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Australia Day is the official national day of Australia.Observed annually on 26 January, it marks the 1788 landing of the First Fleet and raising of the Union Flag of Great Britain by Arthur Phillip at Sydney Cove, a small bay on the southern shore of Sydney Harbour. [2]
The National Australia Day Council (NADC) is a non-profit social enterprise owned by the Australian Government and is the national coordinating body for the Australian of the Year awards and Australia Day. It was established in 1979 and incorporated as a government-owned business in 1990.
ABC for Kids on 2 rebranded as ABC 4 Kids and was refocused as a part-time channel for preschoolers sharing the same bandwidth of ABC2 between 6am and 7pm. A new logo based on the ABC3 logo was also introduced. [9] In early 2014 all children's programming was removed from the main ABC channel and was divided between ABC 4 Kids and ABC3. [10]
The Australia Day Protests of 2012 began with a commemoration at the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Canberra to mark its 40th anniversary and culminated in a security scare which saw the Prime Minister and Opposition Leader of Australia escorted from a nearby Canberra venue amidst rowdy protesters. The protesters had been advised of the leaders ...
Woman buying wattle for Wattle Day, Sydney, 1935. Wattle Day is a day of celebration in Australia on the first day of September each year, [1] which is the start of the Australian spring. [2] This is the time when many Acacia species (commonly called wattles in Australia), are in flower. So, people wear a sprig of the flowers and leaves to ...
Australia Daze is a combination of footage shot by 29 different camera crews in various locations around Australia from midnight to midnight on 26 January 1988, the Bicentenary of European settlement in Australia. [4] [5] [6] [7]
75 Best Happy Birthday Paragraphs. 1. Wherever you go, you radiate positivity and warmth. Your day should be beautiful and bright—just like you.
Twitter announces that it would shut down the Twitter Dashboard. [162] 2017: January 12: Competition: The founders of App.net announce that the platform will shut down on March 14, 2017. App.net has been called "an ad-free, subscription-based, Twitter clone". [163] [164] The source code for App.net will be made available through its GitHub ...