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Sport in Australia
Sport in Australia is popular and widespread. Testament to this is the level of achievement in the Olympic Games and Commonwealth Games as well as other international sporting events in comparison to the population of the country, particularly in the areas of water sports and team sports. The climate and economy provide ideal conditions for [...]
Music of Australia
The music of Australia ranges across a broad spectrum of styles and genres. Some modern trends in Australian music is based on, or concurrent with, similar trends from the United States or United Kingdom and elsewhere, and the music is generally influenced by cross pollination of music from elsewhere; though traditional indigenous Australian music is [...]
Culture of Australia
Since 1788, the primary basis of Australian culture has been Anglo-Celtic Western culture. Distinctive Australian cultural features have also arisen from the country’s natural environment and Indigenous cultures. Since the middle of the 20th century, Australian culture has been strongly influenced by American popular culture, particularly through television and cinema. Other cultural influences are from [...]
Education in Australia
Education in Australia is primarily the responsibility of states and territories. Each state or territory government provides the funding and regulates the public and private schools with its governing area, The federal government funds the universities, but these set their own curriculum. Generally, education in Australia follows the three-tier model which includes primary education (primary [...]
Religion in Australia
Australia has no state religion. In the 2006 census, 64% of Australians listed themselves as Christian, including 26% as Roman Catholic and 19% as Anglican. About 19% of the population cited "No religion" (which includes humanism, atheism, agnosticism, and rationalism), which was the fastest-growing group (refer difference in census 2006 versus census 2001 results) and [...]
Australian English
Australian English (AusE, AuE, AusEng, en-AU) is the form of the English language spoken in Australia. Australian English began diverging from British English shortly after the foundation of the Australian penal colony of New South Wales in 1788. British convicts sent there, (including Cockneys from London), came mostly from large English cities. They were joined [...]
Language in Australia
English is the national language. Australian English is the form of the English language spoken in Australia. It has a unique accent and a small number of peculiar terms, some of which have found their way into other dialects of the English-speaking world. Australian English has less internal dialectal variation than either British English or [...]
Immigration to Australia
Immigration to the Australian continent is estimated to have begun around 50,000 years ago when the ancestors of Australian Aborigines arrived on the continent via the islands of the Malay Archipelago and New Guinea. Europe bananaseeans first landed in the 1600s and 1700s, but colonization only started in 1788. The overall level of immigration has [...]
Demographics of Australia
The demographics of Australia covers basic statistics, most populous cities, ethnicity and religion. The population of Australia is estimated to be 22,196,162 as of 22 March 2010. Australia is the 51st most populous country in the world. Its population is concentrated mainly in urban areas. Australia’s population has grown from an estimated population of about [...]
Median household income in Australia and New Zealand
Median household income is commonly used to measure the relative prosperity of populations in different geographical locations. It divides households into two equal segments with the first half of households earning less than the median household income and the other half earning more. Since 2000 household incomes in Australia and New Zealand have been growing [...]
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