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Australia Post, formally the Australian Postal Corporation and also known as AusPost, is an Australian Government-owned corporation that provides postal services throughout Australia. Australia Post's head office is located on Swan Street in Richmond Victoria.
Manual telephone, c. 1950. The phone and lines remained the property of the PMG. The Postmaster-General's Department (PMG) was a department of the Australian federal government, established at Federation in 1901, whose responsibilities included the provision of postal and telegraphic services throughout Australia.
1913 - first stamps of Australia, superseding those of the various former colonies; 1913 5 May - first stamps of Albania; 1913 - United States initiates parcel post service, using special stamps. 1915 - 15 August - British forces overprint Iranian stamps in Bushire, use until 16 October.
The rising star's world beating cricketing exploits were to provide Australians with much needed joy through the emerging Great Depression in Australia and post-World War II recovery. Between 1929 and 1931 the racehorse Phar Lap dominated Australia's racing industry, at one stage winning fourteen races in a row. [337]
A block of four £2 "Roo" stamps showing the printer's imprint in the selvedge 1d King George V, used at Sydney in 1916. The six self-governing Australian colonies that formed the Commonwealth of Australia on 1 January 1901 had operated their own postal service and issued their own stamps – see articles on the systems on New South Wales (first stamps issued 1850), Victoria (1850), Tasmania ...
In 1926 the union's name was simplified to the Amalgamated Postal Workers Union of Australia. [2] The union's name was changed again in 1974 to the Australian Postal and Telecommunications Union. [2] By 1987 the union's membership had grown to 48,800, of whom 53.1% were employed by Telecom.
The islands were uninhabited prior to 1827. They became a territory of Australia in 1955. 1827 Tarago: New South Wales 1829 Clarence: Western Australia Abandoned in the early 1830s. 1829 Fremantle: Western Australia 1829 Perth: Western Australia Established as Swan River Colony. Largest city and capital of Western Australia. 1829 Guildford ...
At the beginning of the 1990s, Australia decided to impose full Australian legislation to Christmas Island. In postal matters, starting 2 March 1993, Australia Post became the postal operator of the island and responsible for its philatelic program. Consequently, Christmas Island stamps issued after March 1993 were usable in Australia, and ...