1. Remarkable continent
  • The Common Wealth of Australia is a country situated in the southern hemisphere including the mainland of the world’s tiniest continent, the major island of Tasmania, a lot of other islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
  • The nearby nations are Indonesia, East Timor, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, and New Zealand. Australia is the merely national region which is known as “Continent”.
2. Population
  • It is estimated that almost 21.3 million Australians are descended by the colonial pioneers and Post-Federation immigrants from Europe along with 90% of the population being of European descent.
  • By generational analysis, the majority of both colonial settlers and post federation colonists emerged approximately exclusively from the British Isles and the people of Australia yet particularly belong to the race of British and Irish origins.
3. Language
  • English is the national language of Australia. Australian English has its own distinguishing pronunciation and expressions.
  • By 2001 census, English is merely language been spoken in Australia by 80% of the population.
  • There are some of other languages spoken in Australia like Italian (1.9%), Greek (1.4%), and Chinese (2.1%).
  • Australia retains a symbolic language called as “Auslan” which is the imperative language of 6,500 hearing-impaired people.
4. Religion
  • Australia doesn’t have state religion. In the 2006 census, 64% of Australians were counted as Christian of any value including 26% as Roman Catholic and 19% as Anglican.
  • Nineteen % were measured as No Religion including humanism, atheism, agnosticism, and rationalism and a further 12% denied to respond.
  • Almost 5% are non-Christian religions.
5. Economy
  • Australia has a worthwhile economic structure based on “Western-Style-Mixed-Economy” along with a per capita GDP a little higher than that of the United Kingdom, France, and Germany accordingly buying power par.
  • The country was given a 3rd rank in the United Nations’ 2007 Human Development Index and sixth in The Economist worldwide “Quality-Life-Index” 2005.
  • The export stresses upon commodities rather than manufactures has supplied Australia charred the increase in commodity prices.
  • Australia has the world's fourth largest current account deficit in complete terms (in relative terms it is above than 7% of GDP).
  • In January 2007, there were around 10,033,480 people engaged a redundancy rate of 4.6%.
  • In few decades, inflation has mainly been kept by 2-3% and the bottom interest rate 5-6%.
  • The service-sector of the economy including tourism, education and financial services comprises up to 69% of GDP.
  • Agriculture and natural resources add up to 3% and 5% of GDP but contribute significantly to export-progression.
  • Australia's largest export markets retain Japan, China, the U.S., South Korea and New Zealand.
6. Flora & Fauna
  • A good number Australian woody-plant-species are evergreen and modified to flames and dearth including numerous eucalypts and acacias.
  • Australia has a wide variety of prevalent legume species that blossoms in nutrient-poor dirt due to their symbiosis with Rhizobia germs and mycorrhizal yeast.
  • Among reputable Australian fauna are the monotremes ,platypus , and echidna. Many of the  marsupials include kangaroo,  koala, snakes, wombat, saltwater ,freshwater crocodiles, etc.
  • The floras are the emu, kookaburra, Crimson Rosela, Platycercus, Wattle bird, Eastern spinebill, White-browed Scrubwren, New Holland Honeyeater, King parrots, Australian Magpie, White faced heron, , Willy Wagtail, White-throated Treecreeper, Laughing Kookaburra, , Grey fantail, Sulphur-crested Cockatoo, etc.
7. Politics
  • The Commonwealth of Australia has a constitutional democracy based upon a federal division of supremacy. The structure of government practiced in Australia is a constitutional monarchy along with a parliamentary system of government.
  • Queen Elizabeth II is the Queen of Australia, a ruler that is dissimilar from her situation as sovereign of the other Commonwealth realms.
  • The Queen is symbolized by the Governor-General at federal stage and by the Governors at state rank. However, the Constitution provides wide-ranging executive powers to the Governor-General; these are on the whole exercised merely on the counsel of the Prime Minister.
  • The most prominent work out of the Governor-General's reserve powers outside the Prime Minister's direction was the removal from office of the Whitlam Government in the constitutional crisis of 1975.
8. Three levels of government in Australia
  • The legislature, the Commonwealth Parliament includes the Queen, the Senate, and the House of Representatives. The Queen is symbolized by the Governor-General, who by get-together proceeds on the counsel of his or her Ministers.
  • The executive level, the Federal Executive Council  includes councilors, Prime Minister and Ministers of State.
  • The judiciary stage includes High Court of Australia and other federal courts.
9. Australian culture
  • For the last 50 years, Australian culture has been strappingly influenced by American popular culture including television, cinema, large-scale colonization from non-English-speaking countries and Australia's Asian neighbours.
  • The dynamism of the arts in Australia is fabulously dominant including literature, cinema, opera, music, painting, theatre, dance, and crafts.
  • Australia retains distinctive broadcasters including Australian Broadcasting Corporation , multicultural Special Broadcasting Service, three commercial television networks, several pay-TV services,  plentiful civic, non-profit television and radio stations.
  • Australia's film industry has won a lot of staidly and commercial awards.
  • Each city of Australia has daily newspapers and there are two national daily newspapers called as The Australian and The Australian Financial Review.
  • Sports are considered to be a vital part in Australian culture including cricket, field hockey, netball, rugby league,  rugby union, cycling, rowing, swimming, horse racing, soccer, and motor racing.
  • You can understand why Austria is the best because it has won 3 constant world-cup of cricket recently.
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