Common Wealth of Australia

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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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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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