I claim that in taking our place side by side with the old country, with all her advantages, all her honor, and all her glories, we should be second to none of the older countries under the beneficent sway of the British crown, and we seek to give to our own existence in any scheme we have Australian character and Australian coloring, so that the name Australian shall not be eclipsed by the name of Englishmen, Scotchmen, or Irishmen, in any part of the world. https://ausnatives.org/the-federal-vision-and-nativism/ The Australian Natives' Association The Federal Vision and Nativism | The

On 1 October 1935, Heinz & Company in Australia began producing tinned baked beans.

On this day — 30 September 1951 — Dr Barry Marshall was born in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia. Marshall theorised that the bacterium Helicobacter pylori causes stomach ulcers and gastritis, challenging the long‑held belief that stress, lifestyle, or excess acid were to blame. His theory was dismissed by much of the medical establishment, but Marshall refused to back down. In one of the most famous acts of scientific self‑experimenting, he drank a beaker of H. pylori. Within days he developed gastritis, exactly as predicted, proving his theory. This discovery transformed the lives of those suff