1 The federation of the six original Australian states took place in 1901.

2 Coalmining operations in the Australian state were severely hampered.

3 Perth - The last Australian state to receive Convicts.

4 Adelaide is the Capital of the only Australian state never to have received Convicts.

5 Firefighters in the Australian state of Victoria are tackling a fresh outbreak bush fire of bushfires.

6 Every Australian state government has issued an apology and no compensation claims have yet been lodged.

7 In which Australian state was the 1956 Olympic Games held?

8 Fire viger Firefighters in Austrilia ,[] the Australian state of Victoria are tackling a fresh outbreak of bush firesbushfires.

9 Where plumping is allowed (eg, in some Australian state elections), most voters do it, turning AV into a messy version of FPTP.

10 Floodwater has continued to rise in the Australian state of Queensland, with the city of Rockhampton near the coast the latest to be struck by surging river levels.

11 The Western Australian state government is considering introducing similar legislation.

12 The Australian state accounts for more than 50 per cent of coking coal supply to the global seaborne market, on which steel mills in Asia, and to a lesser extent, western Europe rely.

13 She was the first woman to hold the office of Australian state premier.

14 They mill 1,000 tonnes of flour a day in every Australian state.

15 But a swift increase in cases in the southeastern Australian state of Victoria could prompt the organisation to declare its first pandemic in four decades.

16 Victorian government sponsorship is not transferable to any other Australian State or Territory.

17 First, river levels are continuing to rise in the northeast Australian state of Queensland where an area larger than Texas is being affected by the worst flooding in half a century.

18 Jones was one of a delegation of Australian iron ore miners led by the Western Australian state premier Colin Barnett that visited China this week to meet with Chinese steel officials.

19 In February, 173 people died in wildfires that ravaged parts of the southern Australian state of Victoria.