Canberra

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plain in southeast area. As a result of diverse topography, climate is generally arid to semiarid but humid in north and mild in south and east. The land mass of Australia is smaller than the US contiguous 48 states. The capital city of Australia is Canberra. All figures stated in the above paragraph were found from the United States Central Intelligence Agency unless otherwise stated. Australia’s population is around 24 million. It is the world’s six-largest country by total area with the…

Yasmin to undertake a significant process of enculturation. Although Yasmin admits that it was difficult to submerse herself in the Australian society, she says that she is glad to have made the move to Australia. Yasmin and her family first moved to Canberra, where she lived until her children finished there schooling. She then…

The county of Australia is a large island located in the Indian Ocean between Asia and the US. Slightly smaller than the US’s lower 48 states, Australia’s 2.97 million square miles of land are primarily split up into four major geographic regions; the Coastal Plains, the Eastern Highlands, the Central Lowlands and the Western Plateau (United). Most of Australia’s terrain is considered low, flat, and desert-like. However, there are mountain ranges and highlands that stretch across the country…

artists in the world. She even received a gold medal in 1967 for international renown artist in Sao Paulo Biennial. Now her work is displayed all over the world and you can view at the Art Institute of Chicago; the Australian National Gallery of Art, Canberra; the Center for Contemporary Art and many other places. Her famous art sculpture is of the headless figure which are cast in bronze, through this sculpture she conveys the message that we as humans are very cable of being like sheep’s…

meters and traveling at 7,046 kilometers per hour. The Centaur upper stage separated at 42 minutes and 40 seconds. 10 minutes after the separation, the Cassini-Huygens successfully opened its communications link with NASA’s Deep Space Network near Canberra, Australia while flying on its own for the first time (Matson et al,…

Australia is a large and relatively dry continent located on the Oceania, which is a continent between the Indian Ocean and the South Pacific Ocean. It is also the flattest continent on Earth with an average elevation of 985 feet; this is one of the primary reasons that the annual rainfall is thinly dispersed and scattered – approximately 16.5 inches. On top of that, 40% of the surface gets less than 10 inches per year, with annual evaporation exceeding annual rainfall on more than three fourth…

Faith Bandler played an important role in promoting the civil rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders people. The struggles and discrimination of the ATSI peoples was made evident to her during her childhood and she went on to co-found an organisation which supported their rights, making many public and private speeches. Bandler played a vital part in the 1967 referendum and has been acknowledged for her contribution with many awards. Bandler is in no doubt one of the most important…

My γιαγιά, Catherine Fotiou, was born in Rhodes, Greece on the 26th of July, 1948. She had three other siblings. At three years old, she embarked on an unbelievable voyage across an immense sea to a ‘foreign land’ known as Australia. She still remembers the sound of the wind, hitting the sails of the ship, Kirina. My γιαγιά was brought up on the Dodecanese Island of Rhodes, Greece, in the town called ‘Palia Poli’ which translates to the ‘Old Town’. Her Mother, Sarah, was from an upscale family…

Before the British Empire ever discovered or even claimed Australia as one of their own it was inhabited with Aboriginals who are said to have arrived from south-east Asia by boat 50,000 years ago(“The History of Australia-Tourism Australia”,2016). Throughout Australia there were different tribes of Aborigines that spoke about different 700 languages, had different religious views, cultural beliefs(Mooney,2015). Australia was very behind in modernization, they did not have horses, large crops,…