Australian Citizenship Test · Australia, Its People and History
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- Who was Prime Minister of Australia from 1983 to 1991?
- Who was Prime Minister of Australia from 1972 to 1975?
- Who was Prime Minister of Australia from 1996 to 2007?
- Which sport is the national winter sport played in a league known as the AFL?
- Which Australian was the first to win the Victoria Cross in the First World War for bravery at Gallipoli?
- Which Australian general commanded the Australian Corps in 1918 and later became a leading engineer?
- Who was Dame Joan Sutherland?
- Who led the Federation movement and is called the 'Father of Federation'?
- Which Australian invented the cochlear implant?
- In which state is the city of Hobart?
- Who was the first woman to serve as Governor-General of Australia?
- Which Tasmanian-born scientist shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in Medicine for discoveries about telomeres?
- Which Australian scientist helped develop the vaccine against the human papillomavirus (HPV) that protects against cervical cancer?
- Who was the first Aboriginal person to become a member of the Australian Parliament?
- Who was the first woman elected to the Australian House of Representatives?
- Which Australian scientist invented the flight data recorder known as the black box?
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