I've seen the Foucault pendulum at Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles, and its movements are entire consistent and predictable assuming a spinning earth.  It doesn't have to be restarted; it's given a little kick every swing by a weak, non-directional magnetic pulse on the wire.

The word is "precess".  Do you own research.

And, precession of the spinning earth under the pull of the sun's gravity causes the north pole to "wobble" as observed, and predicted assuming a spinning earth.

I don't imagine the Standard Map of the World is very popular in Australia.  It's grossly inaccurate because it assumes a flat earth.  According to the Map, Australia is almost 6000 miles from coast to coast, but Expedia shows a non-stop flight (2100 air miles per the spherical earth model) from Perth to Sydney in just over 4 hours - Mach II if you believe the flat earth Map; about 500 mph according to the spherical earth map.