• Perth-born Northern Territory Chief Minister Marshall Perron jokingly blamed Japan for denying him his birthright as a Territorian, as his family fled Darwin shortly before it was bombed?

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Northern Territory

• Perth-born Northern Territory Chief Minister Marshall Perron jokingly blamed Japan for denying him his birthright as a Territorian, as his family fled Darwin shortly before it was bombed?
• Yolngu aboriginal leader Raymattja Marika was Northern Territory's Australian of the Year in 2006?
• after a search that has so far lasted 30 years, Muckaty station in Australia's Northern Territory is the only site being considered for a national radioactive waste facility?
• many streets in Coconut Grove, Northern Territory, Australia are named after victims of the shipwreck of SS Gothenburg off the coast of Queensland in 1875?
• most of Western Australia, South Australia and the Northern Territory have not been divided into cadastral units?
• the 1974 floods along the Finke River in Australia's Northern Territory resulted in the dramatic spread of the introduced Athel Tamarisk (T. aphylla) through the desert?
• the Alice Springs Reptile Centre has the largest collection of reptiles in the Northern Territory, and has twice had its animals attacked by humans?
• the Community Court of Australia's Northern Territory aims to reduce re-offending by involving the indigenous community in the sentencing process?

History of Australia

• Tryal Rocks is a reef off Western Australia named after the Tryall, the first shipwreck in Australian history?

Australia

• "Gizzie" and "Slit" are two alternative common names for the Little Lorikeet of eastern Australia?
• "Heavy Harry", the only working example of the Victorian Railways H class (pictured), was the largest non-articulated steam locomotive ever built in Australia?
• 20-year-old Ryan Gregson is the current Australian record holder in men's 1500 metre run, having broken Simon Doyle's old mark from 1991?
• 67 Australian, Canadian, and New Zealand Article XV squadrons were formed during World War II from graduates of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan?
• Adelaide was the first city in Australia to introduce horse trams and the last to discard them for more modern public transport?
• Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Burnett was born in the United States to a Scottish father, educated in England and eventually became the Australian Chief of the Air Staff?
• Anglican archdeacon Kay Goldsworthy will be Australia's first woman bishop when she is consecrated on 22 May 2008?
• football midfielder Evan Berger was nominated for an informal Australia Day award by his local council for representing Australia in the national under-20 team?
• Australia has a National Public Toilet Map, allowing users to locate the 14,000 public toilets across the country to four decimal places of latitude and longitude?
• Australia's first uranium mine (pictured) opened in 1906 and initially produced radium for Marie Curie and Ernest Rutherford?