Australasian is the adjectival form of
Australasia
Australasia is a region that comprises Australia, New Zealand and some neighbouring islands in the Pacific Ocean. The term is used in a number of different contexts, including geopolitically, physiogeographically, philologically, and ecologi ...
, a geographical region including
Australia,
New Zealand
New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island count ...
, and
New Guinea
New Guinea (; Hiri Motu: ''Niu Gini''; id, Papua, or , historically ) is the world's second-largest island with an area of . Located in Oceania in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, the island is separated from Australia by the wide Torr ...
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Australasian may also refer to:
Institutions
Commercial
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Australasian Correctional Management, private company running prisons and detention centres
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Australasian Steam Navigation Company
The Australasian Steam Navigation Company (ASN Co) was a shipping company of Australia which operated between 1839 and 1887.
Company history
The company was started as the Hunter River Steam Navigation Company in 1839. In March 1851, the compa ...
, 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, Australia ...
, body established to oppose penal transportation to Australia
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Australasian Association for Logic, philosophical organisation for logicians
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Australasian Association of Philosophy
The Australasian Association of Philosophy (AAP) is the peak body for philosophy in Australasia. The chief purpose of the AAP is to promote philosophy in Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore. Among the means that it follows to achieve this end, ...
, professional organisation of academic philosophers
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Australasian College of Health Informatics
The Australasian College of Health Informatics is the professional body for health informatics in the Asia-Pacific region.
It consists of credentialed fellows and members as well as associate and student members. The College is an academic institu ...
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Australasian College for Emergency Medicine
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Australasian College of Natural Therapies, private education provider
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Australasian College of Physical Scientists and Engineers in Medicine
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The Australasian College of Tropical Medicine
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Australasian Computer Music Association
The Australasian Computer Music Association (ACMA) is a nonprofit Australia and New Zealand based organisation founded in 1989, which aims to promote electroacoustic and computer music
Computer music is the application of computing technology ...
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Australasian Conference on Information Systems, annual conference
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Australasian Films, Australian film distribution and production company
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Australasian Fire Authorities Council
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Australasian Hydrographic Society
The Australasian Hydrographic Society (AHS) is a professional hydrographic organisation covering Australasia, the South West Pacific and South East Asia. It brings together practitioners and representatives of industry in the region, particularly t ...
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Australasian Language Technology Association
The Australasian Language Technology Association (ALTA) promotes language technology research and development in Australia and New Zealand.
ALTA organises regular events for the exchange of research results and for academic and industrial training ...
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Australasian Law Teachers Association
The Australasian Law Teachers Association (ALTA) is a professional body which represents the interests of law teachers in Australia, New Zealand
New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It con ...
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Australasian Legal Information Institute
The Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII) is an institution operated jointly by the Faculties of Law of the University of Technology Sydney and the University of New South Wales. Its public policy purpose is to improve access to just ...
, 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
The Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union (also known as the Meatworkers Union) is an Australian trade union representing workers in the meat industry including in abattoirs, butchers, and smallgoods manufacturers.
Structure
The AMIEU h ...
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Australasian New Car Assessment Program
The Australasian New Car Assessment Program (ANCAP) is a car safety performance assessment programme based in Australia and founded in 1993. ANCAP specialises in the crash testing of automobiles sold in Australia and the publishing of these resul ...
, automobile organisation
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Australasian Ornithological Conference
Australasian Ornithological Conference is a biennial meeting of ornithologists that focuses on the Australasian region and Antarctica. Preceded by the short-lived series of two Southern Hemisphere Ornithological Congresses, they were initiated by ...
, biennial scientific conference
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Australasian Performing Right Association, copyright collective representing New Zealand and Australian composers, lyricists and music publishers
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Australasian Police Multicultural Advisory Bureau {{primary sources, date=July 2012
Australasian Police Multicultural Advisory Bureau (formerly the National Police Ethnic Advisory Bureau) was an agency of the Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs of the Government of Australia. It w ...
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Australasian Political Studies Association The Australian Political Studies Association (APSA) is a professional association for teachers and researchers of political science in Australia or New Zealand
New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific ...
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Australasian Raptor Association, 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
Australasia is a region that comprises Austra ...
, bird study group
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Australasian Society for Experimental Psychology
The Australasian Society for Experimental Psychology was incorporated in Western Australia in 1997 as a learned society for experimental psychologists . Its membership is based primarily in Australia and New Zealand. Its main function is to orga ...
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Australasian Trauma Society, medical specialist interest group
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Australasian Union of Jewish Students
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Australasian Wader Studies Group, bird study group
Publications
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Australasian Agribusiness Review'', academic journal
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Australasian Emergency Nursing Journal
The ''Australasian Emergency Nursing Journal'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed nursing journal covering issues in emergency nursing. It is the official journal of the College of Emergency Nursing Australasia and is published on their behalf by Elsevi ...
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Australasian Journal of Bone & Joint Medicine
The ''Australasian Journal of Bone & Joint Medicine'' (originally titled the ''Australasian Journal of Musculoskeletal Medicine'') was a periodical presented in the style of a scientific journal, published by Elsevier but established and funded by ...
'', pharmaceutical industry promotional periodical
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Australasian Journal of Educational Technology
The ''Australasian Journal of Educational Technology'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering research in educational technology, instructional design, online and e-learning, educational design, multimedia, computer assisted learning, and r ...
'', bimonthly academic journal
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Australasian Journal of Philosophy
The ''Australasian Journal of Philosophy'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal of philosophy and "one of the oldest English-language philosophy journals in the world". It was established in 1923 as ''The Australasian Journal of Psychol ...
'', quarterly journal
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Australasian Plant Pathology
''Australasian Plant Pathology'' is a peer-reviewed international journal that publishes original research and critical reviews on phytopathology in the Australasian region. It is published by Springer Science+Business Media in cooperation with t ...
'', bimonthly scientific journal
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Australasian Post
The ''Australasian Post'', commonly called the ''Aussie Post'', was Australia's longest-running weekly picture magazine.
History and profile
Its origins are traceable to Saturday, 3 January 1857, when the first issue of ''Bell's Life in Victoria ...
'', defunct Australian magazine
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Australasian Psychiatry'', bi-monthly academic journal
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Australasian Science
''Australasian Science'' was a bimonthly science magazine published in Australia and was the longest-running scientific publication in the country, from 1938 to 2019. It contained a mixture of news items, feature articles, and expert commentary.
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Ships
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SS ''Australasian'' (1856), a large 19th-century steamship liner owned by
Cunard Line, scrapped 1898
* SS ''Australasian'' (1857), a 19th-century steamship owned by
Allan Line Royal Mail Steamers
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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
Sport
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Australasian Breeders Crown
The Australasian Breeders Crown is a futurity harness racing series for horses bred in Australia and New Zealand
New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—t ...
, annual horse race run in Melton, Victoria, Australia
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Australasian Intervarsity Debating Championships
The Australasian Intervarsity Debating Championships (known colloquially as "Australs") is an annual debating tournament for teams from universities in the Australasian region. It is one of the world's largest debating tournaments, second only i ...
, annual debating tournament
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Australasian Oaks, 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 ...
, horse racing event
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Australasian Safari, off-road motor sport racing event held in Australia
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Australasian Schools English Competition
The Australasian Schools English Competition is a literary competition open to school students in years 3–12 in Australia and New Zealand. It is run by the University of New South Wales
The University of New South Wales (UNSW), also known ...
, literary competition
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Australasian Wrestling Federation
Other
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Australasian Antarctic Expedition
The Australasian Antarctic Expedition was a 1911–1914 expedition headed by Douglas Mawson that explored the largely uncharted Antarctic coast due south of Australia. Mawson had been inspired to lead his own venture by his experiences on Ernest ...
, scientific team involved in Antarctic exploration between 1911 and 1914
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Australasian Inter-Service Incident Management System
In Australia, the Australasian Inter-Service Incident Management System (AIIMS) is the nationally recognised system of incident management for the nation's fire and emergency service agencies. Organisational principles and structure are used to ...
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Australasian realm
The Australasian realm is a biogeographic realm that is coincident with, but not (by some definitions) the same as, the geographical region of Australasia. The realm includes Australia, the island of New Guinea (comprising Papua New Guinea and th ...
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Australasian strewnfield
The Australasian strewnfield is the youngest and largest of the tektite strewnfields, with recent estimates suggesting it might cover 10%–30% of the Earth's surface.Glass, B.P. and Wu, J., 1993. ''Coesite and shocked quartz discovered in the, A ...
, 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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