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1 day ago · Australian artist Polly Borland, best known for taking celebrity portraits, has loaned her "unofficial portrait" of Queen Elizabeth II to MONA gallery owner David Walsh; on display as part of the ...
2 days ago · Beginning in November 1953 the queen and the duke of Edinburgh made a six-month round-the-world tour of the Commonwealth, which included the first visit to Australia and New Zealand by a reigning British monarch.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
5 days ago · The late Queen Elizabeth II visited Australia 16 times over the course of her reign, each time accompanied by her husband, Prince Philip who sadly passed away April 2021. Her first visit to ...
2 days ago · Country Facts. Capital, Population, Government... Although the British monarch is Australia’s formal head of state, the sovereign’s functions are almost entirely formal and decorative and, except when the monarch is in Australia, are exercised by a governor-general who resides in Canberra and by the state governors.
5 days ago · King Charles will soon be saying g’day to Australia a diplomatic source has confirmed. (Credit: Getty) It is expected that the King will spend six days in Australia before he and his wife Queen Camilla depart our shores for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Samoa.
2 days ago · Named for Queen Adelaide, consort of the British king William IV, it was incorporated as Australia’s first municipal government in 1840, but the city council ran into considerable debt and became defunct in 1843. Adelaide was thereafter controlled by the provincial government until 1849, when a city commission was formed.
1 day ago · Queensland ( locally / ˈkwiːnzlænd / KWEENZ-land, commonly abbreviated as Qld) [note 1] is a state in northeastern Australia, the second-largest and third-most populous of the Australian states. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the west, southwest and south respectively.
