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Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, [15] is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands. [b] Australia is the largest country by area in Oceania and the world's sixth-largest country.
Peter Wetenhall (co-CEO. Number of employees. 4000+ (2019) Website. mecca .com. Mecca is an Australian cosmetics retailer. The company was founded by Jo Horgan in 1997. There are over 100 Mecca stores across Australia and New Zealand, in addition to an online store. [1]
Website. arnotts .com. Arnott's Group is an Australian producer of biscuits and snack food. [1] Founded in 1865 by William Arnott, they are the largest producer of biscuits in Australia and a subsidiary of KKR. [2]
The history of Australia is the history of the land and peoples of the continental land mass and offshore territories which now comprise the Commonwealth of Australia.The Commonwealth of Australia came into existence on 1 January 1901 as a federation of former British colonies, however the human history of Australia commences with the arrival of the first ancestors of Aboriginal Australians by ...
Phil Campbell. Simon Shapiro. Damien Cooper. Craig Laird. Website. www .1927 .net .au. 1927 are an Australian pop rock band formed in 1987 with James Barton on drums, Bill Frost on bass guitar, his brother Garry Frost on guitar and keyboards, and Eric Weideman on vocals, guitar and keyboards. They were popular in the late 1980s and early 1990s ...
A contrary view is that the name was a veiled insult. In 1891, the railway from Quorn reached remote Oodnadatta where an itinerant population of around 150 cameleers were based, generically called "Afghans". "The Ghan Express" name originated with train crews in the 1890s as a taunt to officialdom because, when an expensive sleeping car was put ...
The name Australia (pronounced / əˈstreɪliə / in Australian English [6]) is derived from the Latin australis, meaning "southern", and specifically from the hypothetical Terra Australis postulated in pre-modern geography. The name was popularised by the explorer Matthew Flinders from 1804, and it has been in official use since 1817 ...
Acraea terpsicore, commonly known as the tawny coster, is a species of butterfly in the Nymphalidae family, the brush-footed butterflies. It is found across eastern Asia from India and Sri Lanka to Singapore, Indonesia and the Maldives and, more recently, Australia.