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Australia
[ aw-streyl-yuh ]
noun
- Commonwealth of Australia, a member of the Commonwealth of Nations, consisting of the federated states and territories of Australia and Tasmania. 2,974,581 square miles (7,704,165 square kilometers). : Canberra.
Australia
/ 蓲藞蝉迟谤别瑟濒瑟蓹 /
noun
- a country and the smallest continent, situated between the Indian Ocean and the Pacific: a former British colony, now an independent member of the Commonwealth, constitutional links with Britain formally abolished in 1986; consists chiefly of a low plateau, mostly arid in the west, with the basin of the Murray River and the Great Dividing Range in the east and the Great Barrier Reef off the NE coast. Official language: English. Religion: Christian majority. Currency: dollar. Capital: Canberra. Pop: 23 029 674 (2013 est). Area: 7 682 300 sq km (2 966 150 sq miles)
Australia
- Nation occupying the whole of Australia, the smallest continent , between the Indian Ocean and the southwest Pacific Ocean . Its capital is Canberra , and its largest city is Sydney .
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From an office perched on the scalloped edge of the continent, Victoria Bradley jokes that she has the most beautiful doctor's practice in Australia.
A miniature dachshund has been found alive and well on Kangaroo Island off the coast of Australia, more than 500 days after she first went missing.
Ms Giuffre - who was born in the US - died by suicide at her farm in Western Australia aged 41, her family said on Friday.
They spent time in the US before moving to Australia, initially settling in Cairns in far north Queensland before relocating close to the western city of Perth.
It said she died Thursday on her farm in Western Australia.
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