The fastest time to model five balloon sculptures blindfolded is 1 min 3.6 sec and was achieved by Jeremy Reading (Australia) on the set of “Australia Smashes Guinness World Records” at the Warringah Mall in Sydney, Australia, on 14 January 2010. The record was part of the TV series “Australia Smashes Guinness World Records”
The fastest time to pull a thresher 15 m (49 ft 3 in) by a team of 15 is 13.78 sec set by Team Thiess at the Kingaroy Showground in Kingaroy, Queensland, Australia, during the 2008 Peanut Festival on 2 August 2008. The team members were: Christopher Dennis, Matthew Wason, Michael Hammond, Douglas Thompson, Owen Stewart, Aaron Marsh, Stephen Jensen, Mathew Wilkes, Kerry Frame, Peter Tudman, James Carty, Mick Newby, Michael Gerblich, Gary Rinehart, Peter Fairfull. Previous record holders King Fit Dreams also took part
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The fastest time to shear a single mature sheep is 39.31 seconds by Hilton Barrett (Australia) at the Wellington Show 2010 in Wellington, New South Wales, Australia, on 1 May 2010. The record was set as part of a competition at the annual show, in which six different participants had two chances each to attempt to break the world record. Barrett was the only one to finish with a time below 40 seconds.
The fastest time to solve a 4×4 Cube blindfolded is 3 minutes 37.80 seconds (including memorizing time) and was achieved by Feliks Zemdegs (Australia) at the Melbourne Summer 2011, held in Melbourne, Australia, on 29-30 January 2011.
The world cycling record over 4 km. (unpaced, standing start) is 4:10.534, by Jack Bobridge (Australia), at Sydney, Australia, on 2 February, 2011.
20,000 m 1:26:52.3 Olimpiada Ivanova (Russia) Brisbane, Queensland, Australia 6 September 2001
Stephen Muller, Adrian Muller, Julian Price-Jones and Jeremy Vant Spyker (all Australia) managed a time of 1 minute and 6 seconds for the fastest VW Engine exchange on the set of Guinness World Records at Seven Network Studios, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia on 27 August 2005. The engine was manually removed from a 1976 VW Beetle, placed 1 meter away from the car and then manually put back into the car. Finally the car was driven 5 metres.
The fastest softball pitch is 111 km/h (68.9 mph) achieved by Zara Mee (Australia) on the set of Guinness World Records, at Seven Network Studios, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia on 8 May 2005.
The first countries in the world to announce plans to ban incandescent light bulbs (and to then replace them with more energy-efficient fluorescent bulbs) were Cuba and Venezuela (in 2005). Two years later, Australia’s environment minister announced their plan on 20 February 2007. These moves could potentially reduce Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions by 800,000 tonnes by 2009 or 4 million tonnes by 2012.
Dick Smith and John Wallington achieved flying over Australia in The Australian Geographic Flyer, leaving Carnarvon, WA on 17 Jun 1993 and landing at Tabulam, NSW the following day after a flight of 3867km 2088nauticalmiles lasting 40hr 23min.