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Country Guide Australia

Capital: Canberra

Population: 20,155,000

Currency: Australian dollar (AUD)

Religions: Catholic 26.4%, Anglican 20.5%, other Christian 20.5%, Buddhist 1.9%, Muslim 1.5%, other 1.2%, unspecified 12.7%, none 15.3% (2001 Census)

Government: democratic, federal-state system recognizing the British monarch as sovereign

Languages: English 79.1%, Chinese 2.1%, Italian 1.9%, other 11.1%, unspecified 5.8% (2001 Census)

Climate: generally arid to semiarid; temperate in south and east; tropical in north

Phone Code: 61

Australia photo

Photos of Australia

Photos of Australia by Paul Dodson, courtesy of Observations of an Unimportant Man.

Fire Hose - Stanley, Tasmania, Australia Local Flora - Tasmania - Cradle Mountain, Australia The Yarra and South Bank - Melbourne, Australia Tasmanian Flora - Cradle Mountain, Australia Flinders Street Station Clocks - Melbourne, Australia Cradle Mountain National Park - Cradle Mountain, Australia

Festivals in Australia

The Dreaming Festival [article]
Melbourne International Comedy Festival [article]
Gold Coast Airport Marathon [snippet]
Clipsal 500 Adelaide [snippet]
Gold Coast Airport Marathon [photo gallery]
Brisbane Festival [photo gallery]
Darwin Beer Can Regatta [video]
Australian Rules Football - AFL Final Series [video]
Sydney Design Festival [web site]
State of Design Festival [web site]

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Australia Accommodation

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Australia Flights

Qantas (Australia) - Qantas is widely regarded as the world's leading long distance airline. A safe way to get Down Under.
Qantas


2camels has searched the web for airlines that fly to Australia. We feature only hand picked links (like the one above to Qantas) through to airline sites that feature flights to Australia.

Australia Tours

Tours in Australia

Australian Reading

Lonely Planet: Australia

Nowhere's as diverse as down under. From Uluru to Kakadu, from city lights to starry nights, this bestselling guide is the key to the heart of Australia.

  • it's a big country, but with 160 maps we've got it covered
  • spectacular colour field guide to Australia's native animals
  • surf, dive or sail; hike, bike or ski -- we'll show you how
  • hundreds of accommodation options, from bush camping to five-star resorts
  • full-colour guide to Aboriginal art

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Australia DVD

Pilot Guides: Destination Northern Australia

As seen on TV and formally known as Lonely Planet the Pilot Guides are undoubtedly champions of the travel world.

Australia is the oldest continent in the world and was first inhabited 50,000 years ago. Only 17 million people live in this vast country the size of mainland USA!

Traveller Ian Wright explores Outback Australia, one of the most sparse and rugged landscapes on earth, covering three quarters of Australia but with only 10% of its population; meanwhile Megan McCormick visits Queensland, the sun-shiniest state, home of the oldest rainforest on the planet, and bordered by the Great Barrier Reef, the world's largest living organism.

Along the way

  • Attend the Barunga Aboriginal festival in Katherine
  • Admire Uluru, or Ayres Rock, for more than 80 000 years a highly sacred site to the Aboriginal people
  • Camp on Fraser Island, the world's biggest sand island, surrounded by man eating sharks but home to beautiful fresh water lakes
  • Watch for the alligators, hunt the kangaroo, and see dingoes and koalas
  • Dive among the colourful corals and amazing wildlife of the Great Barrier Reef

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Further Australia Resources

Photos of Melbourne [web site]
Australian Government Culture Portal [web site]
Message Stick [web site]
Pure Australia [web site]

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