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The Australian flag includes three symbols:

1) The Union Flag

2) The Commonwealth Star

3) The Southern Cross

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Uluru, also known as Ayers Rock, is 348m

tall. Some say that those

who take rocks from the

formation will be cursed!

The oldest Aboriginal boomerangs

are ten thousand years old. King

Tutankhamen had a collection of

boomerangs in Ancient Egypt!


The Great Barrier Reef is larger than the

Great Wall of China. It is the

only living thing on Earth

than is visible from space.

Koalas spent up to 18 hours

each day napping and resting.

They smell like cough drops

because of the eucalyptus

leaves that they eat!


Two million people watch

performances at the Sydney

Opera House each year.

Australia is one of the

largest countries on

Earth. It has many

animal species that live

nowhere else in the world.


Dingoes are found in many

parts of Australia. They cannot

bark but do howl at night to

keep their family group together.

Kangaroos have large feet that

help them to travel at more than

30mph. They use their strong

tails for balance when jumping.


There are more than 60 different types of

opossum (which are often

called possums). Babies

are as small as honey bees!

Most Australian cities and

farms are in the south west

and south east because the

weather is more comfortable.


Australia has 516

national parks to

protect the plants and

animals living there.

Lots of deadly animals live in Australia.

These include poisonous

funnel-web spiders and

venomous snakes.


Aboriginal people have

lived in Australia for

50,000 years.

Nearly a quarter of the

people who live in

Australia were born in

other countries.


Gold was discovered in

Australia in 1851. It is

now the fourth largest

producer of gold in the world.

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