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Nelson (Māori: Whakatū) is a New Zealand city on the eastern shores of Tasman Bay at the top of the South Island. It is the oldest city in the South Island...

This list of Australian Aboriginal group names includes names and collective designations which have been applied, either currently or in the past, to...

Crime in Australia is managed by various law enforcement bodies (federal and state-based police forces and local councils), the federal and state-based...

Lonely Planet is a travel guide book publisher. Founded in Australia in 1973, the company has printed over 150 million books. Lonely Planet was founded...

In Australia, liberalism has a vast interpretation and a broad definition. It dates back to the earliest Australian pioneers and has maintained a strong...

Peel Island (Janday: Teerk Roo Ra, also sometimes phonetically spelt Jercuruba or Jercroobai) is a small heritage-listed island located in Moreton Bay...

Renmark is a town in South Australia's rural Riverland area, and is located 254 km (157.83 mi) northeast of Adelaide, on the banks of the River Murray...

Crime in New Zealand encompasses criminal law, crime statistics, the nature and characteristics of crime, sentencing, punishment, and public perceptions...

James Ruse Agricultural High School (colloquially known as Ruse or JR) is a government-funded co-educational academically selective and specialist secondary...

Paeroa is a town in the Hauraki District of the Waikato Region in the North Island of New Zealand. Located at the base of the Coromandel Peninsula, it...

Wallendbeen is a small town in southern New South Wales, Australia, administered by Cootamundra-Gundagai Regional Council. At the 2011 census, Wallendbeen...

The China–New Zealand relations, sometimes known as Sino–New Zealand relations, are the relations between China and New Zealand. New Zealand recognised...

This is a chronological list of international or colonial world's fairs. 1791 – Prague, Bohemia – first industrial exhibition on the occasion of the coronation...

The Australian government has a policy and practice of detaining in immigration detention facilities non-citizens not holding a valid visa, suspected of...

Sumner is a coastal seaside suburb of Christchurch, New Zealand and was surveyed and named in 1849 in honour of John Bird Sumner, the then newly appointed...

Ambrym is a volcanic island in Malampa Province in the archipelago of Vanuatu. Volcanic activity on the island includes lava lakes in two craters near...

Helen Dalley (born 1957) is an Australian journalist, who formerly worked for Kerry Packer's Publishing and Broadcasting Limited (PBL) media stable. Dalley...

Kura kaupapa Māori are Māori-language immersion schools (kura) in New Zealand, where the philosophy and practice reflect Māori cultural values with the...

The culture of Guam reflects traditional Chamorro customs in a combination of indigenous pre-Hispanic forms, as well as American, Spanish and Mexican traditions...

The Lola T332 was a race car designed and built by Lola Cars for use in Formula 5000 racing and made its racing debut in 1973. The T332 was successful...

Rocky Elsom (born 14 February 1983) is an Australian former rugby union player. He played the positions of flanker and number eight. He was selected for...

Honeypot ants, also called honey ants, are ants which have specialized workers (repletes, plerergates, or rotunds) that consume large amounts of food to...

The Advance was a diesel powered wooden carvel schooner built in 1903 at Kaipara, that was wrecked at Wreck Bay, New South Wales in 1915. The wreck has...

The Bunyip is a weekly newspaper, first printed on 5 September 1863, and originally published and printed in Gawler, South Australia. Its distribution...

nib Group (nib, formerly Newcastle Industrial Benefits) is an Australian health care fund. It was established in 1952 to provide health insurance for workers...

Jai Waetford (born 25 January 1999) is an Australian pop singer and songwriter who was the last contestant eliminated on the fifth season of The X Factor...

Hourly, Daily is an album by the Australian rock band, You Am I, released in July 1996. The album is Tim Rogers' portrait of Australian life, spread across...

The Moriah War Memorial College (or more commonly, Moriah College) is an independent Modern Orthodox Jewish co-educational early learning, primary and...

McLaren Vale is a wine region in the Australian state of South Australia located in the Adelaide metropolitan area and centred on the town of McLaren Vale...

Greenvale is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 20 km (12 mi) north of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Hume...

Francis Edgar Awaritefe (born 18 April 1964) is a former professional soccer player. Born in England, he made three appearances for the Australia scoring...

Hato Hone St John (also often referred to as St John Ambulance of New Zealand) is a charitable organisation providing healthcare services to the New Zealand...

Yering is a town in Victoria, Australia, 38 km north-east from Melbourne's central business district, located within the Shire of Yarra Ranges local government...

Andrew McGahan (10 October 1966 – 1 February 2019) was an Australian novelist. His first novel Praise is considered to be part of the Australian literary...

Ozimops ridei is a species of molossid bat found in eastern Australia. A species of genus Ozimops, established to separate new species and generic combinations...

John Coburn AM (23 September 1925 – 7 November 2006) was an Australian abstract painter, teacher, tapestry designer and printmaker. Born in Ingham, Queensland...

The Australian National University Union Incorporated (ANU Union), established in 1965, is an inactive not-for-profit association that previously operated...

Tallangatta (/təˈlæŋɡætə/) is a town in north-eastern Victoria, Australia. The town lies on the banks of the Mitta Arm of Lake Hume, approximately 38 kilometres...

The 2018–19 Y-League season (also known as the 2018–19 Foxtel Y-League season for sponsorship reasons) was the eleventh season of the Australian Y-League...

Caxton Street is a street in the Brisbane suburb of Petrie Terrace in Queensland, Australia. It forms part of the Petrie Terrace Heritage Trail. Named...

Catriona (Cat) Sparks (born 11 September 1965, Sydney, New South Wales) is an Australian science fiction writer, editor and publisher. As manager and editor...

The phrase His Majesty's Government (or Her Majesty's Government during the reign of a female monarch) is a formal term referring to the government of...

Strange Objects is a 1990 novel by Australian author Gary Crew. Strange Objects is set in and around Geraldton in Western Australia and is based on the...

Notoryctidae are a family of marsupials comprising the marsupial moles and their fossil relatives. It is the only family in the order Notoryctemorphia...

Simon Deering, better known by nickname Hotdogs, was a contestant and 11th evictee of Big Brother Australia 2005. He has continued a career in Australian...

In some of the Commonwealth realms, a division bell is a bell rung in or around parliament to signal a division (a vote) to members of the relevant chamber...

Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap Download coordinates as: KML GPX (all coordinates) GPX (primary coordinates) GPX (secondary coordinates) Macleay...

Craig Horner (born 24 January 1983) is an Australian actor and musician who first appeared in the Australian television program Cybergirl. He is best known...

Ardijah is a music group from Auckland, New Zealand that formed in 1979. Ardijah formed in 1979 and spent the early part of the eighties playing the Auckland...

David John Teece CNZM (born September 2, 1948) is a New Zealand-born US-based organizational economist and the Professor in Global Business and director...

Mont Albert North is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 13 km east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Whitehorse...

Jonathan Eric Faine AM (born 21 September 1956) is an Australian former radio presenter who hosted the morning program on ABC Radio Melbourne in Melbourne...

David John Karoly FAA (born 1955) is an Australian atmospheric scientist, currently based at CSIRO. In the early 1970s David Karoly enrolled in applied...

Rapid was a brig launched in 1821 or 1826 at Yarmouth. In 1836 she brought William Light's surveying party to the new colony of South Australia. She was...

Ross Gittins AM FASSA FRSN (born 1948 in Newcastle, Australia) is an Australian political and economic journalist and author, known for "his ability to...

Napoleon Perdis (born 19 March 1970) is an Australian make-up artist and businessman. Perdis launched a small makeup studio in the Sydney suburb of Leichhardt...

Gillen is a suburb of the town of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory, Australia. It is on the traditional Country of the Arrernte people. The suburb...

The Deer Park Mosque is a mosque located in the Melbourne north-western suburb of Deer Park, in Victoria, Australia. The mosque is supervised by the Australian...

Ficus coronulata, commonly known as the peach-leaf fig, and in the Northern Territory as river fig and crown fig, is one of several fig species commonly...

John Casimir Zichy Woinarski is an Australian ornithologist, mammalogist, and herpetologist. He was awarded the 2001 Eureka Prize for Biodiversity Research...

Iraena Te Rama Awhina Asher (born 17 July 1979) was an Auckland trainee teacher and model who disappeared under controversial circumstances at Piha, a...

The Manus friarbird (Philemon albitorques) or white-naped friarbird, also known as the chauka ('souka' in Lele, the local language) is a species of bird...

Sir Constantine Trent Champion de Crespigny, DSO, VD (pron. də kre'pəni) (5 March 1882 – 27 October 1952), generally referred to as C. T. C. de Crespigny...

The Abbey is an historic house located at 272 Johnston Street in the Sydney suburb of Annandale, New South Wales, Australia. The house is listed on the...

James Ryan O'Neill (born Leigh Anthony Bridgart in 1947) is an Australian convicted murderer and suspected serial killer, currently serving a life sentence...

Noke is a culinary term used by the Māori of New Zealand to refer to earthworms. Some types of native worms (called noke whiti and noke kurekure in Māori)...

Caroline Bird is an Australian archaeologist and educator. She specialises in women's studies, cultural heritage, and indigenous studies in the archaeological...

Asianopis subrufa (also called the rufous net-casting spider) is a species of net-casting spiders. It occurs in Australia (Queensland, New South Wales...

Strickland House is a heritage-listed former residence and convalescent home and now functions, film studio, urban park and visitor attraction located...

John Allanson is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1980s and 1990s. He played for the Western Suburbs Magpies...

Winsome Hall Andrew (1905–1997) was an Australian architect. Andrew was born in Woollahra, New South Wales in 1905. She was the fifth child born of ten...

General speed limits in New Zealand are set by the New Zealand government. The speed limit in each location is indicated on a nearby traffic sign or by...

Matthew Simon Drummond is an Australian film director, screenwriter and visual effects supervisor. Matthew Drummond is the eldest child of musician Pat...

Maxine Seear (born 18 December 1984 in Johannesburg, South Africa) is an athlete from Australia, who competes in triathlons. Seear competed at the second...

Sir Donald Henry Trescowthick, AC, KBE (born 4 December 1930) is an Australian businessman. Trescowthick was involved in several Australian business enterprises...

Katherine Stewart Forbes was a full-rigged ship built by William & Henry Pitcher at Northfleet dockyard in Kent, England in 1818. She was classified as...

Gametraders is an Australian retailer of computer and video games, accessories, anime DVDs and toys. The company was founded in 2001 by Mark Langford,...

Avalon Biddle (born 21 September 1992) is a motorcycle racer from New Zealand. In 2017, she competed in the Supersport 300 World Championship aboard a...

Graham Settree is a former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1980s and 1990s. He played for the Parramatta Eels from 1985 to 1988...

Andrew Brown (born 26 April 1981) is a former Scotland international rugby league footballer who played in the 2000s. He played at club level for the Fife...

WildTomato is a monthly lifestyle magazine focused on the Nelson and Marlborough regions in the northern part of the South Island of New Zealand. The regional...

Erinn Swan (born 19 July 1984) is an Australian singer and songwriter from Brisbane. She is also an A&R Representative for Sony Music Australia and Head...

Shubra Hall is a heritage-listed former semi-rural suburban estate and mansion residence and now administration building for school purposes at Boundary...

Frances Cannon is a multidisciplinary queer artist and author located in Melbourne, Australia who works primarily with watercolour, gouache and ink. They...

Fishery Bay whaling station was a whaling station located in the Colony of South Australia on the coast of Fishery Bay, a subsidiary of the larger Sleaford...

Queensland's Sunshine Coast has sporting teams across national, state, and local levels. Some Coast based clubs trace their history back to the early 20th...

Townsville is a city on the north-eastern coast of Queensland, Australia. With a population of 179,011 as of the 2021 census, it is the largest settlement...

Kathryn Anne McClymont AM is a journalist who writes for The Sydney Morning Herald. Notable for exposing corruption in politics, trade unions, sport, and...

The Ocean Party was an indie rock band originally from Wagga Wagga, Australia and based in Melbourne. Formed in 2009, the band's final line-up consisted...