Australasian is the adjectival form of

Australasia Australasia is a region that comprises Australia, New Zealand and some neighbouring islands in the Pacific Ocean. The term is used in a number of different contexts, including geopolitically, physiogeographically, philologically, and ecologic ...

, a geographical region including

Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands. With an area of , Australia is the largest country by ...

New Zealand New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island coun ...

, and

New Guinea New Guinea (; Hiri Motu: ''Niu Gini''; id, Papua, or , historically ) is the world's second-largest island with an area of . Located in Oceania in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, the island is separated from Australia by the wide Torres ...

. Australasian may also refer to:

Institutions

Commercial

Australasian Correctional Management Australasian Correctional Management (ACM) was a private Australian company that existed from 1991 to 2003 and was owned by American company Wackenhut. History From 1998 until 2003 ACM was responsible for running at least six immigration detenti ...

, private company running prisons and detention centres *

Australasian Steam Navigation Company The Australasian Steam Navigation Company (ASN Co) was a shipping company of Australia which operated between 1839 and 1887. Company history The company was started as the Hunter River Steam Navigation Company in 1839. In March 1851, the compa ...

, shipping company

Professional

Australasian Anti-Transportation League The Australasian Anti-Transportation League was a body established to oppose penal transportation to Australia.C. H. Currey"Denison, Sir William Thomas (18041871)" ''Australian Dictionary of Biography'', National Centre of Biography, Australian ...

, body established to oppose penal transportation to Australia * Australasian Association for Logic, philosophical organisation for logicians * Australasian Association of Philosophy, professional organisation of academic philosophers *

Australasian College of Health Informatics The Australasian College of Health Informatics is the professional body for health informatics in the Asia-Pacific region. It consists of credentialed fellows and members as well as associate and student members. The College is an academic institu ...

Australasian College for Emergency Medicine The Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM), based in Melbourne Australia, is the primary training body for specialist emergency physicians in Australia and New Zealand. The college is recognised by the Australian Medical Council and ...

Australasian College of Natural Therapies Australasian College of Natural Therapies (ACNT) is an Australian private natural health college that offers both tertiary education and vocational education and training. The college is a part of an education provider Torrens University Austral ...

, private education provider *

Australasian College of Physical Scientists and Engineers in Medicine The Australasian College of Physical Scientists and Engineers in Medicine (ACPSEM) is a professional organisation for medical physicists, biomedical engineers and allied professionals in Australia and New Zealand. The ACPSEM was first incorpora ...

The Australasian College of Tropical Medicine The Australasian College of Tropical Medicine, more commonly known by its acronym ACTM is an Australasian medical association founded by 10 interested clinicians, scientists and researchers at the Anton Breinl Centre in Townsville, Australia o ...

Australasian Computer Music Association The Australasian Computer Music Association (ACMA) is a nonprofit Australia and New Zealand based organisation founded in 1989, which aims to promote electroacoustic and computer music. History ACMA was formed in 1989 as a regional organisation t ...

Australasian Conference on Information Systems The Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS) is an annual conference for Information Systems and Information Technology academics and professionals and is affiliated with thAustralasian Association for Information Systems ACIS is t ...

, annual conference *

Australasian Films Australasian Films, full name Union Theatres and Australasian Films, was an Australian film distribution and production company formed in 1913 that was wound up in the 1930s to merge into Greater Union. The Union Theatres and Australasian Films ...

, Australian film distribution and production company *

Australasian Fire Authorities Council The National Council for Fire & Emergency Services (formerly the Australasian Fire and Emergency Service Authorities Council or ''AFAC''), is the peak body responsible for representing fire, emergency services and land management agencies in th ...

Australasian Hydrographic Society The Australasian Hydrographic Society (AHS) is a professional hydrographic organisation covering Australasia, the South West Pacific and South East Asia. It brings together practitioners and representatives of industry in the region, particularly t ...

Australasian Language Technology Association The Australasian Language Technology Association (ALTA) promotes language technology research and development in Australia and New Zealand. ALTA organises regular events for the exchange of research results and for academic and industrial training ...

Australasian Law Teachers Association The Australasian Law Teachers Association (ALTA) is a professional body which represents the interests of law teachers in Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceani ...

Australasian Legal Information Institute The Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII) is an institution operated jointly by the Faculties of Law of the University of Technology Sydney and the University of New South Wales. Its public policy purpose is to improve access to just ...

, institution operated jointly by the Faculties of Law of the University of Technology Sydney and the University of New South Wales *

Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union The Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union (also known as the Meatworkers Union) is an Australian trade union representing workers in the meat industry including in abattoirs, butchers, and smallgoods manufacturers. Structure The AMIEU h ...

Australasian New Car Assessment Program The Australasian New Car Assessment Program (ANCAP) is a car safety performance assessment programme based in Australia and founded in 1993. ANCAP specialises in the crash testing of automobiles sold in Australia and the publishing of these resu ...

, automobile organisation *

Australasian Ornithological Conference Australasian Ornithological Conference is a biennial meeting of ornithologists that focuses on the Australasian region and Antarctica. Preceded by the short-lived series of two Southern Hemisphere Ornithological Congresses, they were initiated by ...

, biennial scientific conference *

Australasian Performing Right Association APRA AMCOS consists of Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) and Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society (AMCOS), both copyright management organisations or copyright collectives which jointly represent over 100,000 songwri ...

, copyright collective representing New Zealand and Australian composers, lyricists and music publishers *

Australasian Police Multicultural Advisory Bureau {{primary sources, date=July 2012 Australasian Police Multicultural Advisory Bureau (formerly the National Police Ethnic Advisory Bureau) was an agency of the Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs of the Government of Australia. It w ...

Australasian Political Studies Association The Australian Political Studies Association (APSA) is a professional association for teachers and researchers of political science in Australia or New Zealand. It publishes the ''Australian Journal of Political Science The ''Australian Journal ...

* Australasian Raptor Association, bird study group * Australasian Seabird Group, bird study group * Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education *

Australasian Society for Experimental Psychology The Australasian Society for Experimental Psychology was incorporated in Western Australia in 1997 as a learned society for experimental psychologists . Its membership is based primarily in Australia and New Zealand. Its main function is to orga ...

* Australasian Trauma Society, medical specialist interest group *

Australasian Union of Jewish Students The Australasian Union of Jewish Students (AUJS) is a federation of Jewish student societies at Australian and New Zealand universities and other higher education institutions. It was founded in 1948 at the University of Sydney and is affiliat ...

* Australasian Wader Studies Group, bird study group

Publications

* ''

Australasian Agribusiness Review ''Australasian Agribusiness Review'' () is a peer-reviewed academic journal in the field of agribusiness Agribusiness is the industry, enterprises, and the field of study of value chains in agriculture and in the bio-economy, in which case ...

'', academic journal * ''

Australasian Emergency Nursing Journal The ''Australasian Emergency Nursing Journal'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed nursing journal covering issues in emergency nursing. It is the official journal of the College of Emergency Nursing Australasia and is published on their behalf by Elsevi ...

'' * ''

Australasian Journal of Bone & Joint Medicine The ''Australasian Journal of Bone & Joint Medicine'' (originally titled the ''Australasian Journal of Musculoskeletal Medicine'') was a periodical presented in the style of a scientific journal, published by Elsevier but established and funded by ...

'', pharmaceutical industry promotional periodical * ''

Australasian Journal of Educational Technology The ''Australasian Journal of Educational Technology'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering research in educational technology, instructional design, online and e-learning, educational design, multimedia, computer assisted learning, and r ...

'', bimonthly academic journal * ''

Australasian Journal of Philosophy The ''Australasian Journal of Philosophy'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal of philosophy and "one of the oldest English-language philosophy journals in the world". It was established in 1923 as ''The Australasian Journal of Psychol ...

'', quarterly journal * ''

Australasian Plant Pathology ''Australasian Plant Pathology'' is a peer-reviewed international journal that publishes original research and critical reviews on phytopathology in the Australasian region. It is published by Springer Science+Business Media in cooperation with t ...

'', bimonthly scientific journal * ''

Australasian Post The ''Australasian Post'', commonly called the ''Aussie Post'', was Australia's longest-running weekly picture magazine. History and profile Its origins are traceable to Saturday, 3 January 1857, when the first issue of ''Bell's Life in Victoria ...

'', defunct Australian magazine * ''

Australasian Psychiatry ''Australasian Psychiatry'' is a peer-reviewed medical journal that covers the field of psychiatry. The editor-in-chief is Vlasios Brakoulias. It was established in 1993 and is published by SAGE Publications on behalf of the Royal Australian and Ne ...

'', bi-monthly academic journal * ''

Australasian Science ''Australasian Science'' was a bimonthly science magazine published in Australia and was the longest-running scientific publication in the country, from 1938 to 2019. It contained a mixture of news items, feature articles, and expert commentary. ...

'', monthly magazine

Ships

* SS ''Australasian'' (1856), a large 19th-century steamship liner owned by

Cunard Line Cunard () is a British shipping and cruise line based at Carnival House at Southampton, England, operated by Carnival Corporation & plc#Carnival United Kingdom, Carnival UK and owned by Carnival Corporation & plc. Since 2011, Cunard and its ...

, scrapped 1898 * SS ''Australasian'' (1857), a 19th-century steamship owned by

Allan Line Royal Mail Steamers The Allan Shipping Line was started in 1819, by Captain Alexander Allan of Saltcoats, Ayrshire, trading and transporting between Scotland and Montreal, a route which quickly became synonymous with the Allan Line. By the 1830s the company had of ...

* SS ''Australasian'' (1884), a 19th-century steamship owned by the Aberdeen Line, purchased in 1906 by the Ottoman government and renamed ''Scham'' * SS ''Australasian'' (1901), a 20th-century steamship owned by

Sport

Australasian Breeders Crown The Australasian Breeders Crown is a futurity harness racing series for horses bred in Australia and New Zealand New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—th ...

, annual horse race run in Melton, Victoria, Australia *

Australasian Intervarsity Debating Championships The Australasian Intervarsity Debating Championships (known colloquially as "Australs") is an annual debating tournament for teams from universities in the Australasian region. It is one of the world's largest debating tournaments, second only i ...

, annual debating tournament *

Australasian Oaks The Australasian Oaks, is a South Australian Jockey Club Group 1 Thoroughbred horse race for three-year-old fillies at Set Weights run over a distance of 2000 metres at Morphettville Racecourse, Adelaide, Australia in the SAJC Autumn Carnival ...

, annual horse race run in Adelaide, South Australia *

Australasian Pacers Grand Circuit The Australian Grand Circuit for Pacers History The Circuit began in 1977 and was designed to be the showpiece of the Australian Harness Racing Industry with horses competing from every state within Australia. In 1992 New Zealand was admitted ...

, horse racing event * Australasian Safari, off-road motor sport racing event held in Australia *

Australasian Schools English Competition The Australasian Schools English Competition is a literary competition open to school students in years 3–12 in Australia and New Zealand. It is run by the University of New South Wales The University of New South Wales (UNSW), also known ...

, literary competition *

Australasian Wrestling Federation Gregory James Bownds (born 20 February 1977) better known by his ring name TNT, is an Australian professional wrestler and promoter, currently owning and promoting the Australasian Wrestling Federation. Bownds is the owner of the AWF promoti ...

Other

Australasian Antarctic Expedition The Australasian Antarctic Expedition was a 1911–1914 expedition headed by Douglas Mawson that explored the largely uncharted Antarctic coast due south of Australia. Mawson had been inspired to lead his own venture by his experiences on Ernest ...

, scientific team involved in Antarctic exploration between 1911 and 1914 *

Australasian Inter-Service Incident Management System In Australia, the Australasian Inter-Service Incident Management System (AIIMS) is the nationally recognised system of incident management for the nation's fire and emergency service agencies. Organisational principles and structure are used to ...

Australasian realm The Australasian realm is a biogeographic realm that is coincident with, but not (by some definitions) the same as, the geographical region of Australasia. The realm includes Australia, the island of New Guinea (comprising Papua New Guinea and th ...

Australasian strewnfield The Australasian strewnfield is the youngest and largest of the tektite strewnfields, with recent estimates suggesting it might cover 10%–30% of the Earth's surface.Glass, B.P. and Wu, J., 1993. ''Coesite and shocked quartz discovered in the, A ...

, largest and youngest of the tektite strewnfields, covering at least one-tenth of the Earth's surface *

Australasian television frequencies Television frequency allocation has evolved since the start of television in Australia in 1956, and later in New Zealand in 1960. There was no coordination between the national spectrum management authorities in either country to establish the f ...

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