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COMMON WEALTH OF AUSTRALIA:
AUSTRALIA
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IS PART OF THE WORLDSSMALLEST CONTINENT
BEFORE
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BUT NOW
Many modern atlases and geography expertsnow consider the long-established continent of
Australia to be better defined
as Australia/Oceania, which then combines andincludes all of (Australia), the large island groupsof New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Fiji,Solomons, and the countless volcanic and coralislands of the south Pacific Ocean, includingthose of Micronesia, Melanesia and Polynesia.In short, OCEANIA is now one of the mostdiverse and fascinating areas on the planet.
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AUSTRALIAN COAT OF ARMS
The Coat of Arms ofAustralia is the official
symbol of Australia. The
initial coat of arms was
granted by King Edward
VII on May 7 1908, and
the current version,shown here, was
granted by
King George V
on September 19 1912.
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NATIONALNATIONAL
ANTHEMANTHEM
Advance Australia Fair
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CAPITAL
CITY
CANBERRA
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SYDNEY
MELBOURNE
BRISBANE
PERTH
ADELAIDEDARWIN
HOBART
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-the largest and most populous city
inAustralia and the state capital ofNew
South Wales
-has a reputation as an international
centre
forcommerce, arts, fashion, culture, ente
rtainment, music, education and tourism.
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is the capital and most populous
city in the state ofVictoria, and
the second most populous city
inAustralia
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is the capital and most populouscity in the Australian state
ofQueensland and the third most
populous city inAustralia
A resident of Brisbane iscommonly known as a
"Brisbanite"
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the capital and largest city oftheAustralian state ofWestern
Australia and the fourth most
populous city inAustralia. The
Perth metropolitan area has an
estimated population of
1,659,000
became known worldwide as
the "City of Light" when city
residents lit their house lights
and streetlights as
American astronautJohn
Glenn passed overhead while
orbiting the earth on Friendship
7 in 1962 and again to John
Glenn when he passed
overhead on the Space
Shuttle in 1998.
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the capital and most populouscity of
theAustralian state ofSouth
Australia, and is the fifth-
largest city in Australia.
Adelaide has an estimated
population of more than1.28 million.
A resident of
Adelaide is known
as an "Adelaidean"
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the capital city of the Northern Territory,Australia.
Situated on the Timor Sea, Darwin has a population
of 124,800, making it by far the largest and most
populated city in the sparsely populated Northern
Territory, but the least populous of all Australia's
capital cities. It is the smallest and most northerly of
the Australian capital cities, and acts as the Top
End's regional centre.
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the state capital and most populous city of
theAustralian island state ofTasmania.
Founded in 1803 as a penal colony, Hobart
is Australia's second oldest capital city
afterSydney
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States
New South Wales,Queensland,
South Australia,
Tasmania,
Victoria, andWestern Australia
MAINLAND TERRITORIES
the Northern
Territory andtheAustralian Capital
Territory (ACT)
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LANGUAGE
-English (79%) , Italian (1.6%) Greek (1.3%) and Cantonese (1.2%)GOVERNMENT
-Federal parliamentary democracy and constitutional monarchy
- Monarch Queen Elizabeth II
- Governor-GeneralQuentin Bryce
- Prime MinisterJulia Gillard
CURRENCY
-Australian Dollar (AUD)
PEOPLE
Oz, Aussie/ Ozzie and Aborigines/ Australian ( native people)
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Australia is a constitutional monarchy with a federal division
of powers. It uses a parliamentary system of government
with Queen Elizabeth II at its apex as the Queen of Australia,
a role that is distinct from her position as monarch of the
otherCommonwealth realms. As the Queen resides in the
United Kingdom, the executive powers vested in her by
the Constitution are normally exercised by herviceroys in
Australia (the Governor-General at the federal level and by
the Governors at the state level), who by convention act on
the advice of her Ministers
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(10.8 million):
Agriculture, fishing and forestry--3.25%;
mining--1.6%;
manufacturing--9.1%;
retail trade--10.7%;
public administration, defense, and safety--6.2%;
construction--9%.
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The Super Pit gold mine
in Kalgoorlie, Australia's
largest open cut mine
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C
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MA
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ANIMALS
KOALAS
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WOMBATS
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EMU
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KOOKABURA
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EUCALYPTUS
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HIBISCUS
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ACACIA
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Demography
Most of the estimated 22 million Australians are descended from
colonial-era settlers and post-Federation immigrants from
Europe, with almost 90% of the population being of European
descent. For generations, the vast majority of immigrants came
from the British Isles, and the people of Australia are still mainly
of British or Irish ethnic origin. In the 2006 Australian census, themost commonly nominated ancestry was Australian
(37.13%),[182] followed
by English (31.65%), Irish (9.08%), Scottish (7.56%), Italian(4.29
%), German (4.09%), Chinese (3.37%), and Greek (1.84%)
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Australia has no state religion. In the 2006 census, 64% of
Australians listed themselves as Christian, including 26%
as Roman Catholicand 19% asAnglican. About 19% of the
population cited "No religion" (which
includes humanism, atheism, agnosticism, and rationalism),
which was the fastest-growing group from 2001 to 2006, and afurther 12% did not answer (the question is optional) or did not
give a response adequate for interpretation. The second-
largest religion in Australia is Buddhism (2.1%), followed
by Islam (1.7%), Hinduism (0.8%), andJudaism (0.5%).
Overall, fewer than 6% of Australians identify with non-
Christian religions.[212] Weekly attendance at church servicesin 2004 was about 1.5 million: about 7.5% of the
population.[213]
Religion does not play a central role in the lives of much of the
population.
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School attendance is
compulsory throughout
Australia. All children receive
11 years of compulsoryeducation from the age of 6
to 16 (Year1 to 10), before
they can undertake two more
years (Years 11 and 12),
contributing to an adult
literacy rate that is assumedto be 99%
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Since 1788, the primary basis of Australian culture has beenAnglo-
Celtic Western culture. Distinctive cultural features have also arisen
from Australia's natural environment and Indigenous cultures. Since
the mid-20th century,American popular culture has strongly
influenced Australia, particularly through television and cinema. Othercultural influences come from neighboring Asian countries, and
through large-scale immigration from non-English-speaking nations
Anglo-Celtic is a macro-cultural term
used to collectively describe the culturesnative to Britain and Ireland and the
significant diasporas located
inAustralia, Canada, New Zealand,South
Africa and the United States.
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Australia's food traditions have been largely
shaped by its inhabitants. For most of
Australian history, the cuisine was based ontraditional Indigenous bushfood using native
berries, fruit, fish, kangaroo and even insects
such as the witchetty grub. Later, British
food was introduced by the first European
settlers; the Sunday roast has become an
enduring tradition for many Australians.[ In the
19th and especially the 20th century, food was
increasingly influenced by Mediterranean
andAsian cultures of immigrants of the
period.
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CRICKET
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RUGBY
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FIELD HOCKEY
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CYCLING
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