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What river flows into the sea at Marlo,Victoria,Australia?
The Snowy River.

What is a mimosa?
An Australian evergreen with yellow flower clusters. It is also called the silver wattle.

What product did W.M. Foster start producing in Collingwood,Melbourne, Australia in 1888?
Beer.

Which Australian State grows the majority of Australia's cotton?
New South Wales.

Which Aboriginal people own Melville Island and Bathurst Islands, North of Darwin?
Tiwi.

In what Australian city is Fannie Bay jail?
Darwin.

Where in NSW did the 1984 motorcycle massacre take place?
Milperra.

Which BLF secretary was convicted of corruption in 1985?
Norm Gallagher.

Which former Australian premier said "Random breath-testing would impede people..and raise a spectre of Queensland as a police state"?
Joh Bjelke-Peterson.

Which Australian actress, born in 1959, was a heroine in The Man From Snowy River, was in All The Rivers Run and then had a Sea Change?
Sigrid Thornton.
 
In Australian slang, "Dunny" means?
A toilet.

What did the first Dutch explorers call Australia?
New Holland.

Sir Laurence Hartnett created which famous Australian icon?
Holden car.

The town of Koo-wee-rup is in which Australian state?
Victoria.

What does ANZAAS  stand for?
Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science.

Austel is the acronym for what?
Australian Telecommunications Authority.

In aviation what does CASA stand for?
Civil Aviation Safety Authority.

Australia's Clifton Pugh was associated with which field of the arts?
Painting.

King Island is situated in which body of Australian water?
Bass Strait.

Did Australia's first televised election debate take place in 1976, 1980 or 1984?
1984.

What 2 creatures are on the Australian coat of arms?
Kangaroo and Emu.

What is the most southerly town in the Kimberley?
Broome.

Which Australian prime minister had the smallest ministry?
Gough Whitlam.

Which Australian state grows more than half of Australia's cotton?
NSW.

Which of Australia's near neighbours has a province called New Ireland?
Papua New Guinea.

Where in Victoria did Ned Kelly shoot and kill three policemen in October, 1878?
Stringybark Creek.

Who is the executive director of Australians for Constitutional Monarchy?
Kerry Jones.

Who is the New South Wales Environment Minister?
Bob Debus.

What is the northern most state or territory capital in Australia?
Darwin.

In Australia, illegal tobacco is known by what hyphenated name?
Chop-chop.

Jerilderie, the scene of one of Ned Kelly's most daring robberies, is in what Australian state or territory?
Victoria.

A blue flyer is a mature female of what Australian animal?
Red Kangaroo.

Australian researcher Howard Florey shared a Noble Prize for helping develop which antibiotic?
Penicillin.

What is the world's largest fish?
Whale shark.

Which NSW opal-mining town has many homes built underground?
White Cliffs.

Near which Queensland city is Magnetic Island ?
Townsville.

What is the world's largest living marsupial?
Red Kangaroo.

Where in Australia would you find the Big Banana?
Near Coffs Harbour.

What is the name of the Governor-General's Canberra residence?
Yarralumla.

What type of an animal is a grouper?
Fish

In which Australian state are the Grampian Ranges?
Victoria.

Which Australian yacht was defeated in the 1987 America's Cup?
Kookaburra III.

In which year did Australia's population pass the 16 million mark?
1987.

Who starred in the 1988 movie Young Einstein?
Yahoo Serious.

Which writer lived on Dunk Island?
E.J. Banfield.

What is Simone Young's occupation?
Conductor.

Who played NIK in the movie Lantana?
Vince Colosimo.

Who was the first Australian woman to win Olympic swimming gold?
Fanny Durack.

Which famous ballet dancers came to Australia in 1964?
Dame Margot Fonteyn and Rudolph Nureyev.

In which year was Australia's first television program broadcast?
1956.

What was Jane Seville's sport?
Walking.

The 1975 book Johnno is the first published novel by which Australian writer?
David Malouf.

What is the name of the British adventurer who tried to row solo across the Indian Ocean in 2003?
Simon Chalk.

What is Australia's oldest ballet company?
The West Australian Ballet.

What is the world's longest coral reef?
Great Barrier Reef.

In which Banjo Paterson poem do riders pursue "the colt from Old Regret"?
The Man From Snowy River.

Bathurst and Melville are both large islands near which Australian capital city?
Darwin.

The late Jim Cairns served as deputy prime minister under which famous Australian leader?
Gough Whitlam.

Which controversial Australian political leader was jailed for three years for fraud?
Pauline Hanson.

The riverena district is in what Australian state?
NSW.

Which Nobel Prize-winning immunologist was president of the Australian Academy of Science from 1965 till 1969?
Sir MacFarlane Burnett.

Which two Australian rock singers were married on New Years Eve in 2003?
Daniel John (Silverchair) to Natalie Imbruglia.

What is the name of the NSW country town, which starts with the letter W, that is near Dubbo and Parkes?
Wellington.

Australia's top wine award is called the Jimmy ....... Trophy?
Watson.

Former United Nations chief weapons inspector Richard Butlerhas been named the new Governor of what Australian state?
Tasmania.

Australia's federal shadow treasurer is Mark whom?
Latham.

Built during the 1970s, which car manufacturer produced the popular Sandman panel van?
Holden.

Known internationally, Harry Seidler is a leading figure in Australia in what profession?
Architecture.

My Wicked, Wicked Ways is the life story of which late Hollywood swashbuckler, born in Tasmania?
Errol Flynn.

In what year was the first New Idea magazine published in Australia?
1902.