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1955 in Australia, the Glossary

The following lists events that happened during 1955 in Australia.^[1]

167 relations: Aircraft carrier, Alan J. Gow, Alan Marshall (Australian writer), Allan Border, Archibald Prize, Arthur Fadden, Australia Davis Cup team, Australia national cricket team, Australian Grand Prix, Australian Labor Party, Australian Labor Party split of 1955, Australian Open (golf), Australian PGA Championship, Bangkok, Bauxite, Bert Hawke, Beryl Penrose, Blake Prize, Bledisloe Cup, Bobby Locke, Brisbane Rugby League premiership, Caulfield Cup, Charles Chauvel (filmmaker), Charles Gairdner, Charles Shaw (writer), Chief Justice of Australia, Coalition (Australia), Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Collingwood Football Club, Collins St., 5 pm, Congress Poland, Cooper Car Company, Dallas Brooks, Dame Edna Everage, David Atkins, David Hookes, David Smith (racewalker), Davis Cup, Deborra-Lee Furness, Democratic Labor Party (Australia, 1955), Division of Wannon, Donald Friend, Elizabeth II, Elizabeth, South Australia, England cricket team, Fitzroy Football Club, Fortitude Valley Diehards, Governor of New South Wales, Governor of Queensland, Governor of South Australia, ... Expand index (117 more) »

Aircraft carrier

An aircraft carrier is a warship that serves as a seagoing airbase, equipped with a full-length flight deck and facilities for carrying, arming, deploying, and recovering aircraft.

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Alan J. Gow

Alan James Gow (born 23 June 1955) is the chief executive of the British Touring Car Championship (BTCC) and president of the FIA (Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile) Touring Car Commission.

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Alan Marshall (Australian writer)

Alan Marshall, (2 May 1902 – 21 January 1984) was an Australian writer, story teller, humanist and social documenter.

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Allan Border

Allan Robert Border (born 27 July 1955) is an Australian cricket commentator and former international cricketer.

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Archibald Prize

The Archibald Prize is an Australian portraiture art prize for painting, generally seen as the most prestigious portrait prize in Australia.

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Arthur Fadden

Sir Arthur William Fadden (13 April 189421 April 1973) was an Australian politician and accountant who served as the 13th prime minister of Australia from 29 August to 7 October 1941.

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Australia Davis Cup team

The Australia Davis Cup team is the second most successful team ever to compete in the Davis Cup, winning the coveted title on 28 separate occasions, second behind the United States with 32.

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Australia national cricket team

The Australia men's national cricket team represents Australia in men's international cricket.

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Australian Grand Prix

The Australian Grand Prix is an annual motor racing event which is under contract to host Formula One until 2035.

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The Australian Labor Party (ALP), also known simply as Labor or the Labor Party, is the major centre-left political party in Australia and one of two major parties in Australian politics, along with the centre-right Liberal Party of Australia.

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Australian Labor Party split of 1955

The Australian Labor Party split of 1955 was a split within the Australian Labor Party along ethnocultural lines and about the position towards communism.

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Australian Open (golf)

The Australian Open, owned and run by Golf Australia, is the oldest and most prestigious golf tournament on the PGA Tour of Australasia.

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Australian PGA Championship

The Australian PGA Championship is a golf tournament on the PGA Tour of Australasia.

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Bangkok

Bangkok, officially known in Thai as Krung Thep Maha Nakhon and colloquially as Krung Thep, is the capital and most populous city of Thailand.

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Bauxite

Bauxite is a sedimentary rock with a relatively high aluminium content.

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Bert Hawke

Albert Redvers George Hawke (3 December 1900 – 14 February 1986) was an Australian politician who was the premier of Western Australia from 23 February 1953 to 2 April 1959.

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Beryl Penrose

Beryl Penrose (22 December 1930 – 23 June 2021) was an Australian international tennis player.

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Blake Prize

The Blake Prize, formerly the Blake Prize for Religious Art, is an Australian art prize awarded for art that explores spirituality.

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Bledisloe Cup

The Bledisloe Cup is an annual rugby union competition between the national teams of Australia's Wallabies and New Zealand's All Blacks that has been contested since the 1930s.

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Bobby Locke

Arthur D'Arcy "Bobby" Locke (20 November 1917 – 9 March 1987) was a South African professional golfer.

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Brisbane Rugby League premiership

The Brisbane Rugby League premiership was a rugby league football competition in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

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Caulfield Cup

The Caulfield Cup is a Melbourne Racing Club Group 1 Thoroughbred horse race held under handicap conditions.

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Charles Chauvel (filmmaker)

Charles Edward Chauvel OBE (7 October 1897 – 11 November 1959) was an Australian filmmaker, producer and screenwriter and nephew of Australian army General Sir Harry Chauvel.

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Charles Gairdner

Lieutenant General Sir Charles Henry Gairdner, (20 March 1898 – 22 February 1983) was a senior British Army officer who later occupied two viceregal positions in Australia.

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Charles Shaw (writer)

Charles Herbert Shaw (10 August 1900 – 1 August 1955) was an Australian journalist and novelist.

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Chief Justice of Australia

The chief justice of Australia is the presiding justice of the High Court of Australia and the highest-ranking judicial officer in the Commonwealth of Australia.

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Coalition (Australia)

The Liberal–National Coalition, commonly known simply as the Coalition or the LNP, is an alliance of centre-right to right-wing political parties that forms one of the two major groupings in Australian federal politics.

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Cocos (Keeling) Islands

The Cocos (Keeling) Islands (Pulu Kokos), officially the Territory of Cocos (Keeling) Islands (Pulu Kokos), are an Australian external territory in the Indian Ocean, comprising a small archipelago approximately midway between Australia and Sri Lanka and relatively close to the Indonesian island of Sumatra.

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The Collingwood Football Club, nicknamed the Magpies or colloquially the Pies, is a professional Australian rules football club based in Melbourne, Victoria that competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's elite competition.

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Collins St., 5 pm

Collins St., 5 pm is a 1955 painting by Australian artist John Brack.

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Congress Poland

Congress Poland or Congress Kingdom of Poland, formally known as the Kingdom of Poland, was a polity created in 1815 by the Congress of Vienna as a semi-autonomous Polish state, a successor to Napoleon's Duchy of Warsaw.

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Cooper Car Company

The Cooper Car Company is a British car manufacturer founded in December 1947 by Charles Cooper and his son John Cooper.

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Dallas Brooks

General Sir Reginald Alexander Dallas Brooks, (22 August 1896 – 22 March 1966) was a British military commander who went on to become the 19th and longest-serving governor of Victoria, Australia.

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Dame Edna Everage

Dame Edna Everage, often known simply as Dame Edna, is a character created and performed by late Australian comedian Barry Humphries, known for her lilac-coloured ("wisteria hue") hair and cat eye glasses ("face furniture"); her favourite flower, the gladiolus ("gladdies"); and her boisterous greeting "Hello, Possums!" As Dame Edna, Humphries wrote several books, including an autobiography, My Gorgeous Life; appeared in several films; and hosted several television shows (on which Humphries also appeared as himself and other alter-egos).

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David Atkins

David Atkins, OAM (born 12 December 1955) is an Australian dancer, choreographer, music-theatre director and producer.

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David Hookes

David William Hookes (3 May 1955 – 19 January 2004) was an Australian cricket player and coach.

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David Smith (racewalker)

David Gregory "Dave" Smith (born 24 July 1955) is a retired male race walker from Australia, who represented his native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1980 (Moscow).

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Davis Cup

The Davis Cup is the premier international team event in men's tennis.

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Deborra-Lee Furness

Deborra-Lee Furness Jackman, (born 30 November 1955) is an Australian actress and producer.

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Democratic Labor Party (Australia, 1955)

The Democratic Labor Party (DLP) was an Australian political party.

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Division of Wannon

The Division of Wannon is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of Victoria.

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Donald Friend

Donald Stuart Leslie Friend (6 February 1915 – 16 August 1989) was an Australian artist and diarist who lived much of his life overseas.

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Elizabeth II

Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; 21 April 19268 September 2022) was Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms from 6 February 1952 until her death in 2022.

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Elizabeth, South Australia

Elizabeth is an outer northern suburb of the Adelaide metropolitan area, South Australia, 24 km north of the Adelaide city centre.

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England cricket team

The England men's cricket team represents England and Wales in international cricket.

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The Fitzroy Football Club is an Australian rules football club currently competing in the Victorian Amateur Football Association (VAFA).

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Fortitude Valley Diehards

The Fortitude Valley Diehards, often referred to simply as Valleys, are an Australian semi-professional rugby league football club based in the Brisbane suburb of Fortitude Valley.

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Governor of New South Wales

The governor of New South Wales is the representative of the monarch, King Charles III, in the state of New South Wales.

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Governor of Queensland

The Governor of Queensland is the representative of the monarch, currently King Charles III, in the state of Queensland.

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Governor of South Australia

The governor of South Australia is the representative in South Australia of the monarch, currently King Charles III.

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Governor of Tasmania

The governor of Tasmania is the representative in the Australian state of Tasmania of the monarch, currently King Charles III.

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Governor of Victoria

The governor of Victoria is the representative of the monarch, currently King Charles III, in the Australian state of Victoria.

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Governor of Western Australia

The governor of Western Australia is the representative in Western Australia of the monarch, King Charles III.

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Governor-General of Australia

The governor-general of Australia is the representative of the monarch of Australia, currently King Charles III.

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Graham Murray

Graham Ernest Murray (6 January 1955 – 28 July 2013) was an Australian professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1970s and 1980s, and coached in the 1990s, 2000s and 2010s.

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Greg Norman

Gregory John Norman AO (born 10 February 1955) is an Australian former professional golfer who spent 331 weeks as world number one in the 1980s and 1990s.

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H. V. Evatt

Herbert Vere "Doc" Evatt, (30 April 1894 – 2 November 1965) was an Australian politician and judge.

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Harry Cobby

Air Commodore Arthur Henry Cobby, (26 August 1894 – 11 November 1955) was an Australian military aviator.

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Haydn Bunton Sr.

Haydn William Bunton (5 July 1911 – 5 September 1955) was an Australian rules footballer who represented in the Victorian Football League (VFL), in the West Australian Football League (WAFL), and in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) during the 1930s and 1940s.

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Henry Bolte

Sir Henry Edward Bolte (20 May 1908 – 4 January 1990) was an Australian politician who served as the 38th premier of Victoria from 1955 to 1972.

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HMS Vengeance (R71)

HMS Vengeance (R71) was a light aircraft carrier built for the Royal Navy during World War II.

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Hunter River (New South Wales)

The Hunter River (Wonnarua: Coquun) is a major river in New South Wales, Australia.

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Ivor Hele

Sir Ivor Henry Thomas Hele, CBE (13 June 1912 – 1 December 1993) was an Australian artist noted for portraiture.

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Jack Brabham

Sir John Arthur Brabham (2 April 1926 – 19 May 2014) was an Australian racing driver who was Formula One World Champion in,, and.

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Jedda

Jedda, released in the UK as Jedda the Uncivilised, is a 1955 Australian film written, produced and directed by Charles Chauvel.

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Jim Saleam

James Saleam (born 18 September 1955) is an Australian political scientist, academic, political activist, and author noted for his involvement in Australian nationalism, anti-globalism, and the anti-immigration movement.

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John Brack

John Brack (10 May 1920 – 11 February 1999) was an Australian painter, and a member of the Antipodeans group.

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John Cain (34th Premier of Victoria)

John Cain (19 January 1882 – 4 August 1957) was an Australian politician, who became the 34th premier of Victoria, and was the first Labor Party leader to win a majority in the Victorian Legislative Assembly.

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John Lavarack

Lieutenant General Sir John Dudley Lavarack, (19 December 1885 – 4 December 1957) was an Australian Army officer who was Governor of Queensland from 1 October 1946 to 4 December 1957, the first Australian-born governor of that state.

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John Northcott

Lieutenant General Sir John Northcott (24 March 1890 – 4 August 1966) was an Australian Army general who served as Chief of the General Staff during the Second World War, and commanded the British Commonwealth Occupation Force in the Occupation of Japan.

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John Radecki

John Radecki (also known as Johann and Jan Radecki) (2 August 186510 May 1955) was a master stained glass artist working in Australia, considered to be the finest such artist of his time.

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Joseph Cahill

John Joseph Cahill (21 January 189122 October 1959), also known as Joe Cahill or J. J. Cahill, was a long-serving New South Wales politician, railway worker, trade unionist and Labor Party Premier of New South Wales from 1952 to his death in 1959.

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Judy Davis

Judith Davis (born 23 April 1955) is an Australian actress.

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Katherine Knight

Katherine Mary Knight (born 24 October 1955) is an Australian murderer and the first woman in the country's history to be sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.

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Keith Macpherson Smith

Sir Keith Macpherson Smith, KBE (20 December 1890 – 19 December 1955) was an Australian aviator, who, along with his brother, Sir Ross Macpherson Smith, Sergeant James Mallett (Jim) Bennett and Sergeant Walter (Wally) Shiers, became the first people to fly from England to Australia.

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Ken Rosewall

Kenneth Robert Rosewall (born 2 November 1934) is an Australian former world top-ranking professional tennis player.

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Lew Hoad

Lewis Alan Hoad (23 November 1934 – 3 July 1994) was an Australian tennis player whose career ran from 1950 to 1973.

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Liberal Party of Australia

The Liberal Party of Australia is a centre-right political party in Australia.

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Lincoln Hall (climber)

Lincoln Rossl Hall OAM (19 December 195520 March 2012) was a veteran Australian mountain climber, adventurer and author.

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List of Australian Open men's singles champions

The Australian Open is an annual tennis tournament created in 1905 and (since 1988) played on outdoor hardcourts at Melbourne Park in Melbourne, Australia.

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List of Australian Open women's singles champions

The Australian Open is an annual tennis tournament created in 1905 and played on outdoor hard courts at Melbourne Park in Melbourne, Australia.

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List of SANFL premiers

This page is a chronological listing of the premiership winners in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) – the premier Australian rules football competition in the state of South Australia.

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List of VFL/AFL premiers

This page is a complete chronological listing of VFL/AFL premiers.

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List of Wimbledon doubles champions

The list of Doubles champions at the Wimbledon Championships can be found at.

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Malcolm Fraser

John Malcolm Fraser (21 May 1930 – 20 March 2015) was an Australian politician who served as the 22nd prime minister of Australia from 1975 to 1983.

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Mario Andreacchio

Mario Andreacchio (born 1 January 1955) is an Australian film producer/director.

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Mary-Anne Fahey

Mary-Anne Fahey (born 19 August 1955 as Mary-Anne Waterman) credited also as Maryanne Fahey, is an Australian actress, comedian, screenwriter and children's author.

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Max Meldrum

Duncan Max Meldrum (3 December 1875 – 6 June 1955) was a Scottish-born Australian artist and art teacher, best known as the founder of Australian tonalism, a representational painting style that became popular in Melbourne during the interwar period.

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Melbourne

Melbourne (Boonwurrung/Narrm or Naarm) is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in Australia, after Sydney.

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Melbourne Cup

The Melbourne Cup is an annual Group 1 Thoroughbred horse race held in Melbourne, Australia, at the Flemington Racecourse.

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The Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed the Demons, is a professional Australian rules football club that competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's elite competition.

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Melbourne Theatre Company

The Melbourne Theatre Company is a theatre company based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

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Monarchy of Australia

The monarchy of Australia is a key component of Australia's form of government, by which a hereditary monarch serves as the country’s sovereign and head of state.

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Murray–Darling basin

The Murray–Darling Basin is a large geographical area in the interior of southeastern Australia, encompassing the drainage basin of the tributaries of the Murray River, Australia's longest river, and the Darling River, a right tributary of the Murray and Australia's third-longest river.

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National Party of Australia

The National Party of Australia, also known as The Nationals or The Nats, is a centre-right, agrarian political party in Australia.

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New South Wales cricket team

The New South Wales men's cricket team (formerly named NSW Blues) are an Australian men's professional first class cricket team based in Sydney, New South Wales.

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New South Wales Rugby League premiership

The New South Wales Rugby League premiership was the first rugby league football club competition established in Australia and contributor to today's National Rugby League.

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New Zealand national rugby union team

The New Zealand national rugby union team, commonly known as the All Blacks, represents New Zealand in men's international rugby union, which is considered the country's national sport.

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Newtown Jets

The Newtown Jets are an Australian rugby league football club based in Newtown, a suburb of Sydney's inner west.

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Oakleigh, Victoria

Oakleigh is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 14 km south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Monash local government area.

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Ossie Pickworth

Horace Henry Alfred "Ossie" Pickworth (17 January 1918 – 23 September 1969) was a leading Australian professional golfer of the 1940s and 1950s, winner of three successive Australian Open titles from 1946 to 1948, the last of which came in a playoff against Jim Ferrier.

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Owen Dixon

Sir Owen Dixon (28 April 1886 – 7 July 1972) was an Australian judge and diplomat who served as the sixth Chief Justice of Australia.

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P. C. Anderson

Peter Corsar Anderson CBE (17 February 1871 – 26 August 1955) was an influential educator and golfer in Western Australia.

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Past Brothers

The Past Brothers Rugby League Football Club, or Brisbane Brothers Rugby League Football Club nicknamed the Leprechauns, or more commonly known as Brothers, or as The Brethren, was a rugby league club based in the city of Brisbane, Australia, that played in the top level of football from its foundation in 1929 until 1998.

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Patrick White

Patrick Victor Martindale White (28 May 1912 – 30 September 1990) was an Australian writer who published 12 novels, three short-story collections, and eight plays, from 1935 to 1987.

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Paul Kelly (Australian musician)

Paul Maurice Kelly (born 13 January 1955) is an Australian rock music singer-songwriter and guitarist.

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Paul Lennon

Paul Anthony Lennon (born 8 October 1955) is a Labor Party politician.

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Peter McNamara

Peter McNamara (5 July 1955 – 20 July 2019) was an Australian tennis player and coach.

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Port Adelaide Football Club is a professional Australian rules football club based in Alberton, South Australia.

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Port Wakefield, South Australia

Port Wakefield (formerly Port Henry) is a town at the mouth of the River Wakefield, at the head of the Gulf St Vincent in South Australia.

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Premier of New South Wales

The premier of New South Wales is the head of government in the state of New South Wales, Australia.

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Premier of Queensland

The premier of Queensland is the head of government in the Australian state of Queensland.

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Premier of South Australia

The premier of South Australia is the head of government in the state of South Australia, Australia.

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Premier of Tasmania

The premier of Tasmania is the head of the executive government in the Australian state of Tasmania.

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Premier of Victoria

The premier of Victoria is the head of government of the state of Victoria in Australia.

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Premier of Western Australia

The premier of Western Australia is the head of government of the state of Western Australia.

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Prime Minister of Australia

The prime minister of Australia is the head of government of the Commonwealth of Australia.

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Ray Blacklock

Raymond Patrick Blacklock (6 April 1955 – 28 October 2020) was an Australian rugby league footballer who played in the 1970s and 1980s.

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Ray Lawler

Raymond Evenor Lawler (23 May 1921 – 24 July 2024) was an Australian playwright and dramatist, actor, theatre producer and director.

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Rex Hartwig

Rex Noel Hartwig (2 September 1929 – 30 December 2022) was an Australian tennis player.

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Rising Fast

Rising Fast (1949 - 1978) was a champion New Zealand-bred Thoroughbred racehorse who is the only horse to complete the Spring Grand Slam, winning the Melbourne Cup, Caulfield Cup, and Cox Plate in 1954.

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Robert Campbell (art gallery director)

Robert Campbell (1902–1972) was director of the Art Gallery of South Australia, the first director of the Queensland Art Gallery and also a painter in his own right.

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Robert Cosgrove

Sir Robert Cosgrove (28 December 1884 – 25 August 1969) was an Australian politician who was the 30th and longest-serving Premier of Tasmania.

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Robert Flower

Robert Alan Flower (5 August 1955 – 2 October 2014) was an Australian rules footballer with Melbourne Football Club.

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Robert George (RAF officer)

Air Vice Marshal Sir Robert Allingham George, (27 July 1896 – 13 September 1967) was a senior officer in the Royal Air Force and Governor of South Australia from 23 February 1953 until 7 March 1960.

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Robert Menzies

Sir Robert Gordon Menzies (20 December 1894 – 15 May 1978) was an Australian politician and lawyer who served as the 12th prime minister of Australia from 1939 to 1941 and 1949 to 1966.

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Ron S. Peno

Ronald Stephen Peno (26 July 1955 – 11 August 2023), who also performed as Ron S. Peno and Ronnie Pop, was an Australian rock singer and songwriter who fronted Died Pretty from 1983 to 2002.

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Royal Australian Navy

The Royal Australian Navy (RAN) is the naval force of the Australian Defence Force (ADF).

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Royal Navy

The Royal Navy (RN) is the naval warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, and a component of His Majesty's Naval Service.

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Scrabble

Scrabble is a word game in which two to four players score points by placing tiles, each bearing a single letter, onto a game board divided into a 15×15 grid of squares.

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Sheffield Shield

The Sheffield Shield (currently known for sponsorship reasons as the Marsh Sheffield Shield) is the domestic first-class cricket competition of Australia.

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Sir Ronald Cross, 1st Baronet

Sir Ronald Hibbert Cross, 1st Baronet, (9 May 1896 – 3 June 1968) was a British politician and diplomat.

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Snowy Mountains Scheme

The Snowy Mountains Scheme, also known as the Snowy Hydro or the Snowy scheme, is a hydroelectricity and irrigation complex in south-east Australia.

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South Sydney Rabbitohs

The South Sydney Rabbitohs are an Australian professional rugby league football club based in the Sydney suburb of Redfern that competes in the National Rugby League (NRL).

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Southeast Asia Treaty Organization

The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) was an international organization for collective defense in Southeast Asia created by the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty signed in September 1954 in Manila, Philippines.

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Southport

Southport is a seaside town in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton in Merseyside, England.

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Summer of the Seventeenth Doll

Summer of the Seventeenth Doll is an Australian play written by Ray Lawler and first performed at the Union Theatre in Melbourne on 28 November 1955.

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Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race

The Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race is an annual event hosted by the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia, starting in Sydney, New South Wales, on Boxing Day and finishing in Hobart, Tasmania.

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The Argus (Melbourne)

The Argus was an Australian daily morning newspaper in Melbourne from 2 June 1846 to 19 January 1957, and was considered to be the general Australian newspaper of record for this period.

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The Ashes

The Ashes is a men's Test cricket series played biennially between England and Australia.

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The Car (Brack)

The Car is a 1955 painting by Australian artist John Brack.

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The Central Queensland Herald

The Central Queensland Herald was a newspaper published in Rockhampton, Queensland from 1930 to 1956; it was created with the merger of The Artesian and The Capricornian.

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The Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) is a daily tabloid newspaper published in Sydney, Australia, and owned by Nine.

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The Tree of Man

The Tree of Man is the fourth published novel by the Australian novelist and 1973 Nobel Prize-winner, Patrick White.

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Theatre of Australia

Theatre of Australia refers to the history of the live performing arts in Australia: performed, written or produced by Australians.

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Thelma Coyne Long

Thelma Dorothy Coyne Long (née Coyne; 14 October 1918 – 13 April 2015) was an Australian tennis player and one of the female players who dominated Australian tennis from the mid-1930s to the 1950s.

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Thomas Playford IV

Sir Thomas Playford (5 July 1896 – 16 June 1981) was an Australian politician from the state of South Australia.

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Tim Costello

Timothy Ewen Costello (born 4 March 1955) is an Australian Baptist minister who was the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Advocate of World Vision Australia.

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Tommy Emmanuel

William Thomas Emmanuel (born 31 May 1955) is an Australian guitarist.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.

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United States Davis Cup team

The United States men's national tennis team represents the United States in Davis Cup tennis competition, and is governed by the United States Tennis Association.

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Victoria (state)

Victoria (commonly abbreviated as Vic) is a state in southeastern Australia.

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Victorian Liberal Party

The Victorian Liberal Party, officially known as the Liberal Party of Australia (Victorian Division) and branded as Liberal Victoria, is the state division of the Liberal Party of Australia in Victoria.

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Vince Gair

Vincent Clair Gair (25 February 190111 November 1980) was an Australian politician.

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W. S. Cox Plate

The W. S. Cox Plate is a Group 1 Thoroughbred horse race for horses aged three years old and over under Weight for age conditions, over a distance of 2040 metres (approximately 1m 2f), that is held by the Moonee Valley Racing Club at Moonee Valley Racecourse, Melbourne, Australia in late October.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1955_in_Australia

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