Melbourne was selected as the host city over bids from Buenos Aires, Mexico City, Montreal and six American cities on 28 April 1949, at the 43rd IOC Session in Rome, Italy.1956 Summer Olympics bidding ...
The ABC operates 54 local radio stations, in addition to four national networks and international service Radio Australia. In addition, DiG Radio launched on digital platforms in 2002, currently offer ...
Main article: History of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation1920s–40sSee also: Australian Broadcasting CompanyABC mobile studio caravan, used for concerts presented by the ABC at army camps and o ...
By Humphries' own account, the character of Patterson first appeared in a one-man show that he performed at the St George Leagues Club in Sydney in January 1974. Appearing in the guise of the boorish, ...
The Private Eye comic strips were compiled into a book, The Wonderful World of Barry McKenzie, in which McKenzie travels to Britain to claim an inheritance. The book was published in London, but was b ...
Sandy Stone is a male character played by Australian comedian Barry Humphries. Described by John Betjeman as "this decent man from the suburbs", Stone is one of Humphries' more enduring characters.The ...
Dame Edna is a character created and performed by Australian comedian Barry Humphries, famous for her lilac-coloured or "wisteria hue" hair and cat eye glasses or "face furniture", her favourite flowe ...
Humphries was born in the suburb of Kew in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, the son of Louisa and Eric Humphries, a construction manager. His grandfather was an immigrant to Australia from Manchester, ...
Dada was an informal international movement, with participants in Europe and North America. The beginnings of Dada correspond to the outbreak of World War I. For many participants, the movement was a ...
Robin Boyd was a scion of the illustrious Boyd artistic dynasty in Australia, and many of his extended family were noted painters, sculptors, architects, writers or other arts professionals. Robin was ...
Holden's market surge from the 1990s reversed in the 2000s decade. In Australia, Holden's market share dropped from 27.5 percent in 2000 to 15.2 percent in 2006. From March 2003, Holden no longer held ...
In 1852, James Alexander Holden emigrated to South Australia from Walsall, England and in 1856 established J.A. Holden Co, a saddlery business in Adelaide. In 1885 German-born Henry Frederick Frost j ...
O'Grady chose to write under a variety of pseudonyms, most famously as Nino Culotta for his books They're a Weird Mob, Cop This Lot, Gone Fishin ', and Gone Gougin' . Other examples include No Kava Fo ...
Giovanni 'Nino' Culotta is an Italian immigrant, who comes to Australia as a journalist, employed by an Italian publishing house, to write articles about Australians and their way of life for those It ...
In keeping with policies of the previous governments, both Chifley and Calwell announced a preference for promoting immigration to Australia of mainly British settlers, and initially they set the ambi ...
