Australasian
Not to be confused with Austroasian, describing the native languages of southeast Asia; Austronesian, describing the native languages of Australasia; or Austric, describing the tentative grouping of the two.
Australasian is the adjectival form of Australasia (lit. "South Asia"), a geographical region including Australia, New Zealand, and New Guinea. It may also refer to:
Institutions
- Commercial
- Australasian Bottled Water Institute, industry lobby group
- Australasian Correctional Management, private company running prisons and detention centres
- Australasian Steam Navigation Company, shipping company
- Professional
- Australasian Anti-Transportation League, 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
- Australasian College for Emergency Medicine
- Australasian College of Natural Therapies, private education provider
- Australasian College of Physical Scientists and Engineers in Medicine
- The Australasian College of Tropical Medicine
- Australasian Computer Music Association
- Australasian Conference on Information Systems, annual conference
- Australasian Films, Australian film distribution and production company
- Australasian Fire Authorities Council
- Australasian Hydrographic Society
- Australasian Language Technology Association
- Australasian Law Teachers Association
- Australasian Legal Information Institute, 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
- Australasian New Car Assessment Program, automobile organisation
- Australasian Ornithological Conference, biennial scientific conference
- Australasian Performing Right Association, copyright collective representing New Zealand and Australian composers, lyricists and music publishers
- Australasian Police Multicultural Advisory Bureau
- Australasian Political Studies Association
- 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
- Australasian Trauma Society, medical specialist interest group
- Australasian Union of Jewish Students
- Australasian Wader Studies Group, bird study group
Publications
- Australasian Agribusiness Review, academic journal
- Australasian Emergency Nursing Journal
- Australasian Journal of Bone & Joint Medicine, pharmaceutical industry promotional periodical
- Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, bimonthly academic journal
- Australasian Journal of Philosophy, quarterly journal
- Australasian Plant Pathology, bimonthly scientific journal
- Australasian Psychiatry, bi-monthly academic journal
- Australasian Science, monthly magazine
Sport
- Australasian Breeders Crown, annual horse race run in Melton, Victoria, Australia
- Australasian Intervarsity Debating Championships, annual debating tournament
- Australasian Oaks, annual horse race run in Adelaide, South Australia
- Australasian Pacers Grand Circuit, horse racing event
- Australasian Police and Emergency Services Games, biennial sports event
- Australasian Safari, off-road motor sport racing event held in Australia
- Australasian Schools Computer Competition
- Australasian Schools English Competition, literary competition
- Australasian Wrestling Federation
Other
- Australasian Antarctic Expedition, scientific team involved in Antarctic exploration between 1911 and 1914
- Australasian Inter-Service Incident Management System
- Australasian strewnfield, largest and youngest of the tektite strewnfields, covering at least one-tenth of the Earth's surface
- Australasian television frequencies