Australia Fact

Australia Fact - Believe it or not

• Australia was only the second country in the world to give women the right to vote
• Australia's national anthem unti 1984 was 'God save the King/Queen
• Australia Day commemorates the arrival of the first convict ships into Sydney
• Australia is the driest, flattest and smallest continent in Australia
• Australia is a country as well as a continent
• Over 90% of the Australian continent is arid, dry and flat
• The Australian Inland Taipan's venom is potent enough to kill over 100 people or 250,000 mice
• Australia's deadly box jellyfish kill more people than stonefish, sharks and crocodiles combined
• The funnelweb spider's venom kills people in less than 2 hours and humans have no immunity to it.
• Australia as a country has been shaped by post WWII immigration.
• The first humans arrived in Australia about 70,000 years ago from Indonesia
• Tasmania's Aboriginal race is totally extinct
• Australia's multicultural society has been shaped by post WWII immigration

By Neil Rao