Dr. Uncles is a professor of marketing in the Australian School of Business, University of New South Wales, Sydney.

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And it was in the tough school of Australian club and state cricket that he learned how to play the game.

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Outside of North America and Europe, some of the highest rankings achieved in the Asia-Pacific come from the Melbourne Business School, the China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) in Shanghai, the Hong Kong UST School of Business, Macquarie GSM, the Australian GSM and Singapore's Nanyang Business School.

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Peg Eddy remembers offering to host a couple of Australian high schoolers for a school exchange program.

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After watching hours of art-films in Melbourne, Tan decided to make films himself and bagged a place in the Australian Film, Television and Radio School, where entry is by competitive scholarship.

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The Australian athletics team has been using Tonbridge School, one of the country's leading boys' boarding schools, as its training camp.

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The Fawley heat proved to be a much closer race as the Tiffin School were defeated by the Australian crew from the Sydney Rowing Club.

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Set in a suburban high school, Lilley introduced us to Mr G, a Broadway theatrical impresario trapped inside the body of a camp high school teacher - perhaps the funniest Australian comic creation since Norman Gunston, a hapless television reporter from Wollongong who rose to pre-eminence in the 1970s.

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In the fledgling capital, Canberra, he founded the Research School of Physical Sciences at the new Australian National University and helped to establish the Australian Academy of Science.

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On Thursday, the President will give an address to the Australian Parliament, meet with parliamentary leaders, tour a primary school with Prime Minister Gillard, and visit a military base in Darwin -- where he'll speak to a combined audience of U.S. marines and Australian troops.

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After Pejic graduated from high school, he was given the opportunity to expand his modeling reach beyond the conservative, more masculine Australian market to London -- his mom even borrowed money for the flight to get him there.

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