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From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
Country occupying all of the Earth's smallest continent, situated south of Indonesia, between the Pacific and Indian oceans. Government Australia is an independent sovereign nation within the Commonwealth. It has a federal, multiparty political system, with a prime minister at the head of the political executive. It has retained the British monarch as head of state, represented by a governor general. The constitution came into effect on 1 January 1901. As in the British system, the executive, comprising the prime minister and cabinet, is drawn from the federal parliament and is answerable to it. The parliament consists of two chambers: an upper house, the Senate, with 76 elected members (12 for each of the six states, two for the Australian Capital Territory, and two for the Northern Territory); and a lower house, the House of Representatives, with 150 members elected in single-member constituencies by universal adult suffrage. Senators serve for six years (with half the Senate being…
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Full text Article Three charts on: the great Australian wealth gap (Mar. 2018)

From The Conversation: An Independent Source of Analysis from Academic Researchers
It’s a tale of two Australias: older Australians are getting much wealthier, and the young are being left behind. It’s a story only too familiar to Australians under 45 who have struggled to save enough money to access the housing market in Australian cities. They are a generation for whom the great…
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From Encyclopedia of Intelligence & Counterintelligence
Australian coastwatchers were positioned on...
Before World War II, the role of intelligence in Australia was minor compared to its significance after the 1939 invasion of Poland by German forces half a world away. Between 1915 and 1949, there were a number of intelligence agencies in Australia, including a branch of the British Central…
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History Australia's first feature film - probably the earliest in the world - was the Tait brothers' 1906 production of The Story of the Kelly Gang , the first of many screen portraits of outlaw hero Ned Kelly. For decades, British and American companies had a stranglehold on Australian cinemas, and…
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From Philip's Encyclopedia
Australia
Australia is the world's sixth-largest country. The huge Western Plateau makes up 66% of its land area, and is mainly flat and dry. Off the coast of NE Queensland lies the Great Barrier Reef . The Great Dividing Range extends down the entire E coast and into Victoria . The mountains of Tasmania are…
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From The Edinburgh International Encyclopaedia of Psychoanalysis
The new and controversial discoveries of Freud were felt in this country in the early part of the twentieth century. Jones , in his biography of Freud, reported a number of events that accord Australia a significant place in the early history of psychoanalysis. In 1909 Freud reported having received…
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From The Columbia Encyclopedia
(ôstrāl'yӘ), smallest continent, between the Indian and Pacific oceans. With the island state of Tasmania to the south, the continent makes up the Commonwealth of Australia, a federal parliamentary state (2015 est. pop. 23,800,000), 2,967,877 sq mi (7,686,810 sq km). Australia's capital is Canberra…
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From Worldmark Encyclopedia of Religious Practices
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POPULATION 22,262,501 ROMAN CATHOLIC 25.3 percent ANGLICAN 17.1 percent UNITING CHURCH IN AUSTRALIA 5 percent PRESBYTERIAN 2.8 percent EASTERN ORTHODOX 2.8 percent BUDDHIST 2.5 percent OTHER CHRISTIANS 2.2 percent MUSLIM 2.2 percent BAPTIST 1.6 percent HINDU 1.3 percent LUTHERANS 1.2 percent…
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From Political Handbook of the World 2018-2019
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Commonwealth of Australia Political Status: Established as a federal state under democratic parliamentary regime in 1901. Area: 2,966,136 sq. mi. (7,682,300 sq. km). Population: 24,762,000 (2018E—World Bank); 23,470,145 (2018E—U.S. Census). Major Urban Centers (metropolitan area, 2016E—UN): CANBERRA…
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From Political Handbook of the World 2016-2017
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Commonwealth of Australia Political Status: Established as a federal state under democratic parliamentary regime in 1901. Area: 2,966,136 sq. mi. (7,682,300 sq. km). Population: 24,309,000 (2016E—UN); 22,992,654 (2016E—U.S. Census). Major Urban Centers (metropolitan area, 2016E—UN): CANBERRA…
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From The Gun Debate: An Encyclopedia of Gun Control & Gun Rights
Like the United States, gun control measures in Australia were avidly pushed following well-publicized multiple killings involving firearms. U.S. politicians, including President Barack Obama and Hilary Clinton, have referred to the gun laws of Australia as an example for that the United States…
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