![]() ![]() ![]() 2) 80 percent of Australia’s population lives within 100 kilometres of the coast.ģ) Australia officially has 6 states (Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia, South Australia, Tasmania) and 2 territories (The Northern Territory and the The Australian Capital Territory aka. I’ve also loaded up this article with some of my favorite photos from Australia! I’ve traveled quite extensively around the country (well, relatively speaking), and hope you enjoy checking out all the photos as well!ġ) At this time of publishing this (July, 2019) the population of Australia has just surpassed 25 million. So light up the barbie (BBQ), crack open a tinny (beer can) and enjoy my (not so) shortlist of Australian facts you need to know! Top 80 Facts About Australia Australia is such a marvelous country, and I’m sure you’ll find my list of the top 80 Australian facts just as interesting and entertaining, as it is informative and useful! Putting together this list Australia facts had me reminiscing about all the experiences I had, and at times, laughing my bloody head off. Weird, fun, beautiful, wacky, majestic, massive, rich in culture….and a country I’ve been lucky enough to both live in and explore quite a bit myself! It’s truly one of my favorite places in the world, and am always telling friends that they should move down there for a year or two, and I’m sure this article about facts about Australia will help with that! When they aren’t in a tangle with those sinister box jellyfish, they are out racing cane toads.Australia. Cane toad racing is a real sportĪgain up north where the locals can go a bit troppo. ![]() Get into and bear hug with one of these northern tropical marine nasties and you may have a minute or two to write your will. ![]() Snakes, sharks, spiders and oh yeah… the box jellyfish. That’s right if the snakes and sharks aren’t enough to get your skin crawling, try counting Aussie spiders – one for every beach! 9. Who ate all the pies? We did!Īustralians eat 260+ million meat pies every year, more than 12 per head (Seriously is that all? – Ed). But not all is lost the wood has been preserved as a monument (above) and the tree has been cloned. It still stood until it was poisoned in an act of vandalism in 2006. The eucalypt came to be known as the ‘Tree of Knowledge’. The first branch meeting of the Australian Labor Party, said to be Australia’s first political party, was held under a gum tree in Barcaldine, Queensland in 1891, in response to a sheep shearers’ strike. 5. You call that a farm?Īustralia’s largest cattle station (that’s a farm or a ranch to you visitor folk), Anna Creek, is 24,000 square km, making it bigger than Cyprus, Fiji, East Timor, Slovenia and Israel. In one day, Postman Barry flies 1,450km in nine hours with 10 stops, from Cairns to Cape York in Queensland. ![]()
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