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Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, [17] is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands. [18] Australia has a total area of 7,688,287 km 2 (2,968,464 sq mi), making it the sixth-largest country in the world and the largest in Oceania.
Alien taxa (over 470 species) [1] are also recorded. [2] Users can access fact sheets on species and some details of the specimens held in the Northern Territory Herbarium, [3] [4] (herbaria codes, NT, DNA) [4] [5] together with keys, and some regional factsheets. In the distribution guides FloraNT uses the IBRA version 5.1 botanical regions.
Fisheries Western Australia – Mangroves Fact Sheet; Northern Territory Department of Infrastructure, Planning and Environment – Mangroves in the Northern Territory, Report Number 25/2003D (2003) Australian Institute of Marine Science – Field Guide to the Mangroves of Queensland (1993) Murdoch University – The Western Australian Mangrove ...
The economy of New South Wales is the largest of any state in Australia, accounting for 30.6% of Australia's GDP and valuing at A$660.6 billion in 2021-22. [1] The economy consists primarily of the services, mining and agricultural sectors, each of which represents a significant proportion of the overall Australian economy.
The Census in Australia, officially the Census of Population and Housing, is the national census in Australia that occurs every five years. [1] The census collects key demographic, social and economic data from all people in Australia on census night, including overseas visitors and residents of Australian external territories, only excluding foreign diplomats. [2]
Cane Toads: An Unnatural History is a 1988 documentary film about the introduction of cane toads to Australia. Cane toads were introduced to Australia with the aim of controlling a sugar cane pest, the cane beetle, but they over-multiplied and became a serious problem in the Australian ecosystem.
A major source of groundwater in Australia is the Great Artesian Basin. Although the Murray-Darling Basin receives only 6% of Australia's annual rainfall, over 70% of Australia's irrigation resources are concentrated there, which makes up around 90% of the resources in the basin. It contains 42% of the nation's farmland and produces 40% of its ...
In 2011, only 45.2% of New Zealand–born Māori between the ages of 25 and 54 years living in Australia had graduated high school with a Year 12 qualification. Only about 6% of NZ–born Māori men held a bachelor's degree, compared to the Australian national average of 26% for men.