal Australian Navy Fleet Air Arm squadron that started out as a Royal Navy unit, 816 Naval Air Squadron. 816 is currently active as...6 KB (592 words) - 07:57, 20 October 2021
- 817 Squadron was a Royal Australian Navy Fleet Air Arm squadron. It was originally formed as part of the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm for service during...9 KB (826 words) - 08:25, 24 August 2022
- The 2009 Super 14 season kicked off in February 2009 with pre-season matches held from mid-January. It finished on 30 May, when the Bulls won their second...95 KB (1,099 words) - 05:43, 24 May 2024
The Cowra Breakout occurred on 5 August 1944, when 1,104 Japanese prisoners of war attempted to escape from a prisoner of war camp near Cowra, in New South...15 KB (1,617 words) - 21:59, 19 February 2024
HMAS Condamine (K698/F698), named for the Condamine River in Queensland, was a River-class frigate of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). Commissioned in...4 KB (218 words) - 03:32, 15 May 2023
The hairy-footed dunnart (Sminthopsis hirtipes) is a dunnart that has silver hairs on the soles of it hind feet accompanied by long hair on the side of...3 KB (334 words) - 12:21, 24 November 2022
The Bass Strait Triangle is the waters that separate the states of Victoria and Tasmania, including Bass Strait, in south-eastern Australia. The term Bass...10 KB (1,227 words) - 21:35, 30 July 2023
The Julia Creek dunnart (Sminthopsis douglasi) is a marsupial with a buffy brown upperside and white underside. This dunnart has a body length of 100–135 mm...4 KB (499 words) - 00:00, 2 April 2024
The grey-bellied dunnart (Sminthopsis griseoventer), alternately spelled gray-bellied dunnart, was described by the same people Kitchener, Stoddart and...3 KB (328 words) - 21:57, 5 October 2022
John Shaw Neilson was an Australian poet. Slightly built, for most of his life he worked as a labourer, fruit-picking, clearing scrub, navvying and working...15 KB (1,823 words) - 06:10, 17 December 2023
Samuel Cosstick (1 January 1836 – 8 April 1896) was an important figure in developing cricket in Victoria in its formative years. He is well known for...5 KB (547 words) - 02:03, 18 February 2024
The Bell Bay Power Station was a power station located in Bell Bay, on the Tamar River, Tasmania, Australia, adjacent to the Tamar Valley Power Station...7 KB (712 words) - 23:59, 8 May 2024- Hal Gibson Pateshall Colebatch (7 October 1945 – 10 September 2019) was a West Australian author, historian, poet, lecturer, journalist, editor, and lawyer...15 KB (1,565 words) - 00:01, 20 May 2024
Charles Douglas Richardson (7 or 9 July 1853 – 15 October 1932), often referred to as C. Douglas Richardson, was an English-born Australian sculptor and...7 KB (735 words) - 11:09, 5 March 2024- The Gathering is an allegorical Australian young adults' novel written by fantasy author Isobelle Carmody. The book was published by Puffin Books Australia...7 KB (850 words) - 22:48, 18 December 2023
HMAS Wyatt Earp (formerly known as FV Fanefjord, MV Wyatt Earp, and HMAS Wongala) was a motor vessel commissioned into the Royal Australian Navy (RAN)...7 KB (735 words) - 07:53, 25 January 2023
The sooty albatrosses are small albatrosses from the genus Phoebetria. There are two species, the sooty albatross, Phoebetria fusca, and the light-mantled...8 KB (875 words) - 18:09, 18 May 2024
