Transdev Australasia

Transdev Australasia is an operator of bus, ferry, light rail and rail services in Australia and New Zealand. It is a division of Transdev. It was formed in 2013 by grouping the operations of Veolia Transport Australia and old Transdev together, as a result of the global rebranding from Veolia Transdev to Transdev.

Current operations

New South Wales

Transdev NSW

Transdev NSW is a bus company operating services in the southern and western suburbs of Sydney. The origins of the company that is now Transdev NSW can be traced back to February 1935 when GH Ramsay commenced a bus service between Sutherland station and Woronora River. After series of purchases and changes of name, the company was purchased by Connex in 1999 and rebranded Transdev NSW in 2013. Since 2005, the company's services have formed part of Sydney Bus Regions 10 and 13, with the company also taking responsibility for Region 12 from Transdev Shorelink Buses in 2013.

Transdev Sydney

Transdev Sydney operates light rail services in Sydney on behalf of Transport for New South Wales. Veolia was originally contracted to operate these services in addition to the operation of the Sydney Monorail under the privately owned Metro Transport Sydney. This contract was maintained upon Metro Transport Sydney's purchase by the Government of New South Wales on 23 March 2012. The monorail was decommissioned on 30 June 2013. A new contract, beginning in mid 2015, covering operation of the Inner West and CBD and South East lines with signed with the ALTRAC Light Rail consortium in December 2014. As a member of the consortium, Transdev will retain the right to operate the Inner West line and will also operate the new line when it opens in early 2019.

Australasia

Australasia, a region of Oceania, comprises Australia, New Zealand, the island of New Guinea, and neighbouring islands in the Pacific Ocean. Charles de Brosses coined the term (as French Australasie) in Histoire des navigations aux terres australes (1756). He derived it from the Latin for "south of Asia" and differentiated the area from Polynesia (to the east) and the southeast Pacific (Magellanica). The bulk of Australasia sits on the Indo-Australian Plate, together with India.

Physical geography

Physiographically, Australasia includes New Zealand, Australia (including Tasmania), and Melanesia: New Guinea and neighbouring islands north and east of Australia in the Pacific Ocean. The designation is sometimes applied to all the lands and islands of the Pacific Ocean lying between the equator and latitude 47° south.

Most of Australasia lies on the southern portion of the Indo-Australian Plate, flanked by the Indian Ocean to the west and the Southern Ocean to the south. Peripheral territories lie on the Eurasian Plate to the northwest, the Philippine Plate to the north, and in the Pacific Ocean – including numerous marginal seas – atop the Pacific Plate to the north and east.

Australasia (album)

Australasia is the full-length debut album by Chicago post-metal band Pelican. It was released November 4, 2003 on Hydra Head Records.

Guitarist Trevor de Brauw has noted that because of budget restrictions, the Australasia sessions had to be rushed. The studio was also under construction during recording and had a few impediments. Despite this, critical reception has been largely positive.

The track "Drought" was used in the 2009 war film The Messenger.

Reception

Track listing

All tracks written by Pelican.

Vinyl version

Personnel

References