The Australian ska scene has existed since the mid-1980s, when it started enjoying the same sort of interest as it did in the United Kingdom, following...
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Ska (/skɑː/; Jamaican Creole: skia, [skjæ]) is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s and was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae...
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West region of Western Australia. The facility began as a technology demonstrator for the international Square Kilometre Array (SKA), an internationally...
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Square Kilometre Array (category Science and technology in Western Australia)
The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is an intergovernmental international radio telescope project being built in Australia (low-frequency) and South Africa...
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Melbourne Ska Orchestra are an ARIA Award-winning Australian ska band formed in 2003 in Melbourne. The group has up to 34 members, and is led by bandleader...
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Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory (category Use Australian English from June 2012)
frequency range 80–300 MHz; and the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP). Construction on the main large SKA-Low telescope started in December...
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Western Australia, the Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) and the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA), the MeerKAT is one of four precursors to the final SKA. MeerKAT...
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service), a network in the San Francisco, California area Allniters, an Australian ska band WCW All Nighter, a series of professional wrestling specials "All...
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One Year of Ska is a 4-disc compilation box set by Australian ska band, Melbourne Ska Orchestra, compiling the four albums released in the past twelve...
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The Cat Empire (category Australian ska groups)
landing on reggae/ska, Latin jazz, and points in between, Two Shoes is clever and brainy, danceable and absorbing". The Australian version contains a...
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Area-7 (category Australian ska groups)
Area-7 (also known as Area 7) are an Australian ska punk band. Formed in Melbourne in 1994, they have released four studio albums, No Logic!, Bitter &...
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Allniters (category Australian ska groups)
The Allniters are a Sydney-based Australian ska pop band, founded in 1980. Original line-up was Ted Ayers on sax, Dave Bebb on drums, Stuart Crysell on...
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the basis of "Marz" by folk musician John Grant and "Only Light" by Australian ska band the Cat Empire. Hip hop duo Mobb Deep used a sample from the song...
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Bogan (category Use Australian English from April 2011)
of Western Civilization" on the 'Hot Dogma' album released in 1990. Australian ska-punk band Area-7 achieved one of their biggest hits with the song "Nobody...
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Sierra Kilo Alpha is the second studio album by the Australian ska band Melbourne Ska Orchestra. The album was released in April 2016. At the ARIA Music...
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Graeme Goodall (category Use Australian English from October 2016)
ISBN 978-0819565723, p. 49 Dwyer, Michael (2014) "Music world mourns Australian ska pioneer and Island Records co-founder Graeme Goodall", Sydney Morning...
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Bitter & Twisted is the second studio album by Australian ska band Area-7. It was released in 2000 by Trademark Records. "Bitter Words" "Start Making Sense"...
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Western Australia, the Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) and the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA), the HERA is one of four precursors to the final SKA. It...
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J173608.2–321635 as a Highly Polarized Transient Point Source with the Australian SKA Pathfinder". The Astrophysical Journal. 920 (1): 45. arXiv:2109.00652...
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FRB 20240216A, a new repeating fast radio burst source, detected by Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) at position (J2000) of RA: 10:12:19.9 DEC: +14:02:26...
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Torn Apart is the fourth and final studio album by Australian ska band Area-7. It was released in 2005 via Shock Records. "Torn Apart" "Falling Down" "Am...
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Road Rage is the second extended play by Australian ska band Area-7. "Road Rage" "Disarray" "Skin Deep" "Soul Stomper" "Peter Mac" "B.A. Song" "Healthy...
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The Porkers (category Australian ska groups)
The Porkers are an Australian ska punk band from Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. Formed in 1987 as The Pork Hunts, the band was eventually forced...
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on their 1993 album Tangenital Madness on a Pleasant Side of Hell. Australian ska band The Porkers covered this song for their 1994 album Grunt! Thrash...
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International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (category Astronomy in Australia)
telescope array which is in its design phase and the two Australian SKA precursors, the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) and the Murchison...
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Two Shoes (category Use Australian English from May 2011)
Two Shoes is the second studio album by Australian ska-jazz band the Cat Empire, which was issued on 19 April 2005. It is the follow-up to their successful...
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Brian J. Boyle (category Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science)
Strategy in 2007. He led the initial development of the Australian SKA Pathfinder Project and, as CSIRO SKA Director, helped secure co-hosting rights for the...
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Spy vs. Spy (band) (redirect from Spy vs Spy (Australian band))
"Don't Tear It Down" on the Australian singles chart and the associated album A.O. Mod. TV. Vers. peaked at No. 12 on the Australian albums chart. v.Spy v.Spy's...
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Sounds Like Chicken (category Australian ska groups)
a band from Melbourne, Australia, which formed in 1999 and disbanded in 2007. They were one of Australia's most well-known ska bands.[unreliable source...
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Salvia divinorum (redirect from Ska Maria Pastora)
Salvia divinorum (Latin: sage of the diviners; also called ska maría pastora, seer's sage, yerba de la pastora, magic mint or simply salvia) is a species...
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