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Australasia, the inclusive name given to Australia, Tasmania (or Van Diemen's Land), New Zealand, Fiji, and other islands is the Pacific Ocean forming part of the British Dominions. The Federal Council of Australasia Act, 1885 (48 & 49 Vict. c. 60) [repealed by Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act, 1900 (c. 12)], constituted a Federal Council of Australasia 'for the purpose' (as set forth in the preamble) 'of dealing with such matters of common Australasian interest in respect to which united action is desirable.' See next title....
Federal Government
Federal Government. When two or more sovereign or independent states mutually agree not to exercise certain powers incident to their several sovereignties, but to delegate the exercise of those powers to some person or body chosen by them jointly, there is said to be a federal union of those states, and the person or body to whom the exercise of such powers is delegated is called the Federal Government. The Swiss Confederation, and the United States of North America, are instances of Federal Governments.A (English) Federal Council of Australasia Act (48 & 49 Vict. c. 60), passed in 1885 (see AUSTRALASIA), is now superseded by the federating (English) Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act (63 & 64 Vict. c. 12) (see AUSTRALIA), which has repealed it.An effective federation of the British North American Colonies was provided in 1867 by (English) the British North America Act, 1867 (30 & 31 Vict. c. 3) (see BRITISH AMERICA), and in 1909 of the Colonies of Cape of Good Hope, Natal, Tra...
booyong
large tree Heritiera trifoliolata or Terrietia trifoliolata of Australasia...
Dammara
A large tree of the order Coniferaelig indigenous to the East Indies and Australasia called also Agathis There are several species...
Dicksonia
A genus of tree ferns of temperate Australasia having bipinnatifid or tripinnatifid fronds and usually marginal sori in some classification systems it is placed in the family Cyatheaceae...
Hibbertia
A genus of evergreen heathlike or scandent shrubs of Madagascar Australasia and Polynesia...
moundbird
Any of several large footed short winged birds of Australasia which build mounds of decaying vegetation to incubate eggs Called also mound builder mound maker megapode brush turkey and scrub fowl...
Nipa
A monotypic genus of palms of Australasia...
Oceania
A large group of islands in the south Pacific sometimes including Australasia and the Malay Archipelago...
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