- Australia is the earth's largest island and its smallest continent
- Australia is three times larger than Greenland which is the next largest island in the world
- According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, there were
- 20 852 000 people living in Australia at the end of December 2006
- The Great Barrier Reef is the longest reef in the world at over 2010 kilometres
- The most medals Australia has ever won at an Olympic Games was in the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, a total of 58 medals.
- The average Australian will consume half a tonne of cheese, eight tonnes of fruit and ten tonnes of vegetables.
- Australia's first television station was Channel 9, which opened in Sydney in 1956
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