In 1901, Australia became a nation, forming the Commonwealth of Australia. One year later, Australia became one of the first countries in the world to give women the right to vote. In 1945, Australia became a founding member of the United Nations.
Some of Australia's world-changing inventions: plastic money, Google maps, latex gloves and the electric drill. Australians can be an ingenious bunch. Here are some of the best inventions to have come out of the nation.
Starting from gemstones, Tim Tams to wine, Australia has much to offer to its visitors when it comes to shopping. People can purchase things like Opal gemstones, Kangaroo leather products, vegemite, tree tea oil, Australian wine, traditional arts and handicrafts and many more.
While we may not have invented the barbecue, Aussies have embraced it with a passion and dedication that's unparalleled. Blowflies, mosquitos, ants, barking dogs, crazy uncles and noisy kids – nothing gets in the way of a good barbie!
Touch Football is one of the only sports that was invented in Australia. It's a sport that's been formally recognised for more than 50 years.
More than 80% of our plants, mammals, reptiles and frogs are unique to Australia and are found nowhere else in the world. Some of our Australian animals are very well known like kangaroos, dingos, wallabies and wombats and of course the koala, platypus and echidna.
Made to Australian Standards
Australia requires businesses to meet some of the world's strictest labour, business, safety and quality control standards. Because of this, when you buy Australian-made products, you know you are contributing to a business that; Provides well crafted top-tier goods.
Geographical proximity means that you can receive items faster in most cases than ordering the same product produced overseas. Not only are you saving time – you are also saving money. Domestic shipping rates are significantly cheaper than overseas shipping whilst taking less time and using less energy.
The Big Banana was the first Big Thing, built in 1964 in Coffs Harbour, New South Wales, as a promotional sign for a banana stall. Now there are more than 150 Big Things in Australia.
What Does Australia Export? Australia's main export is iron ore, followed by their other most valuables exports coal, gold, and petroleum. These exports alone rake in $48.2 billion, $47 billion, $29.1 billion, and $20.3 billion, respectively.
Australia is known for many things, including swathes of tropical beaches, marine reserves, Aboriginal culture, cute koalas, rolling wine country, and lush rainforests.
An open economy deeply integrated in global trade. Australia is a trading nation. We have 16 free trade agreements (FTAs) and have led the formation of multiple, regional trade agreements in the Asia-Pacific region. Low tariffs and preferential access to Asian markets make us a natural gateway for global trade.
In March 2022 the Government committed an additional $50 million in humanitarian funding to the Ukraine crisis (to be sourced from the 2021–22 ODA allocation), bringing Australia's total humanitarian support to Ukraine to $65 million.
Australia is the only continent in the world without an active volcano. Australia has three times more sheep than people. The largest Greek population in the world beside Athens in Greece can be found in Melbourne Victoria. An Australian man once tried to sell New Zealand on eBay.
China is Australia's largest two-way trading partner in goods and services, accounting for nearly one third (31 per cent) of our trade with the world.
Australia has some of the last great wilderness, with three million square kilometers (1.1 million square miles) largely unchanged by industrial civilization, a report for international conservation watchdogs the Pew Environment Group and Nature Conservancy said.
Among the native fruits, eleven prominent native species have been commercially produced in Australia including bush tomato, Davidson's plum, desert lime, finger lime, Kakadu plum, lemon aspen, muntries, quandong, Tasmanian pepper berry, and Illawarra plum.
Australia is estimated to have 750,000 different species of plants, animals and insects, but about 70% are either undiscovered or have not been formally described in the scientific literature. The academy's proposal would see all of Australia's species properly documented and recorded over the next 25 years.
Did you know that the work of a Sydney born, Australian engineer by the name of John O'Sullivan, led to the invention of wireless Internet? It's a technology used by billions of devices around the world every day, and it all started right here, down-under.
Submitted by Sydney Berkey on the 2020 winter session study abroad program in Australia sponsored by the Department of English… Cricket is considered to be Australia's national sport.
Some of the first examples of sport in this form date back to the early 1800's in the then colony of New South Wales, when cricket, horse racing, sailing, professional foot races, and rowing were popular sports.