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Metrication in Australia: a review of the effectiveness of policies and procedures in Australia's conversion to the metric system (PDF). Canberra: Department of Industry, Technology and Commerce, Australian Government Publishing Service. ISBN 0-644-24860-2. "Significant achievements and the history of measurement in Australia".
Metrication in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa was essentially complete within a decade, while in Canada metrication has been halted since the 1970s. In that country, the square foot is still widespread for commercial and residential advertisements and partially in construction because of the close trade relations with the United States ...
Books supporting metrication. Metric Signs Ahead (2005) by Robin Paice (ISBN 978-0-9552351-0-8) A Very British Mess (2004) by Robin Paice (ISBN 0750310146) Books opposing metrication. The General Rule by Vivian Linacre (ISBN 1906069018) About the Size of It by Warwick Cairns (ISBN 0230016286) Halsey, Frederick Arthur (1920).
History of metrication – metrication is the process by which legacy, national-specific systems of measurement were replaced by the metric system. Metrication in Australia Metrication in Barbados
The 20th century history of measurement is marked by five periods: the 1901 definition of the coherent MKS system; the intervening 50 years of coexistence of the MKS, cgs and common systems of measures; the 1948 Practical system of units prototype of the SI; the introduction of the SI in 1960; and the evolution of the SI in the latter half century.
Speed limits in Australia range from 5 km/h (3.1 mph) shared zones to 130 km/h (81 mph). Speed limit signage is in km/h since metrication on 1 July 1974. All speed limits, with the sole exception of the South Australian school and roadworks zones, which are signposted at 25 km/h, are multiples of 10 km/h – the last digit in all speed signs is zero.
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Admittedly, metrication is almost fully complete in Australia while in the UK road distances, beer, and milk are still presented in imperial units; along with the height and weight of persons especially when dealing with the over 40s. But pretty much everything else in the UK is metric.