Australasian is the adjectival form of
Australasia, a geographical region including
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma ...
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New Zealand, and
New Guinea.
Australasian may also refer to:
Institutions
Commercial
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Australasian Correctional Management
Australasian Correctional Management (ACM) was a private Australian company that existed from 1991 to 2003 and was owned by American company Wackenhut.
History
From 1998 until 2003 ACM was responsible for running at least six immigration detenti ...
, private company running prisons and detention centres
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Australasian Steam Navigation Company, shipping company
Professional
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Australasian Anti-Transportation League
The Australasian Anti-Transportation League was a body established to oppose penal transportation to Australia.C. H. Currey"Denison, Sir William Thomas (18041871)" ''Australian Dictionary of Biography'', National Centre of Biography, Australian ...
, body established to oppose penal transportation to Australia
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Australasian Association for Logic
The Australasian Association for Logic (AAL) is a philosophy, philosophical organisation for logicians in Australia and New Zealand founded in 1965. The purpose of the organisation is to promote the study of logic. The association publishes the Au ...
, philosophical organisation for logicians
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Australasian Association of Philosophy, professional organisation of academic philosophers
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Australasian College of Health Informatics
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Australasian College for Emergency Medicine
The Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM), based in Melbourne Australia, is the primary training body for specialist emergency physicians in Australia and New Zealand. The college is recognised by the Australian Medical Council and ...
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Australasian College of Natural Therapies
Australasian College of Natural Therapies (ACNT) is an Australian private natural health college that offers both tertiary education and vocational education and training.
The college is a part of an education provider Torrens University Australi ...
, private education provider
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The Australasian College of Tropical Medicine
The Australasian College of Tropical Medicine, more commonly known by its acronym ACTM is an Australasian medical association founded by 10 interested clinicians, scientists and researchers at the Anton Breinl Centre in Townsville, Australia on ...
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Australasian Computer Music Association
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Australasian Conference on Information Systems
The Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS) is an annual conference for Information Systems and Information Technology academics and professionals and is affiliated with thAustralasian Association for Information Systems ACIS is the ...
, annual conference
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Australasian Films
Australasian Films, full name Union Theatres and Australasian Films, was an Australian film distribution and production company formed in 1913 that was wound up in the 1930s to merge into Greater Union. The Union Theatres and Australasian Films d ...
, Australian film distribution and production company
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Australasian Fire Authorities Council
The National Council for Fire & Emergency Services (formerly the Australasian Fire and Emergency Service Authorities Council or ''AFAC''), is the peak body responsible for representing fire, emergency services and land management agencies in th ...
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Australasian Hydrographic Society
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Australasian Language Technology Association
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Australasian Law Teachers Association
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Australasian Legal Information Institute, institution operated jointly by the Faculties of Law of the University of Technology Sydney and the University of New South Wales
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Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union
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Australasian New Car Assessment Program, automobile organisation
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Australasian Ornithological Conference, biennial scientific conference
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Australasian Performing Right Association
APRA AMCOS consists of Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) and Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society (AMCOS), both copyright management organisations or copyright collectives which jointly represent over 100,000 songwr ...
, copyright collective representing New Zealand and Australian composers, lyricists and music publishers
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Australasian Police Multicultural Advisory Bureau
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Australasian Political Studies Association
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Australasian Raptor Association
The Australasian Raptor Association (ARA) was founded in 1978 as a special interest group of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union, also known as Birds Australia. It is now a special interest group of BirdLife Australia. It promotes the stud ...
, bird study group
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Australasian Seabird Group
The Australasian Seabird Group (ASG), the oldest of BirdLife Australia's special interest groups, was formed in 1971. Its objectives are to promote seabird research and conservation in Australasia. The ASG pursues its objectives through the coordi ...
, bird study group
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Australasian Society for Experimental Psychology
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Australasian Trauma Society
The Australasian Trauma Society (ATS) is a medical specialist interest group for medical and paramedical individuals working in the area of traumatic injury. It was begun in 1997 by a group of health professionals from Australia and New Zealand ...
, medical specialist interest group
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Australasian Union of Jewish Students
The Australasian Union of Jewish Students (AUJS) is a federation of Jewish student societies at Australian and New Zealand universities and other higher education institutions. It was founded in 1948 at the University of Sydney and is affiliated ...
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Australasian Wader Studies Group, bird study group
Publications
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Australasian Agribusiness Review
''Australasian Agribusiness Review'' () is a peer-reviewed academic journal in the field of agribusiness
Agribusiness is the industry, enterprises, and the field of study of value chains in agriculture and in the bio-economy,
in which case i ...
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Australasian Emergency Nursing Journal''
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Australasian Journal of Bone & Joint Medicine'', pharmaceutical industry promotional periodical
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Australasian Journal of Educational Technology'', bimonthly academic journal
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Australasian Journal of Philosophy'', quarterly journal
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Australasian Plant Pathology'', bimonthly scientific journal
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Australasian Post'', defunct Australian magazine
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Australasian Psychiatry
''Australasian Psychiatry'' is a peer-reviewed medical journal that covers the field of psychiatry. The editor-in-chief is Vlasios Brakoulias. It was established in 1993 and is published by SAGE Publications on behalf of the Royal Australian and Ne ...
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Australasian Science'', monthly magazine
Ships
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SS ''Australasian'' (1856), a large 19th-century steamship liner owned by
Cunard Line
Cunard () is a British shipping and cruise line based at Carnival House at Southampton, England, operated by Carnival UK and owned by Carnival Corporation & plc. Since 2011, Cunard and its three ships have been registered in Hamilton, Berm ...
, scrapped 1898
* SS ''Australasian'' (1857), a 19th-century steamship owned by
Allan Line Royal Mail Steamers
The Allan Shipping Line was started in 1819, by Captain Alexander Allan of Saltcoats, Ayrshire, trading and transporting between Scotland and Montreal, a route which quickly became synonymous with the Allan Line. By the 1830s the company had offic ...
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SS ''Australasian'' (1884), a 19th-century steamship owned by the Aberdeen Line, purchased in 1906 by the Ottoman government and renamed ''Scham''
* SS ''Australasian'' (1901), a 20th-century steamship owned by
Allan Line Royal Mail Steamers
The Allan Shipping Line was started in 1819, by Captain Alexander Allan of Saltcoats, Ayrshire, trading and transporting between Scotland and Montreal, a route which quickly became synonymous with the Allan Line. By the 1830s the company had offic ...
Sport
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Australasian Breeders Crown, annual horse race run in Melton, Victoria, Australia
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Australasian Intervarsity Debating Championships, annual debating tournament
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Australasian Oaks
The Australasian Oaks, is a South Australian Jockey Club Group 1 Thoroughbred horse race for three-year-old fillies at Set Weights run over a distance of 2000 metres at Morphettville Racecourse, Adelaide, Australia in the SAJC Autumn Carnival. ...
, annual horse race run in Adelaide, South Australia
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Australasian Pacers Grand Circuit The Australian Grand Circuit for Pacers
History
The Circuit began in 1977 and was designed to be the showpiece of the Australian Harness Racing Industry with horses competing from every state within Australia. In 1992 New Zealand was admitted an ...
, horse racing event
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Australasian Safari
The Australasian Safari was an off-road motor sport racing event held in Australia between 1985 and 2014.
History
The Australasian Safari was first run in 1985 and held under the International Sporting Code of FIM and from 1999, the General Co ...
, off-road motor sport racing event held in Australia
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Australasian Schools English Competition, literary competition
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Australasian Wrestling Federation
Gregory James Bownds (born 20 February 1977) better known by his ring name TNT, is an Australian professional wrestler and promoter, currently owning and promoting the Australasian Wrestling Federation.
Bownds is the owner of the AWF promoti ...
Other
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Australasian Antarctic Expedition, scientific team involved in Antarctic exploration between 1911 and 1914
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Australasian Inter-Service Incident Management System
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Australasian realm
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Australasian strewnfield, largest and youngest of the tektite strewnfields, covering at least one-tenth of the Earth's surface
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Australasian television frequencies
Television frequency allocation has evolved since the start of television in Australia in 1956, and later in New Zealand in 1960. There was no coordination between the national spectrum management authorities in either country to establish the f ...
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