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Australia also has ten federal territories, [5] out of which three are internal territories: the Australian Capital Territory, the Jervis Bay Territory, and the Northern Territory [5] on the Australian mainland; and seven are external territories: the Ashmore and Cartier Islands, the Australian Antarctic Territory, [a] Christmas Island, the ...
Location of the Northern Territory in Australia. The Northern Territory (NT) is the most commonly mentioned potential seventh state of Australia.The most common proposed name for the state is Northern Australia (to match with the state of Western Australia; an alternative would be North Australia to match with the state of South Australia).
The map–territory relation is the relationship between an object and a representation of that object, as in the relation between a geographical territory and a map of it. Mistaking the map for the territory is a logical fallacy that occurs when someone confuses the semantics of a term with what it represents.
The state has the fourth largest population of the Australian States and Territories with 9.8% of the national total, and about one-third the population of Victoria and New South Wales. Some Western Australian towns are located closer to its South-East Asian neighbours to the North than to cities interstate; the capital Perth is closer to ...
The Northern Territory was split at 20° south into the territories of Central Australia and North Australia. [56] [57] 9 May 1927 Parliament began meeting in Canberra, formally moving the capital there from Melbourne. [58] [59] 12 June 1931 The territories of Central Australia and North Australia were merged to become the Northern Territory ...
Section 124 of the Constitution of Australia provides for the establishment or admission of new states to the federation. The Federal Parliament may also form a new state by separating territory from an existing state, join multiple states or parts of states, or increase, diminish, or otherwise alter the limits of a state, but in each case, it must have the approval of the parliament(s) of the ...
Premiers of states in order of state populations, then Chief Ministers of the territories in order of territory populations: Premier of New South Wales: Chris Minns; Premier of Victoria: Jacinta Allan; Premier of Queensland: David Crisafulli; Premier of Western Australia: Roger Cook; Premier of South Australia: Peter Malinauskas
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands. [N 5] It 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.