Australia’s strict laws prohibit the importation of animals or plants into the country. The cabins of all aircraft arriving from abroad are disinfected. This is done in order to eliminate any flying insect that could cause various tropical diseases to…
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Livestock breeding. – The English Lieutenant Macarthur, was the first to introduce in a practical way the breeding of sheep, which is now the country’s greatest wealth; he obtained in 1797 merino sheep from the Cape Colony and some others…
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According to Listofusnewspapers, art in Australia has long maintained a conservative character: even when he completed his studies in Paris and London, until the first half of the 20th century. Australian artists have generally adhered to academic and naturalistic ways….
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The industrialization of the country, already advanced before the war (work in industry: 1933, 21%; 1937, 40%), reached its peak in the first years of the war (see below), then decreased, compared to primary production, with the intervention of the…
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Population. – In 1988, the celebration of the bicentenary of the landing of the first settlers in the Sydney area allowed the country to measure its international position. Not only its mines, farms and sugar cane plantations on the Sugar Coast,…
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Population The traditional underpopulation of Australia is fading, thanks to a positive demographic trend that continued throughout the second half of the century. 20th: at the 1996 census there were 17,889,100 residents, which in 1998, according to a UN estimate,…
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In the Sixties the economy of the Australia has achieved a strong and dynamic rise. The manufacturing industry, which had characterized the economy of the 1950s, was joined, in the following decade, by the notable development of the extractive industries,…
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The Australian continent, which covers 35 degrees of latitude, and has remained isolated from all other lands since the Cretaceous period, necessarily has many peculiarities of great interest in its flora. The first botanists, perhaps guided by the characteristics of…
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Australia is a independent federal state within the Commonwealth (since 1901; head of state is the sovereign of the United Kingdom). The territory coincides with the homonymous continent (➔ Australia), but also includes the island of Tasmania. Physical characteristics The…
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In the accounts of the first voyages made in the southern hemisphere, the epithet of “austral” also appears: thus the journey of Le Maire (1617) from Cape Horn to Java is described as “Australische Navigation”. In 1606 de Quiros gave…
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