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•The native people in Australia were the aborigines.•In the past the aborigines didn’t live in one place.•They travelled around the Australian continent to find food and water and they hunted with boomerangs.
•The first British people went to Australia about
three hundred years ago.
•After 1950 people from other parts of the world went
to live in Australia too.
•Now English is the official language of all Australians –
but they speak it with an Australian accent.
Swimming Surfing
Windsurfing
Ayers Rock
Sydney Opera House
Great Barrier Reef
A lot of interesting animals live in Australia too.All tourists want to see a koala and a kangaroo,
a platypus and a honey possum.
KoalaPlatypusKangarooHoney possumEchidnaDingoWombatCassowary
AUSTRALIA FACTS
Population: 19 million
Capital: Canberra
Major language: English
Major religion: Christianity
Life expectancy: 75 years (men), 81 years (women)
Monetary unit: 1 Australian dollar = 100 cents
Main exports: Ores and metals; wool, food and live animals; fuels, transport machinery and equipment
Head of State: Queen Elizabeth II, represented by Governor-General Peter Hollingworth