Australian Travel Information

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Australia is a beautiful and diverse country, a land of contrasts and extremes. It has many natural wonders and some of the world's loveliest cities. From East to West Australia is like no other place on Earth.

Today there are more than 18 million Australians. More than 20% of Australians were borm overseas, more than 75% are of European origins, and there are a significant number of people of Asian-Pacific backgrounds.

There have been Aboriginal, or indigenous, Australians on the continent for at least 75,000 years. Although today indigenous people (Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders) are relatively few in numbers, they are active members of the society and influential in Australia's cultural identity.

Well over half of Australians live within one hour's drive of the eastern seaboard of the continent, from Queensland to South Australia. There is another, smaller concentration of population in the south-west corner of Western Australia.

English is the language most often spoken in Australia, but the multicultural nature of society, especially in cities and larger towns, means that interpreters for overseas visitors with little or no English are not difficult to find. Many indigenous Australians speak one or more dialects of various Aboriginal languages as well as English.

More information: Holiday Oz, Australian Travel Guide

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