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home of the Great Barrier Reef, The Outback and beautiful Sydney. They also have a great

Did you know Australia use to be a big prison? Australia is the 6th largest continent. Australia is the only continent covered by a single country. In Australia there are more kangaroo’s than people. A person in Australia hasn’t died from a spider bite since 1987. The top ten deadliest snakes live in Australia. There are over 200 different languages which are spoken in Australia. This includes 45 languages, as well non-English languages like Greek, Italian, Cantonese, Vietnamese, Mandarin, and Arabic. A desert area known as the outback covers much of the land.

One of the great untold truths of Australian history has been the courageous contribution of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to the Australian Defence Force. For decades this contribution was unacknowledged and their sacrifices were unmentioned at official ceremonies.” Alistair Nicholson, Reconciliation Australia (2014).

“From the surface one may look upon Australia as being the ‘lucky county’ however when explored deeper Kayleigh Richmond came to the conclusion that this so called ‘lucky country’ isn’t all that ‘lucky’ for marginalized groups in Australia, the literature of these marginalized groups in Australia certainly substantiates this point”.

In the early 19th century, Aboriginal and Torres Strait islanders were afforded no rights or freedom due to their culture and race. If you were to be born an Aboriginal, by law you couldn’t eat in restaurants, marry without permission, swim in public pools, enter pubs or even have the right to vote (ref). Eventually the government recognised the demands of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders for equality and social justice and acknowledged their right to make decisions about matters affecting their own lives. In recognition however of the past injustices faced, Australia’s Prime Minister of 2008, Kevin Rudd, presented an apology speech as a sign of respect to all the Indigenous people and Torres Strait Islander’s. In doing so, this humble and righteous action has broken down the racial barrier between Aboriginals and Australians. Ultimately, promoting the rights of indigenous people and acknowledging their significance to the Australian community in way that fosters human equality.

A third consideration in regard with the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples is the meaning of sovereignty. The discourse on sovereignty is obscure and non-reflexive. It situates itself somewhere between moral axiology, social ideology and political and legal authority. The link between sovereignty and politics within the public discourse often mask oppressive power relations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people (Prokhovnik, 2015). Furthermore, the mainstream political discourse undoubtedly takes sovereignty “as though it really were an uncontested foundation”, which erases the significance of the Indigenous as the first nations (Prokhovnik, 2015, p. 415). For the settlers, perhaps their self-importance as imperialists was more valued than embracing new notions of nationalism (Ward, 2001). For them, the establishment of colonies represented the expression of the external power of sovereign European states, even if only possible as a result of conquest, and their colonies “were considered sufficient justification for the imposition of sovereign power” (Patton, 1996, p. 149). Unfortunately, this unresolved ambivalence about the colonisation of Australia has also left the peoples of this country with an ambivalent identity (Connors, 2001).

Australia is the sixth largest country in the world. It lies in the Southern Hemisphere between 11° and 44° south latitude and 113° and 154° east longitude. The entire area of land is about the same size as the continental United States, or about one and a half times the size of Europe. The mainland of Australia has an area of 2,967,909 square miles. The country is divided into six states: Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia, and Western Australia.

It is the third largest in the world, occupying some 15/820 km. Indigenous Australians are believed to have lived in South East Queensland for 32,000 years, their population estimated between 6,000 and 20,000 individuals before white settlement. Although the region had long been occupied by the Jagera and Torrbal Aboriginal tribes.

Western Australia lies in the southern hemisphere and is over 2.5 million square kilometres which is about the size of Western Europe. Western Australia cover approximately one third of Australia and is one of the largest states in the world with a wide range of fauna, flora, climate and history.

Statistics Australia began as a country when it was proclaimed on January, 1st 1901 when it was proclaimed. It is located by the country Indonesia and it has its own continent. In 2014, the population was counted at 22,507, 617 million people. Their biggest religion is christianity. The average income for per person is $80,704.

Let me give you another reason about Australia's wildlife.Some exotic creatures are marsupials and lbirds. Marsupial babies ,are called,"joeys"when they are born they're the size of a jelly bean.The young ones also stay in their mothers pouch until they're ready to go to the outside world.One type of bird is Kookaburra,a kingfish,that sounds like a person laughing.They live in Australia.There's also another bird called the emu.The text"Life in Australia ", states that these are big birds they are as big as an ostrich it is also Australia's largest native bird.These are some reasons why you could live in Australia.

Australia: Australia is a self-governing country Western democracy with a population of more than 22 million. It is one of the world’s most developed countries. Australia’s life style reflects it’s mainly Western roots, but Australia is also a multicultural

Indigenous people are those that are native to an area. Throughout the world, there are many groups or tribes of people that have been taken over by the Europeans in their early conquests throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, by immigrating groups of individuals, and by greedy corporate businesses trying to take their land. The people indigenous to Australia, Brazil and South America, and Hawaii are currently fighting for their rights as people: the rights to own land, to be free from prejudice, and to have their lands protected from society.

The arid lands of Australia are sparsely populated compared to those on the coastal fringes. Low rainfall and a scarcity of water have traditionally limited the arid regions of Australia to the cowboys. Although Australia is similar in size to the United States, proportionally the amount of arid land is much higher. In the United States, only the southwest is extremely arid. Seventy percent of Australia falls into this category, making it well suited for camels. As a result, few people are found more than one hundred fifty miles inland in Australia. The Australian population can not grow like in America. The US currently has a population of 275,000,000. Australia’s population is only 20,000,000, and experts argue that it can only grow to 25 or 30 million before being unable to support more people. [3] One of the best possibilities for cultivation that remains relatively untouched is southeastern Australia. This region receives enough rainfall to be productive and there are still relatively few people living there

Australia is both the smallest and oldest continent in the world, and it is the only country that is also a continent. [1] It is an island located between the Indian Ocean and the South Pacific, just south of Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. At 2,941,299 square miles, Australia is the sixth-largest country in the world and only about 150,000 square miles (about the size of Montana) smaller than the continental United States. Its interior land is a flat and sparsely populated desert, but as you move outward the climate changes to grassland, subtropical, tropical, and even temperate in the southeastern region. [1] While more than 70% of Australia is arid, the rest includes a variety of rich environments including flood plains,