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BIG Aussie Stuff
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Pumpkin - Goomeri, QLD
Mower - Beerwah, QLD
Koalas - Coffs Harbour, NSW
Bull - Wauchope, NSW
Trout - Adaminaby, NSW
More Big Aussie things
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Oz World Records
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• largest sand island
• longest damper bread
• most venomous jellyfish
• highest waterspout
• longest ramp jump in a car with trailer
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Famous Australian Ideas and Innovations
You're going to be very surprised at some of the great inventions Australians have been responsible for...
Heck, we're even NOW responsible for turning dishwater and beer into electricity, AND running cars on nothing but water!
This page presents a variety of those for your perusal - please REFRESH to see a different selection of ten Aussie innovations.
To find out more, can I suggest you visit
The Power House Museum and Questacon
- The u-beaut "ute", with a front including the comforts of a car, and a rear like a truck, was designed in 1933 at the Ford Motor Company in Geelong, Victoria.
- The Federation wheat strain, resistant to fungal rust disease and drought, was released by William Farrar in 1901.
- The world's first plastic spectacle lenses, 60% lighter than glass lenses, were designed in 1960 by Scientific Optical Laboratories.
- The Surf Lifesaving Reel was first demonstrated at Bondi Beach in 1906. It was designed by Lyster Ormsby.
- In 1972 Dynamic Lifter - an organic fertiliser made from chook manure - was invented.
- In 1906, the story about the Kelly Gang was the world's first feature length film.
- Reverend John Flynn founded the world's first Aerial Medical Service, the Flying Doctor Service, in 1928
- Modems the size of a shoebox led the NetComm company to develop in 1985 the Smart Modem - a string of Australian-designed, faster and smaller modems with better features.
- The CSIRO developed a snake antivenom in 1968 which acted against the poison from most Australian snakes.
- In 1982, the dual flush toilet (dunny) was responsible for initial savings in excess of 32000 litres of water per household a year. Pretty important in a dry continent!
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