RAAF East Sale Victoria, Freedom of City parade Friday April 08, 2016.
RAAF East Sale personnel parade through the main street of Sale on the occasion of being granted Freedom of the City, Friday April 08, 2016.
New Governor General highlights importance of Aboriginal Australia
David Hurley has used his first statement as Governor General to highlight the importance of Aboriginal Australia, recognising the traditional owners of Canberra in their own language.
CAC Wirraway Yarram Airshow 2018
Saturday March 17 2018 was an exciting day, and with the last ray's of Victoria's summer beaming down, one knew it was going to be good.
The town of Yarram, and in particular it's Aero Club, was holding an Airshow to commemorate the first military air mission over Australian soil during the great war, World War One.
ASO was very excited about this event, and made the three and a half hour drive south east of Melbourne to Yarram Airport which is situated in Victoria's Gippsland region.
ASO's videographer Mark Pourzenic was airside to capture this historic event.
In this clip we see Ben Lappin at the controls of this beautifully restored Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation CA-3 Wirraway performing for the gathered crowd during the Yarram Centenary of Flight Airshow.
'Commercial Vehicles' display at Maffra
Commercial vehicles on display at the Gippsland Vehicle Collection Motor Museum at Maffra, Australia. The museum provides an outstanding rotating display of interesting vehicles, including veteran, classic, transport and auto memorabilia.
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C-47 Dakota Yarram Airshow 2018
Saturday March 17 2018 was an exciting day, and with the last ray's of Victoria's summer beaming down, one knew it was going to be good.
The town of Yarram, and in particular it's Aero Club, was holding an Airshow to commemorate the first military air mission over Australian soil during the great war, World War One.
ASO was very excited about this event, and made the three and a half hour drive south east of Melbourne to Yarram Airport which is situated in Victoria's Gippsland region.
ASO's videographer Mark Pourzenic was airside to capture this historic event.
In this clip we see renowned pilot Jeff Trappet with Gerard Lappin and his recently restored Douglas C-47 Dakota performing for the gathered crowd during the Yarram Centenary of Flight Airshow.
Indigenous Australians | Wikipedia audio article
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Indigenous Australians
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- Socrates
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Indigenous Australians are the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people of Australia, descended from groups that existed in Australia and surrounding islands before British colonisation. The time of arrival of the first Indigenous Australians is a matter of debate among researchers. The earliest conclusively human remains found in Australia are those of Mungo Man LM3 and Mungo Lady, which have been dated to around 50,000 years BP. Recent archaeological evidence from the analysis of charcoal and artefacts revealing human use suggests a date as early as 65,000 BP. Luminescence dating has suggested habitation in Arnhem Land as far back as 60,000 years BP. Genetic research has inferred a date of habitation as early as 80,000 years BP.
Other estimates have ranged up to 100,000 years and 125,000 years ago.Although there are a number of commonalities between Indigenous Aboriginal Australians, there is also a great diversity among different Indigenous communities and societies in Australia, each with its own mixture of cultures, customs and languages. In present-day Australia these groups are further divided into local communities. At the time of initial European settlement, over 250 languages were spoken; it is currently estimated that 120 to 145 of these remain in use, but only 13 of these are not considered endangered. Aboriginal people today mostly speak English, with Aboriginal phrases and words being added to create Australian Aboriginal English (which also has a tangible influence of Indigenous languages in the phonology and grammatical structure). The population of Indigenous Australians at the time of permanent European settlement is contentious and has been estimated at between 318,000 and 1,000,000 with the distribution being similar to that of the current Australian population, the majority living in the south-east, centred along the Murray River. A population collapse principally from disease followed European invasion beginning with a smallpox epidemic spreading three years after the arrival of Europeans. Massacres and war by British settlers also contributed to depopulation. The characterisation of this violence as genocide is controversial and disputed.Since 1995, the Australian Aboriginal Flag and the Torres Strait Islander Flag have been among the official flags of Australia.
Victoria (Australia) | Wikipedia audio article
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Victoria (Australia)
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Victoria (abbreviated as Vic) is a state in south-eastern Australia. Victoria is Australia's most densely populated state and its second-most populous state overall. Most of its population lives concentrated in the area surrounding Port Phillip Bay, which includes the metropolitan area of its state capital and largest city, Melbourne, Australia's second-largest city. Geographically the smallest state on the Australian mainland, Victoria is bordered by Bass Strait and Tasmania to the south,New South Wales to the north, the Tasman Sea to the east, and South Australia to the west.
The area that is now known as Victoria is the home of many Aboriginal people groups, including the Boon wurrung, the Bratauolung, the Djadjawurrung, the Gunai, the Gunditjmara, the Taungurong, the Wathaurong, the Wurundjeri, and the Yorta Yorta. There were more than 30 Aboriginal languages spoken in the area prior to the European settlement of Australia. The Kulin nation is an alliance of five Aboriginal nations which makes up much of the central part of the state.With Great Britain having claimed the entire Australian continent east of the 135th meridian east in 1788, Victoria formed part of the wider colony of New South Wales. The first European settlement in the area occurred in 1803 at Sullivan Bay, and much of what is now Victoria was included in 1836 in the Port Phillip District, an administrative division of New South Wales. Named in honour of Queen Victoria, who signed the division's separation from New South Wales, the colony was officially established in 1851 and achieved self government in 1855.
The Victorian gold rush in the 1850s and 1860s significantly increased both the population and wealth of the colony, and by the time of the Federation of Australia in 1901, Melbourne had become the largest city and leading financial centre in Australasia. Melbourne served as federal capital of Australia until the construction of Canberra in 1927, with the Federal Parliament meeting in Melbourne's Parliament House and all principal offices of the federal government being based in Melbourne.
Politically, Victoria has 37 seats in the Australian House of Representatives and 12 seats in the Australian Senate. At state level, the Parliament of Victoria consists of the Legislative Assembly (the lower house) and the Legislative Council (the upper house). The Labor Party led Daniel Andrews as premier has governed Victoria since 2014. The personal representative of the Queen of Australia in the state is the Governor of Victoria, currently Linda Dessau (in office since 2015). Victoria is divided into 79 municipal districts, including 33 cities, although a number of unincorporated areas still exist, which the state administers directly.
The economy of Victoria is highly diversified, with service sectors including financial and property services, health, education, wholesale, retail, hospitality and manufacturing constitute the majority of employment. Victoria's total gross state product (GSP) ranks second in Australia, although Victoria ranks fourth in terms of GSP per capita because of its limited mining activity. Culturally, Melbourne hosts a number of museums, art galleries, and theatres, and is also described as the world's sporting capital. The Melbourne Cricket Ground, the largest stadium in Australia and the Southern Hemisphere, hosted the 1956 Summer Olympics and the 2006 Commonwealth Games. The ground is also considered the spiritual home of Australian cricket and Australian rules football, and hosts the grand final of the Australian Football League (AFL) each year, drawing crowds of approximately 100,000. Victoria has eight public universities, with the oldest, the University of Melbourne, dating from 1853.
The Buddha Garden
The story of The Buddha Garden in Briagolong, Gippsland
De Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver
The de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver is a single-engined, high-wing, propeller-driven, STOL aircraft developed by de Havilland Canada, primarily known as a bush plane. It is used for cargo and passenger hauling, aerial application (crop dusting and aerial topdressing), and has been widely adopted by armed forces as a utility aircraft. The United States Army purchased several hundred; nine DHC-2s are still in service with the U.S. Air Force Auxiliary (Civil Air Patrol) for search and rescue. A Royal New Zealand Air Force Beaver supported Sir Edmund Hillary's expedition to the South Pole. Over 1,600 Beavers were produced until 1967 when the original line shut down.
Due to its success, the Royal Canadian Mint commemorated the Beaver on a special edition Canadian quarter in November 1999.
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Peace Not War - Panel Discussion
Hugh De Kretser, Director, Human Rights Law Centre, and a panel of artists and activists explore their own experiences of human rights. Panelists include Shaun Tan, author and artist, Reiko Okazaki, Lawyer and chair of ‘Right Now’, Lauren Valmadre,
Director of Human Rights Arts and Film Festival and William
Kelly OAM, artist. Library at The Dock. Wednesday 6 December.
AOPA Live This Week - June 29, 2017
Take a stand against ATC privatization. An affordable HUD for GA. Greg Koontz and the Alabama Boys show us how to land on a pickup truck.