Australia is the sixth largest nation after Russia, Canada, China, the United States of America and Brazil. But has a small population of 21,262,641, and is ranked 57th among the worlds most populated nations. Their density is 2.6 km. Australia is the only nation to govern an entire continent and its outlying islands. The mainland of Australia is the largest island and the smallest, and is flattest and driest continent on Earth. It lies between 10 degrees and 39 degrees South latitude. Australian federation consists of six States and two Territories. Most inland borders follow lines of longitude and latitude. The largest State, Western Australia, is about the same size as Western Europe. Australia is boarded by the Indian Ocean and the South Pacific Ocean.
Australia’s largest cities are Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, Newcastle, Canberra, Wollongong Gold Coast City, and Central Coast, and the capital is Canberra. Australia’s ethnic groups are white-92%, Asian-7%, aboriginal and other -1%. Languages in Australia include English-79.1%, Chinese 2.1%, Italian 1.9%, other 11.1%, and unspecified 5.8%. Aborigines are Australia special ethnic groups. Australia is in the South East region. Australia’s landforms include rocks, mountain, deserts, oceans, and seas. Land regions include, Australia is flat, dry, and humid, has an odd shape and is large. Australia’s bodies of water include the Indian Ocean, South Pacific Ocean, Timor Sea, Gulf of Carpentaria, Coral Sea Tasman Sea, Lake Eyre Great Australian Bright, Spencer Gulf, Great Barrier Reef, Alice Springs, and Bass Strait. Australia plant life includes Cyprus Pines, Beefwood, Shrubs, Saltbush, Banksias trees, Grass trees, Boab trees, Mountain Ash, Kangaroo paw. The animal life includes Kangaroos, Koloa, Platypus, Wallaby, Kookaburra, Wombat Tasmanian Devil, and Dingo. The whether in Australia is hot and sunny. Sometimes humid, chilly or cold, but mainly warm. The average temperature is 91 degrees.
Economy
Australia has had one of the most outstanding economies of the world in recent years. As a high-growth, low-inflation, low interest rate economy, it is richer than ever. There is an efficient government sector, a flexible labor market and a very competitive business sector. Australia has enjoyed a high standard of living since the nineteenth century. It has made a comparatively large investment in social infrastructure, including education, training, health and transport. The Australian workforce had seen many improvements ovthe last decade, leading to the surge in productivity in the 1990s. The complex and centralized award based industrial relations system has given way to a more decentralized on with many employees working under workplace agreements tailored to meet enterprise needs.
Immigration
Australia’s culturally diver’s society includes its Indigenous peoples and settlers from countries all around the world. Immigration is an important feature of Australian society. Since 1945, over six million people from 200 countries have come to Australia as new settlers. The migrants have made a major contribution to shaping modern Australia. People over seas almost one quarter of the total population.
Tourism
Australia is known for its tropical beaches, dry land, and their exotic rain forests. There is more like the Sydney Opera House, The Great Barrier Reef, and the Outback
Geography
Australia is the lowest, flattest and, apart from Antarctica, the driest of the continents. Unlike Europe and North America, where some landscapes date back to around 20,000 years ago, when great ice sheets retreated, the age of landforms in Australia is generally measured in many millions of years. This gives Australia a very distinctive physical geography.
The land area of Australia is almost as great as that of the United States of America (excluding Alaska), about 50% greater than Europe and 32 times greater than the United Kingdom. Much of the centre of Australia is flat, but there are numerous ranges and some individual mountains of which Ultra (Ayers Rock) is probably the best known. Faulting and folding in this area took place long ago. The area was worn to a plain, and the plain was uplifted and then eroded to form the modern ranges on today’s plain. In looking at Ultra, one remarkable thing is not so much how it got there, but that so much has been eroded from all around to leave it there.
The Australian landforms of today are seen to result from long continued processes in a unique setting, giving rise to typical Australian landscapes, which in turn provide the physical basis for the distribution and nature of biological and human activity in Australia.
System of Government
Australian Democracy: The Australian system of government has its beginnings in two great democratic traditions. Following British settlements in 1788, the Westminster model was uses the basis of government in the six separate colonies met to discuss the formation of a national government in 1890 they opted for a relationship between the motional and state government similar to the United States. At the same time they opted to retain the Westminster model as the basis for the legislature, the executive government and the judiciary at the national and state level. Australia was declared a federation in 1901 with the concurrence of the British Parliament, and now has a Federal Government, six State Governments and two Territories which are largely self-governing.
Culture
Cuisine- Australia food traditions have been influenced by the ones who have settled there. There are few foods that can be consisted “Australian foods”… Wines and beers are popular in Australia. And one of there most common foods are Vegemite. Clothing- Australia’s unique fashions have relied upon textiles, the color and the cloth, as much as garment type, styles and looks. A wide variety of Australian fashion textiles – hand-colored, printed and painted silks, woven wool, dyed discharge and devour prints, ground velvets, and ochre designs based on traditional Aboriginal body paintings. Architecture- Architects in Australia have created some of the most unusual and outstanding buildings in the world. Internationally recognized Australian icons include buildings like the Sydney Opera House and the new Parliament House in Canberra. Arts, Music, Literature- The aborigines in Australia make very traditional music and dance.The aborigines are known for playing the didgeridoo. And dancing in an unusual way
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