CAPITAL : Canberra

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PRIME MINISTER : Kevin Rudd POPULATION : 20 million

Australia is an enormous &ountry and &ontinent. It is appro,imately the same si-e as the .nited /tates 0minus Alas%a1. There are si, states and two territories. The states and territories have &apital &ities, too 0see map1.

When its winter in Europe, its summer in Australia

)any Australian animals are uni(ue* more+ %oalas, %angaroos, wombats, platypus, dingoes and

Aborigines were the first Australians. They arrived 40 million years ago. In !"", #aptain $ames #oo% de&lared Australia 'ritish &olony. Today, it is an independent nation. A (uarter of the population are re&ent immigrants.

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