Australia

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Roadmap of Presentation
➢ Location
➢ History
➢ The Australian Flag
➢ Colonisation
➢ Capita of Australia
➢ Big cities of Australia
➢ Great Barrier Reef
➢ Sports
➢ Currency
➢ Multicultural Australia
➢ Manners and Etiquettes
➢ Religions 3
1) History of Australia?
2) What is the capital of
Australia?
3) Which city is the oldest
and largest?
4) Which is a popular
Australian animal?
5) Who are the Australian
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Location

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➢ Australia is situated south of Asia,
between the Pacific and the Indian
Oceans

➢ Australia is a continent, a country

and an island at the same time

➢ Australia is located in the southern

hemisphere

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 AUSTRALIA
➢It’s the 6th biggest country in the world
➢It’s an Island, surrounded by water
➢It’s the smallest continent in the world
➢OFFITIAL NAME : Commonwealth of Australia
➢TOTAL AREA: 7,700,000 sq.km
➢POPULATION: 22 million people
➢PORTS: Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane
➢NATIONAL SYMBOLS: Kangaroo and Emu
➢NATIONAL ANTHEM: “ADVANCE AUSTRALIA
FAIR” 7
THE AUSTRALIAN
Southern cross symbolizes the
FLAG constellation

Union Flag
6th British
colony

The Commonwealth 7 pointed star

represents the 7 territories 8
 History
➢ James Cook discovered Australia in 1770
➢ He was sent to discover the huge land that
many people believed was south of the equator
➢ He landed south of present day Sydney in New
South Wales
➢ Aborigines are native of Australians
➢ Europeans sold the land of Aborigines and killed
thousands of them

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 COLONISATION
• Australia has been inhabited for at least 50,000 years
• It was first inhabited by the remote Asian ancestors of the
current Australian Aboriginal people
• Australia was not discovered by Europeans until the 17th
century
• In the 18th century was founded the penal colony in
Sydney
• The First Fleet with Convicts arrived at Sydney in 26th
January, 1788, went on to mark Australia Day
• In 1st January 1901, the colonies collectively became
states of the Commonwealth of Australia
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 Capital
❖ The capital city is Canberra
❖ It is very young city
❖ Population is around 310,000 people

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 Sydney
➢Capital of New South Wales

➢Leading industrial city

➢Population: 3,200,000 people

The Harbour Bridge St. Maria Cathedral

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Sydney Sydney AMP Tower Opera House
 Melbourne
➢Capital of Victoria

➢The world’s most

livable city
Old House ➢Population: 3,200,000

Melbourne Bridge Train Station 13

 Brisbane
➢ Capital of Queensland
➢It is a year-round
vocation place
➢Population is about
1,400,000 people
Brisbane Skyscrapers

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Brisbane Brisbane Bridge
 Adelaide
➢ Capital of South Australia

➢ A pretty and industrial city

➢ Population: 1,100,000 people

Gold Beach

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Victoria Square Fountain Adelaide
 Perth
➢Capital of Western Australia

➢One of the best climates in

Australia

➢Population: 1,200,000
people
King’s Park Perth Skyscrapers

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 Hobart
➢Capital of island-state Tasmania

➢Winters are very cold

➢Population of about 200,000

Bay of Fires

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Remarkable Cave Lavender Farm Coles Bay
➢ It’s the world’s largest coral reef (over
2000 km)

➢It stretches along the east coast of

Queensland

➢It’s made up of over 2900 individual reefs

very close to each other

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 Sports
➢ In Australia it is usually very
warm
➢ Australians love sport and
other outdoor activities
➢ National sport is surfing cricket
scuba-diving

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swimming FOOTBALL Rugby surfing
currency

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multiculture
of

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 Australian Culture
➢Most culture is based on history, traditions and belief systems

➢Very open in their communication styles

➢Generally Australians are open, friendly and helpful and from a

vast array of many different countries (multicultural)

➢Australian law and education systems are based on the English

model

➢Most of Australian laws are also based on common law which is

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 Language
➢There is no particular language in
Australia. It is largely monolingual with
English being the national language.
➢80% speaks English
➢Chinese 2.1%
➢Italian 1.9%
➢Greek 1.4% 23
 Australian Manners
•Manners are different in every country
➢ Greetings (Good morning, Hello, Hi, Gid’day Mate more so in the
country/bush)
➢ Hand shake or kiss on cheek
➢ Standing in a queue or line
➢ Please when requesting anything
➢ Thank you when you receive anything
➢ Excuse me or sorry if you need to get past anyone or bump into anyone
➢ No spitting please
➢ No pushing
➢ Please No picking noses or putting your finger up your nose in public or
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Cont...
➢ Being on time (i.e. British time)
➢Please speak English in front of others
➢Put your hand over your mouth when you yawn,
cough or sneeze
➢Standing up for elders or ladies with babies on the
bus or train

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religions in Australia
6,000,000
5,000,000
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3,000,000
2,000,000
1,000,000
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 BIBLIOGRAPHY
➢Australian Government Cultural Portal
http://www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au/articles/humour/
➢Australian Tourism
http://www.australia.com/index.aspx
➢Australian Educator
http://www.aussieeducator.org.au/tertiaryhistoryaustralianaustralianculture.html
➢Australian Culture
http://www.convictcreations.com/culture/index.htm
➢I still call Australia (Qantas) Ad
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QX5UR2leYHA
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